The Bijeljina City Archive Collections assemble important legal and historical records documenting the prosecution of key political and military leaders responsible for atrocities in Bijeljina, a city in northeastern Bosnia and the flashpoint of the Bosnian War. Centered on Bijeljina and its surrounding areas and originally preserved at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, these materials offer a crucial window into the orchestration, execution, and consequences of systematic campaigns of ethnic cleansing, persecution, and violence.

The Bijeljina centered collections feature four principal sub-collections related to the trials of Radovan Karadžić, Slobodan Milošević, Stanisic and Simatović, Momčilo Krajišnik, and Vojislav Šešelj. Each sub-collection reveals the individuals’ roles in planning and directing acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The documentation, ranging from trial transcripts and witness testimonies to evidentiary materials and other legal documentation, captures the inner workings of state-sponsored violence and the international legal response that followed.

Alongside these legal records, the archive includes contributions from contemporary Bosnian cultural figures. Poet Selma Hujdurović, writer and activist Jusuf Trbić, and filmmaker Avdo Huseinović offer creative and personal perspectives that explore themes of memory, identity, and reconciliation. Together, these legal and artistic voices create a layered and powerful resource for understanding both the historical realities and the ongoing human legacy of the conflict in Bijeljina, and more broadly, across Bosnia.

The collection is currently under development. We invite you to revisit in the future to access the collection upon its public release.