Bosnia and Herzegovina -Recent Events in the Twenty-one Century

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a confederation of two Entities - the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, as well as the district of Brčko

Each of the Entities has its own constitution and extensive legislative powers

Map of ( Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and Brčko district)

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Bosnia and Herzegovina :

 Since its 1992 independence and the 1995 Constitutional framework of the Dayton Agreement,it has followed a path of state-building, while remaining under final international supervision through the figure of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a potential candidate country for accession into the EU; an EU-BiH Stabilization and Association Agreement has been signed in 2008. Its accession to NATO is in the phase of negotiation, and a Membership Action Plan has been signed in April 2010

2002-1-18,
US forces took 6 terrorism suspects, held since October, from Bosnia after local courts ruled that there was too little evidence to hold them. The suspects included Bensayah Belkacem, a key European al Qaeda lieutenant. Protesters clashed with riot police.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A12)(SFC, 1/23/02, p.A9)(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A10)
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2002-3-18,
It was reported that 94 former Arab mujahedeen had been stripped of Bosnian citizenship and deported or forced to flee. They left some 300 Bosnian-born children behind.
(WSJ, 3/18/02, p.A10)
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2002-3-20,
The US Embassy in Bosnia was shut down to the public due to a possible terrorist threat.
(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.A18)
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2002-6-30,
The United States vetoed a resolution extending the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, then agreed to keep the mission alive three more days while the Security Council seeks a way to meet U.S. demands for immunity from a new global war crimes court.
(Reuters, 6/30/02)(SFC, 7/1/02, p.A3)
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2002-7-22,
In Bosnia forensic experts discovered a mass grave in the northeast that may contain up to 100 bodies of Muslims killed at the end of the country's 1992-95 war.
(AP, 7/23/02)
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2002-9-27,
Lord Ashdown (b.1941) began serving as the international community's High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ended his term May 30, 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Ashdown)
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2002-10-2,
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Biljana Plavsic, one of the highest-ranking suspects at the U.N. war crimes tribunal, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity.
(AP, 10/2/02)
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2002-10-5,
In Bosnia elections the centrist Muslim Party for Democratic Action reported the party was in the lead following a 55% turnout. Bosnia's three nationalist parties beat moderates in the country's first self-organized elections since the 1992-1995 war. Postwar Bosnia is made up of two mini-states, the Serb republic and the Muslim-Croat federation. The two have wide powers and are linked by a joint parliament and government. Elections provided winners with four years in office instead of two
(AP, 10/6/02)(AP, 10/5/03)
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2003-1-1,
In Bosnia the EU hoisted its dark blue banner to officially mark the transfer of peacekeeping duties from the United Nations, while NATO-led troops handed over control of Sarajevo's airport to Bosnian authorities.
(AP, 1/1/03)
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2003-1-17,
Parliament of the Bosnian Serb ministate approved a Cabinet and Dragan Mikerevic (48) as the new prime minister.
(AP, 1/17/03)
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2003-2-27,
Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who expressed remorse for the horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Later this year she was transferred to Sweden to serve her sentence.
(AP, 2/27/03)(AP, 9/15/09)
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2003-3-7,
International officials froze assets linked to top Bosnian-Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic. A panel of Bosnian and int’l. judges ordered Bosnia’s Serb Republic to pay $2.25 million in compensation for the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/8/03, p.A7)
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2003-3-25,
Muhamed Sacirbegovic (46), former Bosnia ambassador to the US (1992-2000) was arrested in NYC. The Bosnian government has accused him of stealing more than $2.4 million, about $1.8 million from the nation's Investment Fund Ministry and more than $600,000 from the account of Bosnia's representation at the UN.
(AP, 3/26/03)
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2003-4-2,
Mirko Sarovic, a Bosnian Serb who was the chairman of the country's three-member multiethnic presidency, resigned after being implicated in a local company's violation of the U.N. arms embargo against Iraq.
(AP, 4/2/03)
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2003-4-11,
NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia arrested Naser Oric (35), a Bosnian Muslim wanted by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and flew him to The Hague. He was the wartime army commander in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. In 2006 Oric was acquitted of direct involvement in the murder of prisoners in the early years of the 1992-95 Bosnia war. But the court found he had closed his eyes to their mistreatment and failed to punish their killers. He was sentenced to 2 years and then ordered to be released since he has been in jail for more than three years.
(AP, 4/11/03)(AP, 6/30/06)
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2003-5-5,
Momir Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb captain and member of the Bratunac Brigade that participated in the executions of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica at the end of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, pleaded guilty to war crimes. Nikolic was nearby when 80-100 prisoners were decapitated and their headless corpses loaded onto trucks on July 12, 1995.
(AP, 5/6/03)
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2003-5-16,
Bosnia signed an agreement with the United States on Friday that exempts Americans from prosecution by a new international criminal court.
(AP, 5/17/03)
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2003-7-11,
Thousands marked the anniversary of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia, burying 282 newly identified victims.
(AP, 7/11/04)
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2003-10-19,
Alija Izetbegovic (78) died in Sarajevo. He led Bosnia's Muslims during the 1992-95 war for independence and became one of the republic's first postwar presidents.
(AP, 10/19/03)
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2003-10-27,
Prosecutors in the Netherlands said Momir Nikolic (48), a Bosnian Serb captain who admitted participating in the mass killing of more than 7,000 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica, should serve up to 20 years in prison. Nikolic accepted that he was on duty when 80-100 prisoners were decapitated and their corpses loaded onto trucks on July 12, 1995. In 2006 a UN appeals court reduced his 27-year sentence to 20 years
(AP, 10/28/03)(AP, 3/8/06)
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2003-10-30,
The US and 29 other countries pledged $18.4 million to create a new war crimes court in Bosnia that will lighten the load at the U.N. tribunal in the Netherlands.
(AP, 10/30/03)
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2003-12-18,
Dragan Nikolic (46), former Bosnian Serb prison camp commander who allowed his troops to rape, torture and murder his Muslim prisoners, was sentenced to 23 years in jail at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague
(AP, 12/18/03)
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2004-1-28,
Bosnia's international administrator imposed a decree to unify the ethnically divided city of Mostar, a precondition for Bosnia to join international organizations and perhaps even the European Union
   (AP, 1/28/04)
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2004-4-5,
Six ethnic Croats surrendered to the U.N. war crimes tribunal to face allegations they participated in the torture and massacre of Muslims in Bosnia in 1993
   (AP, 4/5/04)
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2004-4-30,
Bosnian Serb authorities offered details of six previously undisclosed mass graves in the town of Srebrenica
   (AP, 4/30/04)
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2004-6-11,
A commission of the government of the Republika Srpska, the Serbian part of Bosnia, finally admitted that Serbian forces were responsible for the 1995 Muslim massacre at Srebrenica
   (Econ, 6/19/04, p.53)
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2004-7-23,
In Bosnia Britain's Prince Charles and other foreign dignitaries gathered to reopen the Mostar bridge over the Neretva River. The original was built in 1566.
   (AP, 7/23/04)
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2004-8-9,
Forensic experts said they found a mass grave in the waste dump of a coal mine in eastern Bosnia, which they suspect may contain the bodies of about 350 Muslims who disappeared from a Bosnian Serb detention centre during the Bosnian war
   (AP, 8/9/04)
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2004-11-10,
Bosnian Serb authorities apologized for the first time to relatives of around 8,000 Muslims killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II
   (AP, 11/10/04)
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2004-11-24,
The US military ended a 9-year peacekeeping role in Bosnia but kept on a small contingent to hunt down top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic
   (AP, 11/24/04)
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2004-12-2,
The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops (EUFOR).
   (AP, 12/2/04)(Econ, 3/19/05, p.60)
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2004-12-17,
Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic resigned, one day after the international community imposed sanctions against Bosnian Serb police and officials for allegedly helping fugitive war crimes suspects evade justice
(AFP, 12/17/04)
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2005-1-15,
Savo Todovic (52), a Bosnian Serb wanted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for crimes he allegedly committed during the 1992-95 war, surrendered to Bosnian Serb police.
(AP, 1/15/05)
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2005-10-4,
A Bosnian Serb panel said it identified more than 17,000 people with varying levels of blood on their hands for abetting the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
(WSJ, 10/5/05, p.A1)
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2005-10-17,
Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian-Serb leader and war-crimes fugitive, released a 6th collection of poems titled “Under the left Breast of the Century.”
(SFC, 10/19/05, p.A2)
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2005-10-19,
Police in Bosnia arrested a cyber-jihadist who called himself Maximus. Mirsad Bektasevic, a Swedish teenager of Bosnian extraction, was sentenced to jail along with 3 others for plotting attacks to take place in Bosnia or other European countries. On his computer police found contacts with other jihadists in Europe including Younis Tsouli (Irhabi007), whom British police arrested 2 days later.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.28)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irhabi_007)
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2005-10-21,
The European Commission agreed to open talks with Bosnia on a cooperation agreement that could lead to full EU membership for the Balkan nation.
(AP, 10/21/05)
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2005-10-27,
In Denmark 4 young Muslims were arrested for helping to supply weapons and explosives for a planned terror attack in Europe. They helped two main suspects in Bosnia get hold of weapons and explosives with the aim of committing a terror act. In 2007 a Danish court convicted Abdul Basit Abu-Lifa (17) and sentenced him to 7 years in jail.
(AP, 8/24/06)(AP, 2/16/07)
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2005 Oct,
Police in Bosnia arrested a cyber-jihadist who called himself Maximus. Mirsad Bektasevic, a Swedish teenager of Bosnian extraction, was sentenced to jail along with 3 others for plotting attacks to take place in Bosnia or other European countries. On his computer police found contacts with other jihadists in Europe including Younis Tsouli (Irhabi007), whom British police arrested 2 days later.
(Econ, 7/14/07, p.28)
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2005-11-1,
In Bosnia 2 children in Doribaba died when they were playing with a hand grenade and pulled the security pin.
(AP, 11/2/05)
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2005-11-21,
EU foreign ministers authorized the start of negotiations on an agreement to prepare Bosnia for EU membership a decade after the Balkan nation was ravaged by Europe's worst fighting since World War II. Leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups signed an accord designed to unify the Balkans by remaking the government's constitutional structure.
(AP, 11/21/05)(AP, 11/22/05)
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2005-11-25,
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn officially opened landmark negotiations on closer ties between Bosnia and the 25-member European Union.
(AP, 11/25/05)
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2005-11-26,
Bosnia's southern town of Mostar unveiled the world's first statue of kung fu legend Bruce Lee, paying homage to a childhood hero of all its divided ethnic groups.
(Reuters, 11/28/05)
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2005-12-7,
The Hague war crimes tribunal sentenced Miroslav Bralo (aka Cicko), a former Bosnian Croat soldier, to 20 years in jail on eight counts of war crimes and human rights abuses committed during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war in central Bosnia.
(Reuters, 12/07/05)
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2005-12-17,
In Bosnia the reconstructed Stari Most, a bridge that came to symbolize the senseless brutality of the Bosnian war, took its place on the UN's list of protected World Heritage Sites.
(AP, 12/17/05)
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2006 Jan,
In the Hague Col. Vidoje Blagojevic (56), Bosnian Serb wartime commander of the Bratunac brigade, was convicted of war crimes and complicity in genocide by the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. In 2007 an appeals panel overturned the charge of complicity in genocide.
(AP, 5/9/07)
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2005-6-27,
Bosnian Serb police said they had arrested 11 people on war crimes charges.
(AP, 6/27/05)
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2005-7-7,
In Pale, Bosnia-Hercegovina, NATO troops arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, the son of top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted for alleged genocide including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
(AFP, 7/7/05)
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2005-7-19,
Miroslav Bralo (37), former Bosnian Croat special forces soldier, pleaded guilty to war crimes at the Yugoslav tribunal in the Hague. Bralo was a member of an infamous unit, known as "the Jokers," responsible for attacks on Bosnian Muslim villages in the Lasva Valley of central Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993.
(AP, 7/19/05)
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2005-8-8,
Milan Lukic, a former Bosnia Serb paramilitary leader, was captured in Argentina. He was wanted by a U.N. tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity
(AP, 8/8/05)
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2005-9-13
Sredoje Lukic, a top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, surrendered to the Serb authorities in Bosnia. He was indicted by a UN tribunal in 2000 for some of the worst atrocities in the Bosnian war
(AP, 9/13/05)
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2005-10-4,
A Bosnian Serb panel said it identified more than 17,000 people with varying levels of blood on their hands for abetting the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
(WSJ, 10/5/05, p.A1)
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2005-10-17,
Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian-Serb leader and war-crimes fugitive, released a 6th collection of poems titled “Under the left Breast of the Century.”
(SFC, 10/19/05, p.A2)
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2005-10-21,
The European Commission agreed to open talks with Bosnia on a cooperation agreement that could lead to full EU membership for the Balkan nation
(AP, 10/21/05)
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2005-10-27,
In Denmark 4 young Muslims were arrested for helping to supply weapons and explosives for a planned terror attack in Europe. They helped two main suspects in Bosnia get hold of weapons and explosives with the aim of committing a terror act. In 2007 a Danish court convicted Abdul Basit Abu-Lifa (17) and sentenced him to 7 years in jail.
(AP, 8/24/06)(AP, 2/16/07)
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2005-11-1,
In Bosnia 2 children in Doribaba died when they were playing with a hand grenade and pulled the security pin
(AP, 11/2/05)
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2005-11-21,
EU foreign ministers authorized the start of negotiations on an agreement to prepare Bosnia for EU membership a decade after the Balkan nation was ravaged by Europe's worst fighting since World War II. Leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups signed an accord designed to unify the Balkans by remaking the government's constitutional structure.
(AP, 11/21/05)(AP, 11/22/05)
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2005-11-25,
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn officially opened landmark negotiations on closer ties between Bosnia and the 25-member European Union
(AP, 11/25/05)
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2005-11-26,
Bosnia's southern town of Mostar unveiled the world's first statue of kung fu legend Bruce Lee, paying homage to a childhood hero of all its divided ethnic groups
(Reuters, 11/28/05)
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2005-12-7,
The Hague war crimes tribunal sentenced Miroslav Bralo (aka Cicko), a former Bosnian Croat soldier, to 20 years in jail on eight counts of war crimes and human rights abuses committed during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war in central Bosnia
(Reuters, 12/07/05)
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2005-12-17,
In Bosnia the reconstructed Stari Most, a bridge that came to symbolize the senseless brutality of the Bosnian war, took its place on the UN's list of protected World Heritage Sites
(AP, 12/17/05)
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2006-1-5,
The wife of Dragomir Abazovic, a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect, was killed in a shoot-out when European Union (EUFOR) peacekeepers moved in to arrest her husband at their home. Abazovic and the couple's 11-year-old son were also shot and injured
(AP, 1/5/06)
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2006-1-31,
Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling (b.1930), former German cabinet minister, was appointed as the EU's High Representative in Bosnia, succeeding Lord Ashdown
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schwarz-Schilling)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.60)
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2006-2-20,
Milan Lukic, a Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect who had been indicted by a UN tribunal in connection with atrocities during the former war in Bosnia, was extradited from Argentina to The Hague
(AP, 2/20/06)
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2006-2-27,
In the Netherlands the International Court of Justice heard arguments by Bosnia accusing Serbia of genocide, the first time a state has faced trial for humanity's worst crime
(AP, 2/27/06)
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2006-2-27,
Bosnia's veterinary office said tests at the EU reference laboratory had confirmed its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in two wild swans
(AP, 2/27/06)
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2006-3-22,
In the Netherlands an appeals chamber of the UN war crimes court dropped the life sentence of Bosnian Serb Milomir Stakic and instead sentenced him to 40 years for overseeing detention camps in Bosnia
(AFP, 3/22/06)
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2006-4-18,
Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Bosnia's international administrator, said the international community should end its decade-long control and allow Bosnia to assume the responsibilities of a "normal" democracy
(AP, 4/18/06)
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2006-5-8,
In the Hague the UN war crimes court sentenced Ivica Rajic, a Bosnian Croat former militia leader, to 12 years in prison. Rajic admitted that forces under his command operating in the Muslim village of Stupni Do in central Bosnia in October 1993 "forced Bosnian Muslim civilians out of their homes and hiding places, robbed them of their valuables, willfully killed Muslim men, women and children and sexually assaulted Muslim women"
(AFP, 5/8/06)
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2006-5-9,
Bosnia's war crimes court launched the trial of 11 Bosnian Serbs charged over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, its first genocide trial since it opened last year
(Reuters, 5/9/06)
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2006-5-26,
Bosnia's war crimes court sentenced Bosnian Serb former officer Dragoje Paunovic to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1992-95 war
(Reuters, 5/26/06)
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2006-6-9,
Bosnia's war crimes court said it would deliver Serb war crimes suspect Dragan Zelenovic to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague after he was handed over to Sarajevo by Russia. Zelenovic, a former policeman, was wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for atrocities committed against non-Serbs in the eastern Foca region during the 1992-95 war. In 2007 Zelenovic was convicted of raping women in Foca and sentenced to 15 years in prison
(AP, 6/9/06)(AP, 11/1/07)
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2006-8-23, Russia’s Gazprom threatened to cut off gas exports to Bosnia on Oct 1 if strides toward repaying $104.8 million from debts incurred during wars that ended in 1995
(WSJ, 8/24/06, p.A6)
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2006-9-27,
At the Hague, Netherlands, a UN tribunal sentenced Momcilio Krajisnik (61), the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, to 27 years in prison for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide
(AP, 9/27/06)
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2006-10-1,
Bosnians voted in historic general elections that will choose the first government to run the country without international supervision since the end of the 1992-1995 war
(AFP, 10/1/06)
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2006-10-2,
Preliminary results indicated that Bosnians elected new leaders, Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic, split along ethnic lines over whether to further unify the country in a push toward European Union membership or allow Serbs to maintain their political distinctness
(AP, 10/2/06)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.60)
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2006-11-21,
The UN Security Council voted to extend the EU peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a year, welcoming "tangible signs" of the Balkan nation's progress toward EU membership
(AP, 11/21/06)
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2006-11-29,
NATO leaders finished a two-day summit without agreement on some members' refusal to send troops into combat in Afghanistan's most dangerous regions. NATO vowed to give its troubled mission in Afghanistan the "forces, resources and flexibility needed" to tackle increasingly ferocious Taliban fighters. Leaders invited Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership, but urged Serbia and Bosnia to fully cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal
(AP, 11/29/06)(AFP, 11/29/06)
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2006-12-4,
Against a backdrop of protests, the defense minister gave citations to Dutch troops who served in the UN peacekeeping force that failed to prevent the slaughter of Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave during the Bosnian war
(AP, 12/4/06)
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2007-1-10
Bosnia's state court jailed a Swede, a Turk and a Bosnian for up to 15 years four months for planning a suicide attack in Europe. All 3 men were Muslims and wanted to pressure Bosnia and European governments to withdraw forces from Iraq and Afghanistan
(Reuters, 1/10/07)
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2007-3-1
Britain confirmed it will withdraw its more than 600 remaining troops from Bosnia as concerns about security in the Balkan state ease
(AP, 3/1/07)
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2007-4-22
In Bosnia a fast-moving fire tore through an orphanage in Sarajevo, killing five babies and injuring 17 others
(AP, 4/22/07)
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2007-5-19,
Miroslav Deronjic (52), Bosnian Serb war criminal, died in a hospital in Sweden. Deronjic, the top authority in the eastern Bosnian city of Bratunac during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, was convicted of ordering a 1992 attack on a Bosnian village in which 65 civilians were killed. He had been serving a 10-year sentence for war crimes
(AP, 5/20/07)
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2007-5-25
Radovan Stankovic, a convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal, escaped from custody while being transported to a hospital in eastern Bosnia after complaining of feeling ill
(AP, 5/25/07)
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2007-6-4
Thousands of survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II filed a lawsuit against the UN and the Dutch government for their failure to protect civilians in the Srebrenica safe haven when Bosnian Serb forces overran it in 1995 and slaughtered some 8,000 men
(AP, 6/4/07)
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2007-6-9 In Bosnia Karray Kamel bin Ali, alias Abu Hamza, Tunisian-born radical Islamist, was arrested near Zenica. This was several hours after he and possibly three or four others attacked a house owned by Zijad Kovac. 3 family members were wounded
(http://isaintel.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45)
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2007-6-11
In Bosnia thousands of survivors of Europe's worst massacre since WW II protested in Sarajevo, demanding a special administrative status for the town of Srebrenica and saying it should not be run by Bosnian Serb authorities who were responsible for genocide there
(AP, 6/11/07)
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2007-7-1
Miroslav Lajcak, Slovak diplomat, took over as the EU's High Representative in Bosnia replacing Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling
(Econ, 6/30/07, p.60)
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2007-7-18
Bosnia's war crimes court acquitted Momcilo Mandic, the most senior ethnic Serb official indicted by Bosnian authorities, of all charges related to crimes during the 1992-95 war
(Reuters, 7/18/07)
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2007-9-30
Milan Jelic (51), president of Bosnia's Serb Republic died of a heart attack after less than a year on the job
(AP, 10/1/07)
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2007-11-1
Bosnian PM Nikola Spiric resigned in protest at an international envoy's decision to impose EU-backed reforms, deepening the country's worst post-war political crisis
(AFP, 11/1/07)
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2007-10-1
The Bosnian Serb parliament approved Igor Radojcic, the government's candidate, as interim president following the death of President Milan Jelic
(AP, 10/1/07)
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2007-11-21
The UN Security Council extended the EU's peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a year, citing the Balkan nation's "very limited progress" towards EU membership and its failure to implement key reforms
(AP, 11/22/07)
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2007-12-5
In Bosnia 4 men wearing police uniforms and armed with automatic weapons stormed Sarajevo international airport's cargo zone and stole $1.9 million
(AP, 12/6/07)
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2007-12-9
Voters in Bosnia's Serb entity went to polls to choose a new president, as the country was taking initial steps towards European integration
(AFP, 12/9/07)
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2007-12-12
The UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic (b.1942) to 33 years imprisonment for the shelling of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, one of the court's toughest sentences. In 2009 UN judges trimmed the sentence from 33 to 29 years but upheld his convictions for leading troops who terrorized Sarajevo with a deadly rain of shells and sniper bullets
(AP, 12/12/07)(AP, 11/12/09)
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2008-3-4
The US embassy in Sarajevo said the US government has cut development aid to the political party of Bosnian Serb PM Milorad Dodik because of its nationalist policy
(AP, 3/4/08)
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2008-3-25
Director Koichiro Matsuura said that Visegrad’s Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic bridge, a 16th century stone bridge over the Drina River that links Bosnia and Serbia, has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. A ceremony in Sarajevo marked the event.
(AP, 3/26/08)
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2008-5-29
Tomislav Petrovic, a former Bosnian soldier, shot dead six people and wounded another in a rampage in a Tuzla before being detained as he fired on a parked car
(AFP, 5/29/08)
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2008-6-4
In Bosnia genocide charges were filed against Vaso Todorovic (40), a former Bosnian Serb police officer. He was accused of taking part in the 1995 massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims, Europe's worst slaughter since World War II
(www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080604-0441-bosnia-warcrimes.html)
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2008-6-16
Bosnia signed a stabilization agreement with the EU, the first step towards membership
(Econ, 6/21/08, p.64)
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2008-6-19
In central Bosnia a helicopter carrying two Spanish pilots of the EU peace force and two German officers crashed, but it was not clear if there were any casualties.
(AP, 6/19/08)
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2008-6-21
Serb authorities turned over an ex-Bosnian Serb police chief to the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands. Stojan Zupljanin was arrested in the town of Pancevo last week after nine years on the run
(AP, 6/21/08)
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2008-7-21
Radovan Karadzic (63), the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb. A judge ordered his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague
(AP, 7/22/08)
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2008-7-29
The Bosnian war crimes court convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica and handed down prison sentences ranging from 38 to 42 years. Four others were acquitted. Milenko Trifunovic, Brano Dzinic and Aleksandar Radovanovic received the 42-year sentences, while Milos Stupar, Slobodan Jakovljevic and Branislav Medan each got 40 years and Petar Mitrovic received 38 years
(AP, 7/29/08)
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2008-7-30
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sat in a UN jail cell after being flown to the Netherlands in the dead of night to face charges of genocide against Muslims and Croats during the Balkan wars of the 1990s
(AP, 7/30/08)
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2008-9-10
A Dutch court dismissed a bid by Bosnian Muslim survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre to hold the Netherlands liable for its troops' failure to protect the so-called safe haven.
(AP, 9/10/08)
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2008-10-14
The prosecution office of Bosnia's war crimes court said it ordered the arrest of Milorad Skrbic, 48; Milorad Radakovic, 46; Gordan Djuric, 40; and Ljubisa Cetic, 39, for allegedly having participated in 1992 in the wartime execution of 200 civilians
(AP, 10/14/08)
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2008-11-20
The UN Security Council voted unanimously to extend the European Union's peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a year, emphasizing the importance of the country's progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration
(AP, 11/20/08)
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2008-12-16
Three Guantanamo prisoners were flown to Bosnia and released to their families.
(SFC, 12/17/08, p.A2)
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2008
Carla Del Ponte, a Swiss prosecutor, authored (with Chuck Sudetic) “Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity.” It covered her 8 years chasing Balkan war criminals. In 2009 this Italian edition was made available in English
(Econ, 1/24/09, p.88)
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2008
Gen. Rasim Delic (d.2010 at 61), wartime commander of the Bosnian Army, was convicted of cruelty to Bosnian Serb prisoners during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Delic was the most senior Muslim Bosniak officer convicted by the court in its 17-year history
(AP, 4/16/10)
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2009-3-17
In the Netherlands the UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reduced the jail sentence of Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik from 27 to 20 years, quashing some convictions from a 2006 judgment
(AP, 3/17/09)
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2009-6-5
Bosnia’s war crimes court Zeljko Ivankovic (37), a former member of a Bosnian Serb special police unit, had taken part in the July 11, 1995, killing of at least 1,000 Muslim men from Srebrenica and that he would be tried for genocide
(SFC, 6/6/09, p.A2)(www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/81408.html)
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2009-6-19
Valentin Inzko, the int’l. community’s envoy in Bosnia, moved to invoke extraordinary legal powers after Bosnian Serb leaders passed legislation that he said undermined the 1995 Dayton peace accords
(SFC, 6/20/09, p.A3)
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2009-7-20
A UN war crimes court in the Hague convicted Milan Lukic and Sredoje Lukic, two Bosnian Serb cousins, for a "callous" 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive in Visegrad. He sentenced Milan to life in prison and Sredoje to 30 years
(AP, 7/20/09)
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2009-9-15
In the Netherlands the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic (79) after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution
(AP, 9/15/09)
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2009-10-16
Bosnia's war crimes court jailed Milorad Trbic (51), a former Serb army captain, for 30 years for killing dozens and taking part in the persecution and detention of thousands during the July, 1995, Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslims. The court acquitted Trbic of genocide charges due to lack of evidence
(Reuters, 10/16/09)
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2009-10-22
The Swedish government approved the early release of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic (79), who was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a war crimes tribunal. The Justice Ministry says she will be released on Oct 27 after serving two-thirds of her sentence for persecution
(AP, 10/22/09)
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2009-10-27
At The Hague Radovan Karadzic boycotted his UN trial for a second day while prosecutors began outlining their genocide case against the former Bosnian Serb leader
(AP, 10/27/09)
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2009-10-30
The prime minister of Bosnia's Serb half said he would pull out of talks on constitutional reform led by the United States and European Union set to speed up Bosnia's path to EU and NATO membership
(Reuters, 10/30/09)
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2009-11-5
In the Netherlands the UN war crimes tribunal decided that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed a lawyer to represent him whenever he fails to appear in court
(AP, 11/5/09)
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2009-12-13
In Serbia a grimy three-car train pulled out of Belgrade's railway station on the first direct trip to Sarajevo in nearly 18 years, restoring a link broken at the start of ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia
(AP, 12/13/09)
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2009-12-22
The EU Court of Human Rights said Bosnia’s constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma because it does not allow them to run for parliament of president. Only Bosnians, Serbs and Croats are allowed to run for those offices
(SFC, 12/23/09, p.A2)
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2010-1-20
The United States extradited to Bosnia Nedjo Ikonic (45), a former Serb policeman. He was suspected of taking part in genocide against Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst massacre since WWII
(Reuters, 1/20/10)
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2010-2-2
A remote Bosnian village, home to highly conservative Wahhabi Muslims, was raided by hundreds of police who said they were searching for an unspecified security threat
(AP, 2/2/10)
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2010-3-3
A British judge ordered former Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic held in custody despite a request to release him while he challenges a Serbian demand that he be extradited for alleged war crimes. Ganic was arrested March 1 at Heathrow Airport after Serbia issued an arrest warrant accusing him of war crimes in connection with the 1992 deaths of Serbian troops in Bosnia
(AP, 3/3/10)
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2010-3-30
Serbia's parliament approved a declaration condemning the 1995 Serb massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, in a bid to distance the country from past warmongering under the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic
(AP, 3/30/10)
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2010-4-21
In Bosnia war veterans protested proposed cuts in state benefits and set fire to a regional government building before being dispersed by riot police
(SFC, 4/22/10, p.A2)
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2010-6-9
The Bosnian war crimes court indicted three members of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group over killings, torture and detention of Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war. Milan Kornjaca (56) Milorad Zivkovic 54) and Dusko Tadic (46) were charged with taking part in a widespread and systematic attack on Muslim civilians in the town of Cajnice from mid-April to end-May 1992
(Reuters, 6/9/10)
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2010-6-10
Two Bosnian Serbs, Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara, were convicted of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the harshest judgment ever delivered by the UN war crimes tribunal on the Balkan wars. It was a dramatic conclusion to the largest trial conducted by the tribunal
(AP, 6/10/10)
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2010-6-23
In Bosnia firefighters and volunteers worked overnight and into the day to evacuate dozens of towns and villages due to flooding
(AP, 6/23/10)
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2010-6-27
In Bosnia an explosion at a police station left one officer dead and five injured. 2 suspects were soon arrested in connection with the explosion. The primary suspect appeared to be an Islamic fundamentalist, fanatic rock fan and Che Guevara admirer
(AP, 6/28/10)
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2010-7-9
Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague cited Ratko Mladic's diaries, seized in a raid on his wife's Belgrade home in February, in a motion to reopen the trial of former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic and five other political and military Croat officials that ended two months ago
(AP, 7/9/10)
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2010-7-28
Former Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic returned to Sarajevo and was greeted by hundreds of supporters a day after a British judge declared him a free man and rejected Serbia's request for his extradition to face war crimes charges
(AP, 7/28/10)
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2010-8-11
Bosnian officials said they have so far found 60 partial skeletons in the muddy banks of the manmade Lake Perucac in eastern Bosnia since the water level was lowered for dam maintenance. The victims were killed at the beginning of the 1992-95 war, thrown into the Drina river, and lodged into the banks of the lake. In 2012 a mass funeral was held for 66 Muslim Bosnians killed in Visegrad
(AP, 8/11/10)(AP, 5/26/12)
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2010-8-13
The Bosnia's war crimes court confirmed charges of genocide for 4 former Bosnian Serb army soldiers over the killing of at least 800 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in July, 1995. Franc Kos, Stanko Kojic, Vlastimir Golijan and Zoran Goronja all served with the Bosnian Serb army's 10th commando unit
(Reuters, 8/13/10)(AP, 8/13/10)
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2010-8-27
Forensic experts in Bosnia said they have exhumed the remains of 54 Muslim civilians killed in the July, 1995, Srebrenica massacre. The skeletal remains were dug out of three mass graves buried under garbage at a dump site near Srebrenica
(AP, 8/27/10)
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2010-10-3
Voters in Bosnia-Herzegovina cast ballots in elections likely to further entrench their nation's ethnic divisions and threaten possible EU entry. Some 3 million voters uneasily split between Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats chose from 8,000 candidates for the central and several regional parliaments, the Bosnian Serb presidency and the federal presidency. Preliminary election results indicated that the three-person presidency will remain deadlocked over the nation's future, with two leaders of the ethnically divided country advocating unity and a third pushing for the country's breakup
(AP, 10/3/10)
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2010-10-26
Authorities in Bosnia and Serbia said they had recovered the skeletal remains of at least 97 people from the banks of a border lake that was partially drained this summer for maintenance. Most were killed by Serbs in the nearby town of Visegrad at the start of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. But on the Serbian side experts found the remains of what they presume to be 11 Albanians killed during the Kosovo war in 1998-1999
(AP, 10/26/10)
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2010-11-10
Bosnia inaugurated its new three-member presidency, and the leaders of the Bosniak, Serb and Croat communities remained deadlocked over key issues regarding the nation's future
(AP, 11/10/10)
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2010-12-2
Heavy snow caused travel chaos across much of northern Europe, keeping London's Gatwick airport closed for a second day and disrupting road and rail travel in France, Germany and Switzerland. Freezing temperatures and often blinding snowfall killed 12 people, 10 in Poland and 2 in Germany. Poland had already reported 8 dead due to the cold. Some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans. Authorities declared a state of emergency in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro
(Reuters, 12/2/10)(AP, 12/2/10)
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2010-12-3
Authorities in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro declared a state of emergency and evacuated hundreds of people after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding along the Drina River, the worst in 104 years
(AP, 12/3/10)
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2010
Bosnia’s population numbered about 3.8 million
(Econ, 10/2/10, p.54)
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2011-1-18
Israeli police arrested Aleksander Cvetkovic, a former Bosnian Serb soldier. He was suspected by Bosnian authorities to be a member of an eight-man firing squad involved in executing between 1,000 and 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo Farm in July 1995. In 2013 He was extradited to face trial in Bosnia
(AP, 1/18/11)(SFC, 8/17/13, p.A2)
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2011-3-3
Austria detained Serbian colonel Jovan Divjak (73) on a Serbian warrant. He had defected to Bosnia's army at the start of the conflict between the two sides. Divjak awaited a hearing on whether he should be extradited on suspicion of war crimes
(AP, 3/4/11)
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2011-3-21
Bosnian police said they have seized some 2 million child pornography pictures and 7,000 video clips in the arrest of an alleged member of an international online child pornography ring. An unidentified 46-year-old suspect was arrested over the weekend following a raid on his home in the northern town of Derventa
(AP, 3/21/11)
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2011-4-13
Edin Dzeko (39) of Washington state was arrested for extraction to Bosnia for his alleged participation in the massacre of Croatian civilians in the village of Trusina as a member of a Bosnian army unit in April, 1993. 16 civilians and at least 4 disarmed soldiers were killed in the village
(SFC, 4/14/11, p.A5)
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2011-5-26
Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic (69) was arrested in Serbia after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to seek membership in the European Union
(Reuters, 5/26/11)
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2011 Jun
The FBI and Interpol conducted "Operation Hive," which resulted in the arrests of two Metulji operators in Bosnia and Slovenia. The world's biggest criminal botnet, that has enslaved tens of millions of computers across 172 countries, was named “Metulji," Slovenian for "butterfly."
(http://tinyurl.com/4346r4y)
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2011-7-5
An appeals judges ruled that the Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men slain by Serbs during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, ordering the Dutch government to compensate the men's relatives
(AP, 7/5/11)
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2011-9-6
At the Hague, Netherlands, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced Gen. Momcilo Perisic, the former chief of the Yugoslav army, to 27 years imprisonment for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and for a deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo
(AP, 9/6/11)
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2011-10-28
In Bosnia Mevlid Jasarevic, a man from the Muslim-dominated region of Serbia, fired with an automatic weapon outside the US Embassy in what authorities called a terrorist attack. Police in southern Serbia soon detained 15 people suspected of belonging to an extremist Islamic sect
(AP, 10/29/11)
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2011-11-7
Officials from Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, announced plans for a donors' conference to be held next year and raise the money needed to implement a five-year plan designed to close down all migrant centers and provide housing for some 74,000 people
(AP, 11/7/11)
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2011-11-11
Qatar-based Al Jazeera opened its 2nd foreign language station broadcasting in Serbo-Croatian from Bosnia. English broadcasts began in 2006
(Econ, 11/12/11, p.58)
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2011-11-24
Bosnian police said they have discovered around 1.5 million pornographic images of children on the computer of a man they suspect of blackmailing United States citizens with money transfers amounting to some $3000
(AP, 11/24/11)
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2011-12-20
The United States extradited Edin Dzeko (39), a native Bosnian, suspected of participation in the wartime killing of Bosnian Croat civilians. According to charges, Dzeko was a member of a Bosnian Army unit that attacked the southern Bosnian Croat village of Trusina in 1993, killed 18 civilians and wounded several others, including children
(AP, 12/20/11)
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2011-12-21
Bosnia police and local media reported that as Monika Ilic, a Bosnian Serb woman suspected of such brutal crimes against non-Serbs at the beginning of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, has been detained. Her victims reportedly called her the "Female Monster." Ilic was reportedly 18 when she married Goran Jelisic, a convicted murderer and concentration camp torturer
(AP, 12/21/11)
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2011-12-28
Bosnia’s six main parties managed to form a new government
(Econ, 1/7/12, p.45)
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2012-1-12
Bosnia’s parliament voted 36-2, with 3 abstentions, to approve Vjekoslav Bevanda, a Bosnian Croat and former regional finance minister, as prime minister
(AP, 1/12/12)
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2012-2-5
Bosnia used helicopters to evacuate people and deliver food to those stranded by heavy snowfall. The cold snap across Eastern Europe has left at least 280 people dead including 131 in Ukraine
(SFC, 2/6/12, p.A2)
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2012-2-10
Bosnia’s Parliament approved a new Cabinet in a vote of 26-7, with one abstention. The leadership has promised to immediately tackle the country's economic problems, including its pressing lack of a budget
(AP, 2/10/12)
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2012-5-25
Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced Bosnian Serbs Dusko Jevic (44) and Mendeljev Djuric (52) to 35 and 30 years in prison for expelling Muslims from Srebrenica and taking part in the killing of 1,000 prisoners after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serbs in July 1995
(SFC, 5/26/12, p.A2)
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2012-6-28
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide but upheld 10 other war crimes counts related to atrocities in Bosnia's bloody war
(AP, 6/28/12)
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2012-7-11
In Bosnia some 30,000 Muslims traveled to a memorial center in Srebrenica to bury 520 newly identified victims, some of the thousands of Muslim men and boys slaughtered in July 1995 by Serb forces
(AP, 7/11/12)
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2012-8-11
In Bosnia Tarik Bijelic (6) was buried. He had been hit by a land mine as he scavenged in the forest for firewood to help his family make ends meet. Under an international treaty, Bosnia was supposed to be free of mines by 2009. It has quietly obtained another decade to clear an estimated 1,300 remaining square km (500 square miles) of mine fields
(AP, 8/17/12)
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2012-9-12
Authorities in Bosnia launched what they called a major operation against several organized crime groups suspected of involvement in at least six murders, several major robberies, illegal money transfers and drug trafficking
(AP, 9/12/12)
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2012-12-6
A Bosnian court convicted Mevlid Jasarevic, who opened fire on the US embassy on Oct 28, 2011, of terrorism and sentenced him to 18 years in prison. Alleged accomplices Emrah Fojnica and Munib Ahmetspahic were acquitted
(AP, 12/6/12)
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2012-12-12
A UN war crimes court at The Hague convicted Gen. Zdravko Tolimir, a Bosnian Serb commander, of genocide for playing a key role in the July, 1995, massacre at Srebrenica
(SFC, 12/13/12, p.A5)
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2013-2-28
UN appeals judges at The Hague, Netherlands, acquitted Gen. Momcilo Perisic of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs, including the Srebrenica massacre, by providing them with military aid during the Balkan wars (1992-1995). He had been sentenced to 27 years in 2011, after being convicted of crimes including murder, inhumane acts and persecution
(AP, 3/1/13)
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2013-3-27
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague convicted two senior Bosnian Serbs of war crimes in the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin were each sented to 22 years in prison
(SFC, 3/28/13, p.A3)
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2013-3-29
A court in Bosnia convicted a Montenegrin man of multiple counts of murder, torture, rape and looting during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, and sentenced him to 45 years in prison. A judge said Veselin Vlahovic (43) killed 31 people, raped a number of Bosniak and Croat women and tortured and robbed non-Serb residents of a Sarajevo suburb while fighting for the Bosnian Serbs
(AP, 3/29/13)
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2013-4-26
It was reported that Bosnian police have searched the office of the presidency and other government buildings as part of an investigation into corruption among top public officials
(AP, 4/26/13)
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2013-5-5
Kosovo police in Pristina arrested Naser Kelmendi (56), a suspected Balkan drugs kingpin. He was wanted on an international arrest warrant and blacklisted by US authorities. Bosnian authorities wanted him as part of an investigation into at least six murders, illegal money transfers and drug trafficking
(AP, 5/6/13)
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2013-5-29
A UN court in the Netherlands convicted six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders of persecuting, expelling and murdering Muslims during Bosnia's war and said leaders in neighboring Croatia helped hatch and execute their plan to carve out a Croat state in Bosnia
(AP, 5/29/13)
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2013-6-3
Sulejman Mujagic (50), arrested las November in Utica, NY, was extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina to be tried for alleged war crimes committed in 1995
(SFC, 6/4/13, p.A4)
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2013-6-5
In Bosnia demonstrations began when angry young parents besieged parliament to demand a new law be passed so their newborns could get national identity numbers
(AP, 6/11/13)
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2013-6-6
In Bosnia nearly 3,000 people formed a chain around the Parliament, trapping hundreds of politicians and civil service workers inside in a demonstration of anger over what protesters say is a government paralyzed by ethnic bickering. They demanded a new law on personal ID numbers after the old one lapsed in February, leaving all babies born since without personal documents
(AP, 6/6/13)
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2013-7-11
Appeals judges at the UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague reinstated a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992
(AP, 7/11/13)