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UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide

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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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, 7 months ago

Alleged Bosnian war criminal busted living secretly in Boston after 25 years

The Independent

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2 years ago

Why Ukraine should not accept Bosnia-style peace

Al Jazeera

Over the past few months, Ukraine has managed to prove many of its critics wrong by launching a counteroffensive and regaining large swathes of its territory from Russia. Ukraine, I feel, may be heading towards Bosnia’s fate – a state made dysfunctional by a deeply flawed peace deal. If Western pressure continues, Zelenskyy would be faced with the difficult choice …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Shaped by war, Bosnian leader chides UN inaction on Ukraine

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — Bosnia’s leader decried the failure of the United Nations to prevent the war in Ukraine, saying Wednesday it was a chilling repeat of his country’s own brutal conflict three decades ago. The Security Council, he said, “is evidently unable to fulfill its obligations.” The Security Council’s post-World War II structure gives veto powers to five nations — …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Regardless of how the Russian war in Ukraine ends, getting justice for human rights abuses suffered during the conflict will inevitably be a long and painful process for those who survive to tell of the atrocities they witnessed. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

LA Times

A gravestone in memory of victims of the Srebrenica massacre is seen at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica, Bosnia in 2011. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind bars close to 50 Bosnian Serb wartime officials, collectively sentenced to over 700 years in prison. “It is very …

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3 years ago

Serbs vote to weaken Bosnia, step up their secession drive

Associated Press

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serb parliament voted Friday to launch a series of steps that could weaken war-ravaged Bosnia’s central authority. That follows repeated threats by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to secede, and incorporate about half of Bosnia with neighboring Serbia. Dodik, the Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Bosnian presidency, said Friday’s was a historic parliament …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence

Al Jazeera

If nothing is done to curb Serb president’s push for secession of Republika Srpska entity, Bosnians fear another round of violence could ensue. In July 1995, Serb forces killed the 35-year-old’s father, both grandfathers, four uncles and other relatives during the genocide in Srebrenica, which had been declared a United Nations “safe area”. Last week, Dodik announced Republika Srpska would …

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UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide

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

Alleged Bosnian war criminal busted living secretly in Boston after 25 years

Why Ukraine should not accept Bosnia-style peace

Shaped by war, Bosnian leader chides UN inaction on Ukraine

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

Serbs vote to weaken Bosnia, step up their secession drive

Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence