The United Nations' chief war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz has begun a two-day visit to Serbia to evaluate the country's efforts toward apprehending Europe's most wanted fugitive, Ratko Mladic.

Source: Voice of America   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 17th 2008. 19:30:52

A prominent Democratic source close to Obama said Jarrett is also Obama's choice to be named to take over his seat in the Senate, though Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich would have the final say over a replacement.

Source: CNN   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 9th 2008. 19:14:17

The ongoing 2008 Presidential election represents Soros’ importation of the techniques he has utilized for popular subversion in foreign lands to the U.S. political process.

Source: Ed Hamler, larouchepac.com   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 9th 2008. 10:30:40

David Lightman: Rahm Emanuel is a tough, practical politician

Source: The Real News Network   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 8th 2008. 16:32:08

Turkish leaders welcomed the election of America's first African-American president, as a source of hope for peace in the world. But the new administration's uncertain policies on a wide range of issues, from the alleged ""genocide"" of Armenians to Iran and Iraq, are a matter of curiosity for Ankara.

Source: (Source: hurriyet.com)   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 8th 2008. 11:31:25

Since winning the US presidential election, Barack Obama has wasted little time assembling a team to help him govern.

The BBC News website has put together a guide to the new faces so far named in the administration.

Source: BBC News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: November 8th 2008. 10:28:45

With America set to decide between Barack Obama and John McCain for their new president next Tuesday, Newsbeat visits a mosque in a New York suburb to find out how Muslims feel about the election.

Source: BBC World News Service   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: October 29th 2008. 18:14:53

ZAGREB (Reuters) - A car bomb killed two journalists in central Zagreb on Thursday in the latest of a series of violent incidents that have hit the capital this year.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: October 23rd 2008. 21:03:16

The decision by Barack Obama to return to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother might not be the last surprise of the last fortnight of this campaign.

Source: BBC World Service News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: October 22nd 2008. 15:42:14

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have begun a two-day state visit to Slovenia at the invitation of the country's president, Danilo Turk.

Source: BBC World Service News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: October 22nd 2008. 15:38:01

Demonstrators took to the streets in Canadian cities on Saturday, demanding the government end the mission in Afghanistan.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - About 200 people chanting anti-Muslim slogans demonstrated on Thursday at the opening of the first mosque in the formerly communist eastern part of Germany.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: October 16th 2008. 21:22:46

In early June during a joint news conference of Turkish and European officials, the first question that Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ali Babacan faced was not on the accession process, but the recent situation on indirect talks between Israel and Syria.

Source: Hurriyet   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: September 7th 2008. 20:55:25

Aleksander Dugin, a popular theorist in hard-line circles, advocates an alliance between the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. He says Georgia crisis could be start of a real conflict with U.S.

Source: Los Angeles Times   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: September 7th 2008. 20:03:34

"The military way will not solve the problem,” said Peres, the 85-year-old founder of the Jewish state’s nuclear programme, in an interview with The Sunday Times.

Source: The London Times   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: September 7th 2008. 19:54:06

Thanks to the soaring oil price, Abu Dhabi and Dubai have money to burn - and they can't wait to spend it, as this week's dramatic acquisition of Manchester City shows. Michael Savage and Toby Green investigate where the money has gone

Source: The Independent   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: September 7th 2008. 19:48:08

ZURICH (Reuters) - A move to ban the construction of new minarets in Switzerland would violate international human rights and the country's constitution, its federal government said on Wednesday.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: August 27th 2008. 19:40:01

In an interview with broadcaster B92 on August 21 2008, head of Serbia's council for co-operation with the Hague war crimes tribunal Rasim Ljajic said it was a thankless task to claim whether Ratko Mladic, former head of the Bosnian Serb army and close aide of already arrested former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was in Serbia.

“Until he is located, it will be very thankless to claim that he is in Serbia or not,” Ljajic said.

Mladic, like Karadzic, is indicted on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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SARAJEVO -- The head of the Bosnian Joint Armed Forces HQ says that not a single item of weaponry went from Bosnia to Georgia.

Miladin Milojčić said there had been no sales of arms or military equipment to foreign buyers, and believed that it had all been speculation.

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Bosnia-Herzegovina rejected on Thursday allegations from the Russian Defense Ministry that it was one of the countries which exported weaponry to Georgia.

Source: People's Daily Online   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 15th 2008. 19:44:19

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival — born in a sandbag-protected basement during the Bosnian war — will kick off Friday evening with a screening of Bosnian movie "Snow."

Aida Begic's debut feature about life in a village in post-war Bosnia took the top prize at Critics Week in Cannes this year.

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A new mass grave believed to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, an official says.

The new grave measuring at least 10 by three metres was discovered at Kamenica village, near the town of Zvornik, said Murat Hurtic of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission.

"The remains of around 10 people appeared on the surface as we removed the first layer of soil (and) at least several dozen remains" were expected to be uncovered in total, he told AFP.

Source: The West   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 14th 2008. 11:52:11

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)--Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic is in talks with Serbia's secret services about his surrender to a U.N. tribunal, a Bosnian daily reported Wednesday.

"Serbia's military intelligence service is negotiating with war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic on his surrender" to The Hague-based tribunal, said Glas Srpske, citing a Serbian government source.

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In a departure from his usual roles in Hollywood blockbusters, Orlando Bloom, said he would start work on a new movie about the siege of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, from 1992 to 1996, The Associated Press reported. The movie is based on the book “Fools Rush In” by Bill Carter, an American writer and filmmaker who spent time in Sarajevo during the war. Andrucha Waddington is to direct.

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TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Forensic experts said Wednesday they had opened a 10th mass grave found near an eastern Bosnian village and that it may contain the bodies of up to 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

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A mass grave believed to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, officials said.

The grave measuring at least 10 by three metres was discovered at Kamenica village, near the town of Zvornik, said Murat Hurtic of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Commission.

Source: Irish Examiner   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 14th 2008. 11:46:41

VANCOUVER - The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his appearance before a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague is a victory for many Canadians who have been deeply involved in the ugly aftermath of the ethnic and religious war following the breakup of the former communist federation.

Source: The Canadian Press   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: August 4th 2008. 10:40:51

Radovan Karadzic on Friday claimed Richard Holbrooke, the US Bosnia peace negotiator, promised to quash his war crimes indictment if he stepped down from public life, but then hatched a plot to murder him when the deal fell apart.

Source: Financial Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 3rd 2008. 09:24:36

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former U.S. peace mediator for Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, on Thursday dismissed a claim by Radovan Karadzic that the United States had offered a deal that would spare him prosecution for war crimes.
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The former Bosnian Serb leader, who was arrested last week after 11 years on the run, appeared before a U.N. war crimes judge in The Hague for the first time to answer genocide charges for his role in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

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Sarajevo/Belgrade, 1 August(AKI) - Bosnian Muslims on Friday welcomed the indictment of Radovan Karadzic before the Hague-based United Nations war crimes tribunal and stepped up demands for the abolition of his project, the separate Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS).

The territory was created in the Dayton Peace Accord that ended the war in 1995 inside what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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THE HAGUE: Radovan Karadzic insisted in a letter published yesterday that he was promised immunity from prosecution by the US in 1996 – a claim strongly denied by Richard Holbrooke and Carl Bildt, both involved in diplomacy to end the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

Source: Gulf Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 3rd 2008. 09:19:44

Radovan Karadzic yesterday gave more details of his allegation that Richard Holbrooke, the US Bosnia peace negotiator, promised to quash his war crimes indictment if he stepped down from public life, but then hatched a plot to murder him when the deal fell apart.

Source: Financial Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: August 3rd 2008. 09:19:06

The Bosnian parliament has agreed to send a 49-man infantry unit to join the international force in Iraq following a Nato request.

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Beast of Bosnia Radovan Karadzic was finally in the custody of the UN war crimes court in The Hague today after he was spirited from Belgrade under cover of darkness.

The man accused of masterminding the worst slaughter in Europe since World War Two was flown into Rotterdam airport in The Netherlands at dawn.

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REUTERS - War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

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"Karadzic took my life, he stole my youth, he stole everything," said Edna, a woman who was 19 when Bosnian Serbs started their 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

Source: REUTERS   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 29th 2008. 22:56:01

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being flown from the Serbian capital Belgrade to the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Source: BBC   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 29th 2008. 22:07:39

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes court sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to prison terms ranging from 38 to 42 years on Tuesday for taking part in the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.
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"They killed several hundred Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) from Srebrenica," said judge Hilmo Vucinic.

He said it was impossible to determine the exact number killed by the group in only one day, July 13, 1995. More than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims had been kept in a warehouse in the village of Kravice.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: July 29th 2008. 18:39:10

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)--Bosnia's war crimes court Tuesday sentenced seven Serbs to heavy jail terms after finding them guilty of genocide during the Srebrenica massacre in July, 1995.

Six of them were convicted of direct participation in the murder of more than 1,000 Muslims in a single day in Kravice, near the ill-fated eastern Bosnian town, said Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina judge Hilmo Vucinic.

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Every few weeks, fresh flowers are placed either side of the headstone, and a pile of half-smoked cigarettes appears under a nearby bench.

The black marble grave in a small suburban cemetery bears a simple inscription: "Mladic Ana, 1971-1994."

Source: Sunday Mirror, London   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 27th 2008. 11:48:13

Thousands of supporters of the former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, have held protests over his arrest to face the war crimes tribunal.

Demonstrations were held in across the Serb part of Bosnia, the biggest in Pale where Mr Karadzic had his headquarters during the 1992-1995 war.

Source: BBC   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 26th 2008. 22:31:03

As the long-haired, bearded man who had become known as the local eccentric walked out of the Leotar supermarket in a suburb of Belgrade nine days ago, he unexpectedly turned back to the checkout girls.

“I want to say goodbye,” he said. “I’m going on vacation. I need a rest, I’ve been working a lot.” He could not know how prescient his words were.

Source: The Times   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 26th 2008. 22:20:58

LONDON (Reuters) - Bosnia is closer to breaking up than at any time since its 1992-95 war and the European Union must do more to prevent its division, former international peace overseer Paddy Ashdown said.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 26th 2008. 22:16:14

VIENNA (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic evaded capture last year when Austrian police raided a Vienna apartment where he was staying but did not recognize the disguised war crimes suspect, an Austrian newspaper reported on Friday.

Source: Reuter   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 25th 2008. 19:47:14

Irma Hadzimuratovic, Colonel Bob Stewart, Arkan, Yasushi Akashi, Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman, Richard Holbrooke

Source: TimesOnline   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: July 25th 2008. 19:03:45

SREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Fadila Efendik had little time to rejoice this week over the capture of Radovan Karadzic, the man she blames for the death of her only son: she was too busy looking for his missing and scattered body parts.

Source: International Herald Tribune   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: July 25th 2008. 18:59:02

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Miroslav Blazevic signed a two-year contract to coach Bosnia on Thursday.
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Blazevic, who led Croatia to a third-place finish at the 1998 World Cup, has replaced Meho Kodro, who was fired in May for refusing to prepare the team for a friendly with Iran.

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"There are documents proving that Karadzic took 36 million Bosnian marka ($28 million) in spring 1997," Serb Republic Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said in a 2005 interview.

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Ratko Mladic served as Radovan Karadzic's military commander during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Mladic, like Karadzic, is wanted for war crimes and genocide. After Karadzic's arrest, Belgrade has been urged to hunt down his co-conspirator.

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The land of Srebrenica in Bosnia is still churning out the bodies of its inhabitants, allegedly massacred in 1995 by the soldiers of Karadzic and Mladic. For the past seven years, forensic experts have sought to identify the remains.

Source: France24   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: July 25th 2008. 13:06:49

The ex-Bosnian Serb leader, who eluded arrest as new age healer Dragan Dabic, took the name from an innocent civilian killed by one of his snipers, prosecutors claim.

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After 13 years on the run from charges of war crimes and genocide, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is finally in custody. Ed Vulliamy, who reported extensively on the war, recalls his meeting with the deluded mass killer and tells how Karadzic's manipulation of the west enabled him to unleash the bloodiest carnage in Europe since the second world war

Source: Guardian   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 22nd 2008. 20:23:46

Karadzic — a psychiatrist accused of masterminding the deadly wartime siege of Sarajevo and the executions of up to 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Europe's worst massacre since World War II — had topped the tribunal's most-wanted list for years.

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to correspondent Christiane Amanpour about the capture of fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Several hundred women have protested a decision by a UN war crimes tribunal to refuse to add rape to the charges that two Bosnian Serbs are facing at a trial in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The women claim the defendants — Milan and Sredoje Lukic — organized rape camps for Serb soldiers and that Muslim women held there were treated as sex slaves during 1992-95 Bosnian war.

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FORENSIC experts have exhumed 66 Srebrenica massacre victims from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.

An identification card found in the grave supported initial information that the bodies were of Muslim men from Srebrenica who were killed in the July 1995 massacre.

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(Brussels, July 16, 2008) Republika Srpska authorities should refrain from verbal attacks on Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina and ensure the security of the organization's staff and premises, Human Rights Watch said today.

Source: Reuters   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: July 18th 2008. 11:05:16

A Dutch court has ruled that it is unable to hear a case brought against the UN by relatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.

Source: BBC News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 10th 2008. 15:24:20

The Hague, 9 July (AKI) – Two Bosnian Serbs went on trial at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes court on Wednesday charged with killing at least 140 Muslims - one of the worst atrocities of Bosnia's bloody 1992-1995 civil war.

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Prosecutors at the international war crimes tribunal say cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic murdered Muslims in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad.

They are alleged to have barricaded about 140 women, children and elderly men into houses and set fire to them.

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For Turkey's more radical secularists, there is a war going on between the defenders of Kemalism – the mix of authoritarian secularism, statism and nationalism that is still Turkey's official ideology – and a government intent on imposing Islam on the country. The AKP government insists the struggle is between democrats and defenders of an outdated authoritarian political vision. Cynics see a battle between two sides linked by their obsession with controlling the state apparatus and their cavalier attitude to democracy.

Source: The Independent   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 8th 2008. 16:01:25

In Switzerland some 115,000 people have signed a proposal to ban the building of minarets.

The campaign is being organised by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament.

Source: BBC News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 8th 2008. 15:35:48

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) — The Bosnian Serb speaker of parliament on Friday warned of anti-Muslim violence during the commemoration of a 1995 massacre next week after a recent "scandalous" UN verdict.

Source: AFP   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 4th 2008. 15:11:32

Ayşa Boşnak Börekçisi in İzmir's Alsancak district is a delicious and very unique culinary experience for those who appreciate good homestyle Turkish food, as well as those who want to try something a little different

Source: MİNA ERÇEL İZMİR - Turkish Daily News   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: July 3rd 2008. 21:14:22

The talk here is about oil. Not just the prices which are affecting everyone but supplies, deep underground. It is nothing new. They have been talking about it since the 19th century, during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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SARAJEVO -- Transparency International, based in Berlin, has addressed governments and their embassies in Bosnia over “a series of inexplicable media attacks on TI” there.

“Although TI is a key actor in tackling corruption, and is of vital importance to the country and region in terms of the rule of law, [Republic of Srpska PM Milorad] Dodik’s groundless claims depicting TI as a criminal element in Bosnia, and the implied legal sanctions and threats, have further complicated the situation,” reads a TI statement.

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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Two Spanish pilots and two German officers of the European Union's peacekeeping force were killed when their helicopter crashed in central Bosnia on Thursday, authorities said.

The helicopter crashed near the northern town of Kotor Varos in a mountainous, heavily forested and inaccessible area.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzogovina - Officials say an European Union peacekeeping helicopter has crashed in mountainous central Bosnia with four crew members on board. A rescue operation is under way.

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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP)--Bosnian police arrested two Serbs on suspicion they committed war crimes against civilians at the outbreak of the country's 1992-1995 conflict, officials said Wednesday.

Nikica and Mile Zgonjanin were arrested in the northwestern town of Novi Grad on Tuesday and were remanded in custody for one month, prosecutors in Banja Luka, the Bosnian Serb administrative capital, told AFP.

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Relatives of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia-Herzegovina have asked a Dutch civil court to wave U.N. immunity and allow them to seek damages for their loss. About 8,000 Muslims were murdered by Serb forces 13 years ago after they overran what was supposed to be a U.N. safe area protected by Dutch peacekeepers. For VOA, Lauren Comiteau reports from Amsterdam.

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The Hague - A Dutch court began hearings Wednesday to decide whether the surviving family members of the victims of a 1995 massacre of Muslims in Bosnia could sue the United Nations for failing to prevent the killings. Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslims in one week in July 1995, overrunning the Srebrenica enclave that had been declared a United Nations safe zone.

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Sarajevo - Bosnian forensic experts Wednesday completed excavation of a mass grave at Zeleni Jadar near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the Commission on Missing Persons confirmed. Murat Hurtic of the commission said six complete and 90 incomplete bodies were exhumed from the grave.

The exhumed remains, he said, were of the victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serb troops killed up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men after capturing the area on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch court began hearings Wednesday about whether survivors of a 1995 massacre of Muslims in Bosnia — Europe's worst mass killing since World War II — can sue the United Nations for failing to prevent the slaughter.
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Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslims in one week in July 1995, overrunning the Srebrenica enclave declared a U.N. safe zone. Dutch peacekeepers overwhelmed by the Serbs' superior force watched helplessly as the male victims were led away from their custody for execution.

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Bosnia-Herzegovina took its first step on the ladder to European Union membership yesterday when it signed a pre-accession agreement almost 13 years after the end of its bloody civil war.

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TORONTO - Crown lawyers say a Canadian man fighting for Serbia cannot claim self-defence to justify kidnapping a UN observer during the war in Bosnia in 1995.

Ribic, who is originally from Edmonton, was convicted in an Ottawa courtroom of hostage-taking and threatening death - the first time anyone had been convicted under the Criminal Code for such a crime abroad.

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13 June 2008 Novi Sad _ The search for the top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has entered its last phase, a local Serbian newspaper reports.

Novi Sad daily Gradjanski List quotes sources from Serbia’s security agencies as saying they are close to arresting the Bosnian Serb wartime military leader General Ratko Mladic.

Source: Balkan Insight   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 16th 2008. 09:36:17

Bosnia-Hercegovina is taking its first step towards joining the European Union - 13 years after its civil war ended.

Ministers are to sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement - a big step towards EU membership - although it may be a decade before Bosnia qualifies.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP)--A Bosnian DNA laboratory said Sunday it would help Chile in tracing the fate of people who went missing during the 1973- 1990 rule of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The Sarajevo-based International Commission for Missing People (ICMP) said in a statement it had signed an agreement with Chilean authorities.

"This is a very important agreement for us ... the ICMP has opened a real opportunity for us to achieve justice in our cases," Gloria Ramirez-Donoso, of the Chilean justice ministry, said in the statement.

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Thirteen and a half years after the Dayton Agreement ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the stagnant, divided country is about to enter a potentially transformative process. On June 16, Bosnia will sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union, cementing the country’s relationship and identifying it as a prospective EU member.

Source: United States Institute of Peace   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 23:24:01

Sarajevo _ The Slovenian company Merkur opened on Friday one of the region's biggest shopping malls.

Merkur’s investment in the shopping mall in Sarajevo totals some 25 million Euros, officials told a press conference.

Source: Balkan Insight   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 23:19:59

Pleasant Hill, Ia. -They lost their first spouses.

They met as widows in war.

They survived religious and ethnic persecution to move their blended family halfway across the world from Bosnia to this Des Moines suburb.

He suffered injuries at work. She faced a gunpoint robbery on the job.

Source: Des Moines Register   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 23:03:04

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia arrested wartime Bosnian Serb security chief Stojan Zupljanin on Wednesday and was to send him to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague for trial on war crimes charges.

Zupljanin was one of the top four fugitives sought by the tribunal for war crimes in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and his arrest was seen as a step forward in Serbia’s European Union accession efforts.

Source: Tiscalli News   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:55:19

Sarajevo - The War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia-Herzegovina's State Court sentenced three Bosnian Serbs Friday to a total of 63 years jail for crimes during the country's 1992-1995 war. Dusko Knezevic was sentenced to 31 years, Zeljko Mejakic to 21 and Momcilo Gruban to 11 years.

Source: The Earth Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:51:48

Sarajevo - The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) on Tuesday said it has recorded 10,000 DNA matches for victims of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The commission said it had identified the 10,000th missing person as a man missing from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb troops massacred up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men on 11 July 1995.

Source: The Earth Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:50:23

Sarajevo - Bosnia's state court asked British authorities Monday to sanction Bosnian Serb Radislav Krstic for refusing to testify in a case presently before the court. Krstic was convicted of war crimes and is serving his sentence in a British prison.

The type of sanction imposed is at the discretion of the country in which a prisoner is serving a sentence.

Source: The Earth Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:49:36

Washington - The United States welcomed Serbia's arrest of a former Bosnian Serb official for allegedly committing war crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. "His arrest is another positive step toward ensuring that those responsible for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia are held accountable," Gonzalo Gallegos, a US State Department spokesman, said.

Source: The Earth Times   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:47:08

Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany says his country supports Bosnia's bid to move closer to EU membership although it will take time and effort to achieve that goal.

Source: Heral Tribune   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:45:02

More than 5,000 people attended the funeral Saturday of 47 victims of a Serb attack in the northern Bosnian town of Brcko at the beginning of the country's 1992-95 war.

The remains of the Muslim Bosniak civilians were among 277 found in a mass grave in nearby Gorice. About 80 bodies had previously been identified and buried.

Source: Herald Tribune   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:43:32

A Serbian court says three former members of a paramilitary are guilty of committing war crimes during the Bosnian war.

The court says the three tortured Bosnian Muslims in the eastern town of Zvornik while they were serving in the paramilitary unit known as the "Yellow Wasps."

Source: Herald Tribune   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:42:20

Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány said following a meeting with Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola Spiric in Sarajevo that he will support Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession to the EU and NATO.

Source: BBJ   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: June 14th 2008. 22:35:38

The signing of a pre-accession deal between the EU and Serbia has been criticised by Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has so far not had the privilege of being offered a similar deal.

"Although the practice of the EU is to insist on fulfilment of all the requirements needed for deepening relations with potential member states, this act shows that Serbia enjoys some benefits like no other country," Haris Silajdzic, the Bosniak chairperson of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite state presidency, said in a statement reported by press agencies on Wednesday (30 April).

Source: EU Observer   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: May 1st 2008. 12:40:24

Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a fee of £16.5 million fee for Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Luka Modric.

Modric, a key part of the Croatia national side that beat England 3-2 at Wembley last November, will join the north London club in the summer for £16.5 million.

Source: Yahoo! Sport   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: April 30th 2008. 21:57:24

BAGHDAD, April 30 -- Attacks on U.S. troops over the past two days killed six soldiers, the U.S. military said Wednesday, pushing the military's death toll in Iraq for April to 50, the highest for a single month since September.

Source: Washington Post   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: April 30th 2008. 21:53:11

Glavni tužilac Kantona Sarajevo Branko Šljivar u intervjuu za "Dnevni avaz" iznosi najnovije detalje do kojih se došlo u istragama u Federalnoj direkciji robnih rezervi, Ministarstvu energije, industrije i rudarstva FBiH, elektroenergetskom sektoru, "Terminalima FBiH", "Energoinvestu", slučaju "Gaši".

Source: Avaz   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: March 12th 2008. 21:08:20

učerašnji susret šestorice stranačkih lidera u Teniskom centru "Đulić" u Širokom Brijegu, umjesto dugo najavljivanih ozbiljnih razgovora o ustavnim promjenama, pretvorio se u žestok međustranački sukob zbog reforme policije i dramatičnu javnu svađu predsjednika SDA i Stranke za BiH, Sulejmana Tihića i Harisa Silajdžića.

Source: Avaz   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: February 3rd 2008. 09:39:07

FORMER Yeovil MP and Liberal Democrat leader Lord Paddy Ashdown talked about his experiences in Bosnia in front of a packed audience at Chardstock Community Hall on Saturday.

Source: Yeovil Express   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 17:37:15

He didn't know his victims. He wasn't influenced by violent video games. Terrorism wasn't a factor.

The young Bosnian immigrant who killed five people at a shopping mall nearly a year ago was a shy loner who uttered just two words during a random shooting spree that ended with his death in a storm of police gunfire.

Source: KansasCity.com   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 17:30:10

The following is a list of approximately 500 children, victims of Srebrenica genocide, who were under the age of 18 on July 11 1995. Some children were shot in the head.

Source: Srebrenica Genocide Blog   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 17:27:38

TOKYO (AP) -- Koji Yamase scored twice in the second half Wednesday to help Japan beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0 in an exhibition match.

Source: Sporting News   |   Added by: Webmaster   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 17:24:03

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years imprisonment on Wednesday for the shelling of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, one of the court's toughest sentences.

Source: REUTERS   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 14:58:42

For my first roundup of the Bosnian blogosphere, I am introducing a couple of interesting new blogs that have emerged in the past few weeks, showing the growing interest in blogging and in the Web 2.0 in the Balkans.

Source: Global Voices   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 14:56:59

AMSTERDAM, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal have appealed the 33-year jail sentence given to a former Bosnian Serb general who directed the shelling of Sarajevo and are seeking a life term, the court said on Friday.

Source: REUTER   |   Added by: Zeljko Milicevic   |   Added on: February 2nd 2008. 14:15:02