Bosnia Is In Danger of Breaking Up, Warns Top International Official

THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: high representative says threat by Serb separatists to create their own army risks return of conflict

The international community’s chief representative in Bosnia has warned that the country is in imminent danger of breaking apart, and there is a “very real” prospect of a return to conflict.

In a report to the UN seen by the Guardian, Christian Schmidt, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that if Serb separatists carry out their threat to recreate their own army, splitting the national armed forces in two, more international peacekeepers would have to be sent back in to stop the slide towards a new war. » | Julian Borger, World affairs editor | Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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Veselin Vlahović was known as the Monster of Grabavica. That was the area of Sarajevo that he terrorised during the war, from 1992 to 1995

Diplomatie : Ashton promet l'aide européenne pour que la Bosnie rejoigne l'UE
LE POINT: La chef de la diplomatie de l'UE, Catherine Ashton, a promis jeudi à Sarajevo l'aide européenne pour que la Bosnie-Herzégovine, confrontée à une crise institutionnelle persistante, puisse rejoindre un jour l'Union européenne. "Nous sommes prêts à aider sur le plan pratique ce pays à réaliser ses ambitions européennes", a déclaré devant la presse la Haute représentante de l'UE pour les Affaires étrangères, sans toutefois développer sa pensée. "L'avenir de ce pays réside dans l'Union européenne", a souligné Ashton, arrivée mercredi soir à Sarajevo pour une tournée dans les Balkans. >>> AFP | Jeudi 18 Février 2010

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Tensions Mount in Bosnia over Gay Festival
THE MOSCOW NEWS WEEKLY: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Posters condemning homosexuals have appeared in Sarajevo ahead of this month's first-ever gay festival in Bosnia, prompting an international organization to condemn what it called "attempts to incite violence.''

Two Muslim imams have been quoted as criticizing the timing of the five-day festival, which opens Sept. 24 and will occur during the holy month of Ramadan.

Islam prohibits homosexuality, and Sarajevo is at least 85 percent Muslim.

Neither the head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, nor his institution has officially reacted to the festival, which will include films and art exhibitions. But two local imams in Bosnia have condemned it.

"We will not grab them by the neck on the street, but we have to say: This is immoral ... a promotion of ideas that are in violation with religion,'' Seid Smajkic, an imam from the southern city of Mostar, was quoted as saying in Friday's Dnevni Avaz, a daily newspaper.

Another local imam, Sulejman Bulgari, said on television Thursday night that the Quran forbids homosexuality and that the holy book is clear about that.

Neither imam was available for an interview on Friday, the Muslim day of worship.

Several posters have appeared in the streets of Sarajevo this week, saying "Death to Gays.'' Police quickly removed them. Tensions Mount in Bosnia over Gay Festival >>> | September 9, 2008

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