Bosnian Serb Army Ex-Members Jailed for 83 Years
By Marija Tausan November 3, 2026 State court sentences six former Bosnian Serb Army members to total of 83 years for murders of 44 men and deportation of women and children from village in Sokolac in 1992. Sokolac, Bosnia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Six former Second Romanija Brigade members have been sentenced by Bosnia’s state court to 83 years in jail in total for crimes against humanity committed near Sokolac in eastern Bosnia in 1992. Momcilo Pajic was sentenced to 20 y
Balkan Insight
Nov 3
Genocide Denial on the Anniversary of Srebrenica
By: Sofia Gilmore and Alexander Smith Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery; Photo: Wikimedia July 11, 2026 marked the 31st anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, in which Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratklo Mladić overran Srebrenica, a United Nations (UN)-designated “safe area,” and committed mass killings and genocide. There have been many attempts at memorializing the genocide at Srebrenica. In 2000, then-High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch de
Genocide Watch
Nov 3
Court Verdicts for Wartime Sexual Violence Show Disparities
By Selma Melez-Pezo October 27, 2026 Credit: BIRN An analysis of Bosnian court verdicts in cases of wartime sexual violence shows deep inconsistencies in sentencing, a tendency to give more weight to mitigating circumstances, and a failure to recognise the long-term impact on survivors. The woman was 26 years old when she was raped in wartime Sarajevo in 1992. She lived in the Grbavica neighbourhood, which was controlled by Serb forces. Heading to the market one day, she and
Doubts over Transfer of Bosnian War Crimes Cases to Serbia
By Emina Dizdarevic Tahmiscija October 22, 2026 While a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 13 people to a combined total of more than 180 years in prison for the killing of Bosniak civilians in two villages during the 1992-95 war, the acquittal of two others by a court in Belgrade has raised further doubts about the merit of transferring war crimes cases from Sarajevo to Belgrade. Higher court, Belgrade. Credit: BIRN It was by sheer chance that Bekir Alic survived
Special Report: Discrimination Against Roma in the Yugoslavia Successor States
By Senan Monks October 19, 2026 UN Refugee Camp in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo, where hundreds of Roma people were affected by lead poisoning. Image by European Roma Rights Centre Roma are an ethnic group believed to have first arrived in the lands of the former Yugoslavia in the late medieval period. Roma communities in the Yugoslavia successor states are not homogeneous and come from a variety of cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions. However, they all face comparab
Genocide Watch
Oct 19
Recognition of survivors of sexual violence remains uneven
By Rebecca Hawkins and Velma Saric October 2, 2026 Petrified Survivors, a sculpture by artist Rebecca Hawkins. Photo credit: Robert Schlesinger. A permanent monument would give them all the recognition they deserve. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 12 days of activism for peace are celebrated every year, starting with the International Day of Peace on September 21, and ending with the International Day of Nonviolence on October 2. This time of year, we especially look back a
BalkanDiskurs
Oct 19
Dodik declared Bosnia ‘dead’. Irrelevant rhetoric or threat?
By Aljazeera Staff October 4, 2026 Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Speaking at the final rally of his right-wing alliance ahead of Bosnia’s October 4 election, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik delivered a predictably controversial statement. “Bosnia-Herzegovina is dead. It is an impossible country, it makes no sense,” Dodik told supporters of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) party in Banja Luka on Friday. “It is now nothing more than an empty shell … for those
Al Jazeera
Oct 9
Bosnian Serb 'Iron Lady' War Crimes Convict Plavsic Dies
By AFP October 1, 2026 Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who was found guilty of war crimes, has died aged 96 © POOL / ANP/AFP Former Bosnian Serb president and war crimes convict Biljana Plavsic, known as the 'Iron Lady', has died in the Serbian capital on Thursday, aged 96, local media reported. Plavsic surrendered to a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in 2001 after learning that she was the subject of a secret indictment. In 2003, the court sentenced her to
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Oct 3
Court Blocks Republika Srpska From Funding secession
By Dragana Erjavec September 25, 2026 Court bans Republika Srpska from paying international lobbying firms to promote the entity’s independence from the Bosnian state. Credit: EPA/FELIPE TRUEBA. Bosnia’s Constitutional Court on Friday declared that budgetary funds used by Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to pay foreign consulting firms to lobby for independence violate the state’s constitutional architecture. The ruling targets a consulting agreement signed bet
Balkan Insight
Sep 30
UN Chief Condemns Mladic Glorification
By Dragana Erjavec September 21, 2026 At a meeting at UN headquarters with chair of Bosnia and Herzegovina's presidency, secretary-general Antonio Guterres says glorification of war criminals is a threat to regional reconciliation and stability. Credit: EPA/GEORGE CHRISTOPHOROU UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday condemned the ongoing glorification of the late convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic during a meeting in New York with Denis Becirovic, chair
Balkan Insight
Sep 24
Bosnia Dismisses Two Soldiers for Glorifying Ratko Mladic
By Dragana Erjavec September 24, 2026 Defence Ministry terminates contracts of two soldiers who honoured the legacy of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal. Credit: EPA/FEHIM DEMIR. Bosnia’s Defence Minister Zukan Helez on Thursday officially signed the dismissal papers of two soldiers following an internal probe into “ethno-nationalist misconduct” within the Armed Forces. The two were part of a broader group of 37 military personnel Helez reported to the Prosecutor’s Office o
Balkan Insight
Sep 24
North Macedonia's independence should not be commemorated by glorifying war criminals
By Bardhyl Jashari September 6, 2026 Gravestones at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, commemorating 8,372 Bosniak Muslim victims of a massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladić in 1995. Photo by Michael Büker, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Death does not erase the verdict. When a war criminal is placed on a pedestal by government officials, it undermines the dignity of the victims, weakens the rule of law, harms the very idea of North
Global Voices
Sep 16
