Obama Seeks to Reset Ties with Karzai Nov 21, 2009
"We've been treating Karzai like [Slobodan] Milosevic," a senior Pentagon official said, referring to the former Bosnian Serb leader whom Holbrooke pressured into accepting a peace treaty in the 1990s. "That's not a model that will work in Afghanistan.". (CBS News -- US)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Oct 26, 2009
War crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader adjourned 15 minutes after it began in the Hague as Karadzic boycotted the hearing, saying he had insufficient time to prepare defence ... The former Bosnian Serb leader stands trial in the Hague for genocide ... Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, goes on trial at The Hague on Monday. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Weekend Events Sep 25, 2009
Ethnic music series to kick off Sunday Mensura Berberovic and her students will perform Bosnian music and discuss Bosnian culture on Sunday beginning at 2 p.m. at the Jefferson Educational Society, 3207 State St. Cost: Free Info: Call 459-8000. -- from staff reports Lifestyles Headlines. (Erie Times-News, PA)
How Bill Clinton Gave Us George W. Bush Sep 25, 2009
Ironically, O Neill seems to applaud the decisions to intervene on the side of the Croatians and the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs as well as to force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War and criticizes the Clinton administration for failing to send U.S. troops to bring an end to the civil war in Rwanda. But without a reassessment of America s strategic role in the world and a shift to a more selective form of intervention, the old Cold War-era paradigm with its emphasis on... (The American Conservative)
Family travel five: Destinations for We the people' Sep 22, 2009
Bosnian lesson is personal for teen. Eighth-grader Merima Tricic took top honors at Fresno County's recent History Day competition with an exhibit that explored ethnic conflict in Bosnia -- and her own heritage as well. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Hingham High teachers share their experiences of living abroad Sep 18, 2009
Moore also spent a summer as a volunteer in Bosnia, teaching English in a Muslim town and helping restore medieval manuscripts at a Franciscan monastery in a Christian town experiences that offered Moore the opportunity to better understand Bosnian culture and to witness firsthand the after-effects of the country s recent brutal infighting. Hutcheson will reflect on his time with the Peace Corps on Sept. 28. (Hingham Journal, MA)
The dark side of multiculturalism Sep 12, 2009
"One of the gang held a bottle to a girl's face and told her: 'You fucking slut, we're the Noble Park Bosnians. You'd better remember'." Bosnia ... How many were killed in their damn-fool Bosnian war. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Art and soccer Aug 17, 2009
Titled, Bread of Life, it is the rendering of a photograph of Bosnian refugees receiving bread rations from U.N. soldiers during the Balkan crisis of the late 1990s. The image is very powerful. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
How the war in Iraq has shaped a new US military mind-set Aug 4, 2009
where the Army created miniature Bosnian villages complete with Bosnians and livestock, Anderson would critique mock missions through the "towns.". Although the demands of the Bosnian mission were far from the challenges that would face soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Anderson says that shifting from conventional war to a peacekeeping mission was a pivotal step in later shifting to the counterinsurgency mind-set. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Serbs see new 'war crimes' tape Jul 29, 2009
The footage shows a Bosnian Muslim commander, Atif Dudakovic, apparently ordering the burning of a Serb village ... It allegedly showed Croat paramilitaries and Bosnian soldiers harassing and attacking convoys of Serb refugees and shooting one of them who had his hands raised in the air. (Yahoo News -- Serbia & Montenegro)
UPDATE: Paramedics transport 3 after shooting writeLink("vid_id=1627&file=shooting071309.flv"); writeGalleryLink ("galleryid=36&gallery_page=0&album_page=0&albumid=283"); (3167) Jul 15, 2009
myvoicematterstome wrote on Jul 14, 2009 1:53 PM:" You know if these "wannabe thugs" don't want to tell who shot them then they get what they deserve. We used to live about 2 blocks from where this happened, we got out of this neighborhood for just that reason about 6 years ago. I don't ever remember this being a nice neighborhood. People ask where are the parents? Usually they are out buying crack or working 2nd or 3rd shift @ Tyson, they don't care about their kids or what they do. And yes... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
'This is home': Bosnian refugees come of age Jun 21, 2009
This is home': Bosnian refugees come of age - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch ... This is home': Bosnian refugees come of age ... It looks like 22-year-old Dzevdana Ahmetovic, a teacher s aide for the House of the Good Shepherd, who still remembers the chill that stole her sleep in the concrete Croatian chicken slaughterhouse where she and 1,000 other Bosnian refugees hid for almost two years. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
* World News Quick Take Jun 5, 2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia asked that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt meet with Radovan Karadzics lawyers over an immunity deal the former Bosnian Serb leader said he was offered in 1996. Karadzic filed a motion last month arguing that charges against him should be dropped because he was promised immunity by US peace mediator Richard Holbrooke if he disappeared from public life. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Karadzic wages paperwork blitz in war crimes trial May 15, 2009
AP FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is seen in the courtroom. By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer Mike Corder, Associated Press Writer. (Yahoo News)
Plea for boy left behind by UN dad May 2, 2009
Three years ago, Lily wrote to the UN mission in Dili, asking for help to force her child's Bosnian father, Goran Susnja, to pay paternity support. "I implore you to help me write an official letter to Goran requesting him to provide child support for my son, which I am legally entitled to by law," Ms Nheu wrote. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
UPDATED: After-school activities canceled in wake of Waterloo stabbing writeLink("vid_id=1557&file=gangfight042909.flv"); Apr 30, 2009
do a very good job at reaching out and getting the word out to african american/ latino / bosnian communities and people about the upcoming testing process ... I also am confused as to why so many people are wanting black/hispanic/bosnian police officers ... WaterlooReader2245 wrote on Apr 29, 2009 6:44 PM:" WAKE UP WATERLOO!!!! FIRST OF ALL TO FIX THE PROBLEM, WE HAVE TO SAY WE HAVE A PROBLEM. READ THE IOWA CODES OF WHAT A GANG IS! WATERLOO HAS GANGS, WHITE GANGS, BLACK GANGS, HISPANIC GANGS,... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
On Your Mind Apr 18, 2009
For coming to Europe s aid in two world wars, the Cold War, the Bosnian war, Kuwait war, and providing NATO with a defense shield the U.S. has shouldered the past 60-plus years, leaving Europeans free to pay for their onerous social programs. Does President Obama have a hiatus of memory or is he a revisionist. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
A relentless quest for justice, on an international scale Mar 28, 2009
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, is detained there now and is preparing his defense against charges of genocide ... In February 2007, a protected prosecution witness gave evidence at the trial of seven senior Bosnian Serb army officers, charged with the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Ebony Ensemble' Mar 28, 2009
Royce Milaskey was inspired to carve Christs suffering face by his experience creating death masks of decapitated heads in the Bosnian War ... He was one of 63 artists asked to make death masks of hundreds of Bosnians who had been decapitated in the ethnic cleansing that took place during the Bosnian War at the hands of Serbs. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Pimping propaganda Mar 18, 2009
Meanwhile, many innocent people, like the popular moderate Bosnian Muslim politician Fikret Abdic, whose only "crimes" were to support the survival of a multicultural state and to oppose the press gangs of al-Qaeda - then our convenient allies - languishes in jail. Neil Craig Glasgow (Mar 2,'09). (Asia Times Online)
Families find fun at CultureFest Mar 7, 2009
Visitors at the second annual CultureFest sampled ethnic foods while watching Bosnian, Mexican and Indian dance or musical performances. Familiar foods like pulled pork and macaroni and cheese were available alongside Saudi Arabian, Tibetan and Bosnian dishes. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Macedonia guerrillas win seats Mar 5, 2009
22 Jul 2008: The career of the former Bosnian Serb leader arrested for war crimes after 12 years as a fugitive. 9 Oct 2000. (Yahoo News -- Macedonia)
At uneven Berlin film festival, notions of globalism abound Feb 13, 2009
In her quest to convict a Serbian army general, a prosecutor (Kerry Fox) must reconcile her idea of justice, her career ambitions, the backroom deals of her superiors and the safety of her witness, a Bosnian rape victim (Anamaria Marinca of "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"). With "London River," the French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb ("Days of Glory") enacts a lesson in cross-cultural understanding in the wake of the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005. (International Herald Tribune)
Exclusive: Zinni unloads Feb 8, 2009
General Zinni gets undiplomatic treatment from Obama team. Wed, 02/04/2009 - 5:22pm. (Slate)
