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Tensions Rise in Fragile Bosnia as Country’s Serbs Threaten to Seek Independence
The New York Times ^

Posted on 02/27/2009 6:37:07 PM PST by BabaYaga

PRAGUE — Bosnian Serb leaders have threatened to pull out of state institutions and are pressing anew for independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina, threatening to throw the fragile, multiethnic country into political crisis once again.

Analysts and observers of the region said the situation could unravel the United States-brokered Dayton accords of 1995, which ended a savage war that killed more than 100,000 people, most of them Muslims, between 1992 and 1995. The pact divided Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serb Republic, presided over by a decentralized political system that reinforced rather than healed ethnic divisions.

The crisis comes at a critical time, just a few weeks after the United Nations and European Union envoy to Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak, was appointed foreign minister of his native Slovakia, creating what analysts called a potentially dangerous power vacuum. United Nations officials stressed Tuesday that Mr. Lajcak would continue to exercise his powers until a replacement was found.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bosnia; croatia; serbia
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To: Darwin Fish
And now, upper reaches of the US have no choice but to back the liar in chief. Yet after reports tell a different dtory. We will not forget.

I know that ... I hope just the new/old american administration will not repeat mistakes they did in demonizing Serbs, create another war and make some new muslim state on serbian land ...

it just smells like ClintonSS "spirit" to me ...

21 posted on 03/01/2009 10:17:09 AM PST by BabaYaga
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To: nameless-fool; Admin Moderator

Welcome to Free Republic.

Or should I say, welcome back Ronly Bonly Jones?


22 posted on 03/01/2009 5:28:23 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: nameless-fool

Former Russian?

LOL!

Change your name to “clueless-fool”, Bonly boy!


23 posted on 03/01/2009 8:36:07 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: FormerLib
It does indeed appear to be RBJ.
24 posted on 03/02/2009 10:57:06 PM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: nameless-fool
3. Bosniaks (Muslims) are extremely angry and all they need is guns and direction, something Croatia, Turkey, Iran and Arabs will easily provide.

That's the boldest endorsement for Jihad you've made in a long time, Bonly boy.

Now just add your trademark "Srebrenica! Squawk! Kill all Serbs because of Srebrenica! Squawk!" and you'll be back to your standard of cheering on the folks who gave us 9/11.

Maybe you'll change your tune if the Jihadists actually kill someone you give a squat about.

25 posted on 03/03/2009 5:43:21 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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