The silver lining to Mladic’s years on the run

I’m not going to argue that Mladic’s avoiding prosecution for 15 years was a good thing.  First and foremost his victims had to endure a decade and a half of an agonizing wait, wondering if Mladic would even see the inside of a courtroom. Second, Mladic is not a young man, or even a middle-aged one. Considering the [...]

Bosnian choir takes on war and hostility with Muslim hymns

This story was too good not to post it: The terror of the Bosnian war is still alive on the streets of Bosnia and Herzegovina, filled with poignant images of bullet holes on the facades of buildings and other structures laid completely to waste. The Sultan Mehmed Fatih Ensemble, whose repertoire consists of Muslim hymns, [...]

“Surviving Bosnia’s Killing Fields”

From the AP: By Aida Cerkez SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The hardest part was the ants. They crawled over his arms and legs, over his face and into his mouth, hour by hour as he pretended to be dead in a pile of corpses slowly turning stiff. Mevludin Oric lay for nine hours in one [...]

Remembering Nezir Omerovic

He once said, “Fire on Velesici and Pofalici. There aren’t many Serbs there. Don’t let them sleep. Make them lose their minds.” Yet, far from being a “defender of the Bosnian Serbs,” as his supporters are calling him today,  when push came to shove he showed no qualms about having the military leaders under his [...]