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...Bosnian Muslims, the largest ethnic group in the region, are pushing to dismantle Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity created by the 1995 Dayton peace accord and one of the two ethnically centered statelets, or entities, that comprise Bosnia. The other is the Muslim-Croat federation. Each has its own parliament, government and president. (Bosnia as a whole has a weak central government and a three-member presidency: one Serb, one Muslim and one Croat.) Bosnian Serbs are threatening to secede and merge with neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes...
...Although Bosnian politicians have so far refrained from calling up voters in their constituencies to reach for the guns, they have done just about everything else to provoke and insult the opposing ethnic groups. Last Sunday Borislav Paravac, the Serbian member of Bosnia's collective Presidency, stated that the behavior of his Muslim colleague Sulejman Tihic was "idiotic." Tihic had previously said that those Serbs who do not accept his vision of Bosnia as a centralized state should pack up and move out of the country...
...Another cause for concern is that the issue of Kosovo - formerly Serbian province which is expected to become independent early next year - is also affecting Bosnia. The fear is that Serbia, frustrated by losing Kosovo, may seek to compensate by encouraging Bosnian Serbs to join with Serbia. Still, no political leaders in Belgrade have publically endorsed the referendum idea...
Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, next week opens the prosecution of seven men suspected of the murder of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim inhabitants of the town of Srebrenica in 1995. She met Time's Andrew Purvis at her offices in the Dutch city of the Hague and discussed the frustrations of her work, the hunt for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and the war in Iraq. After 13 years, the U.N. war-crimes tribunal is nearing the end of its work. Has it been worth it? Definitely...
...region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip to Argentina with a Bosnian-Serb family wanted as war criminals. Luckily for Misha, Argentina boasts islands inhabited by birds of his breed. After stints in Ukraine and Chechnya, what more could a tuckered-out penguin ask for? Flightless birds aren't the only characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic landscape. In his 2004 novel...