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Three Daesh camps in Bosnia

5 August 2015

In 2012, jihadists acquired land in Bosnia-Herzegovina, at Gornja Maoča, Ošve and Dubnica, to set up training camps under the command of Nusret Imamović.
Originally affiliated with al-Qaïda, Nusret Imamović has become the number three of its Syrian branch, the al-Nusra Front. Today he has joined (...)

Ratko Mladić and the Pandora’s Box of the Bosnian War

by Slobodan Despot

6 June 2011

General Ratko Mladic’s arrest and his extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia satisfied the prerequisites for Serbia’s membership in the European Union. As expected, the western media have tagged the defendant as the "Butcher of Bosnia" and piled on as many (...)

Srebrenica — Neither Massacre, Nor Genocide

by Alexander Dorin

2 March 2010

Former leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial at The Hague facing eleven criminal charges, including the alleged massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica. Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin denounces the media’s distorted account of those events which prevails to this day. The (...)

The Yugoslav Caldron

Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists”

by Silvia Cattori

14 August 2006

In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes (...)

European Union declaration on the adoption of the constitutional law in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brussels (Belgium) | 24 April 2006

In light of the upcoming vote of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
on the constitutional amendments proposed by the BiH Council of Ministers and endorsed
by the BiH Presidency, the European Union welcomes the recent adoption of this
important reform package by the (...)

Javier Solana’s interview with the Bosniak newspaper Dnevni Avaz

7 December 2005

From a security point of view, how do you see situation in Bosnia?
BiH has achieved a historic milestone: 10 years after the end of the war, BiH has transformed itself; and it
will continue thanks to the Stabilisation and Association process. This is a long-awaited transition. The focus
is now (...)

“10 years after Dayton II: Lessons for fixing failed states”

by Paddy Ashdown

2 December 2005

How to prevent declining States from being refuges for terrorists? How to turn them into functional democracies? How to effectively intervene in those countries? A decade of work in Bosnia has the answers to these questions. Ten years ago, the situation in Bosnia could have turned it into a (...)

“Ten years after Dayton, Bosnia is not a democracy”

by Srdjan Dizdarevic

2 December 2005

Nationalist parties of all tendencies (Muslim SDA, Croatian HDZ and Serbian SDS) do their best to block any evolution for they fear the loss of power. The religious authorities usually support them. The authoritarian tradition of the State is still strong in Bosnia and those who favour change, (...)

“In Bosnia, Europe is a cohesive factor to unite the three peoples”

by Wolfgang Petritsch

2 December 2005

With the imminent beginning of discussions about the accession to Europe, the EU has an instrument to progressively replace the powers of the High Representative. The numerous reforms and adjustments which are necessary to enter Europe will very soon blow up Dayton’s incomplete framework. That (...)

“The Balkans, a gap to be filled”

by Miodrag Lekic

2 December 2005

While the historians’ answer is still awaited as to whether Yugoslavia died of natural causes, whether it was killed, whether it committed suicide or whether others made it “commit suicide”, the anniversary of its long disintegration and agony will be celebrated in 2005. In the geopolitics of (...)

“Bosnia, 10 years after the Dayton Agreements”

by Mohamed Khalaf

2 December 2005

Ten years after the signing of the Dayton Agreements, Bosnia does not hide its anguish and fear over an uncertain future; a fear that increasingly rises with the multiple U.S. attempts to impose a new constitution that has nothing to do with these agreements, with the pretext of establishing a (...)

“The Iraqi Constitution, from Dayton to Baghdad”

by James Dobbins

2 December 2005

Ten years ago, U.S. diplomats brought together in Dayton representatives from the different religious communities of Yugoslavia. At that time, such representatives were called in to draft a constitution in order to find a solution to the “civil” war being waged in the country. The enactors of (...)

“The Bosnian War Was Brutal, but It Wasn’t a Holocaust”

by Diana Johnstone

2 December 2005

On November 17, the Guardian offered its apologies to Noam Chomsky and repaired the mistakes made concerning my work and that of Emma Brockes. However, despite the retractions, the impression persists that my work consists of denying the atrocities committed. My book Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, (...)

Yugoslavia: commemorations and a bad memory

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 2 December 2005

On November 21, 1995, the Dayton Accords put an end to the violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina and created a hybrid state entity, based on the division into communities, which validated the main claims of nationalist factions under international control. International media takes this opportunity to (...)

“Ten years after Dayton I: Bosnia still has a way to go”

by Carl Bildt

2 December 2005

Ten years ago we negotiated for three weeks in a base in Ohio and despite all the difficulties, an agreement on Bosnia was signed in Dayton. The important thing is not to know how we did it, but why such agreement was not signed before. In 1995, Washington believed an agreement was necessary (...)

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