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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Bosnian War

A still from 'Sevap/Mitzvah' a short film directed by Sabina Vajrača that won the 2023 Humanitas Prize. (©geminisnakeproductions via JTA)
November 4, 2023, 4:07 pm
Bosnian director’s short on Muslims and Jews saving one another is a ‘mitzvah’
In Sabina Vajrača’s award-winning film, a Muslim family saves a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returns the favor in Sarajevo
By Shira Li Bartov
Ex-Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic sits in the defendant box at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, June 8, 2021. (Jerry Lampen/ANP/AFP)
June 8, 2021, 8:07 pm
War crimes court upholds genocide conviction for ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
Ex-Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s appeal against life sentence for 1995 Srebrenica massacre rejected by UN tribunal in The Hague
By Danny Kemp and Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
A woman rests at the memorial cemetery, prior to the funeral, in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
July 11, 2019, 7:13 pm
Bosnian Muslims mark 1995 Srebrenica massacre with fresh burials
Relatives of over 8,000 men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb troops among attendees of ceremony that sees interment of 33 newly identified victims of the slaughter
By DARKO BANDIC
Professor Gideon Greif. (Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 9, 2019, 7:52 pm
Israeli Holocaust historian to head new Srebrenica commission
Professor Gideon Greif will lead new probe into 1995 massacre, as a second Israeli academic investigates ‘suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo during the war’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photograph taken on September 28, 2018, Bosnian Croat supporters of HDZ, the Croat Democratic Union, the most influential political party among Bosnian Croats, cheer during a pre-election rally in the northwestern Bosnian town of Livno. (AFP Photo/Elvis Barukcic)
October 5, 2018, 3:19 pm
In ethnically split Bosnia, ‘others,’ including Jews, are on the outside
1995 Dayton peace accords stipulate that political power must be shared among self-identified Serbs, Croats and Muslims, ignoring the rest
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
This combination of pictures created on November 22, 2017 shows, left, Ratko Mladic, then Bosnian Serb general looking on in Sarajevo on February 15, 1994, and, right, Mladic smiling as he enters the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), on November 22, 2017, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. (AFP Photo/AFP Photo and Pool/Pascal Guyot and Peter Dejong)
November 22, 2017, 2:57 pm
‘Butcher of Bosnia’ found guilty of genocide
International criminal tribunal in The Hague sentences Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic to life for crimes ‘amongst the most heinous known to human kind’
By Jan Hennop and JO BIDDLE
Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, right, leaves the UN headquarters at Sarajevo airport after talks with the UN General, Sir Michael Rose and Bosnian Commander Rasim Delic, April 9, 1994. (AP/Enric Marti)
November 22, 2017, 11:43 am
Former Bosnian Serb military chief faces judgment in genocide trial
Ratko Mladic accused of 11 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes during 1992-95 war, including the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys
By AP
Aida Hadzialic, February 2015. (Flickr/Socialdemokraterna/Victor Svedberg/CC BY-ND 2.0)
August 14, 2016, 3:53 am
Muslim, youngest-ever Swedish minister resigns over drunk driving
Aida Hadzialic, 29, a former Bosnian refugee, leaves post after being caught at the wheel with proscribed level of blood alcohol
By AFP
People gather on the main square, during the inauguration ceremony of the Ferhat-Pasha mosque, in Banja Luka, on May 7, 2016 (AFP Photo)
May 7, 2016, 6:29 pm
Bosnia’s Muslims reopen mosque Serbs blew up during the war
Jewish representatives among thousands of ceremony attendees, where leaders welcome renewed efforts for religious coexistence
By AP
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the courtroom for the reading of his verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, on March 24, 2016. (AFP / POOL / Robin van Lonkhuijsen)
March 24, 2016, 6:54 pm
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic found guilty of genocide
UN war crimes judges hand down 40-year jail term for worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II
By Jan Hennop and JO BIDDLE
Bodyguards try to protect Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic (C) from stones hurled at him by an angry crowd at the Potocari Memorial Center, near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on July 11, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF)
July 12, 2015, 12:36 am
Bosnia ‘strongly condemns’ Srebrenica attack on Serb PM
Premier forced to leave ceremony after crowd began throwing stones, chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Great)
By AFP
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's prime minister, center, is seen during a scuffle at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, 150 kilometers northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saturday, July 11, 2015. (AP/Marko Drobnjakovic)
July 11, 2015, 4:11 pm
Serbian PM attacked at Srebrenica ceremony
Mob throws bottles, other objects at head of state at memorial marking 20 years since massacre
By Aida Cerkez
Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to celebrate Mass at the Kosevo stadium, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saturday, June 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
June 6, 2015, 10:21 pm
Pope urges reconciliation in ‘Europe’s Jerusalem’
In Sarajevo, pontiff calls on Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put ‘barbarity’ of Bosnian war behind them
By Aida Cerkez and Nicole Winfield
Last week in Vienna, 99 Jewish and Muslim activists convened for the fifth annual Muslim-Jewish Conference. Here, group members recite mourning prayers in Hebrew and Arabic at the former Nazi forced labor camp Mauthausen, outside Linz, Austria (photo credit: Daniel Shaked)
August 18, 2014, 2:40 pm
In Vienna, Muslim-Jewish dialogue tackles conflict head-on
From dozens of countries including Pakistan and Iraq, participants talk about divisive issues while learning the ‘other’ is just like them
By Matt Lebovic
Tourists pose for photos inside a replica of the "Graf & Stift" car, parked in front of a museum at the historical street corner in downtown Sarajevo, where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, on Saturday, June 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
June 29, 2014, 6:39 am
Bosnia marks end of Europe’s violent century
Sarajevo recalls 1914 assassination of Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked a century of conflict
By Aida Cerkez
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