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Two Serbian cousins were convicted today of a series of gruesome, barbaric war crimes against Bosnian Muslims: Bosnian Serb pair jailed for burning Muslims alive. THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were convicted by the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal on Monday of burning dozens ...
Serbia, nationalism, Fascism, Genocide, War Crimes, Bosnian Muslims
The Serbian Orthodox Church has some rather unorthodox ideas about how to treat drug abusers. BELGRADE, May 23 (Reuters) - The Serbian Orthodox Church ordered the closure on Saturday of a treatment centre for drug abusers after a video showed a patient being beaten with a shovel, punched and ...
Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Drug Treatment, Brutality, Crime
In Belgrade yesterday, far-right Serbian nationalists held signs in parliament calling Vice President Joe Biden a “fascist” and a “Nazi.” A classic case of projection. BELGRADE (AFP) — Serb ultra-nationalist lawmakers held up insulting signs in parliament Wednesday as US Vice President Joe Biden, considered a strong backer of ...
Serbia, nationalism, Fascism, Genocide, War Crimes, Joe Biden
Kejda Gjermani has been researching some Connections.
An interesting piece on The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo by Michael Totten in the new City Journal. Kosovo’s brand of Islam may be the most liberal in the world. I saw no more women there wearing conservative Islamic clothing—one or two per day at most—than I’ve seen in ...
Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic appeared in court yesterday, and refused to enter a plea. LONDON, Aug. 29 — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic declined to enter a plea Friday in a courtroom in The Hague, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the U.N. war crimes tribunal bringing ...
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic, nationalism, War Crimes
Another must-read piece from Michael Totten: An Israeli in Kosovo. Imagine what would happen to a handful of Jewish veterans of the Israel Defense Forces who tried to move from Tel Aviv to an Arab country to open a bistro and bar. In only a few countries could they ...
Here’s a Reuters video of alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s appearance at the International Court of Justice in the Hague:
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic, nationalism, War Crimes
Here’s part 2 of a really good piece by Michael Totten on Kosovo, Macedonia, and the insidious influence of Saudi Arabia: The Bin Ladens of the Balkans. (Part 1 is here.)
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Totten
Hardcore Serbian nationalists are threatening to prevent the extradition of alleged mass murderer Radovan Karadzic by force. Hard-line supporters of Serbian mass killer Radovan Karadzic are threatening to bring violent chaos to Belgrade on Tuesday with a huge rally in his support. The former president will probably still be ...
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic, nationalism, War Crimes
Serbian nationalist Radovan Karadzic, one of the most wanted men in Europe, has been arrested in Belgrade working as a doctor. “Karadzic used false documents with the name Dragan Dabic,” said Rasim Ljajic, the minister in charge of cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). ...
LGF, Serbia, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic, nationalism, War Crimes
Serbs are rioting again over the secession of Kosovo, and attacking the US consulate in Banja Luka: Bosnian Serb protesters try to attack U.S. mission. BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters tried to attack the United States consulate in Bosnia’s Serb Republic on Tuesday, smashing shops in ...
Serbian nationalist leaders are blaming all the violence on the United States: Serbia: US ‘Culprit’ in Kosovo Violence. Serbia’s hard-line leaders on Saturday called the U.S. “the main culprit” in the violence that has broken out since Kosovo declared independence. Several thousand Serbs chanting “Kosovo is Serbia!” and “Russia, ...
Armed Serbian “youths” in Belgrade have attacked the US and German embassies, and the US embassy is on fire. BELGRADE (Reuters) - Scores of protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday and set some rooms on fire in protest at Kosovo’s independence. Police were not protecting ...
I’m not sure whose side to root for in the ethnic Albanian, Kosovo-Serbia morass—there are killers on all sides—and today’s news from Kosovo leaves me with mixed feelings: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.