Slavko Aleksic i Risto Lecic. Photo: BIRN BiH Dusan Sladojevic, Slavko Aleksic and Risto Lecic, members of a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation, were sentenced to five months in prison each for inciting…
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SREBRENICA DEFENDANT WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS EXCUSED FROM TRIAL
Belgrade Higher Court agreed that a Bosnian Serb ex-policeman accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 can no longer stand trial alongside his seven co-defendants because of his…
SEVEN SERBS ARRESTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST BOSNIAKS AND CROATS IN THE AREA OF DONJI VAKUF
Members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested several people in the Banja Luka area on the orders of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina for crimes against Bosniak…
RULE OF LAW KEY TO BALKANS’PROGRESS – GERMANY’S SCHUTZ
SUSANNE SCHUTZ, THE WESTERN BALKANS DIRECTOR AT THE GERMAN FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE The Western Balkans are high on the agenda of the German EU Council Presidency, but the concrete progress of states…
‘THIS WAS REAL’: BOSNIA EXHIBITION LOOKS AT WARTIME LOSS OF LIBERTY
Ron Haviv. Photo: BIRN Renowned US photographer Ron Haviv returns to Bosnia with an exhibition dedicated to prisoners of war. Twenty-five years after the end of the Bosnian war, an exhibition opened…
BONES FOUND NEAR BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMINAL’S HOUSE
The suspected remains of a Bosniak war victim have been found close to the house of former Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who is already serving a life sentence for war…
WAR CRIMINAL RATKO MLADIC’S FINAL VERDICT POSTPONED TO 2021
Because the coronavirus pandemic caused delays to appeal hearings, the final verdict in former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial for genocide and other wartime crimes will not be delivered until…
TWO BOSNIAN COURTS REJECT BAN ON SERB CHETNIK ASSOCIATIONS
Two courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina have rejected pleas to ban 16 Serb nationalist Chetnik associations for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred, while three more courts are still considering similar requests. Courts in…
BOSNIA PROBES CHRISTMAS EVE ‘INTIMIDATION’ BY CELEBRATING SERBS
The state prosecution launched an investigation after noisy celebrations by convoys of Serbs driving through Srebrenica, Visegrad and Bratunac, allegedly playing nationalist songs, caused fear among local Bosniaks. The Bosnian state prosecution…
BOSNIAN TRAIN MASSACRE TRIAL: WITNESSES FIND CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT
The Belgrade trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighters for the 1993 abduction and murder of passengers from a train in Strpci in Bosnia has seen witnesses change their stories to blame a man…