Bosnia and Herzegovina

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Authorities in Bosnia say they have arrested a couple for physically mistreating and keeping a young German woman imprisoned for years. The spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Tuzla, Admir Arnautovic, told The ...  

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Authorities in Bosnia say they have arrested a couple for physically mistreating and keeping a young German woman imprisoned for years. The spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Tuzla, Admir Arnautovic, told The ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday ...  

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A couple who allegedly beat a young woman while keeping her locked up for years have been arrested in Bosnia, an official said Sunday. The 19-year-old girl was rescued after villagers tipped off authorities that she was being abused, the spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Tuzla, Admir Arnautovic, told The Associated ...  

Authorities in Bosnia say they have arrested a couple for physically mistreating and keeping a young German woman imprisoned for years. The spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Tuzla, Admir Arnautovic, told The Associated Press on Sunday ...  

KARAVLASI, Bosnia (Reuters) - A teenage German woman has been rescued from a Bosnian couple who are accused of starving and beating her for years and of harnessing her to a horse cart and making her pull it. The 19-year-old, kept in a hamlet ...  

They were victims of a wave of ethnic cleansing in villages and towns near Bosnia's eastern border with Serbia in spring 1992, as Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic seized 70 percent of the country. Arrested a year ago in Serbia after 16 years ...  

James McClean forced Asmir Begović into a smart, one-handed save at his near post, Damien Duff troubled the Bosnian goalkeeper with a low shot that went narrowly wide and McGeady, latching onto Kevin Doyle's header, smacked a shot off the post.  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44, was sentenced to 35 years and Mendeljev Djuric, 52, to 30 years in prison. The court said they were guilty of expelling Muslims from Srebrenica and for taking part in the...  

U.S. Ambassador in Sarajevo says that if Bosnian politicians cannot find solutions themselves, there is a question whether the country is ready for NATO and EU. U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Patrick Moon has criticized the Bosnia-Herzegovina politicians, pointing out that they have to realize that in democratic societies they were responsible for finding solutions.  

Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44 ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- A Bosnian couple enslaved a young German girl whom they tortured and kept locked up for eight years, police said Sunday. A neighbor who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the girl like an animal ...  

DUBLIN (AP) -Substitute Shane Long broke the deadlock midway through the second half to give Ireland a morale-boosting 1-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in a friendly on Saturday. The West Brom striker's header from Aiden McGeady's cross in ...  

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Shane Long gave Ireland a morale-boosting 1-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina ahead of the European Championship on Saturday but midfielder Keith Fahey was ruled out of the tournament through injury. Fahey has been struggling with a ...  

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Intergraph has scheduled Discovery Tour events in Zagreb, Croatia on May 28; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 30; and Belgrade, Serbia on June 1, 2012 that will feature the CADWorx Plant Design Suite including demonstrations of CADWorx 2013, the ...  

Shane Long ensured the Republic of Ireland will head off on their Euro 2012 adventure on the back of a win with the only goal against Bosnia-Herzegovina. The West Brom striker's 78th-minute header was enough to claim victory in the Republic's ...  

For long periods, Safet Susic's side retained the ball and passed it confidently with Miralem Pjanic and skipper Zvjezdan Misimovic running the game from central midfield and Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko keeping Richard Dunne on his toes throughout.  

Picking the ball up in an inside left position, McGeady played a one-two with Walters, before chipping the ball across the box for Long, whose goalbound header was brilliantly saved by Begovic. On the followup, Keith Andrews headed the rebound over the crossbar.  

Ten years ago, the LA Galaxy frontman went to the World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea as one of another five-strong group of forwards along with Damien Duff, Niall Quinn, David Connolly and Clinton Morrison, and he is convinced Giovanni ...  

McGeady, I think, plays a lovely ball to put Andrews one on ... Shay Given, Shane Long, Niall Quinn, Michael Collins, Bertie Ahern, John Banville and Jon Walters have all had some sort oohaaah or owwiee over the last week or so. Given and O'Shea are ...  

[JURIST] US resident Dejan Radojkovic was deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday in order to face charges related to his actions as a police commander in Srebrenica during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive] in 1995. Radojkovic is accused of rounding up more than 200 Bonian-Muslims who were then taken to another area where they were executed. He immigrated to the US in 1999. After an investigation uncovered that...  

A solitary goal in the second half from Shane Long was enough to give Ireland the win over Bosnia-HerzegovinaIt's 1976 and Tony Cascarino is playing for Kestrel Rovers. He's 14 and he has just discovered girls. In fact, one of the reasons Cascarino joined Rovers is because he fancied the sister of a friend who played there. A trial with QPR came to nothing and so he continued to play there for the rest of the season at the end of which he...  

Vedad Ibisevic almost put the visitors ahead after ten minutes when he just missed Edin Dzeko's centre, with Zvjezdan Misimovic blazing the rebound over. Glenn Whelan saw claims for a penalty turned down when Asmir Begovic seemed to fell him in the area ...  

Clever play down the right between Edin Dzeko and the Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic, freed the Manchester City striker who crossed for Vedad Ibisevic, and the Stuttgart striker was mere inches away from turning the ball past Westwood. Minutes later and ...  

At half-time Trapattoni shuffled his midfield, with West Brom midfielder Keith Andrews and Spartak Moscow's skilful winger McGeady replacing Duff and Whelan respectively, and McGeady made an immediate impact. A flighted free-kick from Stephen Ward found ...  

Swiss referee Nikolaj Haenni, however, waved away his appeals and as the half wore on, it was Trapattoni's men who started to make the running ... However, there might have been within two minutes of the restart but for the intervention of the woodwork.  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni said he is wary of Saturday opponents Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ireland – who have qualified for Euro 2012 – take on their eastern European opponents at Aviva Stadium on Sunday as they begin ...  

"For the families who lost loved ones at Srebrenica, justice has been a long time coming," said ICE Director John Morton of the deportation of Radojkovic, who had moved to the Nevada gambling capital. "But they can take consolation in the fact that those ...  

Coach Safet Susic has a few talented players at his disposal, with Edin Dzeko, Miralem Pjanic, Senad Lulic and Zvjezdan Misimovic all expected to start on Saturday. Having just failed to reach the European Championships you’d expect Bosnia-Herzegovina to ...  

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after an overnight commercial airline flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, Bosnian...  

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in ...  

wrote Jaspers. Despite these persuasive lines, Curak stated that, “a culture of denial is still the leading paradigm of Serbian social cohesion”; an extremely damaging account when put into the context of the struggle to build the spirit of tolerance ...  

Ikonic was Radojkovic's police commander, Navas said. Authorities preparing for the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on war crimes charges at The Hague, Netherlands, said this month the remains of almost 6,000 people had been ...  

The couple were arrested on May 17 but police on Sunday said they could not reveal further details of the case, while prosecutors were not available for comment. The girl, who has not been named by police, had been placed in a safe house and was receiving ...  

Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44, was sentenced to 35 years and Mendeljev Djuric, 52, to 30 years in prison. The court said they were guilty of expelling Muslims from Srebrenica and for taking part in the killing of 1,000 prisoners after the...  

BELGRADE, Serbia (ABC News)  -- When Sead Makalic saw his neighbors' stepdaughter being whipped as she was forced to pull their cart as though she were a horse, he was so shocked he reported it to the police in his village in northeast Bosnia. Makalic's call -- and the photograph he took of her as proof -- led to the liberation of a German teen who Bosnian authorities say was enslaved for eight years by a couple who subjected her to inhumane...  

A Bosnian couple enslaved a young German woman whom they tortured and kept locked up for eight years, police said today. A neighbour who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the woman like an animal, forcing her to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart on which they were sitting. Milenko and Slavojka Marinkovic were arrested at their home in a village in the northwestern Tuzla region after police received the tip-off...  

Long’s 78th-minute header sealed an impressive win over Bosnia — and stretched Ireland’s unbeaten run to 13 games. And it might have been more had Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic not been in sizzling form between the sticks. Manchester City striker Edin ...  

European club competition may have ended for the summer, but there is still plenty of soccer to be played. International friendly matches kick off today with a heated match between Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Ireland v Bosnia ...  

James McClean has been drafted into the line-up, replacing the established Aiden McGeady on the left wing. Paul McShane starts in defensive as niggling knocks strike deep. Kevin Foley and Stephen Kelly are already in the squad but neither will start ...  

Dejan Radojkovic, 61, arrived in Sarajevo Thursday morning aboard a commercial aircraft under escort by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal officers. Radojkovic was immediately turned over to Bosnian and Herzegovina law enforcement officials.  

In contrast to the previous season, the destiny of the title followed a rather predictable path in 2011/12 as FK Željezničar ... Cup to their collection by closing out a 1-0 aggregate success over Široki. Though the return leg finished goalless, the ...  

"He's wanted on genocide charges," said Nicole Navas, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. Authorities preparing for the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on war ... to the United States in June ...  

Girl kept as slave for eight years by couple Forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart "They subjected her to inhumane treatment and torture." A BOSNIAN couple enslaved a young German girl whom they tortured and kept locked up for eight years.  

A year after his arrest, dozens of Serb nationalists have gathered to show their support for former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, who is on trial before a UN war crimes tribunal for genocide committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.  

"He's wanted on genocide ... 1992-95 war following the breakup of the former Soviet republic of Yugoslavia left more than 100,000 dead. Court documents show Radojkovic and his family were granted refugee status and admitted to the United States ...  

Mejra Dzogaz prays near the graves of her two sons near Srebrenica. Credit: Dado RuvicSerb ex-policemen get up to 35 years in jail for Bosnian genocideRusmir Smajilhodzic, Agence France-Presse/ posted with permission /SARAJEVO — A Bosnian court on Friday handed down stiff sentences against two former Bosnian Serb policemen for “aiding genocide” when they oversaw killings during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosniaks.Dusko Jevic and...  

Radojkovic was turned over to Bosnia-Herzegovina law enforcement officials for prosecution on crimes charges stemming from the execution of Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica — an event described a Europe's bloodiest since World War II.  

* Woman was held since 2004 * Police detained the couple, took girl to safety * Mother under investigation By Muhamed Kahrimanovic KARAVLASI, Bosnia, May 27 (Reuters) - A teenage German woman has been rescued from a Bosnian couple who are accused of starving and beating her for years and of harnessing her to a horse cart and making her pull it. The 19-year-old, kept...  

The United States has deported to Bosnia-Herzegovina a former Bosnian-Serb police commander, wanted in his native country on war crimes charges for atrocities against non-Serbs. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo Thursday. He ...  

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Two former Bosnian Serb police chiefs were jailed for 35 and 30 years on Friday for the killing of 1,000 Muslim men at a warehouse near the town of Srebrenica in July 1995, part of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.  

Derry-born star James McClean will make his first senior start for the Republic of Ireland against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday. James McClean is set to start against Bosnia-Herzegovina (© Getty) The 23-year-old Sunderland winger will line up on the ...  

BANJA LUKA , Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A small sports plane burst into flames just after takeoff in northwest Bosnia on Sunday, killing the five people on board.Banja Luka police spokesperson Mirna Soja told the AP that three skydivers, an instructor and the pilot of the Cessna plane died in the crash.Read More... More on Video  

LAS VEGAS — A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia ...  

BANJA LUKA , Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police say five people were killed when a small sports plane crashed in Bosnia's northwest.Mirna Soja, a spokesperson for Banja Luka police, told the AP on Sunday that the Cesna plane burst into flames on landing, killing the two pilots and three skydivers aboard. No further information was available.©2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or...  

LAS VEGAS (AP) —  A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia ...  

BANJA LUKA , Bosnia-Herzegovina — A small sports plane burst into flames just after takeoff in northwest Bosnia on Sunday, killing the five people on board. Banja Luka police spokesperson Mirna Soja told the AP that three skydivers, an instructor and the ...  

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A former Bosnian-Serb police commander wanted in his native country for his alleged role in the 1995 genocide of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported from the United States, authorities said on Thursday.  

The United States remains committed to preserving Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The United States welcomes Bosnia and Herzegovina’s recent political progress. The Bosnian parliament has passed two key laws required by ...  

Several thousand people held a mass funeral on Saturday for 66 Muslim Bosnians who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces during the country's 1992-1995 war.The victims' remains were only discovered two years ago, when a man-made lake that divides Bosnia and Serbia was partially drained for the maintenance of a dam. The remains were then identified through DNA analysis.Those attending Saturday's ceremony at a cemetery in the eastern Bosnian town...  

THE HAGUE — Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began Wednesday, made a "throat-slitting" gesture at a widow of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre who was in court, she said. "At one moment, Mladic looked toward the public.  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a former Bosnian-Serb police commander wanted in his native country for genocide and atrocities against thousands of Bosnian Muslims, capping what ICE officials called a successful effort to investigate the case and remove him from the United States. Dejan Radojkovic, 61, arrived in ...  

(NewsCore) - The United States deported a former Bosnian Serb police chief Thursday to Sarajevo, to face charges for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims, officials said. Dejan Radojkovic, 61, was handed over to ...  

JEFFREY BROWN: Srebrenica, the siege of Sarajevo, the still raw feelings from the Bosnian War -- the past returned today to a courtroom in the Netherlands. MAN: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is now in session.  

In Serbia, Tomisloav Nikolic has scored a surprise victory over incumbent President Boris Tadic. The nationalist's win has raised fears about Serbia’s bid to join the E-U, something he denies. Presidential election in Serbia that took place on May 6th ...  

Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has appeared at the Hague tribunal, accused of mass murder and the expulsion of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. Two decades on, many are still living in refugee camps.  

Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik says Friday's talks of Turkish and Bosnian FM were an interference in the internal issues of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnia-Herzegovina Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdžija and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu discussed elections in Mostar and Srebrenica and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s membership in international institutions.  

BANJA LUKA , Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A small sports plane burst into flames just after takeoff in northwest Bosnia on Sunday, killing the five people on board.  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, aboard a commercial airline after an overnight flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said.  

At the start of his war crimes trial Wednesday, former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic was accused of setting out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and of presiding over the deaths of tens of thousands of people.  —ARK BBC: Gen Mladic faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, in connection with the brutal 1992-95 Bosnian war. Prosecutors in The Hague said they would show his...  

[JURIST] The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court [official website] ruled [materials] on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part in the killing of 1,000 Muslim men during the 1995 Srebenica massacre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Jevic and Djuric oversaw the transportation of Srebenica's men to...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina-- He's no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began Wednesday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds ...  

Duško Jević was sentenced to 35 and Mendeljev Đurić to 30 years in prison for war crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995 by the Bosnia-Herzegovina court on Friday. Goran Marković and Neđo Ikonić were acquitted of charges that they were involved in the crimes, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has reported.  

The GuardianMladic intended to 'ethnically cleanse Bosnia'Telegraph.co.ukThe first day of Ratko Mladic's trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust, has ended. By Bruno Waterfield, The Hague 12.35: Detention camps set up by Bosnian ...Main war crimes charges filed against Bosnian Serb army commander MladicWashington PostMladic taunts survivors at start...  

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial here Wednesday facing charges of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity in some of the bloodiest events of the Bosnian war in the 1990s, including the ...  

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic went on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.  

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that Bosnia & Herzegovina needed sustainable development and its basis was political stability. The Sarajevo Business Forum sponsored by Anadolu Agency began in Bosnia & Herzegovina with participation of ...  

The GuardianRatko Mladic intended to 'ethnically cleanse Bosnia'Telegraph.co.ukThe first day of Ratko Mladic's trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust, has ended. By Bruno Waterfield, The Hague 12.35: Detention camps set up by Bosnian ...Ratko Mladic goes on trial for Bosnia war crimesThe GuardianMladic taunts survivors at start of genocide...  

Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said on Friday that Bosnia-Herzegovina had proven to be an unsuccessful experiment. He once again criticized the international community for “degrading the Dayton Peace Accords”.  

Residents of the Bosnia-Herzegovina capital, Sarajevo, woke up on Monday morning to find the town covered in several centimeters of snow. An unusual phenomenon for mid-May, the snowfall brought back memories of the extreme cold wave that hit Bosnia-Herzegovina and the rest of the region in January and February, said the media.  

Radojkovic was turned over to Bosnia-Herzegovina law enforcement officials for prosecution on crimes charges stemming from the execution of Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica — an event described a Europe's bloodiest since World War II.  

Bulgaria's Ambassador in Sarajevo Angel Angelov presented his credentials to the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic, on Tuesday. In talks after the ceremony, Angelov emphasized the importance that Bulgaria attaches to the European and Euro-Atlantic prospects of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement. Bakir Izetbegovic expressed thanks for the efforts of Bulgaria...  

A man accused of rounding up 200 Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in what is thought to be the bloodiest mass killing since World War Two has been found running a grocery store in LA. Dejan Radojkovic was arrested and deported to his native country to face ...  

Slovakia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák will visit Serbia today, May 24, after opposition Serbian Progression Party leader Tomislav Nikolic won the country’s presidential election held last weekend. Lajčák will travel to Serbia also on behalf of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, as Lajčák knows a number of Serbian politicians from his earlier post in Bosnia.  

Turkey has started a lobbying campaign so Bosnia-Herzegovina would be included in the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP). Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has launched a strong diplomatic initiative in Brussels so Bosnia-Herzegovina would be included in the MAP at the next NATO summit in Chicago, Sarajevo-based daily Dnevni avaz writes.  

A probe into a planned terrorist attack on New York shows that a part of the training network was located in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Banja Luka-based daily says. According to Glas Srpske, the training and preparation of the attack were performed within global terrorist network’s “El Mujahideen” detachment in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  

Military success eventually prompted the Allies to support the ... and Herzegovina were never totally transparent and always included Franjo Tuđman's ultimate aim of expanding Croatia's borders. Bosnian Muslims, the only ethnic group loyal ...  

Ali Babacan: Bosnia & Herzegovina needs sustainable developmentEMportalTurkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that Bosnia & Herzegovina needed sustainable development and its basis was political stability. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that Bosnia & Herzegovina needed sustainable development and ...and more »  

Seventeen years after he was indicted, the former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic is finally facing charges of genocide in 8 (eight) towns of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bratunac, Foča, Ključ, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica, Zvornik and Srebrenica.Al-Jazeera Debate: Did you know? Serb forces "targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica. " Source: Judge...  

As sobering as Mladic's prophecy was, Karadzic and the leadership of Bosnian Serbs were not deterred from pursuing the extermination of non-Serbs from the territory today known as Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's entities legitimised by the ...  

A year after his capture, former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic goes on trial in The Hague for atrocities committed during the Bosnian war. Will his trial help Serbians come to terms with their country's horrific past?  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

Ratko Mladic (center), the “Butcher of Bosnia,” has to account for his war crimes. To see 70-year-old Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic hauled before a war crimes tribunal is to witness a man of evil called to account for the blood on his hands.  

Former Republic of Srpska (RS) President Radovan Karadžić has said that there was no genocide against Muslims in Bosnia. He explained during a cross examination that there had been no genocide since 2.6 percent of the Muslim population had died during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  

The horrors of the siege, together with the Srebrenica massacre, eventually galvanized world opinion in support of the campaign of Western air strikes on Bosnian Serb targets that brought the conflict to an end shortly after. Mladic was indicted ...  

Military success eventually prompted the Allies to support the ... and Herzegovina were never totally transparent and always included Franjo Tuđman's ultimate aim of expanding Croatia's borders. Bosnian Muslims, the only ethnic group loyal ...  

Former Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia," epitomised Serb defiance during the Bosnian war and is blamed for the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Just as they stashed away their winter clothes and started forgetting last winter's heavy snowfall, Bosnians are again looking for shovels after waking up to a blanket of snow in the middle of an otherwise unusually hot May. The temperature in Bosnia hit 5 Celsius (41 Fahrenheit) on Monday, causing traffic jams as peopl...  

THE HAGUE -- Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic went on trial in The Hague on Wednesday, accused of perpetrating some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. Mladic is being tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on 11 charges of genocide, crimes...  

Ratko Mladić, former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) Main Staff, stands accused of genocide and a multitude of crimes committed against Bosniak civilians in eight (8) municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 1992 to late 1995.The indictment alleges that forces under Mladić’s command committed genocide in Srebrenica and seven other municipalities. Amongst other crimes of genocide that took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serb...  

A war crimes trial in The Hague will finally seek to assign responsibility for the bloody events of the Bosnian war. But will the case against Ratko Mladic end a polemic over the conflict and the intervention that helped to end it?  

Bosnian Serb commander claps as court shows film of him in Srebrenica before massacre One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 14:06 ON Thu 17 May 2012 THE GENOCIDE trial of Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic has been suspended indefinitely because of errors by the prosecution, which failed to hand evidence to the defence in time. The court was adjourned after the prosecution had finished setting out its case on...  

In this strange, haunting film, the Bosnian war keeps bubbling up from where it has been buriedThe 38-year-old Aida Begić is the Bosnian film-maker who won the Grand Prix at the Critics Week in Cannes four years ago for her debut feature, Snow. Now she is in the Un Certain Regard section with this followup film, which she has written, produced and directed. Children of Sarajevo – the original title, Djeca, means "children" – is set in the...  

Kadefa Mujic, a representative of the Mothers of Srebrenica group The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague will see the military commander during the 1992-95 Bosnian war accused of genocide, murder, acts of terror and ...  

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EPSU/FES South East European Energy Round Table Bosnia-Herzegovina, 80320 Kupres 04-05 September 2012, Dear Colleagues, European Federation of Public Service Unions and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung kindly invite you to attend the 12th South East European Energy Round Table (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hotel “Adria Ski”, Čajuša bb, 80320 Kupres) As usual, the main aim of the meeting is informing on South East European Energy Community, implementing the...  

LONDON -- The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military leader accused in the killings of Muslim civilians during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, opened Wednesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ...  

A regional donor conference is being held in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, meant to provide funds to permanently solve housing issues for refugees and IDPs. Some EUR 600mn is expected to be raised during the gathering, that will go to the joint Program for Return to be implemented in four partner countries - Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Montenegro.  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The U.N. Yugoslav tribunal says the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic will resume June 25th, about a month later than initially planned. The trial was put on hold shortly after it began this ...  

Serb attempts to foment agitation followed, advocating a unified South Slavic state, ruled from Belgrade. This gained little support ... Bosnia and Herzegovina was the world champion of volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial on 11 counts of war crimes at The Hague. Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic sits in the courtroom during his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. (Picture: EPA/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS / POOL) His charges include genocide of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Srebrenica, which saw 7,000...  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide in the early 1990s, went on trial at a special Yugoslav war ...  

THE HAGUE: The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opened before a UN court Wednesday, where he faces charges for some of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II.  

RATKO MLADIC WAR CRIMES TRIAL HALTEDThe trial of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic has been suspended indefinitely because of errors by the prosecution, which failed to hand evidence to the defence in time. Judge Alphons Orie said he hoped to set a new start date "as soon as possible". Mladic is accused of war crimes, including the genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Mladic trial halted over 'errors' as 'Butcher' applauds...  

A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart. A neighbour who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Three people charged by a Bosnian court with involvement in a shooting attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo last October have pleaded not guilty to terrorism. The main suspect, Mevlid Jasarevic, wore a ...  

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank ’s Board of Executive Directors ... It is estimated that this has contributed to the creation of 1,120 new jobs and the retention of an additional 4,000 jobs between August 2010 and February 2012. Credit fund recipients ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Herzegovina – After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims who'd been driven from their homes by Serb forces during nearly four years of fighting returned to reclaim their property. Many of the returnees repaired and ...  

On day 2 of Ratko Mladic’s Bosnian genocide trial at the Hague, prosecutors focused on the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. (watch video Part I and II of May 17, 2012).Unexpectedly, judge suspended Ratko Mladic's genocide and war crimes trial indefinitely Thursday after prosecutors failed to disclose thousands of documents to the former Bosnian Serb military chief's defense team — a ruling that could delay the trial for months. Presiding judge...  

Serb attempts to foment agitation followed, advocating a unified South Slavic state, ruled from Belgrade. This gained little support ... Bosnia and Herzegovina was the world champion of volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  

Mladic is the last suspect from the 1992-1995 Bosnia war that left 100,000 people dead, including 8,000 Muslim men who were targeted specifically because of their ethnicity. For his leadership role during the genocide ... Like us on Facebook Prosecutors ...  

A man was arrested on Monday in Bosnia-Herzegovina for attempting to sell a human skull in an open air auto market in Sarajevo. The Bosnian police informed the Institute for Missing Persons about the incident, said reports, and this was confirmed by the institute's spokesperson Lejla Čengić.  

Over the course of 3 rafting days, the glorious white waters will be those of the Tara, the Vrbas and the pristine Neretva Rivers, and if you’ve never heard of them – all the more exciting. Tour Sarajevo (often called the Jerusalem of ...  

Serb attempts to foment agitation followed, advocating a unified South Slavic state, ruled from Belgrade. This gained little support ... Bosnia and Herzegovina was the world champion of volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  

[JURIST] Rasema Handanovic, a woman accused of killing Bosnian Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive], pleaded guilty Friday before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website]. This makes her the first woman [AFP report] convicted of war crimes by the local Bosnian court. Fellow combatants testified to having witnessed Handanovic personally shoot wounded victims in the head [Reuters report...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina • After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims ... so I don't know what could happen here in the next 10 years," said Zlatko Dizdarovic, a former journalist who chronicled the war and now serves as Bosnia's ...  

U.S. and Bosnian authorities say Radojkovic was a leader of a police brigade that rounded up about 200 Bosnian Muslim men for execution after Bosnian Serb forces overran U.N. peacekeepers in ... spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. Radojkovic's deportation ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Sometimes thieves just get more than they bargained for. Police in Sarajevo say a man found what he thought was an abandoned car with the engine running. So he jumped in and took off. Then he realized there ...  

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened - but he still managed to inflame Bosnia's festering war wounds with the flick of his hand. Related StoriesJudge Panagiotis Pikramenos named as Greek caretaker PM as elections set for 17 JuneUS economy provides some relief to markets after Greek chaosBosnian Serb commander...  

Presiding judge Alphons Orie said he was delaying the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal case due to "significant disclosure errors" by prosecutors, who are obliged to share all their evidence with Mladic's defense team. He said judges are still ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Three people charged by a Bosnian court with involvement in a shooting attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo last October have pleaded not guilty to terrorism. The main suspect, Mevlid Jasarevic, wore a traditional Wahhabi ...  

It was in pursuit of a "Greater Serbia" that Mladic allegedly also ordered his troops to "cleanse" other Bosnian towns, driving out Croats, Muslims and other non-Serbs. After the war, Mladic continued his military career but went into hiding in 2000 after ...  

CBS News - Found 3 hours agoUpdated at 1:18 p.m. ET (AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened Wednesday. Yet he still managed to inflame Bosnia's festering war wounds ... Bosnia's Butcher in Court: Ratko Mladic Stands Trial for War Crimes - Time...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Sometimes thieves just get more than they bargained for. Police in Sarajevo say a man found what he thought was an abandoned car with the engine running. So he jumped in and took off.  

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- On the second day of the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic, prosecutors described in clinical detail the events preceding and during the 1995 killings of some 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica -- Europe's worst  

The article below is published by Eurasia Review: “It is time for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to recognise Kosovo as an independent state, leave the past behind and make this bold move forward,” Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told ...  

Mladic’s trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is scheduled to begin on May 16, 2012, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. “Victims have waited nearly two decades to ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—The Bosnian state prosecutor's office says it has filed terrorism charges against three people involved in a shooting attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo last October. Prosecutors said in a statement Monday that ...  

Bosnian Muslim women wait for the start of a mass funeral ceremony in the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, 100km northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia on Saturday. – AP SARAJEVO – Several thousand mourners attended the burial Saturday of 26 Muslims killed by Serb ...  

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs. The ailing 70-year-old is accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against ...  

Serb attempts to foment agitation followed, advocating a unified South Slavic state, ruled from Belgrade. This gained little support ... Bosnia and Herzegovina was the world champion of volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.  

The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has been halted due to a prosecution error a day after opening at The Hague. Mladic is on trial for his role in the murders of over 7,000 Muslim men and boys.  

Judge delays witness testimony after prosecution fails to disclose documents to defence. By Rachel Irwin During the second and final day of opening arguments in the trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, prosecutors showed video clips of the accused in Srebrenica after his forces captured the eastern Bosnian town on July 11, 1995. As the hearing on ended May 17, presiding Judge Alphons Orie said...  

Notice, I am no way shape or form excusing or expressing sympathy for what the Serbs did to the Bosnians during the Balkan war of the 1990s. One thing that I certainly did not know until very recently, and that I don't think many others know is that Bosnia was incorporated into the World War II Ustashe state, and that state declared itself to be both Catholic and Muslim, united by a nationalism that may have seen Bosnians as Muslim Croats...  

Zlatko Lagumdzija, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has said that he expected the betterment of the relationship between Bosnia and Serbia if Boris Tadic, leader of the Democratic Party (DS), and his coalition win the presidential and ...  

The trial of Ratko Mladic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague began on Wednesday, with the Bosnian Serb facing 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims who’d been driven from their homes by Serb forces during nearly four years of fighting returned to reclaim their property. Many of the returnees repaired ...  

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide during Bosnian war in the 1990s, which saw the Srebrenica massacre and the bloody siege of Sarajevo.  

In this Wednesday, May 9, 2012 photo Bosnian Muslim woman Munira Subasic reacts during interview to the AP in Sarajevo, Bosnia. She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old baby because it was crying too loud. She remembers, too, the arrogant swagger as he barked murderous orders to his troops that showed his promise to be a lie. For Munira Subasic...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old because it was crying too loud.  

Bosnians have been glued to live broadcasts of the genocide trial of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic for two days, but while members of the country's Serb community applaud and cheer the 70-year-old, Bosniak and Croat victims say his arrogance has opened old wounds.  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro raised some €300 million ($395 million) at an international donors conference to help the remaining 74,000 people who lost their homes in the wars in former Yugoslavia two decades ago. The countries  

Bosnian Genocide: Photograph of a pile of bodies of killed Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) at exhumation site KK03 543 in the Srebrenica massacre. Courtesy: The International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague, Popovic et al. trial, Exhibit P03899.Author: Daniel ToljagaFormer Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is charged with two counts of Genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague.The first count of genocide covers the period from...  

Prosecutors on Thursday were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.  

"In a period of only five days, from July 12-16, 1995, the armed forces of [Bosnian Serb leader] Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic expelled the civilian population of Srebrenica and murdered over 7,000 Srebrenica men and boys," prosecutor Peter McCloskey said.  

The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief facing charges of genocide and other war crimes, got under way today in the United Nations tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.  

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has taunted Srebrenica survivors at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.  

SREBRENICA: Graveyard of Bosniak civilians who were burnt alive by Serb forces in May 1992 during the First Srebrenica Massacre (more than three years before the Srebrenica Genocide)Federal News Agency (FENA) published excerpts of a story published by The Guardian's Ian Taylor. "As warlord Mladic goes on trial, Srebrenica will fall to his followers" draws attention to the upcoming municipal elections in Srebrenica (read background). Ian Taylor...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Bosnias capital has named Angelina Jolie its honorary citizen. A statement issued by citys authorities Wednesday said it made the decision in recognition of Jolies role in preserving the "truth about the war" in Bosnia, through her directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey." The spokeswoman for the Sarajevo Canton, Lamija Bojadzic, said Wednesday it was not yet clear if Jolie will attend a May 3...  

It was Europe's worst mass killing since the Holocaust. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) accuse Mladic of genocide, murder, acts of terror and other crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 ...  

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Local elections will be held on October 7 across Bosnia but delayed in the southern town of Mostar, where rival Bosniak and Croat parties have failed to agree on how to elect local officials, the election chief said on Monday.  

Bosnia is an ethnic mosaic that goes back centuries. When we were there for our recent vacation with our daughter, son-in-law and grandson, we traveled through Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary. The minarets that pop up in city and village neighborhoods...  

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.Related StoriesObama tackles LA Galaxy star David Beckham over age and underwearFrench threat to UK energy: François Hollande could close nuclear plantsPakistan invited to Nato summitStocks fall amid Greece uncertaintyAirbus profits hit by wing problems  

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial on Wednesday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two.  

The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands.  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian state prosecutor's office says it has filed terrorism charges against three people involved in a shooting attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo last October. Prosecutors said in a statement ...  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - He's no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial began Wednesday, Ratko Mladic still managed to reopen old wounds with ...  

Twenty years after the opening shots of the Bosnian War, former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.The ailing...  

Monika Simonovic, 37, has not been officially indicted yet. The first and only woman ever to be convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. The now 81-year-old pleaded ...  

The indictment against Ratko Mladic — who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands — holds the former Bosnian Serb army commander “individually criminally responsible for planning, instigating, ordering and/or aiding and abetting the crimes charged in this indictment.” Mr. Mladic is charged with 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war. The counts...  

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial on Wednesday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two.Related StoriesJudge Panagiotis Pikramenos named as Greek caretaker PM as elections set for 17 JuneUS economy provides some relief to markets after Greek chaosMarkets uneasy as Greeks empty €800m in...  

Weeks after Bosnians had stashed away their winter clothes and their memories of last winter's unbearably heavy snow, residents had to drag out the shovels Monday after waking up to a blanket of snow in the middle of an otherwise unusually hot May.  

Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial today at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Related StoriesSpanish borrowing rates edge up on contagion fearsMan sets himself alight outside Anders Breivik trial as survivors relive ordealUkraine's high court postpones Yulia Tymoshenko...  

Monika Simonovic has not been officially indicted yet. The first and only woman ever to be convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. The now 81-year-old ...  

Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Turkey would continue to support Bosnia and Herzegovina's bid to join NATO ... and Greece upon Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov's invitation in order to support Bosnia and Herzegovina's NATO ...  

The Bosnian capital and its surroundings were covered by snow on Monday, the first time in half a century snow has settled in Sarajevo at this time of year, as temperatures plunged to just above freezing."The snow was nine centimetres (over three inches) high at 0500 GMT. It is the first time in the past 50 years that we have snow that remained in Sarajevo in May," Dzenan Zulum of the national meteorological institute told AFP.  

MOSTAR -- Local elections in the eastern Bosnian municipality of Srebrenica should be held without any special exceptions in relation to the rest of the country, the US ambassador to Sarajevo, Patrick Moon, said during his visit to the town on Friday.According to the Dnevni Avaz newspaper, his statement prompted anger and strong reactions from survivors of 1995's Srebrenica massacre who warned that the consequences of the genocide would be...  

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, 70, appeared on Wednesday for his genocide trial looking confident, flashing a thumbs-up and clapping his hands as he entered the courtroom. He is charged with commanding the ...  

Serbian general goes on trial at international criminal court accused of atrocities during 1992-95 war in which 100,000 diedRatko Mladic goes on trial in The Hague on Wednesday charged with masterminding atrocities in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war.Twenty years after Serb forces unleashed their brutal campaign, Mladic will enter the international criminal court's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a frail 70-year-old, a far cry from the swaggering...  

Ratko Mladic in courtroom. He was charged with double genocide in Bosnia.(Note: 25,000 women and girls were documented to be mass raped during the Bosnian war, 99% of them Bosnian Muslim victims)General Ratko Mladic ordered his troops to rape Muslim women and girls: "Keep the good ones over there. Enjoy them." He told the Muslim men and boys the massacre awaits them: "There will be blood up to your knees." HE KEPT HIS PROMISE.The following...  

THE HAGUE — Prosecutors at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic set out in clinical detail on Thursday the events leading up to and during the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica that ranks as ...  

Overview : The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Principal Re-cipient of the grant “Scaling up Universal Access for Risk Populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, funded by Global Fund to Fight AIDS ...  

(CNN)-- Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted for crimes against humanity, is a notorious name synonymous with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the bloody assaults on Sarajevo and Srebrenica.  

TWENTY years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, General Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal yesterday, accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide,...  

Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.  

Former Bosnian-Serb Army Commander, General Ratko Mladic, is facing 11 charges, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in a trial that starts Wednesday at a United Nations tribunal in the Hague. The 70-year-old former commander is accused of ordering the massacre of about 8,000 men and boys outside the Bosnian city of Srebrenica and the bloody siege of Bosnia's capital Sarajevo in the early 1990s. Mladic, a career...  

Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.  

Across the next dozen or so months, the Hague tribunal deliberating charges against former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladić will review a good amount of evidence, much of it rendered on videotape. The significance of this detail is easily missed if you are too young to have been an adult during the Bosnian War ...  

Serbian extremists near Srebrenica vandalized Muslim graveyard of Bosniak victims who were killed in the first days of the Bosnian war, in May 1992.Sarajevo daily "Avaz" reported that Muslim graveyard of Bosniak civilians was desecrated. Graveyard "Veljaci" contains remains of thousands of Bosniak women, children and elderly slaughtered by Serbs during the 1992 ethnic cleansing campaign of Bratunac and Srebrenica. Before 1992, Bratunac was an...  

Decision seen as landmark for breaking down ethnic divisions, but it only applies to two towns and is likely to face resistance. By Tina Jelin The municipal court in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar has ruled that schools in two towns should no longer segregate Croat and Bosniak children. The court ruled on April 27 that it would be discriminatory for the towns of Stolac and...  

Witness analyses Bosnian Serb army operations and plight of Bosniak prisoners. By Dzenana Halimovic - International Justice - ICTY ...read more  

Former Bosnian Serb commander-in-chief Ratko Mladic went on trial in The Hague on Wednesday, charged with genocide and war crimes. Mr Mladic, who led the Bosnian Serb forces that carried out massacres and ethnic cleansing during the civil war in Bosnia ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old who was crying too loud. She remembers, too, the arrogant swagger as he ...  

Majority state-backed Bosnian cellular, fixed and broadband operator HT Mostar has reported that its net profit for the full-year 2011 rose by 32.1% to BAM10 million (USD6.6 million), up from BAM7.6 million in 2010. Elsewhere, another state-controlled Bosnian telco, BH Telecom, reported a drop in its 2011 annual net profit to BAM134.3 million, down by 2.4% from the BAM137.6 million figure it posted for 2010. According to TeleGeography’s...  

Police in Sarajevo say a man found what he thought was an abandoned car with the engine running. So he jumped in and took off. Then he realized there were two children in the back seat: a 9-year-old boy crying for his mom and a 3-year-old girl ...