United Nations Protection Force
Srebrenica’s Young Translators: How Our Jobs Saved Our Lives
Ramic spoke English and he became one of several young people who managed to feed their families by working as interpreters for UNPROFOR or other international organisations such as the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
But while working as an interpreter, he had to witness some traumatic incidents, such as an artillery attack on the village of Konjevic Polje.
‘They Will Kill Us’: One Woman’s Story of Escape from Srebrenica
Velic had fled to Srebrenica with her husband and children after her home village of Pobudje, near Bratunac, had come under fire.
But when Bosnian Serb forces seized Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, she and her family had to flee again.
"I thought: 'People will not survive, they will kill us.' And so they did," she recalled.
Hague Court Revised Rulebook ‘Over Karadzic Case Concerns’
Decision taken by majority of judges
From the top of the UN military vehicle a UN UNPROFOR soldier scans the hillside with his binoculars looking for snipers and other military activity during the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1994. Photo: EPA/FEHIM DEMIR
"They expected me to agree, I didn't: FRY bombing and recognizing Kosovo - a mistake"
Retired Canadian General, former UNPROFOR Commander in Sarajevo, Lewis MacKenzie, comes to Belgrade on the forthcoming Belgrade Book Fair, in order to promote Serbian edition of his book entitled: "Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo", written 26 years ago, that was a bestseller in Canada.
ICTY to announce ruling in Ratko Mladic trial on November 22
The first instance ruling in the trial of Serb Republic Army (VRS) General Ratko Mladic will be announced on November 22, the Hague Tribunal has said.
Mladic was arrested in May 2011 after spending years of hiding. The trial before the tribunal in The Hague started in a year later.
Erdogan: Holland is Well-Known; We Saw What It Did in Srebrenica
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has launched another attack on Holland related to the latest diplomatic disputes between the authorities in the two countries, reported BGNES
"The behaviour of Holland is well-known and more specifically in a moral and civilizational aspect since we know its role during the carrying out of the genocide in Srebrenica," stated Erdogan.
Serb Officer Insists Sarajevo Market Blast Was Staged
A Bosnian Serb Army officer insisted that Bosniak forces staged an attack that killed over 60 people at Sarajevo’s Markale market in 1994, Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial was told.