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Baby among at least 10 people who drowned after migrant boat overturned on Serbia-Bosnia border
4 months ago

Baby among at least 10 people who drowned after migrant boat overturned on Serbia-Bosnia border

Associated Press  

BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A boat carrying migrants from the Middle East overturned while crossing the Drina River from Serbia to Bosnia, drowning at least 10 people, officials in the two Balkan countries said Thursday. Dacic initially said 18 migrants, including three children, managed to cross into Bosnia, out of 25 people who were in the boat when it overturned. “The …

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Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide
5 months, 1 week ago

Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance. The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been laid to rest as thousands of people commemorate the anniversary two months after the United Nations established an annual day of remembrance. Mirza Basic, a genocide …

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Jews and Muslims come together on Srebrenica genocide anniversary
1 year, 5 months ago

Jews and Muslims come together on Srebrenica genocide anniversary

LA Times  

Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael J. Murphy kneels next to coffins containing remains of 30 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Potocari, Bosnia, on Monday. Jews and Muslims came together on Monday in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust, to talk about ways of …

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Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on
1 year, 5 months ago

Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on

Associated Press  

NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A solemn peace march started on Saturday through the forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The annual 100-kilometer march retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, made up primarily of Muslims, who were slaughtered as they …

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UN appeals court increases sentences for 2 Serbs convicted of crimes in Balkan wars
1 year, 6 months ago

UN appeals court increases sentences for 2 Serbs convicted of crimes in Balkan wars

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. appeals judges on Wednesday significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes across Bosnia and in one town in Croatia as members of a joint criminal plan to drive out non-Serbs from the areas during the Balkan wars. Presiding Judge Graciela Gatti Santana …

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Thousands in Bosnia commemorate 1995 Srebrenica massacre
2 years, 5 months ago

Thousands in Bosnia commemorate 1995 Srebrenica massacre

Associated Press  

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as thousands gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust. Ademovic found her husband’s partial remains and reburied him years ago but said she “must be in Srebrenica every July 11.” “It is easier when you have …

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Bosnia-Herzegovina's agony will be prolonged without Dayton reforms
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnia-Herzegovina's agony will be prolonged without Dayton reforms

The Hindu  

Every year on April 6 the inhabitants of the Bosnian capital commemorate the Day of the City of Sarajevo. Most Bosnians had not believed that it would come to war — irrespective of whether they belonged to the approximately 44 per cent Muslim Bosniaks, the 17 per cent Catholic ethnic Croatians, the 31 per cent orthodox Christian ethnic Serbs or …

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Why Bosnia’s ban on genocide denial was a necessity
3 years, 4 months ago

Why Bosnia’s ban on genocide denial was a necessity

Al Jazeera  

On July 23, the Office of the High Representative, the top international body overseeing the implementation of the peace agreement that ended Bosnia’s war, criminalised the denial and glorification of genocide in the country. Republika Srpska parliament’s aggressive, united and unapologetic rejection of the legal changes introduced by Inzko demonstrated clearly why criminalisation of genocide denial was an urgent necessity …

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