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Bosnian police arrested a wartime Muslim army commander on Tuesday on charges of failing to prevent crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during a 1992-1995 war. The arrest of 63-year-old retiree Sakib Mahmuljin was carried out on orders of the state war crimes prosecutor, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. "The suspect is under investigation for acting in contravention of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions while serving as a commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of BiH," it said. Mahmuljin has denied the charges during earlier proceedings. Many Islamic fighters,...

Mrs. Zimmerman's boy has some bad blood going with the Croatians. They just awarded him the French Legion, and then he gets sued for accusing Croatians of murdering lots of Serbs. They did, of course, did the whole Nazi thing, too. Conundrum.You don’t want to make flippant racial comments in France – that would be the takeaway for legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who’s just been charged with incitement to racial hatred following an investigation of comments he made comparing Croats to Nazis and slave owners, AFP reported. Answering a question from the French Rolling Stone in 2012. about race relations...

The high school in Vitez, where the Croat children attend classes on the upper floor and the Bosnian children on the lower floor. In Bosnia, the complex system of checks and balances between ethnic groups has cemented the divisions rather than healed them, local residents say, and reconciliation has still not happened. VITEZ, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA — Every morning at the local grade school formerly known as Brotherhood and Unity, the Catholic Croat children head to the right, and the Bosnian Muslims head to the left. The Croats study in the school’s cheerful looking main building, which was recently renovated....

(The Bleiburg memorial, with the Ustasha and Muslim symbols, dedicated "In memory of the innocent victims of the Bleiburg tragedy, May 1945") At the end of February, Al-Jazeera showed an interview with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, currently on trial before the ICTY in The Hague. It was done as part of a 40-minute report with Rageh Omaar. The report opened with the rows of green funeral shrouds, wailing Muslim women, and the rows of names on the Potocari monument, near Srebrenica. The images that follow suggest that the Serbs rounded up some eight thousand civilians, and shot them in...

Serbia continues to get the bulk of the blame from many in academic and media circles for today’s catastrophe in the Balkans. An example is Professor Staric in his recently published book entitled Confronting The Yugoslav Controversies. While attempting to appear even-handed, Prof. Staric clearly shows his anti-Serb bias with statements such as, “After Slovenia and Croatia, which were the most developed republics of the former Yugoslavia, had declared their independence on June 25, 1991, the Serbs did not like to lose their ‘cash cows’,” and “The Serbs (mainly) and Croats have clearly shown that they are unable to live...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian police arrested on Wednesday a Muslim former deputy army commander suspected of killing more than 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the 1993 Muslim-Croat war, the state prosecutor's office said. The State Information and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested Nihad Bojadzic, 47, in central Sarajevo on orders of the state prosecutor, said Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "Bojadzic is suspected of committing crimes against civilians and prisoners of war while serving as deputy commander of the Bosnian Muslim-led army special platoon 'Zulfikar'", he said. The mass killing occurred on April 16, 1993, during...

Have you read the latest news about the cutest squirrel in the world jumping in front of a young couple’s camera on vacation? Did you know that Michael Jackson’s brain wasn’t buried with the rest of his remains? How about the outrage over that evil Republican yelling “You lie!” to Obama, in the midst of another of his historical speeches? How horrific is the announcement that Oprah might quit her daytime show after this season, her only 19,678th in a row? Welcome to the Western mainstream media, where you get well entertained and superbly brainwashed, but never properly informed. The...

Sarajevo today, turning into a “European Tehran”According to Leo Pločkinić, President of the Mostar-based NGO Croatia Libertas, a growing number of Croat families are selling their property in the capital of the Croat-Muslim federation of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, and moving to East Sarajevo municipalities, in the Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS). Pločkinić cited the latest example of several Croat families who said they feared for their safety and moved from the Sarajevo settlement Stup to Lukavica in the Serbian part of country, in East Sarajevo. “A straw that broke the camel’s back and destroyed the last traces of...

Sarajevo, 19 March (AKI) – Croat groups in Bosnia have denounced what they call the 'Islamisation' of the Muslim-Croat federation and have prepared a document demanding their own entity, local media reported on Thursday. “Bosniacs (Muslims) are the main political problem in Bosnia-Herzegovina, because they openly strive for hegemony, counting on their majority, " Croat activist Leo Plockinic told journalists. Plockinic said Croats had the worst deal of all of Bosnia's three main groups and were being subjected to assimilation by majority Muslims. He is president of the 'Alternative Government' Croat association and the non-governmental organisation Croatia Libertas. “One of...

Sarajevo, 6 August (AKI) – The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, once a symbol of ethnic diversity, has become an entirely Muslim city, a Croat deputy in the Bosnian Parliament, Branko Zrno, said on Wednesday. “Sarajevo definitely isn’t a multi-ethnic city, but the city of one group, the Bosniacs (Muslims), " Zrno told local media. He pointed out that Serbs and Croats in Sarajevo have no institutional protection, and continue to leave the capital. Zrno echoed allegations from Bosnian Serb leaders, including Serb entity Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, that non-Muslims in Sarajevo suffered discrimination and were denied their rights. Zrno said...

Tribunal prosecutors want controversial presidential transcripts to be admitted into evidence in the case against six Bosnian Croat officials. Bu Oliver Bullough in London (TU No 524, 2-Nov-07) The highest levels of the Croatian government secretly worked to seize part of Bosnia while pretending friendship with the Sarajevo government, according to documents prosecutors have asked to be admitted as evidence in the case against six high-ranking Bosnian Croat officials currently standing trial in The Hague. The documents, transcripts of the then Croatian president Franjo Tudjman’s conversations, show Croatian officials believed the West supported it in its undercover bid to prevent...

Bosnia arrests two Muslims over war crimes Reuters AlertNet, UK The two men are the first Muslims arrested in connection with crimes against Croats in wartime detention camps in Bugojno, where dozens of Croat civilians ...

by Tena Erceg 19 September 2005 The notorious Lora case is back in court, with Croatia's ability to try its own accused war criminals as an additional suspect. SPLIT, Croatia | Eight military policemen are again on trial here in an important test for Croatia’s justice system. The men's retrial on war crimes charges began September 12 at the Split county court. The defendants are accused of torturing and murdering ethnic Serb civilians at the Lora military prison in 1992. Only four of the accused appeared in court. The others went into hiding after their acquittal in a first trial...

Belgrade, 6 Sept. (AKI) - Bosnian Croats, dissatisfied with organisation of the state, demand a complete overhaul of the apparatus or their own entity, a Croat member of the collective state presidency, Ivo Miro Jovic, said on Tuesday. Croats make up around 17 per cent of and a Serb, told the Belgrade daily Politika that a decade after the Dayton accords that ended the civil war in Bosnia, the document should be revised to grant Croats equal rights with Muslims and Serbs. Under the Dayton agreement, Bosnia was divided into two entities, the Muslim-CroatFederation and the Serb entity, Republika Srpska,...

ISN SECURITY WATCH (20/05/05) - The EU on Thursday said it would not suggest starting accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina because of the country’s failure to implement police and media reforms. The European Commission on Thursday said Bosnia had not fulfilled the necessary requirements to begin Stabilization and Assocations Agreement (SAA) talks - the first step towards EU membership talks. “The two conditions have not been satisfied, and there is no recommendation today,” said Reinhard Priebe, the head of the European Commission’s Western Balkans Enlargement Directorate. The European Commission’s negative response comes only days after talks between Bosnian politicians...

Weekend Edition June 5 / 6, 2004 On the Ruins of YugoslaviaThe Militarism of German Foreign Policy and the Dismantling of a State By CATHRIN SCHÜTZ In the shadow of new wars, the memory of the aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is more and more fading into oblivion. Those who hoped for an inquiry about this first war in which the Federal Republic of Germany militarily participated are faced with silence. In Germany as in other countries, the US-American filmmaker and author Michael Moore, who takes a stand against Bush's belligerent policy in Iraq and who supported...

A retired Croatian general has been charged by the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with responsibility for his alleged role in a 1993 operation against a Serbian enclave. The UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) made the indictment public today after it was issued last week. Among the charges of murder and cruel and inhumane treatment of civilians and captured soldiers during a two-day attack on the Medak Pocket, were counts of tying bodies to a car and dragging them along village roadsides, and burning a Serbian woman alive while soldiers mocked her....

Mehmedovic: French, Croatian and Serbian Intelligence Services Brought Mujahedins to BiH It has been eight years since the war in BiH ended, but this armed conflict was not yet categorized. For the IC, this war was an unfortunate conflict in the region and as such it was defined in the DA, which was ratified by all three sides in the conflict. However, Bosniaks claim that it is about an aggression committed by SiCG, while the Serbian and Croatian sides describe this conflict as a civil war. However, as time is passing by and the truth is revealed, it is more...

President Bush's new strategy of transferring power quickly to Iraqis, and his critics' alternatives, share a fundamental flaw: all commit the United States to a unified Iraq, artificially and fatefully made whole from three distinct ethnic and sectarian communities. That has been possible in the past only by the application of overwhelming and brutal force. President Bush wants to hold Iraq together by conducting democratic elections countrywide. But by his daily reassurances to the contrary, he only fans devastating rumors of an American pullout. Meanwhile, influential senators have called for more and better American troops to defeat the insurgency. Yet...

SARAJEVO, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Sarajevo court sentenced a former Bosnian Muslim soldier to 10 years in jail Tuesday for his role in a wartime massacre of Croat civilians, a prosecutor said. Enes Sakrak, 30, was accused of taking part in the September 1993 massacre of more than 30 Bosnian Croat civilians, mainly elderly people, in Grabovica village by the Bosnian government army. He was "sentenced to 10 years in prison... for committing war crimes against civilians" during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Sarajevo county chief prosecutor Mustafa Bisic said in a statement. He is the first person to be sentenced...