Friday, 8 may 2026.
New Srebrenica Peace Monument Sparks Dispute in Bosnia
A new peace monument in Srebrenica has caused a row between local Serbs and Bosniaks, who are upset that it features no reference to the July 1995 genocide of thousands...
Nine Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldiers and Police Arrested for War Crimes
The nine men were detained on suspicion of involvement in the killings of 44 Bosniak civilians in a village in the Sokolac municipality during the Bosnian war in September 1992.
Bosnian Croats Remember ‘Cruel and Brutal’ Uzdol Massacre
A commemoration was held to mark the anniversary of the killings of 29 Bosnian Croat civilians including children and old people, as well as 12 Croatian Defence Council fighters, in...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Soldier Covicted of Wartime Rape
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic was sentenced to five years in prison for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Grabovica Massacre: The Soldiers Who Couldn’t Forget
Two soldiers were on opposing sides when 33 Bosnian Croats were massacred by Bosnian Army troops 27 years ago - but now they are both working to ensure that the...
Bosnia Arrests Former Bosnian Serb Army Officer for War Crime
Ratko Djurkovic, former commander of the First Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s First Majevica Brigade, is suspected of failing to prevent troops murdering Bosniak civilians and captives in the...
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.