A community portal about Bosnia and Herzegovina with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of southern...
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A community portal about Bosnia and Herzegovina with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkan peninsula of southern Europe with an area of 51,129 km, making it the 127th largest country by area, and an estimated population of around four million people. It is known in the country's official languages as Bosna i Hercegovina.
EU foreign ministers decided Monday to boost ties with Serbia, bringing an end to an 18-month standoff over Belgrade's lack of cooperation with a UN war crimes court, diplomats said. The move was made possible after the Netherlands, the only nation blocking the deal, dropped its opposition during the ministerial meeting in Brussels. "The Dutch have said that they are making a gesture (towards Serbia) while keeping up the pressure" for it to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday that Bosnia's former ambassador to the United Nations cannot be extradited over allegations he misused government funds, reversing a lower court. Muhamed Sacirbey, a U.S. citizen who was the face of Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war, served as Bosnia's first ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 to 2000. The Bosnian government accused him of embezzlement and abusing his office but he was never charged, the appeals court found... Read Full Story
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters Life!) - You'd never guess at first glance whether Bosnian teen Tanja Bekic is Muslim, Serb, Catholic or from a mixed marriage and that's the point of attending a Catholic school. The 17-year-old's secondary school in Banja Luka is one of seven Catholic schools that have become islands of multiculturalism in the deeply divided society of Bosnia. Bekic is in her third year at a school which is referred to only as the "Catholic Gymnasium," in a building without... Read Full Story
A UN court on Thursday cut an ex-Bosnian Serb general's sentence by four years after finding there was no evidence he ordered certain shootings of civilians during a siege of Sarajevo. The ruling reduced his sentence from 33 years to 29. "The appeals chamber... reduces (Dragomir) Milosevic's sentence to 29 years of imprisonment," judge Fausto Pocar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said in The Hague. Milosevic, 67, had appealed his 2007 conviction, seeking an... Read Full Story
Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic said Thursday the success of Bosnia's Serb Republic helped her survive her years in jail, but she does not plan to return to politics. Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb president, was freed on Oct. 27 from a Swedish prison after serving two-thirds of an 11-year jail term for crimes against humanity during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war. More than 100,000 people were killed during the conflict, most of them by Bosnian Serb forces. Speaking to the media for the... Read Full Story
The UN war crimes tribunal on Thursday appointed a London lawyer to represent Radovan Karadzic during his genocide trial, a legal adviser to the Bosnian Serb wartime leader said. "The clerk informed us today that it had designated Richard Harvey," the adviser, Marko Sladojevic, told AFP in The Hague, where the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sits. Two weeks ago the ICTY ordered that a lawyer be appointed for Karadzic after he failed to attend the start of his... Read Full Story
Pavle BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95. Pavle, a respected theologian and linguist known for personal humility and modesty, had been hospitalized for two years with heart and lung problems and died of cardiac arrest in his sleep, the church and the Belgrade Military Hospital said. Pavle took over the... Read Full Story
The genocide trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic is set to resume in The Hague on Tuesday amid much uncertainty as to the impact of his planned second day of boycott. Karadzic boycotted the start of the trial on Monday, forcing an adjournment for a day as the judge accused the Bosnian Serb wartime leader of obstructing the process. Despite an appeal from presiding judge O-Gon Kwon, his legal adviser said Karadzic, who is conducting his own defence, planned to continue his... Read Full Story
The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic went ahead without him Tuesday, with prosecutors branding him "supreme commander" of an ethnic cleansing campaign in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. "This case is about that supreme commander, a man who harnessed the forces of nationalism, hatred and fear to implement his vision of an ethnically separated Bosnia: Radovan Karadzic," prosecutor Alan Tieger told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Karadzic, who faces 11... Read Full Story
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A stand-off looms on Monday between former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and trial judges after the war crimes suspect said he would boycott the start of his trial on claims he is being denied a fair process. More than 13 years after an arrest warrant was issued, Karadzic is to face 11 war crimes charges, including genocide at Srebrenica, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, but he says he has not had enough time to prepare his defense. "The biggest, most complex... Read Full Story
