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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.

Returned Asylum Seekers Arrive in Region
12 March 2010 |

A bus carrying Macedonian and Serbian nationals who unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium arrived in the two Balkan countries on Thursday after departing Brussels the previous day.


Hodzic et al: Custody Debate
12 March 2010 |

The State Prosecution asks the Court to extend custody of three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes committed in Trusina village, Konjic municipality, in April 1993.



Human Rights Film Festival Starts in Zagreb

Zagreb | 08 December 2009 |
 
Zagreb
Zagreb
The Human Rights Film Festival, the seventh so far, started in Zagreb on Monday.

This year's festival is dedicated to the struggle for welfare rights as one of the burning topics at the present time of economic crisis when many rights are being restricted or abolished, the organisers said in a statement.

The festival will feature about 20 films, many of which have been awarded prizes at film festival worldwide. The films will be screened both at Zagreb's Europa Cinema and at the Croatia Art Cinema in the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka.

The festival will open with the documentary "Susret" (Encounter) by Croatian director Igor Bezinovic and the French feature film "White Material" by Claire Denis.

Among the films to be shown are the Chinese film "Complaint", the American film "The Yes Men Fix the World", the French-Iranian film "Women without Men", the Israeli film "The Food Chain" and the Ethiopian film "Teza".



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