Bosnian War

Railway personnel and passengers from the train that was stopped in the small Bosnian town of Strpci on February 27, 1993, when paramilitaries seized 20 passengers who were later killed, told Belgrade Higher Court on Monday recollect how no one tried to stop the abductions of 20 non-Serbs from the train.

The UN Committee Against Torture has ruled that the Bosnian authorities must pay compensation to a victim of sexual violence during the 1992-95 war and provide her with appropriate and free medical and psychological help as soon as possible.

The 24th anniversary of the massacre at the Trznica Markale market in Sarajevo was marked on Wednesday with a minute's silence and the reading of the names of the 43 Sarajevo residents who were killed there on August 28, 1995.

When a 1995 peace deal ended the Bosnian war with a complicated system of ethnic division and power balancing, reports emerged of mainly ethnic Serbs exhuming their loved ones from graves on territory left under the control of Bosniaks and Croats, particularly suburbs of the capital, Sarajevo.

'Invisible Child', a film directed by Muhammed Ibrahim Sisman that includes interviews with the daughters of women raped during the Bosnian war, will have its first public screening in Sarajevo on August 19.

An exhibition titled "Breaking Free", hosted by the "Forgotten Children of War" association - focusing on the stigmatized children of the 1992-5 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - will open at the Cultural Centre in Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, on Saturday.

The failure of the international community to protect the so-called 'safe zone' of Srebrenica in July 1995 is a black mark in the history of peacekeeping operations across the world.

Much of the controversy that remains today surrounds the debate around the role of the UN and other state actors in not preventing the killings of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.

"The Serbs have left and it caused tremendous grief and sorrow in the heart of every single Serb. Is Croatia today happier, more successful or wealthier because of it? I have to disappoint you, all of you who glorify and rejoice in the tears of Serbia - the Serbs are not gone. Serbia hadn't vanished", said Vucic from Krusedol.

Former prisoners will lay flowers at a ceremony on Sunday to commemorate the suffering of Bosniak civilians held by Bosnian Croat forces at the Kostana Hospital in Stolac in 1993, an event organised by the Association of Camp Prisoners of Stolac.

The Bosnian state prosecution said on Tuesday that the human remains were found in Carevo Polje in the Jajce municipality and are believed to be those of Bosnian Serb war victims.