Eurasia Press & News
As humanitarian help reaches Bosnian flood zones from home and abroad, concerns are growing about whether the aid will be distributed in a transparent fashion.
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May, 2014
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30 May
Parents Demand Children’s Memorial in Bosnia’s Prijedor
Parents of 102 children who were killed or went missing in Prijedor during the 1992-95 war launched a campaign urging the local authorities to finally erect a memorial in the town.
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29 May
Kosovo Serbs Abandon Election Campaign
Leaders in the Serb-run north have suspended election activities in a row about the composition of election committees and the presence of Kosovo state insignia on ballot papers.
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29 May
Kosovo Guerrilla Commander Acquitted of War Crimes
Former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Sylejman Selimi and three other ex-fighters were cleared of abusing prisoners at a KLA detention centre during the late 1990s conflict.
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29 May
Serb Troops ‘Detained and Beat’ Bosniaks in Visegrad
At the trial of Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Vitomir Rackovic, accused of illegally detaining Bosniaks in the Visegrad area in 1992, witnesses recalled how villagers were seized and mistreated.
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29 May
Hague Tribunal Frees Bosnian Serb War Criminal
The international court released Ranko Cesic, an ex-policeman jailed for 18 years for ‘depraved’ crimes at a notorious detention camp near Brcko, after he served two-thirds of his sentence.
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29 May
Serb Fighters ‘Threaten’ Belgrade War Crimes Prosecutors
Belgrade prosecutors and police officials working on an investigation into the wartime killings of Bosniaks said that they have been threatened by former Bosnian Serb fighters.
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28 May
UN Urges More Serbia-Kosovo Progress
Belgrade and Pristina must keep working to implement their agreement to normalise relations, the head of the United Nations’ Kosovo mission told the Security Council in New York.
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28 May
Wartime Weapons Revealed in Bosnia Floods
Leftover weapons from the 1992-5 war in Bosnia have started emerging as the flood water recedes – proving that many people kept hold of their arsenals after the conflict ended.
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28 May
Bosniak Cleared of Killing Serbs Near Bratunac
Former Bosnian Army soldier Nezir Merdzic was acquitted of killing three Serb civilians in June 1992 due to a lack of evidence against him.
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