Bosnia and Bosniaks – past, present, and perspectives
November 30, 2010
Author: Dr. Smail Cekic
The issue of the relations between Bosnia and Bosniaks has to be considered from several aspects of those relations. First of them is the continuity of the name Bosnia and all the related names. Our science has not reliably identified the origin of the name of the state Bosnia, though that onomatology research and the topo-onomatology as its discipline approached the solution of this complex issue. In any case, this name is local and it emerged among its citizens who lived in the areas later known as Bosnia, which name will later on be used in the highest-level international documents as the marking for this state. Read more
Dr. Smail Cekic – Paper on historical importance of Bosnian statehood and challenges facing Bosnia and Bosniaks today
November 30, 2010
Author: Dr. Smail Cekic
This paper is intended to give contribution to the celebration of the 25th November – Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina statehood and, in this regard, it represents the objective scientific findings related to the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which confirms that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a permanent political, social, and historic category. Within the framework of the selected topic and the space, we shall present four major issues – social and scientific findings, such as: ZAVNOBiH (Anti-fascistic Council of the National Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and its historic relevance, Communists and the issue of Bosniac ethnicity, Restoration and the escalation of the Great Serbian movement, and Planning of crimes and defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Read more
Experience of the Institute for Resarch of Genocide Canada {IRGC} in campaigning for the adoption of a Resolution on Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Canadian Parliament
November 24, 2010
Genocide in BH is a defeat all the achievements of human civilization. IRCG speaks on behalf of victims, reminiscent of their suffering and tears and suppressed fear of oblivion.
Bosniaks should not allow the victims to be thwarted by abandoning the legal domain in solving problems. Law has to be the basis of Bosniak political action. Giving up on law opens unimagined dangers for the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for Bosniaks. Read more
Call for proposals – Pionirska Street and Bikavac massacre monuments
November 23, 2010
Judge Patrick Robinson, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, passing sentence on two of the prime culprits, observed that:
“In the all too long, sad and wretched history of man’s inhumanity to man, the Pionirska Street and Bikavac fires must rank high. At the close of the twentieth century, a century marked by war and bloodshed on a colossal scale, these horrific events stand out for the viciousness of the incendiary attack, for the obvious premeditation and calculation that defined it, for the sheer callousness and brutality of herding, trapping and locking the victims in the two houses, thereby rendering them helpless in the ensuing inferno, and for the degree of pain and suffering inflicted on the victims as they were burnt alive.” Read more
Prelude to the Srebrenica Genocide: Mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks in the Srebrenica region during the first three months of the Bosnian War (April-June 1992)
November 23, 2010
Author: Daniel Toljaga
The Bosnian Institute, UK
www.bosnia.org.uk
More than three years before the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, Bosnian Serb nationalists – with the logistical, moral and financial support of Serbia and the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) – destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)[1] villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooting some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacring at least 3,166 Bosniaks (documented deaths) including many women, children and the elderly. Read more
Congratulatory letter to Anesa Kajtazovic, first Bosniak American elected to Iowa State House
November 11, 2010
Representative Elect Anesa Kajtazovic
Iowa House of Representatives – District 21
Honorable Anesa Kajtazovic:
On behalf of Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB), we congratulate you on your recent election victory for the Iowa House District 21 seat. Your victory represents a milestone for all Bosniak Americans who have worked hard to successfully integrate into the American society, while also preserving the beliefs and values from their native homeland. Read more
Ethnic cleansing and genocide
October 27, 2010
Douglas Singleterry, October 25, 2010
A year and a half after Serbia was found not to have committed genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave Croatia the green light to pursue similar claims against Serbia.
In Jail or on the Run, Karadzic and Mladic Could Still Win Bosnia’s War
October 27, 2010
As my colleagues Dan Bilefsky and Doreen Carvajal report, European countries have apparently reduced the pressure on Serbia’s government to arrest Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general still wanted on war crimes charges by an international tribunal in The Hague for his part in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys after forces under his command seized the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. Read more
Eyewitness to serbian war crimes
October 23, 2010
EYEWITNESS TO SERBIAN WAR CRIMES: SERBIAN PARAMILITARY TROOPS EXECUTED ROMA POPULATION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Author: Tanjug
(editorial comment: Eyewitness, who was age seven at the time of these horrific crimes, testified how he witnessed the rape of his sister and then execution of Roma population)
Canadian parliament unanimously adopts the Srebrenica genocide resolution
October 19, 2010
After five years of lobbying by the Canadian – Bosniak community, the Canadian parliament has unanimously adopted the Srebrenica genocide resolution {M-416} recognizing the genocide that happened in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Hercegovine, in 1995 Read more
