Bosnia’s main Muslim, Serb and Croat parties on Wednesday formed a central cabinet and passed a budget for 2011, putting an end to more than a year of political deadlock. They also agreed on laws that pave the way for Bosnia's accession to the EU.
Serbian police on Saturday arrested 17 people with links to suspected radical Islamist Mevlid Jasarevic (pictured). Jasarevic was wounded and arrested on Friday after he opened fire on the US embassy in Sarajevo.
France qualified for Euro 2012 by the skin of their teeth Tuesday after scraping a draw at home with Bosnia-Herzegovina. A controversial second-half penalty from Samir Nasri won the nervy Bleus a place in the competition.
France may require just a point at home to Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday to reach Euro 2012, but Les Bleus are determined to take home three points, despite suffering an array of medical set-backs.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Tuesday found Serbia's former army chief Momcilo Perisic guilty of murder, persecution and attacks on civilians, including at Srebrenica in 1995. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Some 40,000 people gathered in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica for the burial of hundreds of newly identified victims of the massacre that was committed in 1995 by Serb forces.
An appeals court in the Netherlands ruled on Tuesday that the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, while Eastern Bosnia was under the protection of Dutch UN peacekeepers.
Accused war criminal Ratko Mladic was ejected from his arraignment hearing at the Hague after he yelled at the judge and refused to answer to the charges read out against him. The judge entered “not guilty” pleas on his behalf.
Ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic appeared before a UN crimes court Monday, despite earlier statements he would boycott the procedure. The hearing was adjourned after Mladic was expelled from the courtroom for obstreperous behaviour.
With the arrest of former Serbian general Ratko Mladic, Bosnians around the world have breathed a collective sigh of relief. In the early 1990s, 350,000 Bosnians took refuge in Germany. They couldn't go home and years later, they still feel traumatised by events. For them, the capture and trial of Mladic is long-awaited and certain to bring back painful memories.
