Here’s a look at genocide, the attempted or intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, whether in wartime or peace. Facts The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

Ratko Mladic's life sentence was confirmed by the United Nations Tribunal in The Hague for the crimes committed in Srebrenica. Mladić was commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska ...

The brutal ethnic cleansing of a Muslim-majority town in northeast Bosnia in the spring of 1992 set a pattern that Bosnian Serb forces would repeat across the country to devastating effect. This ...

A memorial to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide will be inaugurated in Paris in July, during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide. Almost a year after the United Nations (UN) ...

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Peter Handke said in an interview with the Austrian public service ORF, that the crime in Srebrenica was fratricide. "I don't care about (describing it as) genocide.

The Cantonal Court in Bihać has issued a first-instance verdict against Fikret Abdić, the former mayor of Velika Kladuša, sentencing him to three years and six months in prison for abuse of office.

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Some 8,000 kilometers away, in a village near Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Emin Bektic lives alongside a dozen other elderly people. Jasenova is one of the few villages where Bosniaks and Serbs ...

Families of victims undergoing identification at Vukovar Hospital. Photo: Ministry of Croatian Veterans Families of 16 people who were listed as missing from the Croatian war were notified on ...