Wednesday, 9 july 2025.
Playground Shelled, Eight Bosnian Children Killed, and No One Prosecuted
The latest report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series examines how no one has ever been brought to justice for a mortar attack on a playground in Vitez during the Bosnian...
UN Court Rejects Call to Hospitalise Ratko Mladic
The UN war crimes tribunal rejected a call from Ratko Mladic’s defence for the former Bosnian Serb Army commander to be urgently transferred from the United Nations Detention Unit to...
News Srebrenica Genocide Defendant ‘Could Not Prevent Killings’
Former Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic asked the Bosnian court to acquit him of genocide, saying that he tried but failed to prevent a massacre of Bosniaks from...
Bosnian Investigators Find Bones at Suspected War Grave Site
Human remains suspected to date back to the 1990s war have been discovered during an exhumation at Duboki Potok near the town of Knezevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Serbian Security Chiefs’ Retrial Resumes after Six-Month Halt
The UN court’s retrial of senior Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic for wartime crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resumed after a break of almost...
Optuženi za zločine u Sanskom Mostu nije se odazvao sudskom pozivu
Milorad Krunić, kojeg optužnica tereti za zločin protiv čovječnosti na području Sanskog Mosta, nije se pojavio na izjašnjenju o krivnji u Državnom sudu, iako je uredno obaviješten o ročištu.
Two Serb Ex-Fighters Fail to Appear for Bosnian War Hearings
Two former Bosnian Serb fighters charged with committing crimes against humanity in the Bosanski Novi and Sanski Most areas failed to appear for hearings in separate cases at the Bosnian...
Hague Prosecutors Urge Second Genocide Conviction for Ratko Mladic
Prosecutors appealed to the UN court to convict former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of committing genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1995 as well as the Srebrenica genocide...
Bosnian Croat War Criminal Pleads for Early Release
Bruno Stojic, former defence minister of the unrecognised Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosna, is asking for early release because he will soon have served two-thirds of his 20-year sentence.
UN Court Documents Reveal ‘Overlooked’ Bosnian War Crime Suspects
Hague Tribunal judgments and evidence files contain names of Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen who have never been prosecuted for suspected involvement in killings, ethnic cleansing and detention camp abuses...