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RE-REPAIRING BOSNIA

Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper

March 11, 2010

Bosnia's future is
becoming increasingly uncertain. An ethnic veto
has long made the central government ineffective, and, most recently, Milorad
Dodik, the leader of the
Serb-controlled entity, Republika Srpska, has responded to efforts at
reform with a threat to hold a referendum on
independence. Many consider secession
unlikely, but Dodik's threat does heighten fear that today's fragile status quo could break down. While...
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PSYCHOTIC SERBO-PHILIA

Ed Vulliamy

Published in Dani, issue 664,
March 5th, 2010.

On the very day we have to listen to Radovan Karadzic - who rightly regarded the British government as a
friend during the years
1992-95 - deliver his
demented...   More >>>

 

WHAT LIES BEHIND THE
ARREST OF EJUP GANIC

Branka Magaš,
Bosnian Institute

5 March, 2010

The London arrest of a Bosnian wartime leader heralds a new phase in Serbia's unrelenting
aggression against
Bosnia-Herzegovina, in which the British authorities have now made
themselves unwitting
pawns. A member of
Bosnia's war-time
presidency, who
subsequently served as president of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ejup Ganic, was arrested
at London's Heathrow...
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BROKEN BOSNIA NEEDS
WESTERN ATTENTION

By William Hague and Paddy Ashdown

December 29 2009

The 14th anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace
Accords passed unnoticed in November. The collapse of a US-EU diplomatic
initiative in Bosnia-
Herzegovina last month went virtually unreported too, as has the fact that Bosnia 's cold peace is under serious threat. Bosnia may seem less significant than it used to...
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http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/09/25/books/excerpt-
clinton-tapes.html?_r=2&
pagewanted=print

Excerpt

THE CLINTON TAPES

(Page 1 of 7)

By TAYLOR BRANCH

Published: September 24, 2009.

Chapter 1 Twin Recorders

Session One : Thursday,
October 14, 1993

President Clinton found
me waiting alone in his
upstairs office called the Treaty Room, testing my tiny twin recorders on one corner of a massive but graceful Victorian desk. It contained a drawer for each cabinet department under Ulysses Grant...   More >>>

 

CARDIN STATEMENT
ON MEETING WITH
REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
DELEGATION

WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Benjamin L.
Cardin (D-MD), Chairman
of the Commission on Security and Cooperation
in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) released the following statement regarding a Tuesday meeting with a delegation from Republika Srpska
(one of two entities that comprise Bosnia-
Herzegovina): "While I welcomed the opportunity
to engage a visiting
delegation from Republika Srpska on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I was dismayed to...   More >>>

 

http://www.nytimes.com/
2009/09/25/books/
excerpt-clinton-tapes.html?
pagewanted=5&_r=1

THE CLINTON TAPES

(Page 5 of 7)

Published:
September 24, 2009.

On Bosnia, the president said his government first had been divided over proposals for direct intervention to stop the infamous spasms of violence, the ethnic cleansing, that had plagued the former Yugoslavia since the end of the Cold War.** He said General Powell
and others had
recommended against various military options, arguing that air attacks
were tempting...   More >>>

 

An op-ed article published in The Wall Street Journal written by former Senator Robert Dole about the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

BOSNIA AND AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM

It took U.S. leadership to end the war. It will take new U.S. leadership to prevent the country from dissolving.

When it announced that it was giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama last month, the Nobel
Committee praised the president for his efforts on climate change. It also said in its citation that, with Mr. Obama now in office, a "multilateral diplomacy...
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CARDIN STATEMENT ON
FUTURE OF NATO IN THE
BALKANS

WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Benjamin L.
Cardin (D-MD), Chairman
of the Commission on Security and Cooperation
in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and a
member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee (SFRC) today said the prospect of
expanding NATO to include Bosnia-Herzegovina should motivate the country to make constitutional and political reforms needed to fit into the alliance. "As a member and now...
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STOP SERBS FROM
BREAKING UP BOSNIA!

Thomas Brey, DPA,
Bosnian Institute

13 October, 2009.

In an interview with the German press agency, Stjepan Mesic calls upon Serbia to cease nurturing secessionist ambitions among the Bosnian Serbs, Serbs must not be allowed to break Bosnia apart,
Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said in an interview with the German press
agency DPA in Zagreb on Monday 12 October,
referring to the country's current political crisis.
'Bosnia must survive, and...
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BOSNIA:
WEIGHING THE OPTIONS

Marko Attila Hoare

13 October, 2009

As Bosnian leaders meet
to discuss constitutional changes under US and EU tutelage on a military base near Sarajevo, this
analysis examines the real
options facing the country

These days, even the most ardent Bosnian patriot or foreign friend of Bosnia-Hercegovina finds it difficult to be optimistic about the country's future. In its
current constitutional form, Bosnia is a state that does not and cannot work. No conceivable solution...
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ASSURING PEACE
AND A EUROPEAN
FUTURE IN BOSNIA
AND HERCEGOVINA

Paddy Ashdown,
Wolfgang Petritsch
and Christian
Schwarz-Schilling

Berlin/London/Paris,
18 October 2009.

We welcome that the European Union and the wider international community are again
paying serious attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ad hoc talks at Butmir that will be continued this week evoke both our concerns and hopes. On
the one hand, they...
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OBITUARY FOR THE
REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA (1992-1995)

by Francis A. Boyle
Professor of
International Law

Pursuant to the Dayton Accords, on 15 December 1995 the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina was carved up in Paris by the United Nations, the European Union Member States, the United States, and the many other states
in attendance, despite the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Principles...
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HELSINKI COMMISSION
URGES GREATER
REENGAGEMENT IN
BALKANS

September 29, 2009

WASHINGTON--The U.S. should strongly reengage
in the Balkans and
European leaders should outline a clear path for integrating countries of the region in the European Union and NATO,
bipartisan leaders of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe (U.S. Helsinki
Commission) said today at
a hearing on...   More >>>

 

'ARKAN'S MEN' AND
'SCORPIONS' UNDER
STATE SECURITY
UMBRELLA

SENSE News Agency
Bosnian Institute,
31 August, 2009

SENSE report on
testimony at a current
ICTY trial revealing the
extent of Serbian
intelligence involvement
in the war in B-H

Former reserve officer in
the Serbian MUP Milomir Kovacevic claims he saw 'Arkan's men' and
'Scorpions' in 1991 in
Eastern...   More >>>

 

HOW TURKEY SAVED
THE EU'S REPUTATION IN
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Senad Pecanin,
Bosnian Institute,
9 September, 2009.

Translated and edited from the independent Sarajevo weekly B-H Dani, 7 July 2009

The editor of Sarajevo weekly B-H Dani describes how the delegates to a recent PIC meeting were swayed by a speech (see below) from B-H presidency member Haris Silajdžic on the future of Bosnia's state assets - strongly...
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SPECIAL REPORT

BOSNIA: FUTURE OF
INTERNATIONAL JUDGES
AND PROSECUTORS IN
DOUBT

Need for international support at war crimes
court is disputed.

By Velma Saric and Maria
Hetman in Sarajevo
(TU No 613, 28-Aug-09)

The Bosnian authorities
are divided over whether
the mandate for
international judges and prosecutors working on national war crimes trials should be extended when it is set to expire in
December this year. The...
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HEARING ON BALKANS

Source: Commission on
Security and Cooperation
in Europe - United States
Helsinki Commission
(CSCE)

Date: 02 Apr 2009

Unofficial transcript

REPRESENTATIVE ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL): Ladies and gentlemen, if I could call the hearing to order. I'd appreciate it very much if we could get the hush in
the back of the room toned down a little bit. It would be deeply appreciated. We're
in the process of a series
of votes on the budget, and what's going to happen is...
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THE WESTERN BALKANS:
CHALLENGES FOR U.S.
AND EUROPEAN
ENGAGEMENT

Ivo Banac, Commission
on Security and
Cooperation in Europe
in the United States
Congress

2 April 2009; Bosnian Institute,
8 April 2009

Washington, D.C. -- Mr.
Chairman and
Distinguished Members of the Commission:
In your kind invitation you expressed an interest in my views on the overall trends in the countries of the Western Balkans as well...
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HELSINKI COMMISSION
HEARING

Dr. James Lyon,
Senior Associate -
Democratization Policy
Council

April,2009

Mr. Chairman and
Distinguished Members of the Commission:
Thank you for the
opportunity to address you and discuss developments in the Western Balkans.
The Democratization Policy Council thanks you for your committed interest in the region, ongoing support, and recognition of the need for continued international...
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HAGUE WITNESS
DESCRIBES MEETINGS
BETWEEN PERISIC AND
MLADIC

Rory Gallivan (IWPR) and
Sense News Agency,

27 March, 2009. Bosnia Report, 29 march 2009

Two reports on revealing
evidence given at the trial
of Momcilo Perišic, former
FRY army chief, before the
ICTY

The Hague -- A witness in the Hague war crimes trial of former Yugoslav army (VJ) chief Momcilo Perišic testified that Ratko Mladic remained in contact with...
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KRAJISNIK APPEAL MAY
PRESENT PROBLEMS FOR
KARADZIC PROSECUTORS

Appeals verdict in Momcilo
Krajisnik case suggests prosecution could have trouble proving charges against former Bosnian
Serb president.

By Edina Becirevic in
Sarajevo

(TU No 594, 27-Mar-09)

Last week's appeals judgement against Momcilo Krajisnik surprised many by reducing the sentence awarded and clouding the trail of responsibility for atrocities committed...
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INDICTMENT OF
RADOVAN KARADZIC

Hague Tribunal (ICTY),
Bosnian Institute,
17 March, 2009

The latest amendments to the Karadžic indictment have significant implications for
the possibility of Bosnia-
Herzegovina being able to
re-open its case against Serbia before the International

1.RADOVAN KARADŽIC
Indicted for genocide, extermination, murder, persecutions, deportation, inhumane acts, acts of violence the primary purpose of which was to spread terror among the...
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BOSNIA:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

By Morton Abramowitz
and Daniel Serwer

Posted by Daniel Serwer on
03/09/2009

Bosnia is stuck. Its Bosniak Muslim leader, Haris Silajzic, stridently calls for abolition of the Serb entity (Republika Srpska), whose prime minister, Milorad Dodik, wants increased autonomy and threatens
a referendum on
independence. By taking extreme positions, Dodik and Silajdzic polarize
voters, frightening most
Serbs and...   More >>>

 

BOSNIAN SERBS TOLD TO
PAY $42 MILLION FOR
BURNT MOSQUES

Reuters, 24 February 2009

A local court has ordered Banja Luka authorities to pay compensation for
mosques destroyed
during the 1992-5 war

The authorities of the Bosnian Serb-controlled town Banja Luka must pay $42 million to its Islamic community for 16 local mosques destroyed during the 1992-5 Bosnian war,
a local magistrate ruled on
20 February. The court...
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KARADZIC'S BROKEN
BOSNIA REMAINS

Alan Little, BBC News
17 September 2008,
Bosnian Institute,

18 September, 2008

In a powerful report from today's B-H, the BBC's former correspondent in wartime Bosnia describes how the country is being
left behind by its former assailants on the path to European integration, and how 'Radovan Karadzic got much of what he set out to get'. In the old days we
would trot along to see
Radovan...   More >>>

 

THE ARREST OF
RADOVAN KARADZIC

The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the man who led the Bosnian...   More >>>

 

THE SERBIAN ELITES AND
GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA

By Sonja Biserko

HCHRS

Ever since the foundation of the modern Serbian state in the 19th century, but
especially since the
Congress of Berlin,
Serbia's elites have viewed Bosnia as a territory which could solve all their frustrations over borders. It was, namely, at that time that they set the goal of gaining access to the sea and expanding living space, something that could only...
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