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Volunteers join search for human remains in lake

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It's a grim legacy of the Balkan wars: Dozens of skeletons exposed after a manmade lake was partially drained for maintenance. On Wednesday, shovel wielding volunteers joined forensic experts searching for more remains of Bosnian war victims on the muddy banks of Lake Perucac in eastern Bosnia. The search began a month ago after the water level was lowered for dam work, exposing a quarry of human skulls and bones — the remains of people killed at the start of the 1992-1995 war and thrown into...Read Full Story

Balkan river still bleeds the dead of wars past

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DJUREVICI, Bosnia (Reuters) - For generations, the River Drina separating Serbia from Bosnia has received the dead of the region's wars. Now, for the first time in decades, it is giving many of them up. In recent weeks, experts have started searching the exposed bed along both sides of Lake Perucac, a 60 km (38 mile) long dammed section of the Drina that has been largely emptied to permit repairs to the dam. Already, they have found about 50 incomplete bodies -- the remains of Bosnian Muslims...Read Full Story

Resolution 'means nothing': Srebrenica survivors

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Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre said on Wednesday that a Serbian parliament resolution condemning the crime was meaningless since it failed to label it as a genocide. "For us it really means nothing" since it fails to mention the term genocide, Hajra Catic, head of an association of Srebrenica survivors, told AFP. Some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed in a bloodbath considered the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War II. The killings were deemed to constitute a...Read Full Story

LIFE FOR BOSNIAN SERBS OVER GENOCIDE AT SREBRENICA

By paperboyz4all on | From nigerianbestforum.com
Life for Bosnian Serbs over genocide at Srebrenica Vujadin Popovic (left) and Ljubisa Beara were senior military officials A UN tribunal has convicted two Bosnian Serbs for committing genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and sentenced them to life in prison. Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara were among seven former high-ranking military and police officials to be sentenced. The court jailed five other defendants for between five and 35 years. The case is the largest yet at the...Read Full Story

Jolie Gets Green Light to Film in Bosnia

By yours on | From apakistannews.com
Angelina Jolie has been permitted to proceed with her directorial debut – Bosnian officials have granted her permission to film in the country. Plans for the as-yet-untitled drama were halted last week when Bosnian government representatives revoked a production permit over confusion about the movie’s plot. But Jolie will be back in the director’s chair when filming begins in Sarajevo next month – producer Edin Sarkic received the written permit from a minister on Monday. Jolie came under...Read Full Story
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Defence and Security Report Q1 2012
However, Bosnian police managed to shoot and injure the attacker. The Bosnian Serb military leader General Ratko Mladic, whose charges include the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, was finally captured in May 2011, after 16 years as a fugitive.  
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Bosnian Serb sentenced to 31 years for gencoide
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia's war crimes court has confirmed a 31-year prison sentence for a former Bosnian Serb police officer convicted of genocide. Judges found that Radomir Vukovic participated in the execution of over 1,000 men -- part of the notorious Serb massacre of some 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks from the east Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995. The court sentenced Vukovic in 2010 but he appealed the ruling. The...  
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