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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Belgium Sends Back Asylum Seekers
10 March 2010 | Nikola Lazic

Belgium intends to begin sending back asylum seekers from Serbia and Macedonia this week. The first bus, carrying 44 passengers, left Brussels this morning.

Lalovic and Skiljevic: High Standards of Medical Treatment in Kula
11 March 2010 |

Slavko Zdrale, former Director of Kasindol hospital, says there was a dispensary which applied "high standards" in Kula Penal and Correctional Facility, adding that prisoners were taken to hospital if necessary.



KLA Ran Torture Camps in Albania

Kukes, Bajram Curri, Tropoja, Kruma, Prizren, Pristina and Tirana | 09 April 2009 | By Altin Raxhimi, Michael Montgomery and Vladimir Karaj
 
The building that served as a KLA prison at the factory compound in Kukes
The building that served as a KLA prison at the factory compound in Kukes
The Kosovo Liberation Army maintained a network of prisons in their bases in Albania and Kosovo during and after the conflict of 1999, eyewitnesses allege. Only now are the details of what occurred there emerging.

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The Blow Up Bar is not so new but it has recently upped its PR push significantly and has started making it’s way onto everyone’s ‘places to go’ lists over the last month or so.


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Lebanon is a film about a group of young Israeli soldiers who were part of the force that invaded the Lebanon in 1982. Along with ‘Waltz with Bashir’,the acclaimed 2008 bio-pic, this is another significant film which examines the controversial military conflict. Samuel Maoz, the director, re-lives his military days, through this small masterpiece of frantic, claustrophobia and humanity.