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 Sunday, April 29, 2001
VLASENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The Muslim dead are coming home to Vlasenica before the living.
Ferida Hadzic, clutching her teen-age daughter’s arm, cries as the dirt is shoveled onto her husband’s thin pine casket, a green burial shroud draped over his remains.
While none have actually returned to Vlasenica, about 50 families have started rebuilding their homes in the outlying villages, says Capt. Reed Berry, whose company of infantrymen is responsible for daily peacekeeping patrols in the area.
ww2.pstripes.osd.mil /01/apr01/ed042901f.html   (756 words)

  
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Before the war, the region was predominantly populated by Bosniacs and Bosnian Serbs.
Large companies which employed most inhabitants of the region before the war are now being privatised and operate at only a fraction of their pre-war capacity.
Areas such as Vlasenica are experiencing severe economic depression and unemployment levels in the region are high.
www.unhcr.ba /handbook/eng/cantons/vlasenica.htm   (461 words)

  
 Vlasenica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vlasenica (Serbian Cyrillic: Власеница) is a municipality and town in the northeastern part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the 1910 census, the absolute majority in the Vlasenica municipality were Orthodox Christians (64.34%).
For the duration of the war the city served as a headqueorters for the VRS Army of Republika Srpska for operations against Kladanj, Srebrenica and Žepa as well as a major transit point for supplies coming from Serbia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vlasenica   (286 words)

  
 Carl Savich | Columns | serbianna.com
The Croatian army was divided into five divisional regions: the Sava Divisional Region based in Zagreb, the Osijek Divisional Region, the Bosnia Divisional Region based in Sarajevo, the Vrbas Divisional Region based in Banja Luka, and the Jadran Divisional Region based in Mostar.
In October, 1941, the Germans sent five Landschuetzen or Regional Defense Battalions to reinforce and to stabilize the military situation and to raise the declining morale of NDH troops.
The Serbian population of eastern Bosnia, in towns such as Srebrenica, Vlasenica, Kravica, and Bratunac, was subjected to a systematic genocide perpetrated by Croat and Bosnian Muslim troops.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/049.html   (8070 words)

  
 BH Tourism - Northeast region
It is also a region with dozens of places to see and visit and, like any other part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, you don't have to go very far to find an isolated mountain, a cool stream or a thick green forest.
The areas along the Sava River to the extreme northeast are the most fertile regions in the country.
With over 50% of its territory used for agricultural purposes, agriculture in the entire northeast pocket is the number one industry and employer.
www.bhtourism.ba /eng/region5.wbsp   (194 words)

  
 Comparative Criminology | Europe - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Slavs settled the region in the 7th century, and the kingdoms of Serbia and Croatia split control of Bosnia in the 9th century.
The 11th and 12th centuries saw the rule of the region by the kingdom of Hungary.
In March a group of Serbs in Vlasenica in the RS beat a number of Roma who had been deported from refugee camps in Italy.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/europe/bosnia_herzegovina.html   (8209 words)

  
 NL27_3: Vlachs
Farsarotul, named for a tribe of Aromanians from the Epirus region now straddling northern Greece and southern Albania, states its purpose thus: "We acknowledge that the Arumanians are being assimilated by their various neighbors, be they Albanian or American, Greek or Rumanian.
By the same token, Vlach was and remains basically a spoken language, with considerable variations and divergences of dialect between north and south, and east and west.
He became a much loved and still performed playwright known as "the father of Serbian drama." Among his best-known works were "The Miser, or Kir Janja," "The Liar and the Consummate Liar," and "The Wicked Woman." Some of his comic characters, like The Miser, were Tsintsars, and spoke fragments of Vlach in his plays.
www.farsarotul.org /nl27_3.htm   (3144 words)

  
 Srpska Republika News Agency (SRNA), 98-07-16
The president of the local Association for mission persons Milorad Zimonjic stated for SRNA that at 20 localities, marked Serbs who had survived, were found all missing bodies, although at two places current users of agricultural lands in Federation BandH have removed the graves on their own initiative.
The president of LEC in Brcko Slobodan Zobenica has confirmed for SRNA that the lists of settlements in the region of Brcko municipality, forwarded from Banja Luka and Sarajevo are different significantly and that it is expected that next week this problem will be solved in the seat of PEC.
VLASENICA - The president of RS Biljana Plavsic has visited Vlasenica, where she delivered to the Board of families of killed veterans of the Municipal organisation the check amounting 100,000 dinars, with the desire that this money be spent for assistance families most in need from all categories of population.
www.hri.org /news/agencies/srna/1998/98-07-16.srna.html   (2047 words)

  
 United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Additional Info from State Party - Bosnia and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Determined to create ethnically cleansed regions of the Serbian population only, the aggressor has put the non-Serbian population in some urban areas in such a state that may lead to its extinction either through ordinary homicide, physical and mental torture or through forceful displacement.
Established successively, with a single purpose in mind, to carry out a mass extermination of and exile the non-Serbian population from the occupied territories, these camps are but a segment of the genocide ideology, and their establishment is inseparable from other crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the fighting in the region of Brcko, and after the city occupation in the beginning of May, the former JNA forces and the Serbian extremists took about 5,000 civilians, Muslims and Croats, to a concentration camp in Luka Brcko.
unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/0/333378630589b6d680256674005bc280?Opendocument   (8046 words)

  
 Miševici : Bosnia/Herzegovina : Europe : AFSC
The beneficiaries are women from Srebrencia, located in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are unable to return to the region due to the social and economic situation resulting from the war.
Srebrenica was established as the U.N.'s first "safe haven" in the Bosnian conflict, but in July 1995, between 7,000 and 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically killed by the Bosnia Serb army.
Mevlija Memic was born in 1982 in Vlasenica, Srebrencia and was 13 years old when her family was expelled from Srebrenica because of the war.
www.afsc.org /europe/bosnia/misevici.htm   (317 words)

  
 Vlasenica travel guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Vlasenica travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
Vlasenica is a municipality and town in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at wikitravel.org.
www.world66.com /europe/bosniaandherzegovina/vlasenica   (296 words)

  
 Axis History Factbook: Black Legion (Croatia)
By early December the unit’s strength had grown to 1,200, and it was reorganized as a mobile assault formation for use in the Sarajevo region.
Tens of thousands of German and Croatian troops were assembled in early June and sent into the mountains and plateaus of western Bosnia to cleanse the area once and for all of both Partisans and Chetniks.
During the offensive (Operation “Vlasenica”), the Crna Legija operated with its usual flair against the Partisans and the sometimes innocent villagers who happened to live in the area.
www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=7105   (1793 words)

  
 Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo - Statements
Namely, my husband and I were accompanied by two men from the region of the Srebrenica Municipality and one boy from Vlasenica named A. We could not see who was firing at us but we were positive that the Chetniks were in the ambush.
I told him that I was working in the "Privredna banka" office in Vlasenica and that I had a daughter in Sarajevo on medical treatment whom I wanted to call to see how she was.
He promised that I would immediately go to Zvornik and he fulfilled his promise because the ambulance car came right away and I was transported immediately to Zvornik.
www.idc.org.ba /statements/4219.html   (699 words)

  
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The results of the November 2000 municipal elections confirmed a SDS majority in the local assemblies of Sokolac, Han Pijesak, Pale, and Rogatica.
One of the biggest concerns at the moment is the looting of vacated flats and houses although this is not unique to the region.
Returnees to this region have the advantage of the close proximity to Sarajevo, where many people continue to work even after returning to their pre-war homes.
www.unhcr.ba /handbook/eng/cantons/sokolac.htm   (538 words)

  
 Student Profile - Elvira Saracevic - UW Business School - University of Washington - Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was near the site of a Bosnian concentration camp where she, her mother and young brother were separated from her father 14 years ago.
Her family lived in Vlasenica, a small town northeast of Sarajevo with a cordial integration of Bosnian Muslims and Serbs.
First, though, she returned with her mother and brother to Vlasenica in April to attend the belated funeral of her father and the neighbors and friends who died with him.
bschool.washington.edu /profiles/saracevic.shtml   (691 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-6.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bosnia and Herzegovina themselves are historical-geographic regions which today have no political status.
Slavs settled the region in the 7th century.
The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Tuzla in the northeast and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.
bosnia-and-herzegovina.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (1539 words)

  
 Yugoslavia - Newsletter 15, Center for Jewish Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The shape of the tombstones in the Sarajevo cemetery is unusual.
The monolithic rounded forms recall to some extent gravestones of the Bogumils, a Nestorian Christian schismatic sect, who lived in the region between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea until the arrival of the Ottomans.
In addition, a total of nineteen cemeteries were surveyed, most dating from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: Zenica, Travnik, Jajce, Rogatica, Visegrad, Vlasenica, Zvornik, Tuzla, Gracanica, Doboj and Derventa in Bosnia/Herzegovina and Slavonski Brod, Dakovo, Vinkovci, Vukovar, Osijek, Nasice, Daruvar and Sisak in Croatia.
www.hum.huji.ac.il /cja/NL15-yugoslavia.htm   (2256 words)

  
 Bosnia and Herzegovina travel guide
Republika Srpska is administratively divided on regions and further on municipalities.
This is the most developed part of the country that for a long time was a crossroad of various influences and interests of neighbouring Pannonian, Karst, and Mediterranean regions.
km, population of 296.000) is situated in the central-coastal region behind a mountain, and is the smallest of the four geographic units of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.world66.com /europe/bosniaandherzegovina   (398 words)

  
 UNITED NATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Information from and requests by COS were forwarded first by phone and confirmed by fax to all Regions and Sections.
Fax from RHQ OPS Tuzla: The IPTF Stations Zvornik, Bratunac and Vlasenica have been informed about the Security Summary 64/99 and are preparing to evacuate.
The IPTF Stations Tuzla, Srebrenik and Gracanica have been informed accordingly and are arranging accommodation and duties for the relocated PM’s.
www.aeronautics.ru /nws001/log2605.html   (1257 words)

  
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Serbian guerrillas again retook the Srebrenica region and held it until April, 1942, when the Germans, Italians, and Croats/Bosnian Muslims launched the coordinated joint offensive known as Operation Trio to clear the Srebrenica region of Serbian guerrillas.
Based on IX SS Corps KTB entries for August 20-27, 1944, the Partisan 27 th East Bosnia Division was deployed to the area northwest of Srebrenica and moved into the Bratunac region to engage elements of the Handzar Division.
For the whole region, i.e the municipalities of Srebrenica, Bratunac, Vlasenica and Skelani, the Serb authorities claimed previously that about 1400 people were killed due to attacks committed by the BH Army forces for the period of May 1992 to March 1995, when Srebrenica was under the control of Naser Oric.
www.pogledi.co.yu /english/srebrenica2.php   (9517 words)

  
 050705IT
5 Zvornik, Bratunac, and Srebrenica, and the SDS in Sekovici and Vlasenica.
3 autonomous region, the Serbian Autonomous Region of Birac.
14 Zagreb to the territory of Vlasenica and Sekovici municipality.
www.un.org /icty/transe68/050705IT.htm   (15887 words)

  
 Monday, January 29, 2001
As president of the Democratic Party’s Crisis Staff for all of Bosnia and coordinator of a Serb autonomous region that includes Vlasenica, he bears command responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of more than 15,000 non-Serbs in the Vlasenica area.
According to witness testimony during a war crimes trial in The Hague, Dukic was a close associate of Dragan Nikolic, the commander of the nearby Susica concentration camp.
He organized the destruction and ethnic cleansing of 10 villages in the Milici area of Vlasenica.
www.pstripes.com /jan01/ed012901b.html   (2338 words)

  
 srebrenica.ba
As the commander of a local SDS paramilitary formation in Srebrenica in 1992, Novak Stjepanovic, nicknamed "Krke", was allegedly one the organisers and participants in ethnic cleansing in the region of Sase, Srebrenica and the settlements of Sikiric, Biljaca, Zaluzje and Voljavica in Bratunac.
In addition to the municipal crisis staff members, members of the regional Crisis Staff of the Herzegovina "Autonomous Region" were part of the chain of command with alleged responsibility for war crimes committed in Gacko, Cajnice, Trebinje and other parts of Herzegovina.
The president of the Herzegovina regional Crisis Staff was Bozidar Vucurovic from Trebinje, who also served on the Crisis Staff as the president of the Trebinje municipal council.
www.srebrenica.ba /?link=clanci&p=1   (18738 words)

  
 Vlasenica - Zusammenfassung
Vor dem Krieg nahm VLASENICA eine Fläche von 560 qkm ein.
Zum Territorium der Opština VLASENICA gehörte früher die, seit 21.
Den öffentlichen Personennahverkehr bedient ein Transportunternehmen in VLASENICA.
www.bbs.bund.de /vlasenica/zusammen.htm   (608 words)

  
 SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, Aug.14, 1996
SARAJEVO - At the meeting of the vicepresident of Republi- ka Srpska /RS/ Velibor Ostojic and the leadership of the munici pality Vlasenica, held at Pale, it is agreed for the region of this municipality to dismantle the collective accommodation cen tres for refugees.
DOBOJ - At the meeting of the Municipal electoral Commis sion and representatives of the political parties from the region of the Doboj municipality was said that at the September's elec tions in Doboj will participate 15 political parties from RS and CroatianMoslem federation, with 535 nominated candidates.
The evidence of this atrocity, committed by Moslems from Srebrenica against Serbian civilians, is obvious at the bodies with fractures of bones, smashed craniums, the traces of burning.
www.hri.org /news/agencies/srna/1996/96-08-14_1.srna.html   (615 words)

  
 European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina - EUFOR - Homepage
Brigadier General Wade is now returning to the region now for his third time.
The outgoing commander BG Fugger said at the end of his six-month tour of duty that he was pleased with the work done and happy that none of his solders was injured in operations.
LOT House 11, manned by the members of Austrian Contingent of EUFOR deployed in Vlasenica, in the eastern Republic of Srpska, consists of eight soldiers ranking from staff sergeant to captain and with different backgrounds and experience.
www.euforbih.org   (244 words)

  
 JS Online: Experts Find New Mass Grave in Bosnia
Once in control of Vlasenica, Bosnian Serb forces opened the Susica prison complex, a converted warehouse and hangar that held up to 500 people, including women and children, in a room 165-by-100 feet, witnesses later told investigators.
From May to October 1992, as many as 8,000 Muslim civilians from the surrounding Vlasenica region were held for periods up to several months.
The latest mass grave was located in a remote area near Vlasenica, 45 miles northeast of Sarajevo, in a small valley, where the bodies were dumped and then covered with dirt.
www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/jun03/ap-bosnia-mass-gra060403.asp   (399 words)

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