Category: English
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Visegrad – In defense of the truth
This article appeared 21/01/2014 on the website of the civil society coalition Prvi Mart. The background is the continued harassment of Bosniak returnees in eastern Bosnia by the authorities in the entity of Republika Srpska. During the last four months the returnees and various associations’ representing the returnees as well as victims of war and…
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Serbia´s Treatment of Convicted War Criminals
On Tuesday 31th of December 2013 Slobodan Medic his wife and their son were killed in a car crash near the town of Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia. Medic was once one of the commanders of the notorious paramilitary unit Scorpions. Working under the patronage of Serbian State Security, the unit was widely used during the fighting and…
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A New Documentary on Sarajevo´s former Military Hospital – The unsung heroes of the Siege of Sarajevo
This article was published by Kosovo News on 9th January 2014 ( Link ) On February 15th, 2013 during the trial of Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladić, the Trial chamber heard the testimony of Dr Bakir Nakaš. He was the manager of the Sarajevo State Hospital. A military hospital before the Yugoslav People’s Army,…
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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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Open Letter to Ambassador Samantha Power Regarding the Demolition of the House on Pionirska Street
The Honorable Ambassador Samantha Power Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations United States Mission to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza New York, N.Y. 10017 Dear Madame Ambassador: We are writing to express our concerns about the plans of the Višegrad municipality to destroy the Pionirska house, one of the houses in Višegrad…
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Srebrenica Genocide Denier Stephan Karganovic Banned from The Belgrade Book Fair
Stephan Karganovic, head of Hague-based (Holland) NGO, The Srebrenica Historical Project is upset because the upcoming Belgrade Book Fair has banned him from promoting his and his associates work at the fair. Mirjana Lukic the chief coordinator for this year´s fair explained the decision to ban Karganovic by saying in a written statement that those…
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Venice Commisson : Celebration of 9 January likely to exacerbate divisions within society.
BACKGROUND: Europian Commission for Democracy Through Law (VENICE COMMISSION) filed a Amicus Curiae Breif on the 12th of October 2013. This was in regard to the selection of January 9th as the date of the observance of the holiday of the Day of the Republic can result in the discrimination against the members of the…
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Pionirska Street Live Pyre
On Thursday 10th of October 2013 Bosnian media reported that the local authorities in the town of Višegrad decided to hold off on the planned decision about the expropriation of a house on Pionirska Street in which on June 14 1992, 53 people were burned alive by Serb paramilitaries. The decision adds to the sense…
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INTERVIEW: Greek journalist sued for writing about the presence of Greek paramilitaries in Bosnia/ Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic´s Serbia
About 10 years ago I read Greek journalist’s and author Takis Michas book on the role Greece had played during the wars in former Yugoslavia and the close relationship Serbia and Greece during those wars. A relationship that included Greece breaking the oil-embargo imposed on Serbia as a result of the sanctions on the Milošević…
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Genocide Denial and the Need for Maintaining Necessary Illusions
It is utterly depressing having to write about Bosnian Genocide and the subsequent denial of it by those that have inherited the policy of discrimination based on political racial and religious ground which was the trademark of Slobodan Milosevic main client; Radovan Karadzic and his Republika Srpska, yet here we are. Still I guess it´s…
