Bosnian Court Rejects Crimes Against Humanity Indictment Twice
The Bosnian state court has again rejected an indictment accusing wartime Serb official Milenko Stanic of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in the Vlasenica area in 1992 and...
Mostar’s Mass Graves: Unpunished Atrocities of the Bosnian War
In the summer of 1992, the bodies of 114 Bosniak and Croat civilians were found in two mass graves at a municipal dump and a cemetery in the town of...
No Charges Yet for Exposing Srebrenica Trial Witness’s Identity
A year after the identity of a protected witness in a Srebrenica genocide trial was publicly revealed by media in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, putting his safety at risk, the...
Interview: Kees Van der Weide: Bosnia is Afraid to Punish Top Judicial Office Holders
The Dutch advisor to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, says the proceedings conducted against the state court president and chief prosecutor highlight the system’s reluctance to impose serious...
Cases Closed: Deaths of Ageing Balkan War Suspects Thwart Justice
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying,...
Why Bosnia Can’t Stop War Crime Suspects from Fleeing
The disappearance of Bosnian Serb Army general Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for assisting the Srebrenica genocide, is the latest in a series of incidents in which war crimes...
Bosnia Completing Fewer War Crimes Cases, OSCE Warns
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia...
Bosnian Court Rejects Indictment of Bosnian Serb Army Officers
The state court refused to confirm an indictment charging former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik...
Bosnian Croats Commemorate Anniversary of Unprosecuted Killings
A ceremony will be held in the village of Buhine Kuce, near Vitez in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to commemorate 26 people, including eight children, who were murdered in 1994 but...
War Criminal Re-Elected as Mayor in Bosnia
Freed war criminal Fikret Abdic has been re-elected as the mayor of the Velika Kladusa municipality, according to preliminary results from the weekend’s local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.