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Upcoming film fest in Prizren






















Portraits of Humanity condemns undemocratic silencing of young dissident's Facebook page   
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10,000 Armenians march to remember

Earth Day at 40: National Geographic

Doris Pack: Dodik statements harmful

"Whore, bitch... if Kosovo becomes independent we will cut you, and that man on B-92 and those faggots..."

Serbian human rights activist dies

Karadzic 'called for Muslim homes to be attacked'

Holocaust-denying bishop fined by German court

EU may liberalize visa regime for Bosnian citizens

Mila the dog rescued after vicious attack: Belgrade

Youngest human rights activist threatened: Belgrade

First day Karadzic trial:  persecuting the witness

Crimes in Serbia -- Sandzak

Does Catholic celibacy contribute to sex abuse?

Holocaust orphans

Interpol alert for missing Serb fugitive

Swedish arrest in Cuska massacre -- Kosovo, 1999

Kyrgysan opposition sets up 'People's Government'

Albania struggles with communist past

Katyn massacre commemorated

Burma releases jailed US activist

US House of Reps passes health care!

What lies behind Ganic's arrest

Why we must defend Ejup Ganic

Fury over US general's gay theory over Srebrenica

DNA tests fail to identify unknown WW1 soldiers

Serbia boycotts regional summit

Human Rights dissidents heckled in Cuba

"Serbia is trying to distract us"

Kosovo police take over historic site

New report -- up to 25,000 died in Dresden

Investigation of Bosnia's Virgin apparition

Selma march reenacted

Annie Lennox to Amanpour: The world must wake up to the AIDS pandemic!

Palestinian and Israeli work together to further mutual understand


New Fatwa against Terro


Peter Graves dies

Ejup Ganic arrested in UK, faces extradiction

The Greeks, the euro, and the Nazis

Massive earthquake strikes Chile

Bosnia nears political crisis point

Castro "laments" death of hunger-striking Cuban dissident

"Chemical Ali" executed

Actress Jean Simmons dies at 80

Stars raise money for Haiti earthquake victims

New Serbian Patriarch vows return of "holy Kosovo"

Burma's Supreme Court hears Suu Kyi appeal

US begins airlift

Jeremic claims "Kosovo is our Serbia"

50,000 could be dead in Haiti

Haiti earthquake survivors sleep in streets

The courage of Miep Gies

Anne Frank diary guardian Miep Gies dies at 100

Israeli FM tells envoys "not to grovel"

Obama hanged in effigy in Jimmy Carter's hometown

Calls to commemorate Pristina's forgotten bard

"Alexander the Great was Albanian"

Nigerian man accused of attacking Detroit-bound plane

Shot Iran reformer "got threats"

Iranian opposition leader "ready to die" for change

OHR: Bosnian peace accords broken

Russian human rights group wins award

Netanyahu "condemns"
attack on West Bank Mosque

Mass graves in serbia

ICJ Kosovo case closes

Azem Vlasi to be Kosova's ambassador to Montenegro

Natatsa calls for regional truth commission

ICJ Kosovo debate close to end

Romania Securitate legacy, 20 years on

Amnesty International condemns Iran's human rights violations

Experts exhume 80th mass grave of Srebrenica victims

"The international community will never allow Bosnia's
dismemberment"


Witnesses Recall Bosnian Massacre

"Patriarch Paul -- High Priest of Hypocrisy"

Iran opposition demonstrators clash with police

ICJ hears Russian, US arguments

EU agrees to upgrade Serbia -- but still no Mladic

Former Nazi SS member admits to killing Dutch civilians

Karadzic immunity appeal denied by Hague Tribunal

Nine years since fall of Milosevic regime

Memorial for British WW2
secret agents


Spain: Garcia Lorca grave to be opened

Anti-violence march in Belgrade

French fan dies after Serb attack

Russia's litany of unsolved murders

Warsaw ghetto uprising head dies

Jewish pianist survived WW2

Soviet nuclear tests leave Kazakh fallout

New Politkovskaya probe ordered

Violence strikes Eastern Europe's Roma

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

War crimes suspect faces extradition despite appeal win

Albanian Muslims who saved Jews

"Bosnia falling back on brink of violence"

Iran opposition "should be dealt with"

Obama leads tributes to Kennedy

More show trials in Iran

Bosnian wartime hero finally laid to rest

Another activist found dead in Russia/ Chechnya

Show trials in Iran

JFK's sister Eunice Shriver dies

Clinton demands end to Congo rape

Going after old Nazis

Nazi war criminal jailed for life

Anger greets Suu Kyi conviction

Petition to defeat tyranny in Burma

Polish woman fined for gay abuse

Israeli troops "ill-treat kids"

Aftermath of war in Georgia

Iran witnesses: Neda memorial

Police hunt for killers of Israeli gay youth

No justice for Bosnian rape victims

Free Aung San
Suu Kyi!


Ukraine general killed journalist

Iran: plug in your toasters!

A fearless activist in a land of thugs

The grimmest waiting list in Russia

Bosnia Serbs found guilty of burning people alive

Court bid to end Jerusalem riots

Walter Cronkite dies at 92

Another human rights activist murdered in Russia

"Nazi guard" Demjanjuk is charged

Saddam's rule "better" for gay Iraqis

Bosnia buries Srebrenica victims

Court convicts suspects in killing of French Jew

Last farewell to victims of Srebenica

Peace of mind still eludes Srebrenica families

Mass grave uncovered in Kosovo

Bosnia Peace Walk commemorates Srebrenica

Simmering political tensions in Iran

Threat of "severe punishment" in China

UK plans new powers on genocide

Jordan recognizes Kosovo

"Serbia ordered the execution of 8000 Muslims in Srebrenica"

Join campaign to fight Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Ethnic Muslims attacked in China

Iran frees most embassy  workers

Egyptian Muslim woman stabbed to death in Dresden courtroom

Iran crisis rages on

Armenia-Turkey thaw tinged with pain

New push to memorialize victims of Stalin, Hitler

Victory for gay rights in India

Letter to OHR

Khmer Rouge survivor gives evidence

In Ukraine, "the (KGB) truth will set you free"

"Iran must free UK embassy staff"

Bosnia faces "collapse" as general strike looms

Bosnia echoes to alarming rhetoric

Singer Michael Jackson dies at 50

"Charlie's Angel" Farrah Fawcett dies at 62

Iran doctor tells of Neda's death

Mousavi defies crackdown

North Korea's Gulag

Politkovskaya case to be retried

New torture allegations of US Afghan prisoners

Dissident arrested in China

More repression in Iran

Bitter clampdown in Iran

4 Serbs convicted for Kosovo massacre

More killed, arrested, and expelled from Iran

New York Times reporter, once prisoner of Bosnian Serbs, escapes Taliban

Defiant Tehran protesters battle police

Fierce Teheran clashes

Ayatollah taps into deep distrust of Gr. Britain

West "undecided" over Bosnian Serb challenge

"Secret" Iran  letter

Call for day of mourning in Iran

New report on persecution of doctors in Kosovo,
(1989 -- 1999)


Veton Surroi warns of threats against journalists

Shots fired at huge Iran protest

Clashes in the streets of Iran
"We want Freedom!"

ICC points to command responsibility for sexual violence

Natasa Kandic walks out of Bytyqi Brothers trial

Media frenzy over Mladic videos
(Youtube clip)

Bosnian Serb jailed for Tuzla massacre

Strasbourg court orders Russia to pay compensation for Chechen crimes

Museum shooting suspect and the "Jew Conspiracy"

Palestinian doctor turns personal loss into hope for Gaza

Shooting at US Holocaust Museum

North Korea's Grim Prisons

US Supreme Court refuses challenge to "Don't ask, don't tell"

Families appeal for clemency for 2 US journalists sentenced in N Korea

New book on anti-Hitler "Red Orchestra"

Bodies retrieved from doomed air crash

Kosovar pilot starts recognition fly-in across Latin America

Obama reaches out to Muslim world

New Stasi revelation in Germany

Xenophobia and Neo-Nazis in Germany

German court:  Jewish forced workers due pensions

China clamps down ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

Israeli, Palestinian human rights groups receive Dutch award

N. Korea holds trial for 2 US journalists

Searching for Holocaust massacre victims

Egyptian Dissident's
Plea


Holy mission to reveal truth about Nazi death squads

Father Patrick  
Desbois

Families plea for US reporters' release in N Korea

Journalist Roxana Saberi released "with head held high"

California
same-sex marriage ban upheld


Alleged Nazi extradited to Germany

El Salvador 61st to recognize Kosovo

Bosnia's religious leaders finally unite -- against gay marriage

New documentary film:  Rescue in Albania

Bosnian Serbs, OHR, engage in
"new war"


Hartmann:  Serbia hiding documents

Natasa Kandic: past must be remembered

Holland remains adamant about Mladic's arrest

Belgrade gay Pride Parade announced

New Srebrenica mass grave discovered

Outrage at Serbian "beating" video

Vice President Biden in Kosovo

Tito's widow "no longer visits his grave"


Loss of Srebrenica Victims’ Possessions Shocks Families

California:
"Queer Sarajevo 08" film comes to Frisco

Environment:
Australian town bans plastic water bottles
-----------------       HEROES    
  GALLERY


   Joe Biden
   
(Pristina)


Seki Radoncic:


Sonia Biserko

(Belgrade)


   Bajram Kelmendi and 2    sons
 (massacred by
Serbian forces in Kosova, 1999)


  Dervis Korkut
(Sarajevo's Muslim chief librarian who saved the precious Sarajevo Haggadah
in WW2)



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Tom Lantos (w/wife and dog)
(1921 - 2007)

Homage to a great friend of Kosovo

Congressional speech -- 2007
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Hanna Senesh:
Jewish Partisan extraordinaire!







Kennedy bro's: John, Robert, Ted


Martin Luther King, Jr






Cesar Chavez
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ARTICLES
"The Mass Graves of Batajnica"
(Bosnian Institute, 2003)

"Saravevo, Mon Amour"
(Dani, Robert Rope, 2008)
    "Happy Birthday, Kosovo"
    (Zeri, Robert Rope, 2009)

    "There must not be another lost Generation"
    (Intv w/Andrej Nosov, Balkan Insight, 5/09)

    "Fishing in Muddy Waters"
    (Sonia Biserko,
    Bosnia Report,
    6/2008)


    "Serbian nationalists interested in Bosnia..."
    (Sonia Biserko,      Dani, 2008)

    "Hidden racism in Serbia"
    (RFE, 6/09)

    "Letter from a Former Enemy:  You Were Right"
    (Russel Gordon, Kosovo Times, 2009)

    "Yugoslavia, Kosovo and History"
    (Michael Karadjis,
    Kosovo Times, 1999/ 2009)

    "Serbia's Mental Institutions a Relic of the Past"
    (MSNBC, 8/2008)

    (Media Center Adnkronos, 9/08)

    "Kosovo's constitutional position in the former Yugoslav Federation"
    (Muhamedin Kullashi and Besnik Pula, Bosnian Institute, 8/08)

    Pakistani journalist details "descent into chaos"
    (NPR, Ahmed Rashid, 6/09)

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    Square of criminals!

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    Tibet
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    james baldwin

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    christiana amanpour


    BATAJNICA

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    (Poisoned by Plutonium)

    Poison gas on the lunch menu...

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    By Interpol
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    Branimir Glavas
    For crimes in Croatia
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    Vladimir Putin:
    "Ordered the murder of 21 reporters"
    and
    Crimes in Chechnya
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    Currently on trial in the Hague:


    Vojislav Seselj


    Milan Lukic
    "The warlord of Visegrad"


    Radovan Karadzic
    "The world's most wanted man"
    "Jurisdiction Challenge Rejected"



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    Photo by InfoBrcko.com - Posters in Brcko
     Photo by InfoBrcko.com - Posters in Brcko
    (June 20, 2009)
    The Serbian National Movement, based in Banja Luka, Bosnia, has put up posters in nine cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, wishing war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic a happy birthday.

    BIRN's Justice Report has learnt that the posters, featuring Radovan Karadzic’s picture and “Happy birthday, President!”, appeared in Bosanski Novi, Prijedor, Gradiska, Banja Luka, Doboj, Brcko, Bijeljina, Vlasenica and Pale.

    Members of the Serbian National Movement Izbor je Nas (The Choice is Ours), are behind the campaign.

    Justice Report has discovered that the posters in Banja Luka and Bijeljina downtown area have already been removed. The ones in Brcko are expected to be removed soon.

    Halid Emkic, spokesperson of the Brcko district police, said: “The team has taken the measures and actions in order to document the incident. The prosecutor has been informed about it. Measures will be taken to remove the posters.”


    Tijana Savic, spokesperson for the RS Police, said police had received a report on some posters having been put up in Bijeljina only.

    “The prosecution claims that there is no evidence of a criminal act and the posters have been removed,” Savic said.

    Dane Cankovic, the movement's president, told Justice Report: “In this way we are showing that we have not forgotten the person who deserves the credit for establishment of Republika Srpska and defence of the Serbian people. We have undertaken this action in order to show that we have not forgotten him. We wished him a happy birthday, which is a civilised act. We are hoping that Radovan Karadzic will be glad to see this.”
     
    Karadzic, the first President of Republika Srpska and Supreme Commander of the RS Armed Forces, has been charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of laws and practices of warfare. After having been on the run for years, he was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008. His trial is expected to begin at The Hague in the coming months.

     “Radovan Karadzic is a political visionary, humanist and peacemaker. He fights for the truth. So, help us God, the Hague Tribunal will render a verdict of not guilty after it sees the evidence he presents,” Cankovic said

    Karadzic was born on June 19, 1945, in the village of Petnjica, in Montenegro.

    (Report by BIRN - Justice Report. www.bim.ba)

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    Death of a Warlord
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    Terrorist for Yugoslavia and Greater Serbia
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    VOICES OF VICTIMS:
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    (Bosnian pediatrician who lost her husband)


    (Dr. Idriz Merdzanic, testifying about conditions at Trnopolje concentration camp)

    Witness From Hell!
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    Lament for Vijecnica
    (by Goran Simic)
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    The Missing of the Balkans:


    Wall of the Missing
    (Pristina, 2008)




    Dr. Ewa:
    the lady who digs skeletons

    (Sarajevo, 2006)


    Mass Grave Excavation
    (Srebrenica, 1996)



    House of the Dead

    (Tuzla, 2006)

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    DANGER:  LANDMINES!!


    Princess Diana
    (Campaigning against landmines in Bosnia, 1997)  



    Landmine Map: Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo/a, Albania, 2008 (?)

    Landmine Monitor -- Balkans
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    Albania's Declaration of Independence
    (November 28, 1912)
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    "Albania's Golgotha"


    M. Edith Durham
    Ethnic "cleansing" during the
    Balkan wars (1912 - 1913)




    Bytyqi family funeral
    Albanian "bloodbrothers":
    Side by side in life, and now in death


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    World War Two:

    Serbia's War Against the Jews



    Jasenovac Concentration Camp
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    Tower of Skulls
    (Nis, Serbia)


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    Putting Sarajevo on the map:
    The assassination of the archduke and his wife
    June 28, 1914
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     Ahdname of Fatih Sultan Mehmet
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    ABOUT US:


    Roberto and Albinot
    (Bosnia, 2006)


    Roberto with Mrs. Kelmendi
    (Pristina, 2008)

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    Goddess of Democracy
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    Our gift from the people of France:
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    (PBS Film)




    One World, One Chance...














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                   Welcome to:

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    We are a small group of international, independent journalists committed to conveying the truth about the situation in the former Yugoslavia.

    Our goal is to bring the Balkans into sharper focus, reporting on the latest news from the region, and offering some much-needed analysis, from a multi-cultural, human-rights viewpoint.

    Specifically, we plan to focus on individuals whose stories testify to the broad spectrum of human emotion: from the terrible and shocking betrayal to unparalleled personal courage, and ultimately, hope for the future. 

    Thanks for visiting.  Your comments are welcome.

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    San Francisco
    May, 2009

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    New Blog by 
    Rastko Pocesta --
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    4-30-2010
    Rescued Mila needs peace (B-92)


    4-22-2010 
     
    1. Today is the Earth day, the most important ecological observance.  EARTH HOUR, 2010


       

             One World, One Chance...

    2. Today is also 65th anniversary of the great Jasenovac massacre. Well, on April 22 1945 some 600 prisoners of Jasenovac revolted, but just 80 of them managed to escape. Other 520 were killed by the ustasha (croatian nazi elite army) forces. 

                                               
       Jasenovic Concentration Camp
       
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        Buy 'Coexist' bumper sticker


    Ruined:  new play on ravages of war

    New Polish WW2 film, Katyn, opening in US


    "Unfriendly Fire" on Fresh Air :
     Nathaniel Frank speaks out against US gay military ban


    "Ask Not" on PBS's Independent Lens:  Making the case against "Don't ask -- don't tell"

    "Persepolis" author claims Iran vote fixed


    "Lessons from a young Iranian"


    "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
    (Courageous women of Liberia bring an end to a bloody civil war)


    (On PBS's "Bill Moyers Journal")


    Roxana Saberi on Iran protests

    Serbia's renowned painter, Olja Ivanjicki, dies

    Only in the Castro, with Trevor Hailey

    "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy about to change? (News Hour)

    Report from today's Russia
    (News Hour)


    Roya Hakakian:  An Iranian-American perspective**
    (Fresh Air)

    Muslim Mayor's Gay Rights Drive:  Amsterdam


    "Neda's Song"

    Deadly Homophobia in Senegal

    Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish hero of the American Revolution

    Mass grave in Afghanistan
    (Fresh Air)


    Justice in Kosovo -- Chance for Serbia
    (Kosovo Times)

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    Campaign against Torture: 
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    ANIMAL RIGHTS:
    Dog Massacre in China
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              February 17, 2008



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        SPOTLIGHT ON PERSONAL TESTIMONY


                                      Borka 
                            (Belgrade 2003)                      
              Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo
                          (Admira and Bosko)



    Dr. Bujar
    (Prominent Radiologist who helped save the lives of Kosovar Albanian refugees, 1999)
       
                             Djordje Balasevic
    (Yugoslavia's "Bob Dylan" and Serbia's anti-nationalist ambassador)
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    UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:
    (adopted by the UNGA on December 10, 1948)

    Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

    Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

    Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law...(click for complete text and links)


    Eleanor Roosevelt, main supporter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights:  She celebrated its ratification "with a running slide down the hallway of the Palais des Nations in Geneva."  (watch film clip)

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               WANTED!
    Accused War Criminals, still at large:
                             

                       
               Ratko Mladic
                
    By ICTY
             For war crimes and         genocide in Bosnia
          ($5 million+  reward!)
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                   Goran Hadzic
                        By ICTY

            For war crimes in Croatia
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                  Mira Markovic
    By Interpol
    For crimes in the former Yugoslavia
    ----------------------------------------


    Branimir Glavas
    For crimes in Croatia
    -------------------------------


    Vladimir Putin:
    "Ordered the murder of 21 reporters"
    and
    Crimes in Chechnya
    -----------------------------------
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    Currently on trial in the Hague:


    Vojislav Seselj


    Milan Lukic
    "The warlord of Visegrad"


    Radovan Karadzic
    "The world's most wanted man"
    "Jurisdiction Challenge Rejected"



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    Photo by InfoBrcko.com - Posters in Brcko
     Photo by InfoBrcko.com - Posters in Brcko
    (June 20, 2009)
    The Serbian National Movement, based in Banja Luka, Bosnia, has put up posters in nine cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, wishing war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic a happy birthday.

    BIRN's Justice Report has learnt that the posters, featuring Radovan Karadzic’s picture and “Happy birthday, President!”, appeared in Bosanski Novi, Prijedor, Gradiska, Banja Luka, Doboj, Brcko, Bijeljina, Vlasenica and Pale.

    Members of the Serbian National Movement Izbor je Nas (The Choice is Ours), are behind the campaign.

    Justice Report has discovered that the posters in Banja Luka and Bijeljina downtown area have already been removed. The ones in Brcko are expected to be removed soon.

    Halid Emkic, spokesperson of the Brcko district police, said: “The team has taken the measures and actions in order to document the incident. The prosecutor has been informed about it. Measures will be taken to remove the posters.”


    Tijana Savic, spokesperson for the RS Police, said police had received a report on some posters having been put up in Bijeljina only.

    “The prosecution claims that there is no evidence of a criminal act and the posters have been removed,” Savic said.

    Dane Cankovic, the movement's president, told Justice Report: “In this way we are showing that we have not forgotten the person who deserves the credit for establishment of Republika Srpska and defence of the Serbian people. We have undertaken this action in order to show that we have not forgotten him. We wished him a happy birthday, which is a civilised act. We are hoping that Radovan Karadzic will be glad to see this.”
     
    Karadzic, the first President of Republika Srpska and Supreme Commander of the RS Armed Forces, has been charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of laws and practices of warfare. After having been on the run for years, he was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008. His trial is expected to begin at The Hague in the coming months.

     “Radovan Karadzic is a political visionary, humanist and peacemaker. He fights for the truth. So, help us God, the Hague Tribunal will render a verdict of not guilty after it sees the evidence he presents,” Cankovic said

    Karadzic was born on June 19, 1945, in the village of Petnjica, in Montenegro.

    (Report by BIRN - Justice Report. www.bim.ba)

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