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
4 days ago
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
Serb separatist Dodik’s jail sentence commuted to fine
The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on...
Selma Melez
Aug 12, 2025
Bosnian Serb President Dodik ousted after guilty verdict
Central Election Commission revokes Milorad Dodik’s mandate as Republika Srpska entity president after confirmation of his prison...
Azem Kurtic
Aug 8, 2025
Hague Refuses Early Release for ‘Terminally Ill’ Mladic
Although the court acknowledged that 83-year-old genocide and war crimes convict’s condition is “precarious” and he does not have long to...
Milicia Stojanovic
Jul 29, 2025
Bih Court Jails Two, Acquits Three, for Rogatica War Crimes
First-instance verdict sentences two former members of the Bosnian Serb military police to a total of seven years in prison for inhumane...
Marija Tausan
Jul 21, 2025
Srebrenica Memorial Stones to be Unveiled in The Hague
In front of the former Hague Tribunal building, thousands of pieces of stones brought from Bosnia are going to be part of a provisional...
Marjolein Koster
Jul 6, 2025
Dodik again advocates unifying Republika Srpska and Serbia
Sarajevo Times, July 6, 2025 Milorad Dodik. Photo courtesy of Sarajevo Times. Just two days after the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Sarajevo Times
Jul 5, 2025
