KTRZ - Specific criminal offence and perpetrator - war crime
Indictments issued: 1 indictment against 1 person
Cessation of investigation:3 cases against 16 persons
Non-conduct of investigation:2 cases against 32 persons
Transferred to another prosecutor’s office for prosecution: 5 cases, 63 persons
Total number of resolved KTRZ cases at the end of the reporting period: 12 cases, 119 persons
Unresolved KTRZ cases at the end of the reporting period: 184 cases, 2170 persons
 
KTARZ – Unspecified criminal offence or perpetrator - war crime; resolved in total: 
Non-conduct of investigation: 73 cases
Resolved in another way: 55 cases
Transferred into a KTRZ case:0 cases
Transferred to another prosecutor’s office: 23 cases
Unresolved at the end of the reporting period: 767 cases

KTNRZ – Specific criminal offence with unknown perpetrator - war crime; resolved in total: 
Non-conduct of investigations: 2 cases
Cessation of investigations:  0 cases
Resolved in another way: 4 cases
Transferred into a KTRZ case: 0 case
Transferred to another prosecutor’s office: 31 cases
Unresolved at the end of the reporting period: 235 cases

One or more persons are still unavailable in 86 KTRZ cases, of which 38 persons are persons with the standard marking ‘A’. The total number of unresolved cases in the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina /PO BiH/ involving persons with standard marking A: 111 persons in 4 KTRZ cases. The PO BiH completed the cases involving a total of 700 persons with standard ‘A’ marking in various ways. Of this number, 337 persons were transferred to other prosecutor’s offices.

In accordance with strategic goals, I and IV of the Revised National War Crimes Strategy (Revised National Strategy), the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH conducted an analysis of KTRZ cases in order to increase efficiency in work on the most complex and priority war crimes cases. To this end, the cases that are the most complex according to the qualification of the criminal offense and the formational duty of the perpetrator were listed, and the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH issued binding instructions for handling the above-mentioned most complex KTRZ cases for 2025.
In moving towards the implementation of the Strategic Goals of the Revised National Strategy for the purpose of improving the efficiency of war crimes prosecution in all prosecutor’s offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina - strategic goal II, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH has enabled all prosecutor’s offices throughout BiH to access data contained in the Centralized Registry and other data related to war crimes cases. The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, upon requests from prosecutors’ offices in the entities and t

he Brčko District of BiH, provides data from this registry within 8 days from the date of submission of the request.
The implementation of Strategic Goal VII of the Revised National Strategy, which refers to regional cooperation on war crimes cases with the aim of progress in the entire region, is reflected primarily in continuous communication and in the participation of the Chief Prosecutor, Head of Department, as well as acting prosecutors from the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH in meetings and conferences with prosecutors from the region. In the first half of 2025, a series of meetings and conferences were held with prosecutors from the region, and the direct and indirect goal of continuous communication is to find ways to improve regional cooperation, especially with regard to the handling of cases in the reporting or investigation phase in which unavailable persons are recorded who, according to information, are located in the countries of the region. As of 30 June 2025, the total number of open cases (reporting and investigation phase) in which unavailable persons are recorded is 86 KTRZ cases with 245 unavailable persons, of which 38 persons with standard “A” marking.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, as part of its regular periodic reporting, informs the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor) and the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJPC BiH) about all requests for mutual legal assistance sent both on the basis of the Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters of BiH and on the basis of concluded Protocols on cooperation. The information submitted relates to the MLA requests sent to countries in the region and to other countries, with information on whether they have been acted upon. Information is also submitted on MLA requests received by the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH from competent judicial institutions in the countries of the region and from other countries.

In May 2025 the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and the Head of the Special Department for War Crimes held a meeting with the representatives of the IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor. The topics of the aforementioned meeting were the cases that were determined as priorities for work in 2025, the cases that were transferred to the countries of the region from the beginning of 2024 until May 2025, as well as the cases in which the IRMCT provided support and assistance in the work of acting prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH.
In the first half of 2025, the Head of the Special Department for War Crimes also held a significant number of meetings with representatives of war victims’ associations from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who had the opportunity to directly express their impressions of the work of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH on specific war crimes cases, and cooperation with victims, witnesses and potential witnesses. The aforementioned meetings concluded that constant communication and cooperation with associations is of key importance for more efficiency both in the investigation and during the main trial before the Court of BiH.

In addition, in June 2025, a workshop was held with the representatives of the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina (MPI BiH), the Intelligence and Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSA-OBA BiH), the State Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SIPA), the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the two-day workshop, the primary topics were obstacles and challenges in the work on resolving the issue of missing persons as a priority issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Exhumations and identifications were discussed in particular, and the need for well-founded and well-reasoned requests for exhumations, the engagement of ICMP professional staff in all situations where there is doubt about the age of the found bones, and for periodic meetings between the MPI BiH and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH with the aim of resolving specific exhumation cases that, for various reasons (possible mine threat, potential high costs of exhumations, etc.), have been pending for a long time. For this purpose, operational groups have been formed for certain areas and a list of future activities has been established that will continue throughout 2025.

The Chief Prosecutor and the Head of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH supervise the implementation of the provisions of the Revised National Strategy and submit reports on work on war crimes cases to the Supervisory Body for Monitoring the Implementation of the Revised National Strategy and the Standing Commission of the HJPC of BiH.

Acting towards the implementation of strategic goals and in accordance with Annex B of the Revised National Strategy, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH regularly submits to the Standing Commission of the HJPC of BiH information on cases in which persons with the standard “A" marking - assigned by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("standard marking A - sufficient evidence") are recorded.
Below is a table showing the status of persons with the "A" marking in the entity prosecutor’s offices, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Brčko District of BiH and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, as of 30 June 2025.

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