Siege of Sarajevo

Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, said that the use of schoolbooks teaching about the Srebrenica genocide and the siege of Sarajevo will never be allowed.

A commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo was held outside the capital after Serb officials complained of inadequate security and refusals to allow them a permanent memorial.

The 25th anniversary of the killing of dozens JNA soldiers in Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo will not be marked at the site of the massacre.

For the first time, the ceremony will be held in East Sarajevo, the Serb part of the town.

Parliament is to discuss whether to oust the defence minister and her deputies over Bosnian Army troops’ controversial presence at a banned Bosnian Serb ‘statehood day’ celebration in January.

SARAJEVO - A Sarajevo police commander of special forces during 1992-95 was indicted on Thursday for war crimes against Serb prisoners early in the war.

As the Syrian government mops up the last rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo - amid reports on fresh air strikes and civilian casualties - activists all over former Yugoslavia have urged people and governments to show more solidarity with the victims of the conflict.

As closing statements continued at Ratko Mladic’s trial, prosecutors said the trial had proved that the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces terrorised Sarajevo with a shelling and sniping campaign.

Azra Basic, a former Bosnian Croat fighter accused of brutally killing a Serb prisoner and torturing others, was extradited from the United States to Sarajevo to stand trial.

Bosnians in the mainly Bosniak [Muslim] city of Sarajevo rallied in support of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Saturday - while a self-styled "parody" rally in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump took place in Serb-dominated Eastern Sarajevo, a few kilometres away.

Experts engaged by the Bosnian Serb authorities will stage reconstructions of the deadly blasts at Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace in 1994 and 1995 and an attack on a bread queue in 1992.