Yugoslavia

Bosnia: Shame on Us All

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hakija Turaljic, Ethnic Cleansing, Serbia, Darfur, Slobodan Milosevic, Jacques Poos, European Union, Holocaust, Radovan Karadzic, Serb Elections, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Barack Obama, War Crimes, Bosnia, Belgrade, Douglas Hurd, Armenia, Biljana Plavsic, Dayton Peace Accord, Genocide, Russia, Sudan, Peacekeeping, Republika Srpska, Rwanda, Denazification, World News
Rebecca Tinsley

On the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war we should feel anger and shame because 'the international order' is still ignoring those warning signs when they occur. We should also acknowledge the human consequences of the West's failure in Bosnia.

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Women To Win Record Number Of Seats In Election

AP | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Women, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Positive Slovenia, Slovenia Elections, Slovenia Elections Women, World News

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Women are set to walk away with a record number of seats in Slovenia's parliamentary election. Preliminary results Monday indi...

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Croatian Serb Leader Pleads Not Guilty To Balkan War Crimes

AP | By MIKE CORDER | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Goran Hadzic Not Guilty, Croatia, Balkans, Goran Hadzic, Genocide, Bosnia Genocide, Balkan Wars, Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic Pleads Not Guilty, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The wartime leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges of ...

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Serbia Arrests Last Balkan War Crimes Fugitive

AP | JOVANA GEC | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Video, Croatia, United Nations, Goran Hadzic, Balkans, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Balkan War, Slobodan Milosevic, Belgrade, World News

BELGRADE, Serbia — He was on the run for seven years, the last Serbian fugitive sought by the U.N.'s Balkan war crimes tribunal. Goran Hadzic, ...

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U.N. Court Upholds Yugoslav War Crimes Spokeswoman's Conviction

AP | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Serbia, Serbia War Crimes, Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, Florence Hartmann, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- An appeals court of the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has upheld the conviction of a former prosecution spokeswoman for ...

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Srebrenica Massacre Victims Win Dutch Lawsuit

AP | By MIKE CORDER | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Bosnian Muslims, Netherlands, Balkans, Genocide, Serbia, Srebrenica Massacre, Srebrenica Genocide, Yugoslavia, Srebrenica, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Netherlands is liable for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men slain by Serbs during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, app...

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PHOTOS: U.S. And Kosovo Students Unite To Restore Jewish Cemetery

Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Good News, Kosovo Jewish Cemetery, Pristina, Students Restore Jewish Cemetery, World News

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – American and Kosovo students have cleared out debris out of the neglected Jewish cemetery, a lone remaining sign of the dwin...

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Atomic Art: Nuclear Bunker Turned Into Gallery

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Installation Art, Video, Art, Bosnia, Military, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Painting, Cold War, Art Galleries, Arts News

Located about 40 miles south of Sarajevo, a bunker that was built during the Cold War to protect the then president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, ha...

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Macedonia Vexes Greece With Giant Alexander Statue

AP | By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Alexander, Greek Hero, Ancient Greek Hero, Greece, Ancient Greece, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Macedonia Alexander Statue, World News

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia on Tuesday began assembling a controversial 22-meter-high (72-foot-high) bronze statue of Alexander the Great, a monume...

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General Mladic Faces Justice, However Late

Eric Margolis | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Bosnia, Albania, Balkans, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Srebrenica, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, World News
Eric Margolis

Justice delayed is justice denied. Accused Serb war criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic killed at least five times more civilians than Osama bin Laden was accused of doing, yet at times no one seemed in any hurry to find the "Butcher of Sarajevo."

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Mladic Extradited To The Hague

AP | MIKE CORDER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Islam, The Hague, Genocide, United Nations, Balkans, Serbia, Serbia War Crimes, Muslims, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Serbia War Crimes Suspect, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genoc...

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Key Facts About Ratko Mladic

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: War Crimes, United Nations@Depressing, Bosnia, Croatia, Balkans, Serbia, Serbia War Crimes, Former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, World News

A dark, violent Serbian chapter may be coming to a close with the arrest of Ratko Mladic, allegedly one of the world's most prominent war criminals. ...

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From NYT Archives: The Late Richard Holbrooke Makes The Case Against Ratko Mladic

New York Times | Richard Holbrooke | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Balkans, Serbia, Former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, World News

One down (sort of). Two to go. It is, of course, big news that Slobodan Milosevic, the man who started and lost four wars in the Balkans, has been ...

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Astoria Characters: The Genial Beer Garden Host

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Astoria, Harley-Davidson, Hamptons, Newark, Motorcycle, Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, Sissy Spacek, Czechoslovakia, Astoria Characters, Yugoslavia, Berlin Wall, Larry Spacek, Corona Extra, Beer Gardens Nyc, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

When Larry Spacek, a Czech immigrant, was asked to manage the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, he jumped at the chance. "This is a payback to my heritage," he says.

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Kosovo Elects First Female President

AP | By NEBI QENA | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Atifete Jahiaga, Hashin Thaci, Yugoslavia, Kosovo President, Kosovo, Kosovo Female President, Balkans, World News

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Kosovo's parliament has elected Atifete Jahjaga as its new president, the first woman to head the state. The 35-year-old received...

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Obama Moved at Warp Speed on Libya

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Michael McFaul, Denis McDonough, Yugoslavia, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Ben Rhodes, Gayle Smith, Responsibility to Protect, Samantha Power, Nato, Bosnia, Susan Rice, Jacob Sullivan, Robert Gates, Moammer Gaddafi, Tommy Vietor, Libya, Hillary Clinton, Bombing, Rwanda, Politics News
Steve Clemons

While President Obama has been criticized by many on the political left and right for moving too slowly in reacting to Libya, there is simply no truth to the notion that he dragged his heels in orchestrating action there. The decisions made by the White House on Libya, whether one liked or disliked those decisions, happened at an incredible rate. Obama has changed the dynamics of response to potential and real mass human tragedy.

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Kosovo's Mafia: Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's Role

GlobalPost | Matt McAllester | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Kosovo Mafia, Kosovo, Mafia Allegations, Hashim Thaci, Nato, Mob, Balkans, Yugoslavia, World News

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- It was the fall of 2000, just over a year after the end of the war in Kosovo, when two NATO military intelligence officers produce...

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When the House Comes Back, You're Gonna Get in Trouble

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Obama Administration, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Congress, Diplomacy, Clinton Administration, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Here is some unsolicited advice for the Obama administration: you essentially have four days to put US involvement in the Libya war on a path that doesn't look like open-ended quagmire.

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David Wood

As Libya Air Strikes Intensify, What Next?

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Libya, Libya News, Muammar Gaddafi, Moammar Gadhafi, Yugoslavia, Operation Odyssey Dawn, Slobodan Milosovic, US News, Libya u.s. Air Strikes, Libya Protests, World News

WASHINGTON -- U.S.-led air attacks on Libya are intensifying even as Libya's erratic leader, Muammar Gaddafi, vows a bloody "long war." Now what? H...

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Novak Djokovic: The Pride of Serbia

Laurence Leamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Sports, Serbia, Andy Murray, Serbs, Australian Open, Yugoslavia, Tennis, Djokovic, Croatians, Sports News
Laurence Leamer

Novak Djokovic has given much to his people. They are proud of his victory but more than that they are once again proud that they are Serbs.

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The Youngest Nations In The World: South Sudan Could Join Today

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Countries, Sudan Secession, Germany, New Nations, Serbia, Sudan Indepedence Vote, Slidepollajax, Sudan Referendum, Sudan, Montenegro, Kosovo, Unified Germany, Yugoslavia, Cold War, South Sudan, World News

With a vote for secession all but certain in the upcoming referendum, South Sudan finds itself the subject of international interest and speculation a...

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Ratko Mladic, Europe's Most Wanted War Fugitive, Sought In Serbia

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Anti Terrorism, Terrorism, Genocide, Serbia, European Union, Former Yugoslavia, Bosnia War @Y:World, Yugoslavia, Eu, Ratko Mladic, Belgrade, World News

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian authorities conducted another unsuccessful hunt for Europe's most-wanted war crimes fugitive Tuesday, pledging to mee...

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Remembering Serbia's Nonviolent Victory

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Resistance, OTPOR, Third Wave, Serbia, Political Development, Democratic Backsliding, Kostunica, Democracy, Balkans, Yugoslavia, Transitions, Nonviolence, Nato, Eastern Europe, Nonviolent Resistance, Nonviolent Action, Freedom House, Milosevic, Democratic Transitions, World News
Cynthia Boaz

In the United States, the first week of October passed by without much fanfare. However, for about 10 million Serbian citizens, it was a time to celeb...

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Small Fish, Big Fish in Serbia

Fred Abrahams | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: War Crimes, International Justice, Human Rights, Serbia, Human Rights Watch, Kosovo, Ratko Mladic, Yugoslavia, War-Crimes-Tribunal, Cuska, World News
Fred Abrahams

Eleven years ago, during NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian forces killed more than 40 ethnic Albanian men in a Kosovo village called Cuska. This month the hand of justice finally reached the men accused of the crime.

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Croatia Ethnically Cleansed Serbs, Claim U.N. Prosecutors

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Balkan War Crimes, Serbia, Operation Storm @Y:World, Croatia, UN War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing, Balkan Wars, Serbs, Yugoslavia, War Crimes, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. war crimes prosecutors said Monday that Croatian forces shelled civilians and torched their homes in a deliberate ...

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