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...DIED. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, 78, former Bosnian President who steered his country to independence?provoking a 43-month war, which left 250,000 people dead or missing?but couldn't stop the later fragmentation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; in Sarajevo. Izetbegovic was a devout Muslim who backed Bosnian statehood after Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. A spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes said an investigation into possible war crimes by Izetbegovic ended with his death...
...time when Clark was director of strategy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had gone to war-ravaged Bosnia on a fact-finding mission. Though reportedly advised by the State Department not to meet with Mladic, who was widely blamed for Serb barbarities at Gorazde and Sarajevo, Clark did anyway...
...This World is a road movie?a Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan ?migr?; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo) went along for the ride, often improvising dialogue with people the boys met. At times the danger seems real: rifle fire at a Turkish border, captured on infrared film, comes perilously close to the two boys?and the crew. Did the film put the lads at risk? This is an expos? that occasionally smacks...
...focusing on the rather boring Serbian retreat from its outposts in Kosovo, CNN and BBC regaled in airing errant U.S. bombs blowing trains off their tracks and careening into downtown Belgrade. And only after the broadcast of a certain amount of death and destruction against the people of Sarajevo was it acceptable for America and NATO to threaten a military barrage of their very...
Such is the secret of Bosnia. I am growing extremely fond of my home for a month, Sarajevo. There are millions of interesting, positive things to say about it. But do I really want hoards of tourists—for pleasure or on do-good missions—arriving? While in general I heartily support international travel and certainly greater tourism in Bosnia would be helpful to the economy, I cannot help but want to protect this place from the brash self-centered voyeurism that tourists of all nationalities tend to carry...