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In the News (Sat 11 Feb 12)

  
  Yugo-Victimology
The Bosnians have emphasised their victim status over the past three years of war, in the naive belief that Europe would not tolerate the destruction of a multi-ethnic state by means of expulsion and genocide.
Among UN forces on the ground the Bosnian government is scorned, perhaps because its often shambolic diplomatic and military resistance is a constant reminder to the UNPROFOR soldiers of their own impotence.
The Bosnians, not the international community or anybody else, are fighting against the politics of neo-fascism in the Balkans.
www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk /bosnia/vict.html   (1512 words)

  
 Bosanska Krajina biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bosanska Krajina (lit "Bosnian Frontier") is a region of Bosnia and Herzegovina enclosed by three rivers - Sava, Una and Vrbas.
Bosanska Krajina has no political borders or a political representation in the current structure of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian state however it has a significant cultural and historical identity that was formed through several historic and economic events.
Bosanska Krajina was also place of historical agreements that have taken place in Jajce and Mrkonjic Grad in 1943 that established the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Yugoslavia in its current borders.
bosanska-krajina.biography.ms   (748 words)

  
 Please title this page. (Frame1.html)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Under an agreement parallel to the Dayton peace accord signed by the Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian governments in December 1995, eastern Slavonia and Baranja were to remain under UN protection for one year, after which the Croatian government could reassert its control after a new round of negotiations with Serbian leaders.
In October 1991 the Bosnian legislature adopted a memorandum on Bosnia's sovereignty and neutrality under the sponsorship of the PDA and the CDU.
The Dayton accord was intended to guarantee a lasting peace in Bosnia and to reconstruct the country as a single state consisting of two entities: the Muslim-Croat federation, with 51 percent of the territory, and the Serb Republic, with 49 percent of the territory.
www.uknetwork.freeserve.co.uk /yugosucc.html   (4756 words)

  
 Dossier Serbian Krajina: A country without people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Authorities of the Krajina Serbs in Knin, with the support of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, persistently were striving to reach with the Republic of Croatia, through the mediation of the international community, a reasonable and mutually acceptable political agreement.
Krajina Serbs and their representatives, of course, did not have any illusion as to what are the final aims of the new Croat state.
Krajina government would conduct independent fiscal policy, and the corresponding Krajina legislative bodies would pass laws and there would be a judicial power with first-instance and appellate courts of law.
www.balkanpeace.org /wcs/wct/wcts/wcts01.shtml   (5383 words)

  
 Kein Titel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the Bosnian federated system, the republic was ruled by a presidency of five members, and the one who received the largest number of votes would become its chair.
In fact, a Bosnian militia was then holding a JNA general prisoner, and a local commander planned to use Alija as bait to free his colleague.
Abdic was stripped of his office by the Bosnian government in retaliation (he claimed he had already quit; for all intents and purposes, he was never an equal member of the presidency anyway), and the Fifth Corps, based in Bihac and under siege by Bosnian Serb forces on all sides, moved to expel him.
www.agrokomerc.com   (2264 words)

  
 Bosniaks biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Bosnian Kingdom blended cultural influences from east and west; although nominally Roman Catholic, the Bosnian kings embraced elements of Byzantine culture and court ceremonial, and formed alliances and dynastic marriages with the neighboring rulers of both Croatian-Dalmatian and Serb states.
Part of the resistance of the Bosnian Church was political; during the fourteenth century, the Catholic Church placed Bosnia under a Hungarian bishop, and the schism may have been motivated by a desire for independence from Hungarian domination.
The second is the Arabica, a version of the Arabic alphabet modified for Bosnian that was in use among nearly all literate Bosniaks until the 20th century.
bosniak.biography.ms   (4661 words)

  
 Defence and the Last Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic stressed that this did not refer to other fronts, and soon it became clear what he had in mind.
Military authorities of the Bosnian Serbs admitted that they had lost Jajce, as stated, "after conflicts in defence of the direction leading from Sipovo towards this town", and that "the units are consolidated and preparing to take the initiative at this part of the front".
Bosnian Serbs still have the possibility to keep 49 per cent of the territory - although it is still questionable whether according to the Contact Group maps - but with every new day it depends less on their doing.
www.freeserbia.net /Archives/1995/Defence.html   (1780 words)

  
 FOURTH REPORT ON WAR CRIMES IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (part II)
A 24-year-old Bosnian Muslim agricultural technician from Kotor Varos was arrested as civilian and interned in several locations in Kotor Varos.
Bosnian Serbs on November 18 shelled the main north-south highway near the city of Mostar, which forced a UN food convoy and its escort of Spanish UN peacekeeping troops to abandon an attempt to bring food and housing material to Sarajevo.
Bosnian Serbs on November 7 fired up to 200 rounds of machine gun, mortar, and automatic rifle fire at a British convoy that was trying to find routes for United Nations aid convoys near Tuzla, hitting a British Land Rover.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/reports/4thB.html   (1283 words)

  
 War, Journalism and Propaganda:An Analysis of Media Coverage of the BOsnian and Kosovo Conflicts [Free Republic]
The Krajina and Bosnian Serbs must follow the law, i.e., international recognition, even if they thought the law was unjust and against their interests or even if doing so would lead to their genocide.
Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat forces attacked the Serbian majority villages around Konjic, expelled or ethnically cleansed the Serbs and held them at collection or detention centers and camps, the most famous of which was the Celebici camp.
One of the worst massacres of the Bosnian Serb population occurred on September 26,l992 in the Serbian villages of Rogosija and Nedeljista near Milici.Muslim forces under Naser Oric, the commander of the Muslim troops in Srebrenica, massacred 37 Serbs.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39adeffd2670.htm   (13527 words)

  
 Annex III : The military structure, strategy and tactics of the warring factions
Probably the only factor common to all of these forces is their receipt of military equipment, ammunition and supplies from their respective armies and governments, and in the case of Bosnian and Krajina Serbs, their reliance on the JNA and the FRY.
The Bosnian Muslims, 44 per cent of the population, and ethnic Croats, 17 per cent of the population, voted overwhelmingly in favour of secession.
       The IV East Bosnian Corps is headquartered at Pale and retains several units in the vicinity of the headquarters.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /comexpert/ANX/III.htm   (14088 words)

  
 War In Yugoslavia
The war was launched by Radovan Karadzic, president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, and Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic.
The UN was unable to decide on a military response to the Serbs’; noncompliance and did not lift the international arms embargo on the Bosnian forces.
In June 1993 the UN declared six so-called safe areas primarily for Bosnian Muslims; they consisted of the cities of Sarajevo, Bihaæ, Tuzla, Gorazde, Srebrenica, and Zepa.
members.tripod.com /badzakm/war.htm   (4754 words)

  
 Heavy Sentence For Bosnian Serb Politician Over Ethnic Cleansing In Krajina
In the early years of the Bosnian war thousands of civilians in the Krajina region were held in the Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm camps.
The judges ruled that as head of the wartime crisis staff in the Krajina, Brdjanin was "the driving force" behind the decisions the Bosnian Serb leadership in the region.
"The conditions of life imposed on the non-Serb populations of the Bosnian Krajina and the military operations against towns and villages which were not military targets were undertaken with the sole purpose of driving people away," the court said.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=26055   (612 words)

  
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At the time covered by the indictment, Zupljanin was commander of all police forces in the so-called Autonomous Region of Krajina, ARK. Municipal and regional police forces, including those responsible for the operation of detention camps, were under his operative command, the indictment alleges.
The indictment accuses of genocide the leading figures of all three main structures in Bosnian Krajina - the political authorities under Brdjanin, then president of the ARK; the military under Talic, then commanding officer of the First Krajina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska, VRS; and the police under Zupljanin.
The Bosnian Serb authorities claim Zupljanin is not on their territory.
www.iwpr.net /archive/tri/tri_230_6_eng.txt   (543 words)

  
 Encarta 1998 - Yugoslav Wars of Succession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Croatian army recaptured the enclave of western Slavonia and the Krajina region in 1995.
Meanwhile, Bosnian government forces, working with Bosnian Croat units, overran large areas of western Bosnia, handing the Serbs their first major defeat of the war.
The Bosnian economy was devastated, and in 1996 the people of Bosnia faced the challenge of reconciling communities that had been divided by the war and re-creating the country as a single state.
www.smuhsd.k12.ca.us /smhs/library/enc.htm   (1151 words)

  
 At the Gates of Banja Luka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Faced with a very difficult situation in Bosnian Krajina, judging by the statements made by the political leaders, they hurried to end the conflicts as soon as possible and thus get a breathing space they need so badly.
Expecting long and tedious negotiations, the Bosnians on their part lingered and invented new conditions and problems concerning supply of electric power and gas to Sarajevo, trying to prolong for a few more days the obviously successful and decisive combat actions and enter bargaining for territories with the best possible stakes.
It is also claimed that the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs are constantly in telephone contact with Slobodan Milosevic, as well as that Nikola Koljevic warned the President of Serbia that, should the offensive continue for another 36 hours, he could "expect a total collapse of the Republic of Srpska".
www.freeserbia.net /Archives/1995/BanjaLuka.html   (1568 words)

  
 The Balkan war: can there be peace?
Such politics leave their advocates disarmed in the face of the many reports of atrocities in Krajina and the Bosnian Serb areas in recent months, and of a refugee problem on a massive scale, with an estimated 250,000 Serbs on the move since August, and without any sense of solution to the war.
Krajina means, literally, frontier--the buffer zone on the edge of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire peopled by Serbs who had traditionally backed the Austrians against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Krajina Serbs were forced out through a campaign of atrocities which led to the biggest single displacement of population of the war.
pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj69/german.htm   (9403 words)

  
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The article, which is summarized in Vecerni list on 9 August, claimed that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his air force commander Zivomir Ninkovic want the refugees to go home to maintain a Serbian presence in Krajina.
Bosnian Serb television on 8 August broadcast an appeal by Krajina Serb "President" Milan Martic, his first public appearance in some time.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has given up some of his political duties to parliament speaker Momcilo Krajisnik in order to devote full time to the reconquest of Krajina, the VOA said on 9 August.
www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/95-08/aug09.omri   (1495 words)

  
 Mrkonjic Grad
As visible on the map the same is true for all towns of Western Bosnia which are adjacent and contiguous to Serbian Krajina but which will be (as entire Krajina) thoroughly cleansed of the Serbs.
The Serbs were majority in Krajina from the times before Mayflower reached shores of North America.
The municipality of Odzaci (where the Serbian population suffered tremendously) but which was still in Bosnian Serb hands was to be handed over to the Croats.
www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/Mrkonjic-1.html   (1472 words)

  
 Sobaka :: Dossier: Fikret Abdic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The controversies which envelope Abdic trace their origins back to 1987, when he was removed from his directorship of Agrokomerc and placed under arrest for fraud.
Izetbegovic was held by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) from May 2nd to May 3rd, in what his party rather hysterically described as a "kidnapping." In fact, a Bosnian militia was then holding a JNA general prisoner, and a local commander planned to use Alija as bait to free his colleague.
Nevertheless, Abdic did not conceal his belief that war against the powerful Yugoslav Army - at a time that Bosnia had no organized army and no armaments to speak of - was a foolish policy to follow (his deputy Delimustafic said so bluntly at a cabinet meeting during the kidnapping crisis).
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/abdic.html   (2252 words)

  
 040901IT
7 of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat populations in the Autonomous
17 the non-Serbs from the territory of the Autonomous Region of Krajina.
19 of displacing the Bosnian Muslim population of Gornji Agici and Donji
www.un.org /icty/transe36/040901IT.htm   (10042 words)

  
 How 'Operation Storm' Destabilized the Balkans
A terminally fragile Bosnian state was a key strategic imperative for Washington because it would continue to provide the raison d'être for America's and NATO's presence in the region for generations to come.
With the approval of the Clinton Administration and sanctioned by Congress, MPRI began training the Bosnian Moslem Army after the Dayton Accords were established in October of 1995.
It was only after Croatia ethnically cleansed the Serbs of Krajina with the tacit approval of the Clinton Administration in August of 1995 that the United States, as part of its defense cooperation agreement with Croatia, became the first NATO country to formally organize military cooperation programs for Croatia.
www.antiwar.com /orig/dakovic3.html   (5369 words)

  
 Krajina Serbs
Krajina - the Military Frontier - was a place of constant battle and the Serbs endured centuries of struggle...
Expulsion of Krajina Serbs is undeniably - the largest ethnic cleansing in Europe since the end of the World War II.
Genocide that Krajina (and Bosnian) Serbs have suffered during WWII is difficult to put in words.
www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/krajina.html   (816 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Prosecutors reveal that Stojan Zupljanin has been indicted for crimes in Bosnian Krajina, in an effort to increase pressure for his transfer to The Hague.
Stojan Zupljanin was named as the third accused on the indictment for genocide in Bosnian Krajina, in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was revealed last week.
Municipal and regional police forces, including those responsible for the operation of detention camps, were under his operative command, the indictment alleges.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/tri/tri_230_6_eng.txt   (721 words)

  
 Proletarian Battalion of Bosnian Krajina (Proleterski bataljon Bosanske Krajine)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Proletarian Battalion of Bosnian Krajina (Proleterski bataljon Bosanske Krajine)
Returned to Kozara on 21/22 October 1942 and disbanded in November 1942 transferring its personnel to 1st Bosnian Corps.
Send any info, comments, corrections you have to: Ivan Bajlo or use form below.
www.vojska.net /ww2/yugoslavia/battalion/proleterski.asp   (117 words)

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