Until the last days of 2025, the Bosnian state prosecution had filed only two indictments for war crimes for the entire year – only to file seven more in the final days of December. The state prosecutor’s office thereby continued its longstanding practice of filing most of its indictments at the very end of the year.

Legal experts and representatives of war victims said it may all be about meeting a quota at the last minute.

“It’s incredible that everyone was able to submit and file [the indictments] at the same time,” retired state court judge Azra Miletic said.

Murat Tahirovic, head of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide, said that “we all know that it is about meeting the quotas”.

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