February 25, 2008 Leave a comment
Forgotten in the whole discussion on the independence declaration of Kosovo has been the news that the Dayton Peace Agreement has been lost. Luckily somebody found it
. Currently the Serbian government is trying to find the independence declaration of Kosovo so that it can be ‘lost’ to.
December 9, 2007 Leave a comment
If you thought that the Department of Records in Brazil mistyping “Buttle” instead of “Tuttle” was one of the worst historic bureaucratic blunders, you’re wrong.
In a court case in the Netherlands in which survivors sue the UN and the Netherlands over the genocide in Srebrenica, the UN noted that “its office in Sarajevo refused air support in Srebrenica because the Dutch commander there failed to fill the request form correctly.”
Did they cross in the wrong box (please support us with UN navy maritime support) or did they wrongly identify what happened in the form (calling it mass murder prior to an independent UN confirmation based on an extended fact finding mission) or where some signatures missing (of the victims/perpetrators confirming events) ? I’m curious.
November 27, 2007 Leave a comment
Fast Food for Shmekers… I wonder if it schmeckts?
November 26, 2007 Leave a comment
While singing Partisan songs is still a scandal in Croatia, especially on election night, it is quiet ok in Bosnia.
November 19, 2007 1 Comment
Here’s the bad headline of the day from the IHT: “Early tally gives edge to pro-independence party in Kosovo“. So PDK won narrowly over the other parties which are not pro-independence? It is hard to distinguish parties in Kosovo on the issue of political program, but still, emphasizing the only thing which does not set them apart is not exactly a journalistic highlight…
November 1, 2007 2 Comments
If you are in Bosnia these days and are not following what’s going on, you might be mistaken to think that presidential elections are occurring.
Candidate 1: Sarajevo, last weekend
Candidate 2: Banja Luka, last weekend
The good news is that there are no elections looming and neither Sanader nor Putin are running in them.
The bad news is that once more some are looking outside the country for help from other outsiders ruling the country.
In fact, the hysteria in RS and Serbia over Miroslav Ljacak’s imposition is out of proportion when reading the decision and actually remembering that in the past year more often than not, decisions were not taken in the Council of Minister of Bosnia due to the boycott of Bosniak members.
Never before have RS officials and Serbia react so hostile to any OHR decision over the past 12 years, suggesting that it is not really about the decision, but rather something to do with Kosovo.
See more here
June 28, 2007 Leave a comment
Kostunica has the choice to give up Kosovo and choose the heavenly kingdom to follow the example of good old Knez Lazar. As Kostunica noted, a new Kosovo battle is being fought between Serbia and the USA. So Lazar will have the illustrious company of Milosevic and Kostunica keeping him company… Lucky him.
June 22, 2007 Leave a comment
The rest of the article from the BBC website actually made more sense. But as the headline reads, I am expecting a string of follow up articles: “Iran ‘urged to finally meet international commitments: Kyoto Protocol or sanctions” or “UN presses Gaza on keeping beaches clean” or maybe “US government warns: Rising problem of fly-tipping in Iraq”
June 20, 2007 Leave a comment
It seems like Feral Tribune has come to an end. Ironically, it is not Tudjman’s attempts to ban it through pornography tax but good old capitalism: The saying about the two certainties–taxes and death–seems closely intertwined in the case of Feral Tribune. Unable to pay back some huge tax bill from the Ministry of Finance, it stopped publishing. It’s harder in the post-authoritarian times with less clear targets, smaller battles to fight, but I hope Feral will also survive this latest challenge.
May 15, 2007 Leave a comment
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