Bosnia reburies remains of 14 Srebrenica victims on massacre anniversary
Srebrenica, Bosnia Reuters The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia’s Srebrenica were reburied on Thursday, the 29th anniversary of what became Europe’s first atrocity since World War II constituting genocide. In May, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11th July an international day of remembrance […]
Nine Serbs indicted for killing around 100 Muslims during Bosnian war
Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaReuters A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor has indicted nine Bosnian Serbs for the killing of around 100 Muslim Bosniaks, including seven entire families, early in the 1992-95 war, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday. Twenty-six years after the end of its devastating war between Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and […]
Illegal Serb church on Bosniak woman’s land is demolished
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina AP 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. Workers and construction machinery arrived at Fata Orlovic’s yard in the village […]