Always a pleasure to post a comment on Craig Murray’s site. His readers are so smart and droll in reply, giving excellent material for my rotating What The Critics Say box: Having visited your blog i must say it doesnt surprise me. Your self-aggrandising careerist pomposity is quite breathtaking […]
At the risk of boring everyone, here is an excellent interview with Jovan Divjak about the Dobrovoljacka St killings and the politics of it all now. It’s in Bosnian/Serbian (not as Google says Croatian), but if you use the Google Translate button you’ll get more than enough of it in […]
What really happened in chaotic Sarajevo in and around Dobrovoljacka Street on 3 May 1992? The range of views appears to be broadly as follows: Core Serbia/’Serb’ Claim: perfidious massacre of JNA soldiers attempting to withdraw from Sarajevo under UN colours as per an agreement duly reached with the Bosniac leadership, […]
Robin Harris, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, lambasts at NRO the way judicial processes are being used and (he says) abused in the UK for foreign or other political purposes: The British authorities allowed themselves to become dupes of judicial manipulation, and it will be hard to claw back towards […]
I have just given a short interview to Radio Free Europe in Sarajevo about the Ganic problem. The interviewer asked a question about the abuse of UK courts for political purposes. I pointed out that there are two completely different issues here, which may (understandably) be merging into one in […]
The Daily Telegraph weighs in on Ejup Ganic: Bosnia has demanded his release and supporters claimed Britain had allowed itself to be used as pawn in the long-running battle between the two former Yugoslav nations. The Telegraph quotes both an unnamed spokesman for Lady Thatcher and Robin Harris, her former speechwriter: "She […]
This morning’s Dnevni Avaz newspaper in Sarajevo has plenty on the Ejup Ganic story. Here. For those of you unfortunate enough not to read Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, some of the interesting points in the article as yet unreported in the UK media – British scoop, right here: Mr Ganic’s son Emir is […]
Dnevni Avaz reports that now the Bosnian authorities are considering weighing in and sending an extradition request to London, asking that former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic be extradited to Sarajevo rather than Belgrade! This looks to be an attempt to create new legaL complications based on the proposition that Ganic is a […]
The arrest of former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic here in the UK in response to an extradition request from the Belgrade authorities is a striking development. See this short account on the Belgrade-based B92 website. In fact the issue has been rumbling on for a couple of days, with Bosniac […]
Malta is a fascinating place for looking at some underlying issues of democracy and government. Malta is 201st in the world’s list of countries by physical size, its area of 316km2 (one fifth the size of Greater London) just ahead of the Maldives and just behind Grenada. Its population […]
