Bosnian Croats say may push for own region unless election law changes
Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegoviaReuters Bosnian Croat nationalists said on Saturday they could launch a political process to form their own region in Bosnia unless an election law is changed in a way that bolsters their representation in national institutions. The Croatian National Parliament (HNS), a body representing Bosnian Croat political parties and led by the […]
Stop secessionist rhetoric or face sanctions, EU tells Bosnian Serb leaders
Reuters The Bosnian Serb leadership risks sanctions and a loss of aid should it continue to incite tensions among Bosnian communities with inflammatory rhetoric as used during the celebrations of its statehood day on Sunday, the EU said on Monday. The 9th January marks the date in 1992 when Bosnian Serbs declared independence, triggering a […]
Nine Serbs indicted for killing around 100 Muslims during Bosnian war
Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaReuters A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor has indicted nine Bosnian Serbs for the killing of around 100 Muslim Bosniaks, including seven entire families, early in the 1992-95 war, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday. Twenty-six years after the end of its devastating war between Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and […]
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DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Illegal Serb church on Bosniak woman’s land is demolished
Sarajevo, Bosnia-HerzegovinaAP Bosnian authorities on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights. Workers and construction machinery arrived at Fata Orlovic’s yard in the village of […]
EU to funnel COVID vaccines to Balkans after China, Russia shipments
Vienna, Austria/Brussels. Belgium Reuters The European Union will ship over half a million COVID-19 shots to the Western Balkans by August using for the first time in the region a vaccine-sharing mechanism meant to help its poorer neighbours and to challenge Chinese and Russian influence. The EU move comes after China and Russia distributed millions […]
Essay: Srebrenica, 25 years later – lessons from the massacre that ended the Bosnian conflict and unmasked a genocide
In an article first published on The Conversation, US history professor TOM MOCKAITIS says the criminal indictments that followed the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica in 1995 show why the perpetrators of wartime atrocities must be held accountable…
INSIDE JOB: HOW BOSNIAN POLICEWOMEN ARE TAKING ON ABUSIVE HUSBANDS
UMBERTO BACCHI reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation from Bosnia and Herzegovina…