Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 22, 2026
Photo: destroyedchristianity.org
An online project documenting the destruction of Orthodox churches and chapels across Bosnia and Herzegovina has been launched.
The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Serbs in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the interactive project Discovering the Truth: Destroyed Christian Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 18, in the city of Bijeljina. The organization’s head, Djordje Radanović, said the initiative is intended to challenge claims that religious sites were preserved during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995, according to the Life of the Church portal.
According to Radanović, the system currently records data on the destruction of Serbian Orthodox holy sites in 42 of the 126 populated areas that were under the control of the Bosnian army.
Radanović also told journalists that the interactive exhibition refutes a statement signed by 33 Bosnian and Muslim leaders on March 18 of this year, asserting that their armed forces protect the religious and cultural sites of other countries.
“All those who signed this lie acted actively when Serbian churches and monasteries were burned, mined, and desecrated in the war of the nineties,” he said.
The digital archive will be expanded in the future to include new data.
As part of the presentation, demographer Stevo Pašalić and sociologist Drago Vuković spoke of the continuing decline of the Serbian population in the FBiH, which has now fallen to 2.5–3%, and of the need to “document the historical truth” in order to overcome differing interpretations of the conflict.
The Bosnian War (1992–1995) was a bloody interethnic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina that began after the breakup of Yugoslavia. The armed confrontation was waged between three main communities—Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims—was accompanied by large-scale ethnic cleansing, and ended with the signing of the Dayton Accords.
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