Karadzic Revives Holbrooke Deal Claims

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

By Merdijana Sadovic (TU No 562, 1-Aug-08) If Radovan Karazic’s initial appearance at the Hague tribunal is anything to go by, his trial will be one of the most interesting in this court’s history.   The former Bosnian Serb leader, and until recently one of the most wanted men in Europe, did not enter a plea this week, demanding more time to review the indictment.   However, during his first ... more

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Oric Acquitted in Appeals Hearing

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Mixed reactions to court ruling in Bosnia and Serbia. By Merdijana Sadovic in Sarajevo and Simon Jennings in The Hague The appeals chamber of the Hague tribunal this week acquitted former Bosnian commander Naser Oric of crimes committed against Serbs in the Srebrenica area during the 1992-95 conflict. The ruling reversed a judgement delivered by the trial chamber in June 2006, sentencing Oric to two years in pris... more

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Stolac: A Town Deeply Divided

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

A decade after the war, this once prosperous town in Hercegovina still fights demons from its not-so-distant past. By Simon Jennings and Denis Dzidic in Stolac Nearly 13 years after the Dayton peace agreement put an end to the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, non-government groups in the municipality of Stolac are struggling to combat segregation. They argue that it is in the political interests of the same Croat a... more

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Bosnian Burial Sites Uncovered for Cash

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Unscrupulous people are profiting from selling knowledge of mass grave locations to victims’ families. By Zana Kovacevic in Sarajevo (TU No 554, 6-June-08) For over a decade, Bosniak Edo Ramulic has been searching for the bodies of his brother and several other family members killed by Serb forces in the north-western Bosnian town of Prijedor in 1992. A year ago, a young man offered him information about a ... more

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Bosnia & Herzegovina: New UNESCO Heritage Site; New Cross Memorial

Global Voices a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

by Elia Varela Serra One of the main news items in the Bosnian blogosphere this week has been the addition of the Višegrad stone bridge to UNESCO's World Heritage List. The bridge, named after Mehmed Paša Sokolović, one of the most famous Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire, born in Višegrad in 1505, connects the two banks of the Drina River, which forms most of the border between Bosnia and Se... more

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Serbia Warns That It Will Condemn Indpendent Kosovo State

Can Tran a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

The authorities in the province of Kosovo have said that they will unilaterally declare independence from Serbia in the coming weeks. They have explained that talks with Serbia have made no progress. In response, Belgrade will call for action against those that recognize an independent state of Kosovo. Formally, Kosovo is still part of Serbia. It has been administered by the United States since 1999. The resolution... more

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Seselj Trial Hears of Mostar Shootings

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Bosniak survivor describes ordeal at the hands of Serb forces in the summer of 1992. By Simon Jennings in The Hague A Bosniak imprisoned after surviving a massacre near the town of Mostar in June 1992 told judges this week how he was allowed water only once in four days and ate one meal in six days. Redzep Karisik was giving evidence in the trial of Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj. Still head of the... more

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Learning to Document the Victims of Conflicts

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Sarajevo seminar attempts to draw lessons from different countries’ approaches to identifying the victims of rights abuses. By Lara Nettelfield in Sarajevo When the call to prayer sounded at 10:45pm on a balmy Sarajevo night, Muhammad Jafar of Banda Aceh knew all of the words flowing from the city's mosques. But he was in Bosnia to learn another language — the use of information technologies to manage ... more

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Lukic Trial Ruling Provokes Outcry

IWPR a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

By Simon Jennings in The Hague (TU No 562, 31-Jul-08) The dismissal of a request by prosecutors to add sexual crimes to the indictment of two Bosnian Serbs in The Hague has angered international justice observers and victims of the Balkans wars. On July 8, a day before the trial began at the Hague tribunal, the trial chamber rejected a prosecution submission seeking to add rape and sexual slavery to the charge... more

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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Anniversaries of Massacres

Global Voices a year ago Region: Bosnia and Herzegowina

Sixteen years have passed since the massacre in Bratunac and thirteen years since the massacre in Srebrenica. In these cities, more than 10,000 people, mainly civilians, were killed. Many of the victims are still not identified. Some people, accused directly or indirectly of participating in war crimes, are still not arrested. Some of them have been acquitted. Every year, bloggers and journalists remind their readers ... more

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