Category: Mirza Hota
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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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Svik inte de bosnier som kräver upprättelse
Den här artikeln publicerades av SVT Debatt 6 januari 2014 ( Länk ) Den tionde december i år, internationella dagen för mänskliga rättigheter, samlades demonstranterna. Bosniaker, kroater, serber, aktivister, anhöriga, överlevare och medborgare. De tågade med plakat genom Prijedor, en stad i nordvästra Bosnien i Republika Srpska, som är en av två entiteter i Bosnien-Hercegovina.…
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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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Det dröjer innan Bosnien återhämtar sig efter kriget
Den här texten publicerades idag 06-12-2013 i Nerikes Allehanda på debattsidan. Sida 26 med titeln “Det dröjer innan Bosnien återhämtar sig efter kriget.” Texten skrev jag med anledning av Jovan Divjaks besök i Örebro 21 november 2013. Några veckor sedan satt jag i A-huset i Örebro och lyssnade på Jovan Divjak tala om Bosniens framtid.…
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Ett ohållbar tystnad
ICMP( International Commission on Missing Persons ) det organ som har högsta ansvar för utgrävningen av massgravar och identifikation av offren i Bosnien Hercegovina hade i vetat i flera år om att det fanns en massgrav i Tomašica nära Prijedor. Tipsen hade de fått från ett ångerfull serbisk soldat. Två års hårt arbete med att…
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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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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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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…
