Monday, 5 may 2025.
Bosnian Serb Fighters Indicted for Illegal Detentions, Prisoner Abuse
Seven Bosnian Serb ex-soldiers and policemen were charged with crimes against humanity against Bosniaks and Croats who were illegally detained, abused and assaulted in the Donji Vakuf area during the...
Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Policemen with Killing Bosniak, Croat Civilians
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policemen Milorad Kotur and Dusan Culibrk were charged with involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters Charged with Crimes Against Humanity
Borislav Pjano and Spomenko Novovic were charged with involvement in the illegal detentions and killings of Bosniak civilians in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia during the war in 1992.
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Charged over Prisoner Abuse, Killings
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Branislav Gavrilovic was charged with ordering the killing of civilians and abusing Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Ilidza and Hadzici areas in 1992 and...
UN Court Archives Reveal the Political Economy of the Balkan Wars
Research in the archives of the Hague Tribunal shows how economic violence like theft and property expropriation was committed against civilians during the 1990s wars as well as other grave...
Bosnian Serb Soldiers’ Convictions for Killing 28 Civilians Upheld
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic and Sasa Boskic’s appeal against their convictions for killing 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Donji Vakuf municipality in 1995...
Kosovo: Top Politicians Sent to Hague to Face War Charges
Kosovo experienced a watershed moment in 2020 when four guerrilla leaders who became political heavyweights in the post-war years, including President Hashim Thaci, were sent to stand trial for wartime...
Pandemic Slows Search for Bosnian War Missing
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the work of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute in 2020 and halted it completely for two months, leading to a drop in the number of victims found...
Kosovo Finds 11 War Victims in Hidden Graves in 2020
The head of Kosovo’s Missing Persons Commission told BIRN that 11 war victims’ remains were exhumed this year, but many more remain to be found at hidden grave sites in...
Bosnia Rejects Serb Ex-Soldier’s Appeal in War Rape Case
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldier Milorad Mrdja against the verdict sentencing him to seven years in prison for raping a minor and other wartime crimes against Bosniaks...