Genocide

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available on YouTube. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp A still from the film ‘Samir Mehic Bowie…

At the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, a man sits next to a coffin of his father, who he never met. Photo: BIRN/Elmedina Sabanovic. Thousands of people gathered at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on Saturday to mark the 31st anniversary of the genocide of Bosniaks carried out by Bosnian Serb forces in…

The Srebrenica Memorial Centre. Photo: BIRN. Bosnia will mark the 31st anniversary of the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serb forces on Saturday, when ten newly identified victims will be laid to rest. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the mass burial ceremony held at…

Thousands have joined the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, marking the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on…

Radislav Krstic in the Hague Tribunal courtroom in October 2000. Photo: EPA PHOTO/REUTERS/POOL/FRED ERNST. The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has yet again rejected a request from Radislav Krstic to be freed from prison, citing his inadequate rehabilitation despite his public acknowledgement of his crimes. “The…

Defence lawyers filed an urgent motion to the UN court for the release of the 84-year-old Bosnian Serb war crimes and genocide convict after he reportedly suffered a stroke last month. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Ratko Mladic at his appeal hearing in The Hague in…

In the fourth of BIRN’s series about war-displaced people’s enduring connections to their home countries, the founders of Children of Srebrenica Melbourne explain how they’re turning private grief into public commemoration. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp When Medina Cehic walks through Melbourne with a group…

Radislav Krstic in the courtroom in The Hague. Photo: EPA/PAUL VREEKER. The Bosnian state-level court on Wednesday confirmed the indictment of Radislav Krstic, former Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps commander, who is serving a 35-year sentence in Estonia for genocide.  The Prosecutor’s Office charged him in an indictment raised on…

In 2025, Bosnia and Herzegovina marked 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide and, months later, the deal that ended almost four years of war. The 1992-95 conflict killed some 100,000 people, more than 8,000 of them massacred in and around Srebrenica over the course of a few July days in…

This year marks three decades since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which an estimated 100,000 people lost their lives. The war culminated in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladić, known as the “Butcher of…