Today In History
Source: Taiwan News
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-05-06 18:47:05 -0700 | travel-news
Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2013...French defeat Venetians at Agnadello and become masters of northern Italy. Francois Ravaillac, a fanatical Roman Catholic, assassinates France's King Henry IV, who gave a measure of religious freedom to Protestants....
Dobrovoljadz˝ka St. massacre anniversary marked
Source: B92
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-05-03 07:52:20 -0700 | travel-news
The wreath-laying ceremony was held in Sarajevo where Muslim forces attacked a convoy killing 42 soldiers and officers, wounding scores and capturing over 200. A May 3, 1992 photo of the aftermath of the attack (Tanjug) The commemoration ceremony, which...
EU urges Bosnia to speed up work toward membership
Source: Taiwan News
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-27 10:28:23 -0700 | travel-news
The European Union urged Bosnia on Friday to swiftly implement reforms that would allow it to apply for membership in the 27-nation bloc. "With other countries in the Western Balkans taking resolute steps toward the union, there is no reason...
"Face the truth": Bosnian leader upbraids Serbian president
Source: Reuters
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-23 08:15:58 -0700 | travel-news
Topics Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Tri-Presidency Bakir Izetbegovic listens as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (not pictured) speaks during a news conference in Sarajevo October 30, 2012. Bosnian Muslim leader Bakir Izetbegovic publicly upbraided Serbia's nationalist president...
Mladic clashes with witness, ejected from trial
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-10 09:20:29 -0700 | travel-news
The 71-year-old Mladic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia, faces 11 charges, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Bosnia's war which left 100,000 dead. Mladic began muttering as the witness started testifying about Srebrenica,...
UN meeting on justice sparks Jordan boycott
Source: Seattle Times
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-09 23:01:43 -0700 | travel-news
Originally published Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 10:13 PM UN meeting on justice sparks Jordanian boycott Jordan's U.N. ambassador says he is boycotting a controversial meeting on international criminal justice organized by the president of the General Assembly because it...
Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
Source: Associated Press
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-09 11:16:40 -0700 | travel-news
The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people traumatized and heavily armed...The millions of weapons that remained in possession of civilians after...
Bosnian Serb President testifies for Karadzic
Source: Boston.com
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-09 03:46:09 -0700 | travel-news
Netherlands (AP) One Bosnian Serb leader testified in defense of another at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, blaming Muslims' wishes for an Islamic state in Bosnia for fueling the country's ethnic war. Radovan Karadzic, accused by United Nations prosecutors...
Ratko Mladic on the run: the full story of how the general evaded capture
Source: War In Context
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-04-02 11:38:38 -0700 | travel-news
But just in case their loyalty should waver, they were presented with a gift: photographs of their children. The implication was clear: if we can shoot them with a camera, we can shoot them by other means as well. The...
Ex-Karadzic ally in contempt on Srebrenica
Source: The Courier-Mail
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2013-03-28 11:08:02 -0700 | travel-news
Serb ex-army general who led the 1995 attack on Srebrenica, one of the bloodiest episodes of the Bosnian war, has been charged with contempt after refusing to testify on behalf of former leader Radovan Karadzic, a UN war crimes court...
"Bosnia was never state, Serbs were also victims"
Source: B92
Belgrade :: Serbia | updated 2012-06-10 08:43:31 -0700 | political-news
Milorad Dodik says the recent commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Sarajevo was another attempt to assign guilt only to Serbs. Milorad Dodik (Tanjug, file) The president of the Serb Republic (RS) told B92...
Eyal Press: The Unsung Heroes of the Balkan Wars
Source: HNN
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2012-06-09 17:34:49 -0700 | technology-news
Journalist Eyal Press is the author of "Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times." Twenty years ago last week, Serbian snipers fired on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in Sarajevo, launching a...
Two decades from war, a new fight to save Bosnia
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2012-06-26 14:56:25 -0700 | disasters-news
The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia's war needs a beginning to mark, then it's April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That's the day the West recognised the Yugoslav republic as independent and Serb...
Carol Off: Why Sarajevo could lose a 660-year-old Jewish prayer book
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sarajevo :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2012-06-03 00:44:12 -0700 | sports-news
The Sarajevo Haggadah has endured the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews from southern Europe, the Nazi Holocaust and the war in Bosnia. But now, 20 years after the siege of Sarajevo, it may not survive a government that...
Bosnian war mine kills two men
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Lukavac :: Bosnia and Herzegovina | updated 2012-05-19 03:10:02 -0700 | political-news
The fatal accident took place near the northeastern town of Lukavac, national television cited the local civil protection authority as saying. The two men, aged 27 and 28, were collecting wood despite the area being marked as infested with anti-personnel...
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