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Bosnian War

Whitewashing Genocide

Diana Jenkins | Posted 04.11.2013 | World
Read More: Serbia, Icty, Bosnian War, Vuk Jeremic, United Nations, International Law, Ad Hoc Courts, International Justice, Ratko Mladic, Tomislav Nikolic, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Muslims, Ictr, Bosnia, Human Rights, Icc, Ratko Mladic Trial, International Criminal Court, World News
Diana Jenkins

The United Nations, which is supposed to represent the best of our collective aspirations for justice and human rights, yesterday represented the worst.

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Book We're Talking About This Week

Posted 03.18.2013 | Books
Read More: Aleksandar Hemon, Bwta, Book of My Lives, Bosnian War, Books News

The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $25.00 Published on March 19th What is it about? Novelist Aleksandar Hemon g...

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Sundance Wrap-up: Magic, Magic, Circles and Everything I Missed

John Lopez | Posted 03.27.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Chile, Serbia, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Sundance Film Festival, Bosnian War, Los Angeles News
John Lopez

As Sundance heads into its mythic second weekend -- of which many have heard but few dare endure -- all trappings of mainstream movie civilization fall away: plot resolution, reliable narrators, temporal continuity.

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Silence on Rape Is the Biggest Obstacle to Prevention

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 01.06.2013 | World
Read More: Amnesty International, Bosnia, Rape, Republika Srpska, Bosnian War, Sexual Assault, Rape in Wartime, World News
Marianne Mollmann

If part of the reason rape happens is because we allow it to, that means that to issue a guarantee that rape will stop, we have to change. And that kind of fundamental change is incredibly hard.

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Notorious War Crimes Suspect Acquitted On Genocide Charge

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.28.2012 | World
Read More: War Crimes, Video, Ethnic Cleansing, Bosnian War, Croatia, Serbia, International Court, Radovan Karadzic, Srebrenica, Radovan Karadzic Acquitted, Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide Thursd...

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Sarajevo, 1992-2012: What Future For A Broken Society?

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 05.30.2012 | Religion
Read More: Bill Clinton, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Bosnian War, Dayton Accords, Sarajevo, Kosovo, Hague Tribunal, Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Partition, Genocide, Religion News
Stephen Schwartz

A society that once stood for peace and mutual respect is, for now, free of ongoing collective violence, but has also been shorn of its legacy of intercommunal cooperation. What progress has been made for the ordinary people of Bosnia-Herzegovina?

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Mladic Tries To Delay War Crimes Trial

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 07.14.2012 | World
Read More: Video, Mladic War Crimes Trial, Bosnian-Serb-Leader, Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb Commander Mladic, Bosnia Ethnic Conflict, Bosnian War, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ratko Mladic appealed Monday for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war crimes trial, saying delays by pros...

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Bosnian War Veteran Rows Across Atlantic, Raises Money For Other Vets

Hamilton-Wenham Patch | Posted 04.25.2012 | Impact
Read More: Team Titan, Canary Islands, Bosnian War, Simon Chaulk, Barbados, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Bryan Fuller, Rowing, Atlantic Ocean, Veterans, Woodvale Challenge, Impact News

Rowing a boat gently down a stream, merrily, merrily merrily, makes life seem but a dream. But what about rowing a boat hard across the sea? It’s a ...

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Sarajevo Marks 20th Anniversary Of The Bosnian War

AP | AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 06.06.2012 | World
Read More: Sarajevo Red Chairs, Video, Catholic Croats, Bosnia, Bosnian War Anniversary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo Red Line Bosnia, Bosnian War, Muslim Bosniaks, Haris Pasovic, Sarajevo Red Line, Christian Orthodox Serbs, World News

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnians walked silently and sobbed on Sarajevo's main street, leaving flowers and gifts on 11,541 red chairs arr...

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For the Women of Bosnia, War Was Not the End

Andrée Simon | Posted 06.05.2012 | Impact
Read More: Women for Women International, Women's Issues, Bosnian War, Women's Rights, Rape, War Crime, Impact News
Andrée Simon

Bosnia changed the perception of what it means to be a woman in war forever. For the first time, women became targets of war, as close to 50,000 women were raped during the conflict.

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I Was Born in the Land of Blood and Honey

Diana Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2012 | Home
Read More: Angelina Jolie, Bosnia, In the Land of Bloody and Honey, Bosnian War, Cinema for Peace Award, Home News
Diana Jenkins

For me the pain is still very real. I can't just watch this film, step out of the movie theater, and resume a normal life. That's not a luxury I have. War changes people and leaves a mark on the soul. Angelina's movie tries to capture that change.

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Youyoung Lee

Angelina Jolie: 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey' Inspired Great Fear, Great Emotion

HuffingtonPost.com | Youyoung Lee | Posted 03.27.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Video, Angelina Jolie Director, Bosnian War, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie, Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Bosnia, Angelina Jolie in the Land of Blood and Honey, Entertainment News

Angelina Jolie wasn't always an expert on the Bosnian War. That's one reason she wanted to make a movie about it. "I was very confused as to what were...

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Former Enemies Reach Into Their Pockets To Help

AP | By AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 01.31.2012 | World
Read More: Bosnia, Serbia Bosnia, Bosnian War, Croatia, Slavko Rasevic, Serbia, Serbia Veterans, Veterans, World News

By AIDA CERKEZ, Associated Press KOCINOVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- They were bitter enemies on opposite sides of the front line during the horrors o...

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Movie review: In the Land of Blood and Honey

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.21.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Bosnian War, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romeo and Juliet, Goran Kostic, Welcome to Sarajevo, Michael Winterbottom, Angelina Jolie, Zana Marjanovic, Marshall Fine Movie Review, In the Land of Blood and Honey Movie Review, Movies, The Whistleblower, Rade Serbedzija, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Danis Tanovic, No Man's Land, Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

You would think that, after World War II, Europe had seen all of the genocide it could stomach for a century or so. But, no, here came the Serbs in th...

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'I Came To Testify' Part 1: Behind the Scenes with Pamela Hogan

Deborah Stambler | Posted 12.09.2011 | Women
Read More: Pam Hogan, Violence Against Women, Women, Bosnian War, Women War & Peace, I Came to Testify, Women News
Deborah Stambler

Changing history meant retelling and reliving the horror they had been through and as Hogan relates, it almost didn't happen.

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Hollywood, Sex Trafficking and the United Nations

Kelly Moore | Posted 11.06.2011 | World
Read More: Bosnia, Un Peacekeepers, Bosnian War, United Nations, Rachel Weisz, Peacekeeping, Peace, Foreign Policy, World News
Kelly Moore

UN personnel must be held accountable for violations of the law and administrative cover-ups of misdeeds. It should not take a Hollywood film to shame the UN Secretariat and member states into remedying this disgraceful situation.

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Single Mother Accused Of Bosnian War Crimes Held Without Bail In Oregon

Reuters | Posted 06.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: Oregon Crime, Bosnian War Crimes, War Crimes Oregon, Rasema Handanovic, War Crimes Suspect, Bosnian War, Bosnia War Crimes, Politics News

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters/Dan Cook) - A single mother accused of committing war crimes in the Balkans was ordered held without bond on Friday to a...

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President Clinton Reflects on the Bosnian War and Announces the First Clinton Global Initiative Commitment of 2011

Lauren Yanks | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Children of Tomorrow, Secretary of State, Herzegovina, Croatia, Non-Profit, General Wesley Clark, Christiane Amanpour, Dayton Accords, Clinton Global Initiative, Balkans, Madeline Albright, Peter Galbraith, President Clinton, Bosnian War, World News
Lauren Yanks

This Wednesday, February 9, I attended an event hosted by President Clinton titled, "America at a Crossroads: The Dayton Accords and the Beginning of ...

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Serbia Condemns Srebrenica Massacre Of 8,000 Muslim Men And Boys

Times Online | David Charter | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bosnia, Serbia, Bosnian War, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Yugoslavia, Boris Tadic, Serbia European Union, Srebrenica, Srebrenica Mass Grave, World News

Serbia was poised tonight to turn decisively towards a future in the European Union as its MPs debated a landmark declaration condemning the massacre ...

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Dutch Furious As Retired US General Blames Gay Soldiers For Srebrenica Massacre

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bosnian War, U.S. Military, Senate Armed Services Committee, John Sheehan, Dutch Army Bosnian War, Gay Soldiers, Dutch Army, Holland, Netherlands, Dutch Army Homosexuals, Srebrenica, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers ...

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Ejup Ganic, Ex-Bosnian Leader, Arrested At London Airport

AP | SYLVIA HUI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Geneva Conventions, War Crimes, Bosnia, Ejup Ganic, Dobrovoljacka Street Attack, Bosnian War, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, World News

LONDON — British police arrested a former senior Bosnian leader in London Monday on a Serbian warrant alleging he committed war crimes, to the o...

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Karadzic Blames Islamic Militants For Bosnia Bloodshed

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Islamic Militants, Bosnian War, Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic War Crimes, Belgrade-Serbia, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia Genocide, Radovan Karadzic, Karadzic, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe's worst genocide since the Ho...

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Radovan Karadzic, Former Bosnian-Serb Leader, Heard Discussing Massacre In Phone Tap Evidence

Times Online | David Charter in the Hague | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: War Crimes, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Radovan Karadzic War Crimes, Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian War, World News

Sensational new wireteap evidence of Radovan Karadzic discussing the mass slaughter of 300,000 Muslims was unveiled today at the genocide trial of the...

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Bosnia: Tensions Rising 14 Years After War Ends

The Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bosnia, Serbia, Bosnia Muslima, NATO Bosnia, Sarajevo, Ethnic Cleansing Bosnia, Bosnia Tensions, Bosnia Croatia, Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian War, World News

SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- Fourteen years after the United States and NATO intervened to stop war and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the old divisions and hatre...

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World In Photos, June 18, 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Angelina Jolie, Refugee Day, Jolie Refugee Day, Angelina Jolie UN, Russia, Bosnian War Veterans, Bosnian War, Sarajevo, Peta Protest, Bull Fighting, Paris Protest, Flamingos, Slideshow, Jolie, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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