Tuesday, 20 may 2025.
Radovan Karadzic: Psychiatrist-Poet Who Led Bosnian Serbs to War
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs’ wartime president, spent years on the run before he was caught and tried, and could now be jailed for the rest of his life when...
Sarajevo Siege: How Perpetrators of Deadly Attacks Remain Unprosecuted
Twenty-seven years since the siege of Sarajevo began, a handful of commanders have been tried, but Bosnian prosecutors have not yet filed any indictments against direct perpetrators of sniping and...
Investigators File Voting Fraud Charges in Bosnia
Bosnia's state Investigation agency has accused nine people of committing election fraud in the general elections in October 2018 in the Brcko area, BIRN Bosnia can reveal.
Bosnia’s Updated War Crimes Strategy Languishes in Limbo
A year after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s revised draft strategy for war crimes processing was completed, it has not even been considered by the Council of Ministers, raising questions about when...
Bosnian Serbs’ War Commissions: Fact-Seeking or Truth-Distorting?
Two new commissions set up by Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to examine wartime crimes in Srebrenica and Sarajevo have been accused of seeking to distort the truth to whitewash...
Bosnia Plans Captured ISIS Fighters’ Return from Syria
The Sarajevo authorities have begun talks about checking the identities of captured Islamic State fighters, their wives and children before they can be sent back from Syria to Bosnia and...
Bosnian War Rape Suspect Avoids Prosecution in Sweden
Bosnia asked Sweden to take over the case against Serb ex-soldier Sinisa Milojcic, who is accused of rape and other wartime crimes, but Swedish law says he can’t be prosecuted...
Bosnia Blows Millions of Euros on Official Limos
Bosnian institutions and public companies last year launched tenders to procure 1,666 official vehicles, worth about 46 million euros, data reveal.
Lawyers Take Fight for Syrian Reparations to Dutch Courts
Lawyers say they are trying to locate witnesses, and potential suspects, among the thousands of Syrians who have sought refuge in the Netherlands since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad began...
Some Bosnian Prosecutors File No War Indictments in 2018
The Bosnian prosecution indicted more people for war crimes in 2018 than in the previous year, but the number of prosecutors working on the cases is still higher than the...