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TRANSCONFLICT
Many Bosniak political and media opinion makers are discovering that
their best option involves using a traditional and, in the context of current borders,
transnational ethnic movement to improve their leverage with their neighbours and the EU.
By David B. Kanin
September 14th, 2011
Ongoing debates in the Bosniak community reflect in part the failure of
efforts to force civic identities on the shards of former Yugoslavia. Ethnic entrepreneurs
are considering how to neutralize Serb and Croat ability so far to block Bosniak efforts
to translate larger numbers into greater influence inside Bosnia's current borders. Some
Bosniaks also are considering whether to expand their work to embrace co-nationals in
Serbia and Montenegro, and, perhaps, natural allies farther south. The origins and
authenticity of the term "Bosniak" are less important than its development into
a marker of a community co-equal to the ethnic labels of its adversaries... Acrobat PDF (48kb)
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IWPR'S ICTY
TRIBUNAL UPDATE
No. 708, September 12, 2011 |
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PERISIC FIRST BELGRADE
OFFICIAL CONVICTED FOR BOSNIA CRIMES: But observers say judgement falls short of
establishing what exactly Serbia's role was during the Bosnian conflict; By Rachel Irwin
PERISIC VERDICT DISAPPOINTS BOSNIANS: Judges' ruling unlikely to enable Bosnia to
relaunch genocide lawsuit against Serbia; By Dzenana...
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THE DEATH OF THE BOSNIAN STATE
Morton Abramowitz, James Hooper
July 20, 2011 |
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The Dayton Accords left
Bosnia a divided ethnic quasi state, and their implementation has not much changed that
fact. The decisive event solidifying the ethnic divide was the failure to stop the exodus
of several hundred thousand Serbs from...
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BOSNIA'S EX-SOLDIERS UNITE OVER SHARED WOES
Former foes find common ground in protest over army pensions and
unemployment.
By Selma Boracic - International Justice - ICTY, TRI Issue 686, 30
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When war broke out in Bosnia
in 1992, Nermin Karacic, a Bosniak from Sarajevo, was just 19 years old. He knew nothing
about war and was not even sure who the... More >>> |
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SEIEGE WAS "NOOSE" AROUND SARAJEVANS
BBC man recounts hardships and risks faced by residents during the
44-month campaign against their city.
By Velma Šaric
International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 675, 14 Jan 11
British journalist Jeremy Bowen told the Hague tribunal trial of
Radovan Karadzic this week that he believed the siege of Sarajevo was used as a weapon of
war by the Bosnian Serbs. "It was simply a noose around the neck of the ordinary
people in the city which could be tightened and loosened as necessary," he said.
Karadzic, the first president of Republika Srpska, RS, and supreme commander of its armed
forces, has...
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BOSNIA: EUROPE'S TIME TO ACT
Europe Briefing N°59, 11 Jan 2011
OVERVIEW
After years of hesitancy, European Union (EU) member states should make
2011 the year when the lead international role in Bosnia and Herzegovina shifts from the
Office of the High Representative (OHR) to a reinforced EU delegation. Bosnia has outgrown
the OHR established in 1995 after the Dayton Peace Agreement and the creation of the Peace
Implementation Council (PIC). Today the country needs EU technical assistance and
political guidance to become a...
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INSTITUTE FOR WAR &
PEACE REPORTING
WITNESS TELLS OF WARTIME
"HELL"
Former detainee speaks of appalling treatment of prisoners as they
were transferred from one camp to another.
By Velma Saric - International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 665, 15 Oct 10
A former prison camp detainee told the trial of two senior Bosnian Serb
police officials this week of the dire conditions he experienced during a prisoner
transfer from the Omarska camp in Prijedor to the Manjaca camp near Banja Luka in August
1992. Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin are alleged to have... More >>> |
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promise-peace-human-
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CONGRESSIONAL
TESTIMONY
by Daniel Serwer
September 2010
Introduction
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to offer my personal views on the peace
process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, nearly 15 years after the Dayton agreements brought an
end to a brutal war without fixing the underlying causes. I would like to focus my remarks
on just a few things the United States Government should do at this late stage. The sad
fact is that America today faces more serious...
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A NEW KIND
OF BALKANS DRAMA
Daniel Serwer
United States Institute of Peace, June 3, 2010
Summary
The Balkans face more trouble in Kosovo as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina unless the
United States and European Union take dramatic steps to get both back on track towards EU
membership. In Bosnia, the international community needs to reconstitute itself as well as
support an effort to reform the country's constitution. In Kosovo, Pristina and
Belgrade...
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In tlie Citu of
Westminster Magistrates' Court
THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA v. EJUP GANIC
1.In these proceedings the Government of the Republic of Serbia seeks
the extradition of Dr Ejup Ganic in respect of offences said to have been committed in
Bosnia in May 1992. In the course of the 6 day bearing I have received a substantial
amount of evidential material amounting to some 20 lever arch files. I am greatly indebted
to Counsel both for the Government and for the defendant for their various schedules
and...
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VISEGRAD: ON THE TRAIL OF VASILJEVIC
Search for released Serb war criminal reveals town still profoundly
affected by wartime horrors.
By Marija Arnautovic - International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 647,
2 Jun 10
Visegrad was deserted on a May morning when we arrived in the
picturesque little town in eastern Bosnia. Its Ottoman bridge over the Drina river has
been a symbol of the town for centuries. Since the Bosnian war of 1992-95, however, it has
also become an emblem of the suffering of the town's Bosniak, or Bosnian...
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BOSNIA'S GANIC EXTRADITION BID UNDER SCRUTINY
British lawyers say there's a flaw in the Sarajevo prosecutor's
request for him to be returned to Bosnia.
By Rachel Irwin in The Hague (TU No. 639, 19-Mar-10)
Bosnia's attempt to extradite former Bosnian presidency member Ejup
Ganic from Britain may founder because of a legal shortcoming, experts warn. Arrested on
March 1 at Heathrow airport at Serbia's request, Ganic was granted bail on March 11 by
London's High Court and ordered to remain at...
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RE-REPAIRING BOSNIA
Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper
March 11, 2010
Bosnia's future is becoming increasingly uncertain. An ethnic veto has
long made the central government ineffective, and, most recently, Milorad Dodik, the
leader of the Serb-controlled entity, Republika Srpska, has responded to efforts at reform
with a threat to hold a referendum on independence. Many consider secession unlikely, but
Dodik's threat does heighten fear that today's fragile status quo could break down. While
nobody expects the mass violence of the 1990's to recur, that does not justify diplomatic
indifference...
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PSYCHOTIC SERBO-PHILIA
Ed Vulliamy
Published in Dani, issue 664,
March 5th, 2010. |
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On the very day we have to
listen to Radovan Karadzic - who rightly regarded the British government as a friend
during the years 1992-95 - deliver his demented justification for the worst mass-murder in
Europe since the Nazis, the British decide... More >>> |
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WHAT LIES BEHIND THE ARREST OF EJUP GANIC
Branka Magaš, Bosnian Institute
5 March, 2010
The London arrest of a Bosnian wartime leader heralds a new phase in
Serbia's unrelenting aggression against Bosnia-Herzegovina, in which the British
authorities have now made themselves unwitting pawns. A member of Bosnia's war-time
presidency, who subsequently served as president of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Ejup Ganic, was arrested at London's Heathrow airport on 1 March 2010, at the request of
the Serbian war-crimes prosecutor and on the basis of a...
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BROKEN
BOSNIA NEEDS WESTERN ATTENTION
By William Hague and Paddy Ashdown
December 29 2009
The 14th anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords passed unnoticed
in November. The collapse of a US-EU diplomatic initiative in Bosnia-Herzegovina last
month went virtually unreported too, as has the fact that Bosnia 's cold peace is under
serious threat. Bosnia may seem less significant than it used to be to the US and her
allies. Pressing challenges in Afghanistan and beyond need great attention. But the risk
of a failed state...
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http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/09/25/books/excerpt-
clinton-tapes.html?_r=2&
pagewanted=print
Excerpt
THE CLINTON TAPES
(Page 1 of 7)
By TAYLOR BRANCH
Published: September 24, 2009.
Chapter 1 Twin Recorders
Session One : Thursday, October 14, 1993
President Clinton found me waiting alone in his upstairs office called
the Treaty Room, testing my tiny twin recorders on one corner of a massive but graceful
Victorian desk. It contained a drawer for each cabinet department under Ulysses Grant, he
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CARDIN STATEMENT ON MEETING WITH REPUBLIKA SRPSKA DELEGATION
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) released the
following statement regarding a Tuesday meeting with a delegation from Republika Srpksa
(one of two entities that comprise Bosnia-Herzegovina): "While I welcomed the
opportunity to engage a visiting delegation from Republika Srpska on the situation in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, I was dismayed to learn that the contents of our discussion were
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THE CLINTON TAPES
(Page 5 of 7)
Published: September 24, 2009.
On Bosnia, the president said his government first had been divided
over proposals for direct intervention to stop the infamous spasms of violence, the ethnic
cleansing, that had plagued the former Yugoslavia since the end of the Cold War.** He said
General Powell and others had recommended against various military options, arguing that
air attacks were tempting and safe but could not compel a truce, and that ground troops
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An op-ed article
published in The Wall Street Journal written by former Senator Robert Dole about the
current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
BOSNIA
AND AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
It took U.S. leadership to end the war. It will take new U.S.
leadership to prevent the country from dissolving.
When it announced that it was giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack
Obama last month, the Nobel Committee praised the president for his efforts on climate
change. It also said in its citation that, with Mr. Obama now in office, a
"multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position" and "dialogue and
negotiations" are the...
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CARDIN STATEMENT ON FUTURE OF NATO IN THE BALKANS
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) today said the prospect of expanding NATO
to include Bosnia-Herzegovina should motivate the country to make constitutional and
political reforms needed to fit into the alliance. "As a member and now chairman of
the Helsinki Commission, I have watched the Balkans go...
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STOP SERBS
FROM BREAKING UP BOSNIA!
Thomas Brey, DPA, Bosnian Institute
13 October, 2009.
In an interview with the German press agency, Stjepan Mesic calls upon
Serbia to cease nurturing secessionist ambitions among the Bosnian Serbs, Serbs must not
be allowed to break Bosnia apart, Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said in an interview
with the German press agency DPA in Zagreb on Monday 12 October, referring to the
country's current political crisis. 'Bosnia must survive, and all politicians who do not
want that must step down...
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BOSNIA: WEIGHING THE OPTIONS
Marko Attila Hoare
13 October, 2009
As Bosnian leaders meet to discuss constitutional changes under US
and EU tutelage on a military base near Sarajevo, this analysis examines the real options
facing the country
These days, even the most ardent Bosnian patriot or foreign friend of
Bosnia-Hercegovina finds it difficult to be optimistic about the country's future. In its
current constitutional form, Bosnia is a state that does not and cannot work. No
conceivable solution appears very good, while...
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ASSURING
PEACE AND A EUROPEAN FUTURE IN BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
Paddy Ashdown, Wolfgang Petritsch and Christian Schwarz-Schilling
Berlin/London/Paris, 18 October 2009.
We welcome that the European Union and the wider international
community are again paying serious attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ad hoc talks
at Butmir that will be continued this week evoke both our concerns and hopes. On the one
hand, they present a real possibility to address the current political stalemate in the...
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OBITUARY FOR THE
REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (1992-1995)
by Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Pursuant to the Dayton Accords, on 15 December 1995 the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina was carved up in Paris by the United Nations, the European Union
Member States, the United States, and the many other states in attendance, despite the
United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Principles, the Genocide Convention, the Four
Geneva...
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HELSINKI COMMISSION URGES GREATER REENGAGEMENT IN BALKANS
September 29, 2009
WASHINGTON--The U.S. should strongly reengage in the Balkans and
European leaders should outline a clear path for integrating countries of the region in
the European Union and NATO, bipartisan leaders of the Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) said today at a hearing on current
challenges in the Balkans. Commissioners gave credit to the... More >>> |
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'ARKAN'S MEN' AND 'SCORPIONS' UNDER STATE SECURITY UMBRELLA
SENSE News Agency Bosnian Institute, 31 August, 2009
SENSE report on testimony at a current ICTY trial revealing the
extent of Serbian intelligence involvement in the war in B-H
Former reserve officer in the Serbian MUP Milomir Kovacevic claims he
saw 'Arkan's men' and 'Scorpions' in 1991 in Eastern Slavonia and in 1995 in the Bosnian
Krajina. Kovacevic heard from several... More >>> |
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HOW TURKEY SAVED THE EU'S REPUTATION IN
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Senad Pecanin, Bosnian Institute, 9 September, 2009.
Translated and edited from the independent Sarajevo weekly B-H Dani,
7 July 2009
The editor of Sarajevo weekly B-H Dani describes how the delegates to a
recent PIC meeting were swayed by a speech (see below) from B-H presidency member Haris
Silajdžic on the future of Bosnia's state assets - strongly supported by the Turkish
delegate and to the discomfiture of the...
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