Bosnian War

Mladic Tries To Delay War Crimes Trial

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.15.2012

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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

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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 04.06.2012

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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 04.05.2012

Read More: Women for Women International, Women's Issues, Bosnian War, Women's Rights, Rape, War Crime, Impact News

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

Read More: Angelina Jolie, Bosnia, In the Land of Bloody and Honey, Bosnian War, Cinema for Peace Award, Culture News

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Youyoung Lee | Posted 03.27.2012

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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

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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

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

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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

Read More: Bosnia, Un Peacekeepers, Bosnian War, United Nations, Rachel Weisz, Peacekeeping, Peace, Foreign Policy, World News

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Guantanamo Detainees, Brutality, Politics, Art, Jenny Holzer, Chicago, Bosnian War, Terrorism, War, US Government, CIA Torture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Aclu, Torture, George Bush, Iraq, Chicago News

The exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is timely indeed. Not to mention alarming. Even sickening.

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