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 Mladic aide challenges Bosnian and Serbian officials’ claims that he was arrested in Republika Srpska.
After 12 years of almost no cooperation with the Hague tribunal, Bosnian Serb police finally arrest war crimes suspect wanted by the court.
Controversial Bosnian law under scrutiny after war crimes convict escapes from prison.
Muslim returnees now hope international community will back demand for town to be separated from Republika Srpska.
Serbian officials cast doubt over credibility of tribunal’s lead as latest bid to capture top war crimes suspect fails.
Journalists reporting on crimes committed during the Yugoslav conflict continue to be threatened, attacked and sometimes even killed.
Two years after video showing brutal murder of Srebrenica youths first shocked the world, the controversy surrounding this case shows no signs of subsiding.
Judges say Dragan Zelenovic’s guilty plea for war time rapes in Foca was an important mitigating factor.
Republika Srpska seeks to defuse tensions provoked by ICJ genocide ruling.
Former employees tell Mandic trial that detainees were well fed and treated fairly.