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Vucic receives group of Serb children from region
BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received a group of Serb children from countries in the region on Monday.
Turkey’s Ruling Alliance Rejects Recognition of Srebrenica Genocide
The funeral of genocide victims at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE/FEHIM DEMIR.
The CHP's proposed also called for July 11 to be declared Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate the killings of more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995.
Museum of Genocide Victims: ''We are concerned about the claims made''
Suljagi's controversial address took place during a conference dedicated to collective memory held on July 10 this year in Srebrenica.
Portal B92.net reports the Museum's reaction in its entirety:
Excellent news! Next up: Kosovo
Osmani stated on Twitter that the so-called Kosovo, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina are next in line for NATO membership.
''Excellent news! Next up: Kosovo, Ukraine and Bosnia & Hercegovina in NATO, for a stronger Alliance & a safer and more secure Europe!''
30 Srebrenica Victims to be Buried at Genocide Commemoration
A joint funeral is being held on Tuesday for 30 victims of the July 1995 genocide of Bosniaks, with thousands of mourners expected to attend the annual commemoration at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia Issues Just One Srebrenica Indictment in a Year
Since the last annual commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide in July 2022, the Bosnian state prosecution has only filed one indictment for Srebrenica crimes - charging a suspect who lives in Serbia and cannot be arrested.
Enjoying Impunity, Greek Pro-Serb Fighters Still Brag about Srebrenica
On July 16, 2021, a Greek man called Antonis Mitkos uploaded a photograph to his Facebook page. It shows him dressed in military uniform, arm-in-arm with Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic.
June Pride Parades and the Digital Ripple Effects on LGBT Rights
Digital Fallout of June Prides: Unveiling Violations of Digital Rights
In June, Pride Parades were held, among others, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Croatia, highlighting the struggle for LGBT rights in these countries.
Montenegro Commemorates Family Murdered While Fleeing Bosnia
The commemoration near the town of Pluzine on Thursday. Photo: Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
The three Bosniaks were murdered in the Piva River canyon near Pluzine after escaping from the Serb-held town of Foca in eastern Bosnia.
The killers were members of the Bosnian Serb Army's Dragan Nikolic special unit.
Slovenia can still count on Balkans for labour
The national Employment Service has poured cold water on the notion promulgated by business that there is not enough labour available in Balkan countries to meet Slovenia's growing labour needs, but it suggested companies need to be more proactive in recruitment and offer better pay.
How Srebrenica’s Mothers Brought Their Murdered Sons Home
"First they wanted the graveyard to be located on the mountains above Srebrenica, it's called Otave Plato," Malic told BIRN at the Centre for Elderly Mothers of Srebrenica in the village of Potocari, the care home where she lives now, less than a kilometre away from the Memorial Centre.
Montenegro’s Abazovic Hails Non-Aligned Movement’s Values
Montenegrin outgoing Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic (C) at the Non-Aligned Movement Conference in Azerbaijan. Photo: Government of Montenegro
Serbian Photographer Exhibits Frontline Images of Bosnian War
The exhibition, entitled 'My Bosnia', includes pictures that Cvetkovic took in Skelani, Bratunac, Visegrad and around Sarajevo, as well as images of people who escaped to Montenegro as refugees or ended up in Serbia as prisoners.
Cvetkovic's picture of Serbs leaving their homes in the Grbavica and Ilidza settlements of Sarajevo, March 1996. Photo: BIRN.
In Depopulated Srebrenica, Shuttered Shops and Open-Hearted People
Driven by curiosity, we walked into the building the music was coming from, which is called The House of Good Tones. Hilda Djozic, office manager of the House, tells us later on that what we heard was a rehearsal by one of the youngest bands they have, and that the drummer was a seven-year-old girl.
Geopolitical Strife Fuels Dangerous Parallel Crises in Balkans
In the midst of Russia's failed mutiny, Dodik - one of the few politicians in the world who in past years has met Putin regularly, almost every year - may have tried to draw the Kremlin to support his two-decade-long separatist dream, some officials have said.