Bosnian Ministers Fail to Adopt National War Crimes Strategy – BIRN

The BiH Council of Ministers has come under criticism for again failing to consider a revised national strategy to tackle the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.

Council of Ministers Chairman Denis Zvizdic said, “We have no answer to the question on what happened to 850 Category A cases, because it is unclear how many cases have been ruled upon, how many defendants there are, in which cases investigations have been discontinued and how many have not been acted upon at all. Until these questions are answered, the presumptions for adoption of the strategy will not have been met.”

But Milorad Kojic, director of the Centre for Research of War, War Crimes and the Search for Missing Persons of Republika Srpska, argued that this made no sense because all the data was already available to a working group that was set up by the Council of Ministers.

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