Bosnian Muslims

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

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

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

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 tribunal...Read Full Story

Bosnia Bodies Found Bodies found on lake’s shore may be missing Bosnian Muslims Read the original Bodies found on lake’s shore may be missing Bosnian Muslims – CNN.com Bosnia Bodies Found Bosnia Bodies Found Bosnia Bodies Found Scores Of Bodies Found At Perucac Lake » The Comment FactoryScores of bodies found at Perucac Lake The remains of scores of civilians from the 1992 Visegrad killings in Bosnia have been found in Perucac lake. Channel 4 News' chief correspondent Alex Thomson, who...Read Full Story

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

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian police raided a village which is home to followers of the radical Wahhabi branch of Islam Tuesday, targeting people whom authorities suspect of destabilizing the fragile Balkan country.Codenamed "Light," the operation by 600 police officers in the northern village of Gornja Maoca was the largest since the end of the country's 1992-95 war, said Boris Grubesic, a spokesman for the prosecutor who ordered the swoop."Seven people were arrested, including the local...Read Full Story

War veterans protesting proposed cuts in state benefits set fire to a regional government building in Bosnia on Wednesday and drove back riot police who tried to disperse them.The police used tear gas against the more than 5,000 protesters then withdrew, leading the protesters to storm the building, break its windows and set the ground floor on fire.A small group of policemen was temporarily trapped between the blaze and the furious protesters, but ambulance crews pulled them to safety.Kosevo...Read Full Story

The United States on Wednesday welcomed an apology by the Serbian parliament for the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, calling it a step toward reconciliation.State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the parliamentary resolution "a positive step towards reconciliation, addressing the crimes of the past, fostering regional relations and promoting stability in the region.""As a part of that process, we welcome Serbia's commitment, as noted in the resolution, to continue its...Read Full Story

Serbia’s Parliament voted early on Wednesday to issue an apology for the 1995 killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, but the debate and voting also highlighted how deeply polarized Serbia remains about its wartime past. The resolution expressed sympathy to the victims and apologized for not doing enough to prevent the massacre, but it also stopped short of calling the killings genocide. The ruling coalition of pro-Western Democrats and Socialists hopes to win favor with the...Read Full Story