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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

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)

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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

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

Italy Probes ‘Sniper Tourism’ During Bosnia War

Italy probes suspect in Sarajevo ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnia war: Report Report says an 80-year-old suspect faces charges on several counts, including premeditated murder. 5 Feb 2026, Al Jazeera The Human Hunters of Sarajevo / True Crime Reports Prosecutors in Italy have placed a man under investigation as part of a probe into alleged “sniper tourism” in Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, the Reuters news agency reports. Sources told Reuters on Wednesday that th

Al Jazeera

Feb 4

Bosnian Serb Minister Taunts Overseer by Sending SS Helmet

Trade Minister Stasa Kosarac sent High Representative Christian Schmidt an SS helmet along with a letter calling him the 'embodiment of evil', escalating the Serb entity’s confrontation with Bosnia's international overseer. Azem Kurtic, November 20, 2025 The SS helmet sent to the Office of the High Representative. Photo: Stasa Kosarac/Instagram The Bosnian Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Stasa Kosarac, sparked a scandal on Thursday by sending an insulting le

Azem Kurtic

Nov 19, 2025