CNN International is running a program tonight at 20:00 CET about the policy of systematic rape during the Bosnian War.  The description of their program is reminiscent of Jasmila Zbanic's movie Grbavica.

The story is also decribed on CNN.com, with links to video clips of the story.

You can find that here.

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BiH is starting to get noticed even more as a tourism destination.  It just confirms what I have been saying for years: what a beautiful country.

• Watching CNN International, I see that the "Enjoy Life" advertisements are back on air.  They are now being sponsored by "FIPA" (Foreign Investment Promotion Agency) and BH Telecom
• The New Economic Times ( Read more... )

Here is an interesting piece in B92 News.  The three member Bosnian presidency is on its first foreign trip since taking office in October, to Baghdad.

What was really interesting to me was the fact that 36 solders are doing demining activities in Iraq.  On the one hand, I thought that it was a hopeful and symbolic act of solidarity that Bosnia is ( Read more... )

Here is an interesting artricle in the Wall Street Journal Online.  It compares the conditions for doing business between the RS and Federation, and strikes a tone similar to statements from AID and OHR.  Facit: RS is more business friendly, with a more streamlined buerocracy and lower taxes.  Perhaps such stories will help prod the Federation to ( Read more... )

This Just in from the Middle East Times:

An earful for drivers

SARAJEVO: Motorists in Bosnia were surprised at the weekend when they were pulled over by police only to be presented with music CDs for good driving, a Sarajevo daily said Monday.

Police in the eastern town of Gorazde handed out CDs with popular local music to conscientious drivers for ( Read more... )

Here is what the Sarajevo Airport has to say about the GermanWings connection from Cologne/Bonn:

German low-cost airline will not introduce previously announced direct flights Cologne/Bonn-Sarajevo. The operations were suspended because B&H Directorate of Civil Aviation did not issue a necessary licence to Germanwings. According to the existing ( Read more... )

Here is an interesting article about BiH tourism in the Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0329/p13s01-woeu.html

Here is the statement from Amnesty International about the death of Dusko Kondor:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGEUR630012007

and here is the statement from the Office of the High Representative about the death of Dusko Kondor:

http://www.ohr.int/ohr-dept/presso/pressr/default.asp?content_id=39213

Here is a report from the International Relations and Security Network on the criticism surrounding High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling (article).

For those not familiar with the Office of the High Representative (OHR), it is an organ of the international community created in 1995 to oversee the ( Read more... )