Genocide

WASHINGTON/SARAJEVO -- Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime military commander whose forces laid siege to Sarajevo and carried out the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity. The United Nations confirmed that Mladic died at a…

‘Fahrudin’, an animated documentary about a boy who survived a mass execution during the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, produced by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, was premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Some of the crew of ‘Fahrudin’ film, with BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina staff and…

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is seeking action, including possible sanctions, against Bosnian Serb officials after police began questioning staff at Bosnia's Srebrenica Memorial Center following the publication of a new report showing a marked jump in cases of genocide denial. Police from Republika Srpska, the Serb entity in…

In late July, Denis Bojic, the director of the Republika Srpska Memorial Centre, told the Serbian daily newspaper Politika : “The politics of memory is a means of survival.” Bojic was commenting on the Centre’s recent campaign in New York, in which billboards bearing photographs and accounts testifying to the…

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…