Organizations representing war veterans and civilian victims from the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Federation (FBiH) entity have called on state institutions to urgently prosecute unresolved war crimes cases.

In a document titled The Path of Truth and Justice, the groups demand that the Prosecutor’s Office and the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of Bosnia and Herzegovina act “without delay” to process cases from the so-called A-list of the Hague Tribunal under the Rules of the Road agreement of the Rome Accord.

Signatories of the 1996 Dayton Agreement also endorsed the Rome Accord, under which cases investigated by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) were transferred to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina starting in 2004. The A-list includes cases where sufficient evidence was established to suspect serious violations of international humanitarian law.

Representatives of 16 veteran and civilian victim organizations have urged the Prosecutor’s Office to prosecute individuals denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, those who glorify war crimes, and individuals celebrating convicted war criminals.

The groups also called for intensified efforts to locate persons who remain missing from the war.

They warned that if no progress is made within three months, they will begin procedures to “terminate cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s judiciary” and push for cases to be resolved under the auspices of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).

Murat Tahirovic, president of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide, emphasized that they are prepared to consider additional measures, including “mass protests in front of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s judicial institutions.”

The ICTY, a United Nations tribunal, was tasked with prosecuting war crimes committed during the 1990s Balkan conflicts and operated from 1993 until its closure in 2017.

According to Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute, the country is still searching for approximately 7,600 people who disappeared during the war.