“Stari Grad, the Sarajevo Old Town, is the historical core of the city. It is in the eastern part of Sarajevo and includes 16 residential areas, including Alifakovac, Baščaršija, Bentbaša, Vratnik and Bistrik. Its area of 55 km² represents 37 per cent of the city and makes it the largest district.” >full text from the “Districts” series (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“It turns out that genocide denial has a price tag – and a hefty one at that. Financial records from the Bosnian Serb entity known as Republika Srpska reveal that a Hague-based group of pseudo-experts that calls itself the “Srebrenica Historical Project” has received more than $1 million from the cash-strapped mini-state over the past five years.” >full text (c) FOREIGN POLICY, 2012
Plus, on the same page: article on General Mladic in The Hague
“Ethnic divisions continue to plague this town, where more than 8,000 people were slaughtered in July 1995.” >Full report (c) AL JAZEERA, 2012; photo (c) AFP.
Ed Vulliamy’s account of the Bosnian War (1992-95) and its aftermath shows why the conflict stirred a special anger. >Review (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012
Photo: elderly Muslim women grieve in a refugee centre sheltering Muslim families after they fled the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 (c) Tom Stoddart/Getty
A sad document about life & death in Mostar during the fighting in 1992
“The Bijeljina massacre refers to the killings of Bosniak civilians by the Serbian paramilitary group Arkan’s Tigers during the Bosnian war. Almost all victims were killed more than three years before the Srebrenica genocide (April-May 1992) when Serbs forces were torching Bosniak villages and killing Bosnian Muslim civilians in eastern Bosnia (Bijeljina, Bratunac, Srebrenica, Zvornik, Foca). Arkan’s Tigers, under JNA command, invaded Bijeljina on 1 April 1992. Local courts have not filed a single war-crimes indictment.The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo says some 1,040 people were killed in the town. Continue reading
“With the arrival of Habsburg occupiers in 1878, Bosnia-Herzegovina became Austria-Hungary’s first and only colony. It rapidly became the sole outlet for the energies, ideas, and resources of aspiring colonizers in the ‘motherland’.”
Pretty good “Postcolonial” historical survey reblogged from (c) bosniafacts.info, 2012
Photo (c) Heeresgeschichtl. Museum, Vienna
Also see my own posting on the subject matter.
“The Republika Srpska, one of the 2 entities that make up Bosnia-Herzegovina, is celebrating its founding on Monday with a number of events in Banja Luka. The celebration has prompted condemnations from some in the other entity, the mainly Bosniak-Croat federation.” Reblogged text (c) balkaninsight.com, 2012
delirium clemens 