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Oranje finish Nations League group stage with an uninspiring 1-1 draw in Bosnia

NL Times

Oranje finished their UEFA Nations League group stage campaign with a disappointing 1-1 draw away to Bosnia & Herzegovina. Brian Brobbey got the solitary goal for Koeman’s side, who were already assured of a quarter-final spot prior to the match. The team was winless in the Nations League this season but were the better side in the second half against …

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2 months ago

Former Bosnian Prison Guard Convicted of Lying to Get Refugee Status and US Citizenship

Associated Press

Former Bosnian prison camp guard Kemal Mrndzic has been convicted of lying to get refugee status and U.S. citizenship. He covered up his role as a supervisor of guards at a notoriously harsh and violent wartime prison camp where Serbians were killed, sexually assaulted, tortured and starved three decades ago.

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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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6 months ago

Treasury sanctions network connected to separatist Bosnian leader

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A network of people and firms that support the sanctioned president of Bosnia’s Serb-run portion, Milorad Dodik, has been hit with a new round of sanctions. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday designated two people and seven companies that provide revenue for Dodik and his family, including his son Igor Dodik. Treasury says Dodik used his …

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7 months ago

UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide

Al Jazeera

General Assembly votes to create memorial day despite fierce opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia. In a letter sent Sunday to all UN delegations, Serbian charge d’affaires Sasa Mart warned that raising “historically …

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7 months, 1 week ago

U.N. resolution to commemorate Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

The Hindu

A U.N. resolution The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a debate on the resolution on the morning of May 23 to be followed by a vote in the 193-member world body. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic as well as the Bosnian Serb leadership have vehemently opposed the adoption of the Srebrenica resolution, saying it brands all Serbs as a “genocidal …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Hungary will vote against U.N. resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide in Bosnia, minister says

Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, the foreign minister said on Wednesday, arguing that it would inflame tensions in the Balkan country and the surrounding region. On Wednesday, Szijjártó said Hungary would vote against the planned U.N. resolution on the genocide — which he called the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

How a ragtag army defended Bosnia and Herzegovina against two aggressors

Al Jazeera

ARBIH, formed in April 1992, managed against all odds to successfully defend the country’s sovereignty. “Even after the aggressor occupied around 70 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the first year of the war, the defenders still occupied the heartland around the Sarajevo-Zenica-Tuzla triangle, with greater resources of manpower than were possessed by the so-called ‘Republika Srpska’.” ‘Insanely brave’ The …

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8 months ago

Thousands of Bosnian Serbs attend rally denying genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Thousands of Bosnian Serbs rallied on Thursday denying that genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995 despite rulings to the contrary by two United Nations courts. Srebrenica was a “mistake” and a “huge crime,” Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik told the crowd at the rally in the northwestern town of Banja Luka that is the …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Watching The Message during Ramadan

Al Jazeera

My great-grandfather Rasim Tabaković served as an imam in the eastern Bosnian town of Višegrad. Many marvelled at the powerful impact that the film had and Akkad’s ability to convey the history and messages of Islam in a way that they deemed religiously appropriate using a medium usually dedicated to entertainment. The Mexican-born Quinn, whose real name was Manuel Antonio …

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10 months ago

Review: A besieged Sarajevo turns to music in ‘Kiss the Future’ — and one band hears the call

LA Times

During the years of relentless attacks on Sarajevo in the early 1990s, residents tried to turn off the sounds of the siege all around them by turning on music — as a release, but also as a bid to feel normal amid Serbian bombs and sniper fire. What happened when this underground scene’s defiance reached U2 frontman Bono’s ears is …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

Associated Press

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the closing months of Bosnia’s 1992-95 interethnic …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

As Bosnian Serbs mark controversial national day, US warns celebration amounts to ‘criminal offense’

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The United States warned on Tuesday that ongoing celebrations of a Bosnian Serb self-proclaimed national holiday — which included a parade of paramilitary and police troops — were in violation of Bosnia’s constitution and a 1995 peace agreement, and as such amounted to a criminal offense. The Jan. 9 holiday commemorates the day in 1992 when …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

South Africa says Israel’s campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. What can the UN do about it?

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Israel is defending itself in the United Nations’ highest court Thursday against allegations that it is committing genocide with its military campaign in Gaza. South Africa’s 84-page filing says Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part” of the Palestinians in Gaza. Levy said Israel’s …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. “I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened …

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1 year, 1 month ago

NATO chief commits to Bosnia’s territorial integrity and condemns ‘malign’ Russian influence

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — NATO supports Bosnia’s territorial integrity and is concerned by “malign foreign interference,” including by Russia, in the volatile Balkans region that went through a devastating war in the 1990s, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. This is crucial for the stability and the security of the country.” NATO played a major role in ending the 1992-95 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: A path to peace in Middle East is possible. Here’s how

CNN

Editor’s note: Ambassador Miriam Sapiro is a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A similarly firm hand — and robust US leadership — will also be necessary for any peace deal to be forged in the Middle East. Concrete prospects for renewing peace efforts in the Middle East will depend on several interrelated issues, including …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Bosnia court confirms charges against Bosnian Serb leader Dodik for defying top international envoy

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Bosnian Serbs stage protests in support of their separatist leader

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Hundreds of Bosnian Serbs waved flags of Serbia and Russia and banners of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as they staged a protest in support of their separatist leader who seeks union with neighboring Serbia. The protests were held at the unmarked internal border in Bosnia that separates the country into two entities — the Bosnian …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Hungary’s Orbán to host Turkish, Serbian and other leaders alongside world track championships

Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary — As millions of viewers around the world focus on Hungary while it hosts the year’s largest international sporting event, its nationalist prime minister will receive the leaders of Turkey, Serbia, Qatar and a host of Central Asian nations in a sign of the European country’s continuing drift toward the Eastern sphere of influence. In an interview Friday …

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1 year, 4 months ago

'See a murder live': Bosnia man posts as he kills wife, 2 others live on Instagram before taking his own life

India TV News

In a shocking incident, a man in Bosnia shot and killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram. According to the statement released by the police, the attack took place in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac, where the assailant left three people wounded before. Officials and Bosnian media said the ex-wife had reported threats and violence from …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serbia will ignore U.S. sanctions recently imposed on top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a 1995 peace agreement that ended a war that left more than 100,000 dead and millions homeless, the Serbian president said Friday. “It is hard, but that’s the only possible decision.” The four Bosnian Serb officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on …

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1 year, 5 months ago

In Srebrenica, thousands gather to remember the 1995 massacre and bury the newly identified dead

Associated Press

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Tens of thousands of people from around Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica Tuesday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 massacre and to give a dignified burial to the victims unearthed from mass graves and only recently identified through DNA analysis. Twenty-eight years after they were murdered in Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust, …

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Oranje finish Nations League group stage with an uninspiring 1-1 draw in Bosnia

Former Bosnian Prison Guard Convicted of Lying to Get Refugee Status and US Citizenship

Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide

Treasury sanctions network connected to separatist Bosnian leader

UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide

U.N. resolution to commemorate Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

Hungary will vote against U.N. resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide in Bosnia, minister says

How a ragtag army defended Bosnia and Herzegovina against two aggressors

Thousands of Bosnian Serbs attend rally denying genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995

Watching The Message during Ramadan

Review: A besieged Sarajevo turns to music in ‘Kiss the Future’ — and one band hears the call

Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

As Bosnian Serbs mark controversial national day, US warns celebration amounts to ‘criminal offense’

South Africa says Israel’s campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. What can the UN do about it?

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

NATO chief commits to Bosnia’s territorial integrity and condemns ‘malign’ Russian influence

Opinion: A path to peace in Middle East is possible. Here’s how

Bosnia court confirms charges against Bosnian Serb leader Dodik for defying top international envoy

Bosnian Serbs stage protests in support of their separatist leader

Hungary’s Orbán to host Turkish, Serbian and other leaders alongside world track championships

'See a murder live': Bosnia man posts as he kills wife, 2 others live on Instagram before taking his own life

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

In Srebrenica, thousands gather to remember the 1995 massacre and bury the newly identified dead