Monday, 12 may 2025.
Kosovo Politician Arrested, Sent to Hague War Crimes Court
Armed police raided former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and ex-parliamentary speaker Jakup Krasniqi’s houses in Kosovo and arrested him on war crimes charges.
Bosnian Serb Army Officers Charged over Killings of Prisoners
Former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik municipality in 1992.
Homeland Frontline: Inside Serbia’s Prison Camps for War Captives
Although there was no actual fighting in Serbia during the mid-1990s wars, thousands of captives from the Croatian conflict were imprisoned and abused at detention centres in the country’s northern...
BIRN Sponsors Development of War Crime Trial Educational Material
BIRN is supporting the development of educational material about war crime trials, focusing on cases from the Hague Tribunal, to help build awareness among young people and challenge the continuing...
Forgotten Victims: Bosnian Serb Refugee Convoy Ambushed While Fleeing
The latest in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how Croat troops attacked a convoy of Serbs trying to escape to safety in September 1995, killing 81 civilians, but no one...
Interpol Calls for Arrest of Bosnian Serb War Suspect
Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ asking for states worldwide to arrest wartime reservist policeman Milorad Krunic, who is accused of involvement in the killings of civilian prisoners in the...
Bosnian, Serbian Schoolbooks Teach Rival Versions of History
History textbooks for secondary school pupils in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two ethnically-dominated entities and in Serbia give different accounts of what happened during the 1990s Bosnian war, further entrenching divisions...
Constitutional Court Rejects Appeals by Demirovic and Copelj
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has rendered decisions rejecting appeals filed by Ibrahim Demirovic, who was sentenced to 13 years, and Habib Copelj, who was sentenced to five...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Jailed for 16 Years for Civilians’ Murders
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Boro Milojica was found guilty of multiple murders of Bosniak civilians in the village of Hambarine in the Prijedor area in July 1992.
Srebrenica Memorial Centre and BIRN Launch Genocide Testimony Project
The memorial centre in Srebrenica and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina have set out to film 100 testimonies of surviving witnesses of the 1995 genocide to create an oral history which...