Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
A Bosnian Serb doctor hid bones of Srebrenica victims in his garden, after using them "to plan surgery." People in Brcko, where doctor Nebojsa Mraovic works, have voiced shock. But when RFE/RL called his office, he was still working there.
Despite repeatedly filing domestic violence reports to police and social services, Alma Kadic was killed by her husband in front of their 4-year-old daughter in July 2021 in Sarajevo. Her husband, Eldin Hodzic, was finally sentenced to 35 years in prison in April of this year.
Bosnian wartime detainees were beaten, tortured, raped, and killed by the hundreds at the Vilina Vlas spa hotel. Amid continuing outrage that it's turned itself back into a tourism spa, petitioners want to wipe it off Google's map.
For the first time since the end of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the town of Srebrenica is facing the prospect of an Bosnian Serb mayor. And that has stoked tensions in the town that was the site of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was recently in Bosnia, speaking enthusiastically about boosting Turkish investment in the Balkan country. But Turkey's interest has raised concerns among Bosnian Serbs, who fear Ankara could disturb the country's fragile equilibrium.
A claim by Sarajevo's mayor that Doha-based Al-Jazeera will buy Bosnia's Studio 99 radio and television station has raised confusion and focused attention on the struggling broadcaster
The genocide trial of seven Bosnian Serb officers was meant to help close the page on the Srebrenica massacre, one of the grisliest chapters in modern European history. Instead, survivors are reeling from the recent admission by the UN tribunal in The Hague that it destroyed over 1,000 personal items and forensic evidence from the victims’ graves.
Mirsad Tokaca's "Bosnian Book of the Dead" tallies the number of those killed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But he's faced harsh criticism for his final count, dramatically lower than the usual estimates.
