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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. |
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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
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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
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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...
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2009/09/25/books/
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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...
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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 >>> |
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'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 >>> |
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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...
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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...
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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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