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Israel Arrests Serb Accused of Killing Muslims in 1995 Massacre
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Israel today arrested a Bosnian Serb immigrant from the former Yugoslavia whom Bosnia wants to try for alleged involvement in the Srebrenica massacre 15 years ago. The Justice Ministry of Serbia welcomed the Israeli move, although officials here say extradition could be a long process. A spokesman for the Israeli Justice Ministry said Aleksandar Cvetkovic, 42, moved to Israel in 2006 and is married to a Jewish woman. He was able to obtain Israeli citizenship through his wife. Israel offers immediate citizenship to all Jews under the Law of Return. "He is suspected of having ...
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Diplomat and Patriot, 1941-2010
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyRichard Holbrooke -- the indomitable, exuberant and, at times, Machiavellian diplomat who brokered the lasting 1995 Bosnian peace accords -- died Monday night in Washington in the wake of emergency surgery for a burst aorta. The 69-year-old Holbrooke, who served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration and was named by Barack Obama to the thankless (but vital) post of special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, became ill Friday in the midst of a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Holbrooke had been near the center of Democratic Party foreign policy since ...
Bosnian Rape Victims Protest Angelina Jolie Movie
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- Bosnian rape victims from the 1990s want Angelina Jolie stripped of her title as a "goodwill ambassador" for the United Nations because of rumors that a new film she's directing tells the story of a Muslim woman who falls in love with her Serbian rapist. A group called Women Victims of War, which represents victims of sexual violence in the Balkans, sent a letter Monday to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a U.N. refugee agency Jolie has traveled with on aid missions to Kosovo, Pakistan, Darfur and several other hot spots. The association ...
For World's Women, Some Highs and Many Lows
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (Oct. 24) -- The practice of female genital mutilation is declining, but violence against women is still rampant across the world. More women are taking up work traditionally done by men, but they still don't have access to jobs of status and power. Two U.N. reports, out this week, describe some progress for women in areas such as poverty, education, health and work. But on the whole women still far short of men in many measures of success. "In some areas such as primary education the gaps are almost nonexistent," said Srdjan Mrkic, a senior U.N. official behind the report, ...
Clinton Urges Reform in Ethnically Divided Bosnia
By not in system - AOL NewsSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Oct. 12) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday challenged all sides in ethnically divided Bosnia to embrace political reform needed for European Union and NATO membership. Speaking in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Clinton told university students they should push their leaders to embrace a truly multiethnic society and pledged continued U.S. support toward that goal. Earlier, Clinton urged the country's leadership to make E.U. membership a priority and make the necessary constitutional reforms. "These reforms are needed for their own ...
No Punishment for 'Puppy River Throw' Girl
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- The infamous "Puppy River Throw" girl is getting off scot-free. In what may (hopefully) be the last episode of a bizarre saga, Gawker reports that Bosnian authorities will not charge the girl who, as evidenced by disturbing viral-video footage, hurled multiple puppies into a river. It turns out that the girl is 12 years old and therefore Bosnian authorities deem her too young for punishment. The report comes from German PETA's correspondence with a German newspaper, seen below through Google Translate: The girl was 12 years too young for punishment. Another reason is that an old ...
Peacekeepers Fail to Stop Congo Rapes: Time for a UN Army?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- As Rwandan and Congolese rebels spent four days raping up to 200 women and baby boys within miles of a United Nations military camp, U.N. peacekeepers did ... nothing. "There was no immediate explanation as to why the attacks were not reported until today," AOL News reported on Monday. And yet, the news of the U.N. soldiers' non-response will surprise no one familiar with past U.N. peacekeeping efforts. The 1994 Rwandan genocide was arguably the organization's greatest failure, for which the U.N. finally admitted responsibility in 2000. But there have been others: For instance, ...
World Court's Backing of Kosovo Could Boost Separatists
By Joost van Egmond - AOL News(July 22) -- In a ruling likely to affect independence movements around the world, the U.N. International Court of Justice in The Hague said today that Kosovo's declaration of independence is "not illegal." Authorities in the Serb territory of neighboring Bosnia have repeatedly warned that a green light for Kosovo's unilateral independence could bolster Serbs' drive to break away from the fragile Bosnian state. And Russia, a longtime ally of Serbia, built its case for recognizing two breakaway regions of Georgia in 2008 on the Kosovo precedent. Moscow now is expected to call on other nations ...
UN Court Backs Kosovo's Independence
By Joost van Egmond - AOL News(July 22) -- The U.N.-backed International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled today that Kosovo's declaration of independence was "not illegal." The decision is a huge blow to Serbia, which has a claim on the southeastern European territory. In an unexpectedly short and clear statement, the court concluded that international law "contains no applicable prohibition" that would render Kosovo's independence illegal. Visar Kryeziu, AP Kosovars celebrate the ruling in a pub in Pristina on Thursday. The United Nations' highest court said that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia did ...
In Bosnia, Census Raises Specter of War's Horrors
By Joost van Egmond - AOL NewsPRIJEDOR, Bosnia and Herzegovina (July 11) -- When a devastating war has displaced half the population, it might be time for a new census. But many in Bosnia say such a reckoning would entrench the ethnic divisions that were forced upon it with a brutal violence unknown in Europe since World War II. Bosnia's last census was in 1991, a year before it seceded from the former Yugoslavia. At the time, its population of 4.4 million consisted of 43 percent Muslim Bosniaks, 31 percent Eastern Orthodox Serbs and 17 percent Catholic Croats, many of them living in a patchwork of mixed communities. But ...
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