Category: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Returning To Eastern Bosnia
Last month media in the Balkans reported that Muniza Oprasić, a 78-year old Bosniak returnee to Republika Sprska was ordered by a district court in “Eastern Sarajevo” which is in the RS entity to pay 10 000 Euros to a Serb family who lived in her house as squatters in the village of Okruglo for…
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Open Letter From Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center
January 9, 2015 Mr. Valentin Inzko High Representative The Office of the High Representative Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Dear High Representative Inzko, We are writing to express our concern about the intention of the authorities in Višegrad to demolish the Pionirska Street house. The Pionirska Street house fire that occurred on June 14, 1992,…
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Police Raid on Klix.ba
Police from Republika Srpska aided by local police from Sarajevo raided the offices of Bosnian news site Klix.ba in an effort to discover the source of an incriminating audiotape of Zeljka Cvijanovic, ( of Milorad Dodik´s party SNSD) the prime minister of Republika Srpska and close associate of Milorad Dodik. In mid November Klix.ba published…
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What´s Wrong With Handke?
This article originally appeared in Norwegian on the website of Klasskampen.no on September 10th as a part of the debate on the controversial decision to award Peter Handke the Ibsen Award. Written by lyricist, playwright and translator Øyvind Berg who is well acquainted with Handke´s work and his political views, especially his Serbia activism. Article…
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With Šešelj’s Release from the Hague, Can There be Justice on the Ground in Bosnia?
This is a guest post by Professor David Pettigrew. This article was published in Bosnian on Al-Jazeera Balkans 9-12-14 The recent release of ultranationalist demagogue Vojislav Šešelj1 from his detention at the Hague, for “compelling humanitarian reasons,”2 raises new questions about the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Šešelj…
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Paklenik Massacre
Paklenik massacre exhumation 31.8.2000 On 29th of October Bosnian State Court in Sarajevo found Predrag Milisavljević and Miloš Pantelić, two members of the Reserve Police within the Public Security Station in Višegrad guilty of murder. The two men were sentenced to 20 years in prison for the execution of 48 Bosniak civilians from Višegrad in…
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The Norwegian Yugoslavia-Syndrome
This article originally appeared in Norwegian on the website of VG Nyheter as a part of the debate on the controversial decision to award Peter Handke The Ibsen Award. Written by Balkan-expert and senior adviser to The Norwegian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; Aage Borchgrevink This article has been translated and published with the author´s permission. …
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The intellectual and the totalitarian – a sad affair
This article appeared on Friday 19.9.2014 on the website of VG Nyheter in Norwegian as a part of the debate about the controversial decision to award the prestigious Ibsen Award to Peter Handke. Written by professor Øystein Sørensen of Oslo University. On Sunday, Austrian Peter Handke will receive The Ibsen Award. Handke is one of today’s…
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A shameful award
This article appeared originally in Norwegian on the website of VG Nyheter on Sunday 21.9.14 as a part of the debate about the controversial decision to award the prestigious Ibsen Award to Peter Handke. Written by Norway´s honorary consul to Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ivar Amundsen. Handke has declared himself as an unabashed supporter of…
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Sarajevo Remembers Second Markale Market Massacre
This week saw Sarajevans pay their respect to the victims of the second Markale Market massacre which took place 28th august 1995 and took the lives of 43 people and injured another 75 when a shell fired from Serb position outside the city landed in the crowded marketplace. According to the UN-report on the situation in Bosnia…
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