Remember the world scoop/poop of Sarajevo newspaper Dnevi Avaz, featuring what was said to be fascimile copy of a letter from Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister of State Douglas Hogg, back in May 1993? In the so-called letter Prime Minister Major says a number of nasty things about […]
The adoption late yesterday by the Serbia National Assembly (Narodna Skupstina) of a Declaration on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia has been hitting the headlines. See eg the BBC. And RFE/RL. The EU has welcomed the move. Others in the region including various Serb liberals have strongly criticised it for not […]
Leader of the Bosniac SDA party in Sarajevo Sulejman Tihic has made a very measured response to the Serbia Assembly Resolution on Srebrenica, calling for a similar resolution in the BH Assembly apologising for crimes against Serbs and Croats. He also expressed the hope that the Declaration in Belgrade would […]
My posting on the film Storm and its setting – the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) – quoted two lines from the movie: Two powerful lines from the film stand out: "What are these trials for?" "This (ie ICTY) is not therapy…" Some thoughts. What is ICTY’s mandate and jurisdiction? […]
Is described by me here at RFE/RL: … two central questions have never been decisively answered. Did political reconciliation in post-World War II Yugoslavia depend on an implicit understanding that the horrible interethnic violence of World War II could be put to one side as long as minority communities in the […]
Last week I went to a preview of a new film called Storm. Here is a New York Times review which conveys the gist of it. The story centres on a Bosnia war crimes trial at the ICTY. A Bosnian Serb military officier is on trial, but the case against […]
This is excellent. The amazing Bosnian newspaper Dnevni Avaz has a World Scoop. A letter from Prime Minister John Major to FCO Minister of State Douglas Hogg – in Bosnian! Check it out. The letter (facsimile of an official (sic) translation of Major’s letter) is dated 2 May 1993. The […]
I think I have solved the problem of how best to elect a BH Presidency in a fair non-ethnic way. Walking the dawg through the mud of Oxfordshire has its uses. Two Options (Note – based on what might be acceptable to the main parties). Option One: Ethnicity Lite The […]
Back from Brussels. Here is a short article by me in the Independent today about Ejup Ganic. It’s always a pleasure to get material into a British national newspaper – work published there pops up all over the planet. But the end product is not necessarily what was sent in. In […]
Republika Srpska’s leader Milorad Dodik has come up with a crafty way of dealing with the fact that the ethnic-territorial definition of the three-person BH Presidency has been proclaimed to be an abuse of human rights by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He proposes a simple change. […]
