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.
Defence witness challenges prosecution claims that Bosnian Muslim force had a proper military structure.
New national war crimes chamber should resolve many issues of fairness, but that doesn’t help trials already under way in local courts.
Defence witnesses claim Dragan Jokic was an ineffectual commander who could not have conspired to commit genocide.
Witness recounts how he refused to get involved in efforts to cover up massacre.
Questions raised over wisdom of staging trial in The Hague.
Witnesses speak of a systematic campaign to drive non-Serbs out of Vlasenica and Pale.
Krajisnik trial witness breaks down as he recalls town’s wartime horrors and the lingering effects of Bosnian Serb policy.
Tribunal president asks for more information to support a prosecution request to transfer Omarska case to Sarajevo.
Proceedings shed light on Bosnian Serb army practises following capture of Srebrenica.
Witness recalls how he was separated from his father and lost 30 kilos in the infamous Manjaca detention camp.