Genocide

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…

Medieval Sarajevo Haggadah, 24 December 2019. (Photo: The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina) The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which houses the medieval Sarajevo Haggadah, says it will donate proceeds associated with the Haggadah to “the people of Palestine,” and that it won’t be complicit in Israel’s “genocide.”…

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NewsFeed Thousands of Bosnian Serbs participated in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, killing more than 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys in just three days. But only 54 people have ever been convicted. So why are so many killers walking free? Soraya Lennie has the details. Published On 11…

SREBRENICA - The remains of seven people have been buried at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the only acknowledged act of genocide in Europe since World War II. Almedina Kadasevic came to bury her brother, Senajid, who was 19 when he was killed. His incomplete…

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