SARAJEVO – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Bosnia on Thursday to pursue limited changes to its constitution needed to reform the electoral system and protect the rights of all…
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BOSNIA DETAINS TWO SERB EX-SOLDIERS OVER WARTIME KILLING OF 78 BOSNIAKS
Bosnian police on Tuesday detained two Serb ex-soldiers accused of taking part in the murder of at least 78 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians early in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, the…
U.S. IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON BOSNIAN SERB NATIONALIST LEADER DODIK
The United States imposed sanctions on Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik on Tuesday for actively obstructing efforts to implement the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the more than three-year war in…
BRAZIL AUTHORITIES ARREST MAN WANTED BY BOSNIA FOR WAR CRIMES SINCE 1992
Brazil’s federal prosecutors office said in a statement that police arrested Nikola Ceranic, 47, in the city of Indaiatuba, about 45 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo. Brazil, Bosnia for war…
ON THE RUN, MLADIC’S WORLD SLOWLY SHRANK
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who once barked out orders that could kill thousands, could not stand the pain and decided he no longer wanted to live. By 2006, the man…
MLADIC LIVED OPENLY IN CAPITAL UNTIL 2002, FRIEND SAYS
Ratko Mladic lived openly at home in Belgrade until 2002, seven years after an international war crimes tribunal indictment, often receiving visitors for meals, rakia and music, a friend said on Monday….
CLINTON IN SARAJEVO TO PUSH FOR BOSNIAN REFORMS
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would press Bosnia’s quarrelsome leaders on Tuesday to set aside deep ethnic divisions and bring the Balkan nation more fully into Europe’s fold, U.S. officials said. Clinton,…
EVENTS LEADING UP TO TRIAL OF RADOVAN KARADZIC
Here is a timeline of events which led up to the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic: 1992 — Karadzic opposes an independent Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs declare a breakaway republic….
WATH REALY KILLED MOZART?
The death of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35 may have been caused by complications stemming from strep throat, according to a Dutch study published on Monday. Since the…
BOSNIA: LAW TAYING CANDIDACY TO ETHNICITY IS CONTESTED
A Bosnian Jew and an ethnic Roma have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to overturn laws that prevent ethnic minorities from running for president. Under the Dayton peace agreement…