Bosnia

On a visit in July 2012 to the memorial site for the victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (back to camera) meets with victims’ families.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe (file)

UN experts warn against release of former commander convicted in Srebrenica genocide

19 November 2014
A group of United Nations human rights experts today have voiced alarm over the potential imminent release of Milorad Trbic, who was convicted in 2009 by the Bosnian State Court of committing genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ‘spiteful, tit-for-tat politics’ hurting citizens, Security Council told

15 May 2014
Ahead of the ‘hotly contested’ elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a senior United Nations official today warned the Security Council that the country is politically heading in the wrong direction and that politicians might try to raise inter-ethnic tensions to divert attention from real problems.