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...video clip from the Bosnian war is profoundly shocking: a Serb Orthodox priest can be seen blessing Serb troops from a unit known as the Scorpions as they head out on their mission in 1995. The same men are then shown forcing six emaciated Bosnian Muslims from the back of a canvas-covered truck. They bind the prisoners' hands, march them into a clearing and machine-gun them, one by one, while the others watch. The clip, filmed by the unit and obtained by a Serb human-rights investigator, aired last week in the Hague at the trial...
...tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, argued that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is "within the reach of the Croatian authorities" but has still not been turned in almost four years after he was indicted. Serbia and Bosnia aren't even candidates for accession, in large part because Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, have been indicted and at large since July 1995. E.U. foreign ministers said Croatia's accession talks would start once it was established that Zagreb "is cooperating fully" in finding Gotovina. "We have to convince our friends...
Zainab Salbi was a terrified teenager in Baghdad during the war between Iran and Iraq. Bombs routinely fell around her house. Years later, as a 23-year-old student at George Mason University in Virginia, she read a TIME article about the systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers, and it moved her to action. "I grew up in a war, so I was drawn to suffering," she says. Within six months, having raised $2,000 with the help of a local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women...
Peljto, the graceful Bosnian, led Harvard to new heights—in team success, class and dignity—in her four years as a member of the All-Ivy First-Team...
...Sabur” is a word tantalizingly close to meaning “yummy” in just about any language, although in Bosnian it means “relax.” It is also the name of a restaurant in Somerville’s Teele Square, just north of Davis Square on the way to Tufts. As we learned on a recent visit, Sabur embodies both associations...