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Unable to bring defendants to court, Kosovo and Serbia are trying more suspects for war crime in their absence. Legal experts question whether justice is being served. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/17/con…

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The Belgrade Higher Court said on Tuesday that it has ordered up to 30 days of custody for Krunoslav Fehir, who it said is suspected of suspected of taking part in wartime crimes. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/17/key… Photo: EPA/PAUL JENKS

The Belgrade Higher Court said on Tuesday that it has ordered up to 30 days of custody for Krunoslav Fehir, who it said is suspected of suspected of taking part in wartime crimes.

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A move to turn the site of the former Spac labour camp in northern Albania into a film set has revived calls for better protection of what’s left of Albania’s dark communist past. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/18/com…

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Marking the first anniversary of BIRN’s Reporting House exhibition, which explores media coverage of the war in Kosovo, a new installation celebrates the story of a mine whose rise and fall echoed that of Yugoslavia itself. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/18/und…

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Survivors of sexual violence joined a march in the Bosnian town of Foca, where many women were raped during the 1992-95 conflict, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence against Women in War. balkaninsight.com/2025/06/19/bos…

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Mayor says new museum will strike a different note – by accenting the Kosovo people’s efforts to achieve peace and freedom rather than focusing solely on wartime atrocities. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/20/kos…

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The appeals chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state court on Friday upheld the verdict convicting Mustafa Stovrag of assaulting three prisoners at a military investigation prison in Gorazde in February 1993 and jailing him for three years. balkaninsight.com/2025/06/20/bos… Photo: BIRN.

The appeals chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state court on Friday upheld the verdict convicting Mustafa Stovrag of assaulting three prisoners at a military investigation prison in Gorazde in February 1993 and jailing him for three years.
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A teenager when he served under Osijek warlord Branimir Glavas, Krunoslav Fehir exposed Glavas’s crimes in 2005. Twenty years later, he is in custody in Serbia, accused of those same crimes. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/25/ser… Photo courtesy of Krunoslav Fehir.

A teenager when he served under Osijek warlord Branimir Glavas, Krunoslav Fehir exposed Glavas’s crimes in 2005. Twenty years later, he is in custody in Serbia, accused of those same crimes. 
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Actors from war-affected countries Bosnia, Ukraine, Rwanda and Ireland will appear in a play in Sarajevo focusing on issues raised by Srebrenica on the 30th anniversary of the genocide. balkaninsight.com/2025/06/25/flo…

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Humanitarian Law Centre slates Serbian acquittal of former Drina Corps Commander as a 'revisionist attempt to reinterpret judicially established facts' about the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/02/bos… Photo: EPA FILES/STRINGER.

Humanitarian Law Centre slates Serbian acquittal of former Drina Corps Commander as a 'revisionist attempt to reinterpret judicially established facts' about the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/02/bos…

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In front of the former Hague Tribunal building, thousands of pieces of stones brought from Bosnia are going to be part of a provisional monument to commemorate the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/03/sre… Photo: NMSG’95

In front of the former Hague Tribunal building, thousands of pieces of stones brought from Bosnia are going to be part of a provisional monument to commemorate the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.

Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/03/sre… 

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Alen Muhic was one of many children born as a result of rape during the Bosnian war. Now he has written a memoir about “a silence that has gone on for too long”. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/04/no-… Photo: BIRN.

Alen Muhic was one of many children born as a result of rape during the Bosnian war. Now he has written a memoir about “a silence that has gone on for too long”.

Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/04/no-… 
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A documentary on the Dubrava prison massacre in Kosovo in May 1999, including harrowing testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and activists, was screened on Thursday evening at BIRN’s Reporting House venue in Pristina. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/04/fil…

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As Srebrenica readies for the 30th anniversary of the genocide, elderly mothers of victims share grief and memories at the care home where they now live. But elsewhere, many still refuse to confront the past. Get a premium subscription to read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/08/sre…

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Every year, hundreds of bikers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries join a marathon motorcycle ride to Srebrenica to pay tribute to those killed in the genocide in July 1995. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/07/09/rid…