A hundred years on from the start of World War I, the city where it all began is putting on a range of events that send a message of peace after a ‘century of wars’.
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June, 2014
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13 June
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.
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12 June
Kosovo Leaders Squabble Over Right to Form Govt
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his main rival, Ramush Haradinaj, remain in deadock over who has the right to form a new government following inconclusive general elections.
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12 June
Croatians Protest Against Church Honouring War Criminal
Protesters rallied in front of the cathedral in Zagreb against Catholic bishops’ alleged ‘glorification’ of the homecoming of recently-released Bosnian Croat war criminal Dario Kordic.
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12 June
Bosnia Finds 11 War Dead After Floods
The bodies were exhumed after the recent floods that devastated the country washed up bones suspected to be those of Bosniaks killed during the 1992-95 war near Doboj.
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10 June
Protected War Crimes Witness Attacked in Bosnia
A man was arrested for he allegedly stabbing an anonymous protected witness in the trial of former Bosnian Serb fighter Dragan Sekaric, who is accused of a series of wartime atrocities.
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10 June
Sarajevo Gears up For World War I Centenary
The unveiling of portraits of Gavrilo Princip and Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the exterior of the Sarajevo Museum mark the start of a series of events commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War One.
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9 June
Serbia Searches for New Kosovo War Mass Grave
Serbian experts will examine the site of another suspected mass grave near the town of Raska, where the bodies of 37 Kosovo Albanians killed during wartime have already been found.
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9 June
Three Feared Dead After Kosovo Power Plant Explosion
At least three people are reported dead following an explosion at the Kosovo A power station just outside Pristina on Friday.
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9 June
Kosovo Holds Nationwide Elections
The people of Kosovo go to vote today in an election whose outcome is the most uncertain in the history of the country’s independence.
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