Populated places in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Still Recovering From 2018 Election, Bosnia Faces Another in 2020
While the political battle for Sarajevo still rages, attention is turning to Mostar and the prospect of a first local election since 2008.
Bosnian Capital Chokes “In Own Category” of Air Pollution
The Swedish embassy to Bosnia, a long-time advocate of tougher air pollution action in the country, tweeted that Sarajevo was "in a category of its own" as the air pollution levels on Saturday were so high that categorizing the health hazard level made no sense. It called for urgent action.
Two Bosnian Courts Reject Ban on Serb Chetnik Associations
Courts in the towns of Doboj and Sokolac have rejected requests to ban 16 associations whose titles contain the words 'Chetnik Movement' or 'Ravna Gora Movement', while three more courts in Bosnia's Serb-majority Republika Srpska entity are still considering requests to ban the associations, BIRN has learned.
Belgrade Court Quashes Verdict Convicting Bosnian Serb Soldier
Belgrade Appeals Court has reversed the judgment sentencing former Bosnian Serb soldier Milan Dragisic to four years in prison for killing one Bosnian civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac in western Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
Auf Wiedersehen: German Schools Profit From Bosnia’s Emigration Fever
Today, she works in a local betting shop in Tuzla. In hindsight, she regrets that her parents came back to their Bosnian homeland. "I believe that if they'd known in the mid-1990s that they would be worse off today, they wouldn't have done it," she says.
Why No One Went to Jail for Shelling Tuzla in Bosnia
Domestic courts have still not convicted anyone of this or many other shelling incidents in Tuzla during wartime, in which over 100 civilians were killed. Despite the fact that the Bosniak-majority city was declared a protected zone by the United Nations in June 1993, it was subsequently targeted by Bosnian Serb forces.
Bosnian Serb TV Station Fined for False Report on Massacre
The Communications Regulatory Agency on Friday imposed a fine of 12,000 Bosnian marks (6,125 euros) on Radio Television Republika Srpska, RTRS for a breach of "fairness and impartiality" rules by broadcasting a report containing false allegations about the 1995 Tuzla Gate massacre.
Bosnia Exhumes War Victim’s Body from Hidden Grave
The Bosnian prosecution said on Monday that the incomplete remains of a war victim have been exhumed by investigators in Trnovo in the Sekovici municipality.
"The exhumation of the terrain at the Trnovo site, in the municipality of Sekovici, has been completed and the incomplete remains of one person have been found," the prosecution said in a statement.
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Aida, Bosnian War’s First Child Casualty, Remembered on Screen
"From that moment on, and for a long time after that, I did not know what was light or what was dark, with whom I was speaking or what I was doing, it was all mechanical," says Fahrudin Kucuk in the documentary film 'Lakonoga' ('Light-Footed'), which is dedicated to his daughter, Aida, the first child to be killed in Sarajevo at the beginning of 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Survivors, Relatives to Mark Notorious Bosnia Massacre Anniversary
Family members and representatives of the Association of Detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina will mark the 27th anniversary on Wednesday of the murder of some 200 unarmed Bosniak and Croat men by Bosnian Serb police at Mount Vlasic in the first few months of the country's 1992-95 war.