The ongoing fighting in Ukraine is making Bosnians and other Balkan nations feel the heat, as both world wars originated in Eastern Europe, where there has always been a hegemonic struggle between Russia and the Western bloc.
Washington will continue to impose sanctions on individuals who engage in corruption and “sow divisions” in the Balkan nation, Samantha Power, the administrator of the USAID said.
Glorification of war crimes, convicted war criminals triggering anxiety, tensions in communities, says UN rights office.
Official participation to mark autonomous Serb Republic's national holiday amounts to gross interference in the internal affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, says Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic.
Bosnian Serbs have celebrated an outlawed holiday with a parade marching in lockstep and singing a nationalist song.
Viktor Orban, a leader notorious for racist tirades, described the Muslim presence in the European Union as a problem.
Europe needs to create and integrate a genocide prevention strategy to keep history from repeating itself in the Balkans.
Brcko was home to some of the first war crimes in the 1990s and a recent announcement to secede is a warning shot that things could go south again.
Milorad Dodik, the Serbian member of the tripartite presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is bringing wood to the fire of ethnic divisions, which can push the country back to its violent past.
Members of the Republika Srpska government have repeatedly questioned the number of Bosnian Muslims killed in Srebrenica a quarter of a century ago this week. They also accuse the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal of anti-Serb bias.
The Commission will now send a questionnaire to Bosnia seeking thousands of answers about its suitability to join the EU, including its economy, the state of democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
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