Merdijana Sadović
Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Merdijana Sadović joined IWPR in 2004, originally as a reporter, and then as the Regional Director for Western Balkans. She has been working on media development, international justice and reconciliation projects in the region for more than 15 years. She was a field producer for ABC News and their Sarajevo bureau chief from 1995 till 2004, covering the war in Bosnia, the deployment of NATO troops and post-war reconstruction. Merdijana is also an experienced radio journalist, who worked for the Bosnian National Radio and various local radio stations as a producer, host and editor-in-chief.
Former Serb official speaks of Serb anxieties in the prelude to the Croatian war.
A series of videos of apparent war crimes against Serbs stir controversy across former Yugoslavia.
Courtroom tensions heighten as prosecution and defence present closing arguments.
Delight among Bosnian Muslims as ex-army officer many regard as a war hero is cleared of responsibility for massacres.
Witness testimony appears to support defence claims that there was no organised army in Srebrenica.
Final arguments from prosecution and defence in case of Bosnian general implicated in massacre of Croats.
Bosnian Serb witness places Muslim commander at prison where beatings and murders took place, but raises doubts whether he knew about the mistreatment.
Testimony backs indictment’s claim that Serb prisoners were abused in Srebrenica prison – but fails to implicate defendant.
Mixed reactions to ex-Bosnian Serb commander’s 18-year jail sentence for complicity in 1995 massacre.