Tuesday, 20 may 2025.
Abandoned by the State: Bosnia’s Wartime Torture Victims
Thousands of Bosnians who suffered in wartime detention camps still receive no assistance from the authorities because the country’s state-level law on torture victims is being obstructed by an ethnically-based...
Bosnia, Serbia Unlikely to Copy Belgium’s Genocide Denial Law
The Belgian government has announced plans to criminalise denial of the Srebrenica genocide, but similar legislation is not likely to find political support in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the massacres...
Sickness Delays Justice in Bosnian War Crimes Trials
Trials in Bosnia of several major defendants are being postponed almost indefinitely because one or other defendant is ill – raising questions about why the cases are not being separated.
Sarajevo to Pay €358,000 for War Crime Suspects’ Defence
The government of the Sarajevo Canton allocated 358,000 euros in its 2019 budget to provide legal assistance to ex-soldiers and police officers - almost all of them Bosniaks - who...
Karadzic Verdict Will Reinforce Ethnic Divisions, Analysts Predict
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik claims the final verdict in Radovan Karadzic’s trial will be unfair, while Bosniak war victims’ groups want a tougher sentence - suggesting that the ruling...
Testifying Against Karadzic: The Witnesses’ Stories
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches, witnesses who testified against the former Bosnian Serb political leader recall how they felt when they spoke about his alleged crimes to his face...
Karadzic Verdict: Mastermind of Violence or Victim of Injustice?
Prosecutors want the UN court to give former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a life sentence for genocide and other crimes this week - but his defence insists the trial...
Mystery Persists Over Fugitive Karadzic’s Years in Hiding
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches next week, many of the 12 years he spent evading arrest remain shrouded in secrets that the Serbian and Bosnian authorities seem reluctant to...
Bosnian Branch of ‘Putin’s Angels’ Enjoys Political Backing
Like the original Night Wolves in Russia, a Bosnian Serb branch of the motorcycle gang enjoys close ties to the political elite.