The defence team for Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, again asked the Hague Tribunal to postpone the start of the evidence presentation by six months due to “continuous problems with disclosure of evidence”. (BI)
A journey into the memory of Bosnia. Where suffering, hope and black humour outline a common Bosnian identity born, or perhaps only survived, from the ashes of the former Yugoslavia. A documentary film by Marco Bastianelli. The trailer
Bosnia-Herzegovina and its capital, Sarajevo, once represented admirable examples of multiethnic and multifaith cooperation. But that paradigm of peaceful, mutual respect among religious believers — and, in the aftermath of Tito’s Yugoslav Communism, non-believers — is broken, and there is little hope that it may be repaired — now or ever. The independent Bosnia-Herzegovina that could have been — a post-Communist, European meeting place for all religions and interests, intellectual and commercial — vanished before it could be realized. If, somehow, it is rebuilt, it will be miraculously, in answer to the prayers of its innocent people.
The Yugosphere is alive and well with exchange of crude graffiti between supporters of Delije and Ustasha in the toilets, where they belong.
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BANJA LUKA — U.S. National Defense University (NDU) Professor Steven Meyer believes that breakdown of Bosnia-Herzegovina is inevitable.
Since the end of wars in the former Yugoslav republics, both the Council of Europe and the EU have encouraged fairness and honesty in how historical figures and events are depicted in school textbooks. The aim is to eradicate bias and prejudice, but as one new report finds, this has not yet happened in Albania, Serbia and Kosovo, where nationalism and subjectivity dominate the books.
