The killings in Visegrad were so frequent and so numerous that the management of the hydroelectric plant across the border in Serbia appealed in 1992 over the radio for whoever in Bosnia was responsible to stop throwing bodies into the lake because they were clogging up the dam's culverts.
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I'd rant about this, but I think Ambassador Petrović expressed it in a more measured and polite fashion than I would have.To the Editor ( Read more... )

The Netherlands has withdrawn its opposition to Serbia's bid for membership in the European Union. The Dutch government, whose troops handed 8,000 Bosniak men and boys over to the Bosnian Serbs who slaughtered them in Srebrenica, had previously blocked Serbia's overtures to the EU as long the remaining two war crimes fugitives, Ratko Mladić and ( Read more... )

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The government of Serbia announced today that it is now accepting bids for a second land line telephony provider, breaking the country's long-standing government monopoly. The announcement limits bidders to those with at least $297 million in revenue and a minimum user base of one million customers, and a $30 million deposit is required ( Read more... )

Patriarch Pavle, the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has died at the age of 95 ( Read more... )

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... I read this piece of shit. Choice quote:Until recently, Serbian authorities have been reluctant to address Belgrade's responsibility for atrocities and war crimes for fear of provoking a nationalist backlash.
Serbia has been arresting, trying, and jailing war criminals from its own side of the conflict since Zoran Đinđić first handed Slobodan ( Read more... )

Reporters Without Borders has published their 2009 Press Freedom Index, and I note with some interest where Balkan states rank.

RankCountrySnarky Comment
34MacedoniaBecause there's tons to report in .mk. No seriously the conflicts between Greek and Slavic views on the name of the republic still flare up - Macedon is the name of the adjoining ( Read more... )

The jackass con-man trying to scam a Montana town with his American Police Force antics has received demands from the Serbian Government to remove the Serbian national emblem from all his equipment, uniforms, and web site.