Roma
As a survivor of Genocide in Bosnia at the end of the last century and after the failure of the cry "Never Again" in the aftermath of the Holocaust, I know what it means to be safe in the home...
Born in 1924, Dr. Catovic lived with his family in Bilice, an area in modern day Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was a student of the famous Gazi Husrev-beg Medresa. His life changed drastically when he was left orphaned as a young teenager in the horrific genocide against the Muslims during the 1940s...
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals will eavesdrop on calls made from detention by former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic after he phoned into a debate in Montenegro without permission.
No one has yet been prosecuted, either in Bosnian courts or at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, for the shelling of Gorazde during the siege. The only case in which it was mentioned was the Hague prosecution of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 before the end of his trial.
Genocide in Prijedor
According to the prosecutor, witnesses confirmed that Milojica killed a Bosniak shepherd during a search of the village of Carakovo, as well as an elderly man while he was searching for gold in a house together with Rivic and another person.
Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state, as well as the citizens' awareness of its statehood, has outlived much bigger and more dangerous attempts to deny it. BiH will survive because majority of its citizens consider it their only homeland. I'm more concerned about how it will turn out, how it will be governed and how attractive it will be to future generations.
“At the same time, the ICTY has rigorously and methodically reviewed, explained, and applied key provisions of international law, increasing understanding of the law and, I hope, its application in conflict zones around the world and in national courts, including in the countries of the former Yugoslavia,” he added.