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  • Nataša Kandić: Scare Tactics Used by The Prosecutor´s Office

    Background : Last November former protected witness Slobodan Stojanović, former member of 37th Division of Special Units Of the Police or PJP (Posebnih jedinica policije) accused Serbia´s Head War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević, his deputy Bruno Vekarić and prosecutor Dragoljub Stanković of trying to cover up for those police officers suspected of committing war crimes…

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  • Hava Tatarevic´s husband and six sons

      Last September members of Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons and ICMP confirmed that they had discovered what was believed to be the biggest mass grave in Bosnia and Herzegovina. So far 435 bodies have been exhumed from the mass grave in Tomasica and the slow and painstaking identification process has begun. Amongst those recently…

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  • Statement Concerning the January 23, 2014 Desecration of the Stražište Memorial

      This is a guest post by David Pettigrew. Shortly after professor Pettigrew´s visit and his report The Guradian published a lengthy article by Julian Borger on the situation in Višegrad. Višegrad, March 18, 2014 By my presence in the Stražište Cemetery today in Višegrad, I condemn genocide denial in Republika Srpska and specifically condemn…

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  • Aleksandar Trifunovic: Dodik has turned into the very thing he fought against

    Aleksandar Trifunovic, editor of Banja Luka–based portal BUKA  recently found himself on a list of “undesirable elements” in Republika Srpska, a list made by Milorad Dodik and SNSD. In an interview for BiH portal Bljesak.info Trifunovic talked about how the threats have not stopped coming since BUKA has decided not to “choose sides” and simply…

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  • Peace Reaserch and Conspiracy Theorists

    This article originally appeared on Norwegian Website, Vepsen 06/03/2014  Last month many Sarajevo citizens found the way to the memorial Markale massacre 5 February 1994 (1), in which 68 people were killed when a shell hit the crowded marketplace. Massacre provoked international outrage, one year later on August 28, five Serb mortar shell landed on the same…

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  • Remembering Srebrenica

    On 18th of February a delegation from the foundation “Remembering Srebrenica” from the UK visited the Gallery 07/11/95. The gallery is dedicated to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. In addition to the President of the Foundation, Waqar Azmija, the delegation consisted of Angus Robertson, member of the British Parliament and the Minister for Foreign…

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  • Continuation of genocide by other means

    This is a continued effort to highlight the discrimination faced by returnees to the Podrinje region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Podrinje or the Drina Valley was scene to some of the most vicious pogroms and mass killings during the Bosnian War. On January 23d local Serb authorities in eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad removed the word “genocide”…

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  • Aleksandar Trifunovic : Those who rebel in Republika Srpska are percived as traitors

    This interview first appeared on Croatian portal Lupiga.com 10.02.2014. In light of the protests that have taken place in the last week throughout towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina Lupiga.com spoke to BUKA editor Aleksandar Trifunovic about how the protests are perceived in Republika Srpska. “In Republika Srpska setting fire to federal institutions is being perceived as…

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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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  • Visegrad – Defending truth and the survivors

    In the wake of yesterday’s draconian action by the authorities in Visegrad, German chapter of The Society for Threatened Peoples, who´s founder is German human rights activist Tilman Zülch sent an appeal to German Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding the events in that eastern Bosnian town. The appeal was sent after the police and local authorities…

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