Friday, 8 may 2026.
Montenegro Avoids Shameful Memory of Deadly Wartime Deportations
Families of 66 mostly Bosniak refugees handed over to Bosnian Serb troops by Montenegro in 1992 and then killed want a memorial built for their loved ones - but the...
Kosovo Tries Again to Establish War Crimes Research Institute
The Kosovo government is making a second attempt to set up a War Crimes Research Institute - but experts are sceptical because of the authorities’ two-decade-long failure to properly document...
Bosnian Streets and Squares Named After War Criminals
More than ten streets, squares, parks and public buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been dedicated to war crime convicts and defendants like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, research by...
Montenegrin Parliament to House War Crime Document Centre
The Montenegrin parliament will collate statements, indictments and trial judgments related to war crimes in which the country was involved in the 1990s for a Documentation Centre that will be...
Disputed Truth: How Genocide Deniers Contest the Facts about Srebrenica
Questioning the number of victims of the 1995 massacres, complaining of an international anti-Serb conspiracy and glorifying Bosnian Serb wartime leaders are just some of the tactics used by Srebrenica...
Bosnian Crimes Against Humanity Defendant Dies Before Verdict
Proceedings against Marinko Sunjic, a former Croatian Defence Council fighter who was on trial for the illegal detention, persecution and abuse of Bosniak civilian prisoners in Mostar in 1992 and...
Episode 113: Pandemic Prolongs Families’ Long Wait to Find Wartime Missing
Hundreds of families in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been searching for the remains of their loved ones for a quarter of a century – and the agonising wait has now...
Forgotten Victims: Bosnian Croat Fighters Never Tried for Elderly Civilians’ Murders
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN examines the killings of several elderly people by members of the Bosnian Croat wartime force, the Croatian Defence Council, who have...
Ratko Mladic Genocide Appeal Hearings Set for June
The UN court in The Hague has rescheduled appeals against the verdict convicting Ratko Mladic of genocide and other wartime crimes for June 16-17, after they were postponed for the...
Srebrenica Genocide Denial Law Remains a Non-Starter in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, Valentin Inzko, said a law banning genocide denial would be adopted by this year’s anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres - but this hasn’t happened...