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Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance. The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been laid to rest as thousands of people commemorate the anniversary two months after the United Nations established an annual day of remembrance. Mirza Basic, a genocide …

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Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Regardless of how the Russian war in Ukraine ends, getting justice for human rights abuses suffered during the conflict will inevitably be a long and painful process for those who survive to tell of the atrocities they witnessed. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind …

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Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

LA Times  

A gravestone in memory of victims of the Srebrenica massacre is seen at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica, Bosnia in 2011. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind bars close to 50 Bosnian Serb wartime officials, collectively sentenced to over 700 years in prison. “It is very …

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Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence
3 years, 1 month ago

Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence

Al Jazeera  

If nothing is done to curb Serb president’s push for secession of Republika Srpska entity, Bosnians fear another round of violence could ensue. In July 1995, Serb forces killed the 35-year-old’s father, both grandfathers, four uncles and other relatives during the genocide in Srebrenica, which had been declared a United Nations “safe area”. Last week, Dodik announced Republika Srpska would …

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Top international official in Bosnia bans denial of genocide
3 years, 5 months ago

Top international official in Bosnia bans denial of genocide

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The top international official in Bosnia on Friday outlawed denial of genocide in the Balkan country to counter attempts by Bosnia’s Serbs to deny the scope of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe’s only post-World War II genocide. “Hate speech, the glorification of war criminals and revisionism or outright denial of genocide and war crimes prevent societies …

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Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal
3 years, 6 months ago

Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle Tuesday when U.N. judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence. As commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, the once-swaggering Mladic led troops responsible …

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UN court upholds Ratko Mladic’s war crimes, genocide convictions
3 years, 6 months ago

UN court upholds Ratko Mladic’s war crimes, genocide convictions

Al Jazeera  

The final verdict means the Bosnian Serb military leader, 78, will see out his life sentence over his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. UN appeals judges have upheld the convictions of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for genocide and other offences during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, and confirmed his life sentence. Mladic joins his …

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Life sentence upheld for Srebrenica genocide war criminal Mladic
3 years, 6 months ago

Life sentence upheld for Srebrenica genocide war criminal Mladic

NL Times  

The UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague upheld the life sentence of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. Mladic’s appeal against the convictions for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity over the 1992-1995 Bosnian War was rejected. “The appeals chamber affirmed the sentence …

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Illegal Serb church on Bosniak woman’s land is demolished
3 years, 6 months ago

Illegal Serb church on Bosniak woman’s land is demolished

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian authorities on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in October 2019 that authorities must remove the church and …

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