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Topic: Orasje


In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  All Empires History Forum: Orasje, never forget
Orasje is a predominantly Roman Catholic town located right on the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
During the war it was sandwiched between the Republic of Serb Krajina, established in Croatia, and the Serb Republic, established in Bosnia.
Orasje town was Bosniak setlled by Muslims from Serbia 1830-1867 period
www.allempires.com /Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9166&get=last   (378 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR Informer: MND-N, Orasje, distinguishes
Those weapons were stored in the barracks of the 4th Motorised guard Brigade of Orasje and in Donja Mahala, a village close to the city.
One week before, on April 5, some civilians and members of Bosnian-Croats veteran war associations entered the barracks and the headquarters of the 4th Guard Motorised Brigade "Sinovi Posavine" (the sons of Posavina) in Orasje and the headquarters of the 4th Division in Odzak.
Orasje is the site of one of the four brigades that build the Bosnian-Croat part of the army of the Federation.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/111/s111p08b/t0104188b.htm   (409 words)

  
 [CTRL] Fw: SN791:Bosnian Posavina (Part Nine)
ORASJE >> >>In the area of the Municipality of Orasje certain actions were also >>undertaken for purpose of making impossible for the members of Serbian >>nationality to freely live in their centuries-old homes.
Serbs living in the city of Orasje, during the >day >>were working in firms and during the night would go to sleep in the >villages >>from which they came to Orasje...
The witness 267/94-15 was earlier living in Orasje, and is now >living >>in Brcko, and she stated the following; >> >>'...On May 5, 1992 I went to visit my daughter in Zupanja, and on May 9, >>1992 Cica Cvijanovic told me that all the people from Bukova Greda were >>deported to the prison camp...
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg42882.html   (5748 words)

  
 Decision removing Marko Benkovic from his position as Mayor of Orasje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You are aware of the Decision of the Election Appeal Sub-Commission of 6 August 1998 in which it submits its findings about the failure of the Mayor of Orasje, Marko Benkovic, to comply with his obligation to cooperate on the implementation of the Peace Agreement.
Benkovic's performance and can confirm that he is obstructing return and that he is responsible for creating a political atmosphere in his municipality detrimental to the holding of free and fair elections.
I therefore ask you, in your capacity as a responsible leader of the party which is governing Orasje, to identify a personality who can live up to the important task of implementing the Peace Agreement in that municipality.
www.ohr.int /decisions/removalssdec/default.asp?content_id=258   (302 words)

  
 Friday, April 13, 2001
Croats from the northern Bosnian town of Orasje gather Thursday to protest against the Muslim and Croat component of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina military unification.
ORASJE, Bosnia — Croat nationalists declared a victory in a newly emerging fight for greater autonomy in Bosnia, saying their militia — with the permission of U.S. peacekeepers — had assumed control of weapons storage sites in this Croat-dominated pocket of northern Bosnia.
During Thursday’s rally in Orasje, U.S. infantry troops and military police, backed by Italian riot- control squads and local police, mustered around the village prepared for the worst.
www.stripes.com /01/apr01/ed041301f.html   (623 words)

  
 Thursday, January 25, 2001
ORASJE, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Community administrators expressed regret and shock over NATO’s late-night raid of several buildings Tuesday in a search for eavesdropping equipment.
U.S. and Italian peacekeepers blocked off roads and increased patrols around the Croatian-dominated city of Orasje in an unannounced inspection of military, police and regional administration offices.
Orasje is a northern town in the U.S. peacekeeping sector just south of the Bosnian-Croatian border.
www.estripes.com /jan01/ed012501k.html   (375 words)

  
 Substantial Completion of Property Law Implementation verified for Domavljevac-Samac, Vukosavlje and Orasje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The OSCE, OHR, UNHCR and CRPC would like to acknowledge and extend congratulations to Domaljevac-Samac, Orasje, and Vukosavlje for substantially completing Property Law Implementation.
The substantial completion of Property Law Implementation is an important affirmation of the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The review and verification of Domaljevac-Samac, Orasje, and Vukosavlje mark the final stage of the Property Law Implementation Plan in these municipalities.
www.ohr.int /print?content_id=31080   (302 words)

  
 1994/07/12 22:00 ON THE CURSED BOSNIAN LAND (3)
If it were not for the lowered ramp and nondescript looking containers representing an improvised border crossing on the Croatian side, on the very bank of the Sava river, you would probably not know that you were leaving Croatia and crossing over to a new state, Bosnia.
We board a dilapidated ferry, the only possible link with Orasje, one of the important small towns located in that tiny pocket, under Croatian control, abutting on the notorious Serbian corridor.
And, indeed, in Orasje itself there are not many visible traces of destruction.
www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199407/40712-007-trae-sar.htm   (1181 words)

  
 BetDevil - Matches - Soccer/Football - Leagues/Cups - International/Domestic/Continental
Home team NK Orasje have a home record of 0-0-0 (W-D-L) for their 0 home games this season, 0 points from a possible 0.
NK Orasje's recent points average is 0.00, 0 points from 0 games 0-0-0 (W-D-L).
NK Orasje's last 10 league games record reads while their last 10 home league games read.
www.betdevil.com /gu_matches.php?cm=315686   (797 words)

  
 Killed and Missing Persons
BUCMAN, ADELA (daughter of Meho), born in 1983 in the village of Orasje, near Rotimlja.
BUCMAN, ADIS (son of Meho), born in 1988 in the village of Orasje, near Rotimlja.
PALATA, EDIN (son of Mustafa), born in 1974 in Orasje, Rotimlja.
www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/stolac/StolacKilledandM.html   (2291 words)

  
 Djeno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Company was able to maintain operations during the war and continue to supply 18-week pullets to Duhovna Stvarnost, a humanitarian organization in Zagreb.
Loan proceeds will be used to construct a 4 story caged layer house for 17,750 laying chickens for the production of table eggs (225M) and make some minor repairs to their existing facilities.
Grain is purchased from Posavina Koka, Orasje for.50 DM per kg.
www.r-n-r.com /professional/bf_djeno.htm   (305 words)

  
 U.S. tanks roll into Bosnia -- at last
ORASJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- U.S. tank platoons crossed a just-completed pontoon bridge into Bosnia Sunday, the vanguard of what will be a flood of military might.
Only one Serb soldier was defiant, arms crossed and glaring, as the tanks and fighting vehicles rumbled through.
She rushed the first tanks carrying a quart of brandy and tried --unsuccessfully -- to share a drink with some startled soldiers.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/01/01/bosnia.html   (823 words)

  
 FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
Immediately it must be said that at present there is no reliable evidence of a precise number of Serbs who have been taken from the year 1992 onwards to these camps.
It may be said that such treatment was in operation, with only some slight differences, also in the area of the entire so-called Bosnia and Herzegovina controlled by the Muslim and Croat armed forces.
According to his estimate, some 10% of inmates from Orasje and Bukova Greda were killed, and he himself had on the spot taken out 5-6 persons who were dead or wounded.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /documents/reports/9-d.htm   (10020 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
They note that brigade sizes in the army were reduced by two-thirds several months ago due to insufficient funds, and that weapons remain locked up in federal depots.
Yesterday (29 March) Bosnia's Defense Ministry announced that almost the entire Croat army command structure in the northern Posavina region (Odzak and Orasje) had expressed their loyalty to Defense Minister Mijo Anic.
"In Orasje and Odzak we dealt with the insubordination as was necessary.
www.rferl.org /features/2001/03/30032001111902.asp   (1004 words)

  
 Episcopal Academy - Administration
Episcopal is paired with Orasje High School, a school comparable in size to Lower Merion or Harriton.
Orasje and its neighboring schools would like to extend their sincere gratitude to Episcopal students and faculty for their efforts last year.
The supplies we sent have already begun to alleviate economical pressures that face these Bosnian schools, allowing them to concentrate their recourses on more important aspects of education.
www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us /htm/Admin/BosniaDrive.htm   (461 words)

  
 newStandard: 11/19/95
On another controversial front, Bosnian Croats were infuriated by an apparent plan to give the Serbs a pocket of Croat-held land around Orasje on Bosnia's northern border with Croatia in the region known as Posavina.
The Serbs have insisted a corridor linking their holdings in eastern and western Bosnia be widened at its narrowest point south of Orasje.
Holbrooke complaining that he was not included in the discussions of the maps and warning that he would not sign a peace document that gives Orasje to the Serbs.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/11-95/11-19-95/yugo.htm   (711 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Zeljeznicar head towards Bosnia title
Siroki Brijeg, who slipped to third, Brotnjo, who climbed to second on goal difference after an away 1-1 draw at Grude, and Orasje, 2-0 winners against Zrinjski, are all on 30 points.
Surprise package Orasje defeated Zrinjski at home thanks to goals either side of the interval from in-form striker Velimir Brasnic and Stamenko Coskovic.
Sarajevo, who were tipped during the winter break as the strongest challengers to city rivals Zeljeznicar, continued their poor away form.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/0325/20020325bosnia.html   (337 words)

  
 HOPES BETRAYED:
Generally, the women and girls pointed to appalling economic conditions and lack of opportunity in their own countries as the main reasons that they felt the need to migrate for employment.
One woman, sold to a bar in Orasje, told Human Rights Watch, "There is no work in Ukraine.
Of the twenty-six women and girls who indicated that they had a concrete destination in mind when they migrated, fourteen said that traffickers promised them jobs in Italy; five expected legitimate jobs in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; another five in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and one each in Germany, Greece, and Romania.
www.hrw.org /reports/2002/bosnia/Bosnia1102-04.htm   (3464 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Bosnia: Zeljeznicar lead cut to four
With both teams facing a difficult run in with matches against Sarajevo, Celik Zenica, Zrinjski Mostar and Posusje, the title and a spot in the qualifying round of the Champions League appears to be wide open.
Third-placed Sarajevo have 40 points, one more than Brotnjo, Orasje and Zrinjski with all four teams still in with a shout of finishing second and clinching a berth in the UEFA Cup qualifying round.
Zeljeznicar's attempts to get back into the match on a water-logged pitch were ultimately in vain, but they did get a 73rd minute consolation from Samir Seferovic.
www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/0429/20020429bosnialeague.html   (504 words)

  
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U.S. General George Joulwan, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, military head of NATO, has requested member states to make firm commitments on troops and equipment to be designated for the possible withdrawal of U.N. troops from the former Yugoslavia.
BOSNIAN SERB FORCES pressed their assault on Orasje, a northern Bosnian pocket held by Bosnian Croat forces supporting the Bosnian Government.
The town of Orasje lies north of the Posavina Corridor, a narrow strip of Serb-held territory used by Serbia and Bosnian Serb forces in eastern Bosnia to supply their forces in western Bosnia and Croatia.
www.publicinternationallaw.org /programs/balkans/archives/1995/BW219.DOC   (950 words)

  
 Official UN document: Crimes against Serbs in Bosnia
The golgotha of the Serbs in Ustashi concentration camps in Odzak, Bosanski Brod, Slavonski Brod, Orasje and Donja Mahala began on May 8, 1992 and continues to date (August 1993).
It is hard to describe in one place everything that happened in those places of torture of the Serbs and even harder to make a synthesis of the documents and testimonies about the orgies of Ustashi criminals.
The inmates were forced to dig trenches in front fighting lines in the areas of the communes of Bosanski Brod and Orasje for the needs of the regular army of the Republic of Croatia and for paramilitary Ustashi-fundamentalist formations.
www.srpska-mreza.com /library/facts/Odzak-2.html   (2006 words)

  
 FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Orasje won their first Bosnian Cup on Wednesday to earn a UEFA Cup qualifying spot after beating Siroki Brijeg 3-0 in the second leg of the final.
After goalless first leg, Orasje broke the deadlock in the second half thanks to two goals by Ivo Pejic and one by Slavko Kobas.
Last month Siroki won their second Bosnian title in three years and earned a place in the preliminary round of UEFA Champions League.
www.fifa.com /en/WorldLeagues/index/0,4643,117501,00.html?articleid=117501   (94 words)

  
 Cyber VRATNICA Internet Site - Vratnica community !
There are two places with this name: Orasje (aka Gorno Orasje) and Dolno Orasje (near to Orasko Gradiste, an old fortress in Zeden gorge of Vardar river).
In the beginning it was populated by orthodox Macedonians, but from the end of 18th century there were settled Muslim Albanians that came from some parts of north Albania.
There is one main street in Orasje with the houses at the both sides.
www.vratnica.5u.com /community.html   (1438 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - Deliberate killing of detainees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The arrested civilians were put in the camps situated in the high- school gymnasium in Orasje and in the elementary school in Donja Mahala.
Apart from killings, the members of the Military Police tortured and inhumanely treated the arrested civilians in the above mentioned camps, imposed forced labour, starved them, raped women and confiscated or destroyed their belongings.
Ahmed Kabaklic, called "Grga", from Orasje, aged about 37, military policeman, used to be a physical education teacher;
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/war_crimes/report6/2.html   (5783 words)

  
 Mika Damjanovic: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Twenty days later, Marko Bekovic Balkan, former President of the local HDZ and Mayor of Orasje brutally assaulted Mika Damjanovic, journalist of "Dnevni avaz" and cameraman and reporter of the FTV in Orasje.
Following a series of verbal threats, swearing him as national traitor, insulting journalists and the profession of journalists, stating that all that was rubbish, Benkovic hit Damjanovic into his head.
Former President of HDZ in Orasje is well known by his violent behaviour, but it is not known whether he was ever processed or deemed accountable for his deeds.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Damjanovic_Mika_126395738.htm   (255 words)

  
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enclave of Orasje (N. Bos.), shelling by both sides; Serbs confine Banja Luka Catholic Bishop Komarica to house arrest, bishop says he has been told nuns abducted in stolen IHRC veh.; US to give $28 mil.
Serb leadership after nun and priest's burned bodies found in church de- stroyed by exp. (Serbs have destroyed 40 in area) May 14 Heavy fighting around Orasje pocket, Posa.
being used again in city; seige of Orasje now 1 month long; Milo's office says all remaining hostages will be released in next few days; Serbs halt 10-truck food convoy headed to Zepa saying it is carrying ammunition, launch heave at- tack on town, also fire 4 mortar rds.
www.uta.edu /cpsees/yec-295.txt   (10277 words)

  
 NATO troops remove weapons to keep them away from Croat nationalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peacekeepers from the NATO-led force in Bosnia removed weapons Sunday from four storage sites to prevent them from falling into the hands of Croat soldiers who have defected to support a nationalist campaign for autonomy.
Three out of eight weapons storage sites in the northern Bosnian town of Orasje are currently occupied by the Croat deserters, who have removed federation insignia from their uniforms.
A Bosnian Croat nationalist leader said Saturday that the soldiers would rejoin their units only when there were three components to Bosnia-Hercegovina´s armed forces -- Croats, Serbs and Muslims.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/apr01/hed3087.shtml   (538 words)

  
 .:: Technital S.p.A. - a leading International Engineering Consulting firm ::.
This Border Crossing is part of the Regional Trade and Transportation Facilitation Program in Southeast Europe, with the
Orasje Border Crossing is located on the border with the Republic of Croatia in the north-east region.
The overall objective of the Project is to ensure smooth and efficient legal movement of goods and passengers between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia.
www.technital-spa.com /tourist3.htm   (263 words)

  
 Daily Nation on the Web
Owino has denied that report, saying he was in Monaco to stay.
The Kenya forward said he is currently on loan to Monaco from Bosnia side HNK Orasje.
Before Monaco, the Kenyan lad says he played in Bosnia for HNK Orasje.
www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/19122003/Sports/Sports191220033.html   (527 words)

  
 NK Orasje fc, soccer, football, club, team, photos, pictures, wallpapers, official site
NK Orasje fc, soccer, football, club, team, photos, pictures, wallpapers, official site
NK ORASJE (BOSNIA) - history, football club, photos, songs & information
NK ORASJE (BOSNIA) (official site) - pictures, wallpapers, soccer team & coach
www.wsoccer.com /teams/bosnia/nk-orasje.htm   (35 words)

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