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October 06, 2024
Bosnia Struggles With Aftermath Of Deadly Floods

Bosnia-Herzegovina is beginning to recover from deadly floods. At least 19 people have died and several are missing in the biggest inundation the Western Balkan country has seen in decades. Road and rail traffic has been disrupted in parts of central Bosnia.
September 13, 2024
How Bosnian Rape Survivors Find Solace In Sewing

The "Brave and Proud" workshop was set up as a support group for women who survived being raped during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. The women design and make slippers, prayer mats, bags, and other handicrafts.
August 30, 2024
With Help Across Partisan Lines, Bosnian Veteran Searches For The Missing

Dzebrail Bajramovic, a veteran of Bosnia-Herzegovina's war of the early 1990s, is dedicated to helping locate some of the thousands of victims who remain missing. He cooperates with local officials to gather information on victims' whereabouts from people who fought on opposing sides of the war.
August 16, 2024
Bosnian Wildfires Threaten Remote Old-Growth Forest

Aerial crews are battling fires in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including a week-old inferno in the inaccessible Zelengora mountain range. Centuries-old trees and more than 150 hectares have been lost. Near Sarajevo, fire crews battle two other burns, racing against time during a hot, summer drought.
August 16, 2024
Vast Bosnian Cave System Recognized As UNESCO Site

Bosnia-Herzegovina's Vjetrenica Cave was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in July -- but its unique features and cool breezes were known even to the ancient Greeks. Remains of a prehistoric cave bear and a leopard species were found here, and more than 200 other life forms still thrive.
May 24, 2024
Exhibition Pays Tribute To Love In The Time Of The Bosnian War

The "Wartime Love" project tells the story of couples who met during the Siege of Sarajevo. RFE/RL spoke to Sanela and Emir Klaic, one of the couples who feature in the exhibition, whose wedding photo from the war-torn city featured on magazines around the world at the time.
March 14, 2024
In The Balkans, War Criminals Get Public Honors And Activists Who Object Get Fines

Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
February 05, 2024
A Doctor Hid Bones Of Srebrenica Victims In His Garden. He's Still Practicing.

A Bosnian Serb doctor hid bones of Srebrenica victims in his garden, after using them "to plan surgery." People in Brcko, where doctor Nebojsa Mraovic works, have voiced shock. But when RFE/RL called his office, he was still working there.
May 04, 2023
'My Alma Is Gone': Bosnian Woman Killed By Husband Despite Repeated Warnings Of Domestic Violence

Despite repeatedly filing domestic violence reports to police and social services, Alma Kadic was killed by her husband in front of their 4-year-old daughter in July 2021 in Sarajevo. Her husband, Eldin Hodzic, was finally sentenced to 35 years in prison in April of this year.
September 19, 2020
Mortified Bosnians Seek To 'Ungoogle' An Ethnic-Cleansing Hotel Of Horrors

Bosnian wartime detainees were beaten, tortured, raped, and killed by the hundreds at the Vilina Vlas spa hotel. Amid continuing outrage that it's turned itself back into a tourism spa, petitioners want to wipe it off Google's map.
October 03, 2016
Prospect Of Bosnian Serb Mayor Opens Old Wounds In Srebrenica

For the first time since the end of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the town of Srebrenica is facing the prospect of an Bosnian Serb mayor. And that has stoked tensions in the town that was the site of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
October 04, 2012
Shopping To Invest In The Balkans, Will Turkey Choose Bosnia?

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was recently in Bosnia, speaking enthusiastically about boosting Turkish investment in the Balkan country. But Turkey's interest has raised concerns among Bosnian Serbs, who fear Ankara could disturb the country's fragile equilibrium.
April 02, 2010
Lawsuit Complicates Proposed Sale Of Sarajevo Broadcaster To Al-Jazeera

A claim by Sarajevo's mayor that Doha-based Al-Jazeera will buy Bosnia's Studio 99 radio and television station has raised confusion and focused attention on the struggling broadcaster
September 03, 2009
Srebrenica Survivors Feel Pain After Evidence Destroyed

The genocide trial of seven Bosnian Serb officers was meant to help close the page on the Srebrenica massacre, one of the grisliest chapters in modern European history. Instead, survivors are reeling from the recent admission by the UN tribunal in The Hague that it destroyed over 1,000 personal items and forensic evidence from the victims’ graves.
November 21, 2008
A True Accounting Of Bosnia's Dead

Mirsad Tokaca's "Bosnian Book of the Dead" tallies the number of those killed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But he's faced harsh criticism for his final count, dramatically lower than the usual estimates.

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Dzenana Halimovic

Also by Dzenana Halimovic

Bosnia Struggles With Aftermath Of Deadly Floods

How Bosnian Rape Survivors Find Solace In Sewing

With Help Across Partisan Lines, Bosnian Veteran Searches For The Missing

Bosnian Wildfires Threaten Remote Old-Growth Forest

Vast Bosnian Cave System Recognized As UNESCO Site

Exhibition Pays Tribute To Love In The Time Of The Bosnian War

In The Balkans, War Criminals Get Public Honors And Activists Who Object Get Fines

A Doctor Hid Bones Of Srebrenica Victims In His Garden. He's Still Practicing.

'My Alma Is Gone': Bosnian Woman Killed By Husband Despite Repeated Warnings Of Domestic Violence

Mortified Bosnians Seek To 'Ungoogle' An Ethnic-Cleansing Hotel Of Horrors

Prospect Of Bosnian Serb Mayor Opens Old Wounds In Srebrenica

Shopping To Invest In The Balkans, Will Turkey Choose Bosnia?

Lawsuit Complicates Proposed Sale Of Sarajevo Broadcaster To Al-Jazeera

Srebrenica Survivors Feel Pain After Evidence Destroyed

A True Accounting Of Bosnia's Dead