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Sarajevo, 27 August (AKI) – Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has warned that Bosnia-Herzegovina could be dissolved if Muslim leaders do not stop attacking Serb entity Republika Srpska (RS) and demanding its abolition. “RS must be respected and we will respect others as much as they respect us,” Dodik said on Monday. The controversial RS prime minister said he wasn’t afraid of threats by the high representative of the international community in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak, to sanction him for his statements which allegedly undermine the country’s constitutional system and the Dayton peace accord. "Bosnia-Herzegovina is a Dayton construction, based on...

Among them were the cases of six Algerians who were seized in Bosnia-Hercegovina in 2002 and flown to Guantanamo after the Bosnian Supreme Court dismissed charges against them of plotting to blow up the US Embassy in Sarajevo. The so-called “Bosnian Six” are unusual in that they were seized in Europe, far from Afghanistan, unlike most of the 490 “war-on-terror” detainees held at Guantanamo. One of the six, Belkacem Bensayah, refused to appear before the review board to respond to allegations that he screened potential Al Qaeda recruits for Abu Zubaydah, a top aide to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin...

Ten years after Radovan Karadzic's troops killed 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the former Serb leader remains at large. In this remarkable report from the heart of Bosnia, Antony Barnett goes on the trail of Europe's most notorious war criminal What strikes you first is the colour of the house. As you drive along the bumpy stone road that leads to the family home of Dr Radovan Karadzic, Europe's most wanted war criminal, its garish pink exterior bursts out in front of you. But despite its bright facade, it is a house that hides many dark secrets. On Monday 11 July...

US Joins in Coordinated Moves on Balkans War Crimes Fugitives By David Gollust State Department 16 December 2004 The international community Thursday announced new measures against Bosnian Serb officials for failing to hand over indicted Balkans war crimes figures to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. They include targeted sanctions by the United States. The coordinated action by the United States, the International High Representative for Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, and European Union peacekeepers in Bosnia reflects international frustration that key Balkans war crimes figures remain at large. Mr. Ashdown, international overseer of the 1995 Dayton accords on the Balkans conflict,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. commander of peacekeepers in Bosnia said Monday his forces are beginning to "shut off and strangle" the network backing Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader wanted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal. "We've shut down six or seven businesses that have been known to support Karadzic," said Maj. Gen. Virgil L. Packett, who commands the 12,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia. About 900 are Americans. The peacekeepers are under the NATO flag until the end of the year, when the European Union will take over. Packett, speaking at a House Armed Services Committee forum on Bosnia,...

While four police directed traffic, about 20 officials and journalists peered over a rusty guardrail on the side of the two-lane road that winds towards Bratunac, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Below, half a dozen men were digging in the muddy ground of the roadside ravine with pickaxes and spades. Workers said they expect to find about 15 bodies here in the reddish mud -- bodies of civilians killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Serb forces killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys after over-running what had been a UN-declared "safe area". This grave is...

(CNN) --NATO-led peacekeepers captured the former bodyguard to Radovan Karadzic, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader wanted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for a 1995 massacre of 8,000 men and boys. Wednesday's capture marks the second time in recent weeks that a person close to Karadzic has been captured. Zeljko Jankovic, known as Luna, was snatched off the street in a dramatic morning raid as he walked his daughter to school in the city of Bijeljina, according to local media reports. The reports said three masked members of NATO's Stabilization Force jumped from a van, grabbed Jankovic and whisked him away....