Category: Eastern Bosnia
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The Murder of the Ribić Family
Just before Christmas 2015 Bosnian media reported that four young girls, sisters had been identified by forensics experts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their remains had been exhumed from a large mass grave on a mountain called Crni Vrh (Black Peak) overlooking the town of Zvornik. According to forensics experts; 628 human remains were found in…
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Nož-žica-Srebrenica
At the end of last month I wrote a lengthy post here about the abuse and discrimination leveled against returnees in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina that had been “ethnically cleansed” during the Bosnian genocide. While attacks of this nature have taken place throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina over the years, most of the attacks have…
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Attacks on Returnees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
On the morning of august 12th at around four o´clock four Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) youngsters walking down the center of Prijedor were stopped by a four Serb thugs near the Kozara bakery. According to one of the young men who was attacked the Serbs asked the four Bosniaks if they were “Balije” (A derogatory term…
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Srebrenica: 20 Years On | Short Documentary
Short documentary about the genocide in Srebrenica by Austrialian journalist Rusty Woodger. In his short doc Woodger points to what can be described as a culture of denial by the local Serbs in and around Srebrenica, above the execuation-sites like the one in Kravica where over 1000 people were executed 13th of July are now…
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The Truth About “A Town Betrayed”
Most people outside of Scandinavia, more precisely Norway and Sweden have never heard of “A Town Betrayed ” a revisionist take on the genocide in Srebrenica and the events that led up to it. It first aired in Norway in the spring of 2011 and later in Sweden in fall that same year. On the…
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Unholy Alliance-Greece and Milosevic´s Serbia Revisited
About two years ago I got the permission from CNAB ( Congress of the North American Bosniaks) to re-publish a revised and uppdated version of Daniel Toljaga´s 2009 interview with greek writer and journalist Takis Michas. Michas had in 2002 published a book detailing the support of the Greek State, the Greek Orthodox Church as well…
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Persecution And Death In Vlasenica
On the 16th of May 2015, 23 years had passed since the Zaklopača massacre, in which at least 63 Bosniak men, women and children were killed by Bosnian Serb forces. Zaklopača, a village on the border with Srebrenica municipality was once part of the pre-war Vlasenica municipality. After the war Vlasenica was split into two…
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“Visegrad Genocide Memories” A photo photo exhibition by Velija Hasanbegovic
In 2011 CEU ( Central European University ) was host to an photo exhibition by Bosnian photographer Velija Hasanbegovic. Hasanbegovic, originally from the town of Visegrad, is a survivor of the Bosnian genocide. When he was sixteen he and his brother survived an execution on the banks of the river Drina. According to Hasanbegovic what…
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Srebrenica- The remains of a young boy found in four different mass graves.
On Saturday Bosnian media reported that the body of one; Senad Beganović and his compatriot, the two years older Muvaz Orlović were identified after their remains had been exhumed from several mass graves around the Podrinje area. ( Drina Valley) Beganović was fourteen when he was killed, he was originally from Bratunac, while Muvaz (16)…
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Bikavac Live Pyre
Back in October 2013 I wrote about the Pionirska Street Live Pyre that took the lives of 53 people, mostly Bosniaks from the village of Koritnik near the town of Višegrad. Altogether some 70 people were forced into the house at gun point by Serb ultranationalist paramilitaries led by Milan Lukić and his cousin Sredoje…
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