Police in Croatia have filed criminal charges against two persons who on Saturday assaulted a Serb man in his home near Knin. Radovan RaÅ¡ković, 52, was attacked in the village of Žargović, when the pair of 19-year-olds, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, broke into his house at three o’clock in the morning breaking furniture, hurling insults and threats and physically assaulting him.
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Opposition SNS denounces “all crimes”
July 12th, 2009 |
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The opposition Serb Progressives (SNS) say they condemn all crimes committed in the territory of former Yugoslavia “in the strongest terms”. “The SNS condemns in the strongest terms all crimes that took place in the territory of the former SFRJ [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] during the civil wars. And also, the greatest crime after the Second World War – the crime of murder and expulsion of several hundred thousand Krajina Serbs from Croatia,” said the party’s legal team member Nikola Selaković.
Power completely cut off to Serb enclave
July 12th, 2009 |
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A Kosovo company distributing electricity has cut off the Serbs living in Sirnićka Župa region from the power grid at midnight. The households there were previously allowed to use the so-called humanitarian electricity, when they were reconnected daily from midnight until 7 o’clock in the morning.
Bosnia buries Srebrenica victims
July 11th, 2009 |
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The remains of 534 newly-identified Bosniak Muslim victims of the Srebrenica massacre have been buried 14 years after the event.
Some 8,000 Bosniak Muslims, mainly men and boys, were killed by Bosnian Serbs near the town of Srebrenica in 1995 and buried in mass graves.
About 5,000 of the victims have been identified to date.
Thousands of mourners attended the ceremony, an annual reminder of the Bosniak Muslims’ suffering in the war.
At the Potocari memorial cemetery just outside Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, victims’ names were read out as coffins wrapped in green cloth were passed through the crowd.
"Although we were desperately searching for his remains for years, it was so hard to receive a telephone call telling us that my father had been identified," Nurveta Guster, 27, told AFP news agency.
"I saw him for the last time at our house in Srebrenica. He left with other men through the woods trying to escape."
Fugitive general
Srebrenica was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces on 11 July 1995, virtually ignoring Dutch UN troops who were stationed by the town, which had been designated a UN "safe haven".
The troops, operating under a restrictive UN mandate allowed Bosnian Serb forces into the town. Relatives of those killed have brought unsuccessful claims against the government of the Netherlands in an effort to claim compensation.
Speaking at the latest burial ceremony, Charles English, US Ambassador Bosnia-Hercegovina, said: "The world failed to act, failed to protect the innocent of Srebrenica."
Ranging in age from 14 to 72, most of latest victims to be buried were found in secondary mass graves where they had been moved from initial burial sites in a bid by Serb troops to cover up war crimes.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, has ruled that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide.
The court is currently trying former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic on genocide charges. He was arrested in 2008, but denies his guilt.
Gen Ratko Mladic, who led the Bosnian Serb troops involved in the killings, remains in hiding. He is said to be in Serbia.
Serbian President Boris Tadic has said his country is doing all it can to track him down and send him to The Hague.
The Bosniak people, most of whom are Muslims, first settled in Bosnia in the Middle Ages</p
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