A new wave of Holocaust negation and an introduction into legal and historical revisionism

(Patria) The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. IFIMES has prepared an analysis in view of the formation of controversial international commissions of the Government of the Republik

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Vucic between Brussels and Moscow

By: Amir Suzanj Long awaited visit to Belgrade by the Russian president Vladimir Putin is now behind us. The enthusiastic citizens who went to the streets to welcome and greet Putin – merely an external manifestation of the event – had been soon shut out of it even before the units of the communal

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Forced Conversion Heats Up Human Rights Issues

GWANGJU, (Patria) - On January 21, 30,000 citizens joined a rally for investigation of a death case caused by forces conversion and violent behavior in Gwangju, South Korea. Human Rights Association for Forced Conversion (HRAFC), a Korea-based NGO raising awareness of human rights violation from re

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Academic Mahmutcehajic: Izetbegovic wants to make Bosniaks his tribe

The FACE TV 'Central News' guest academic Rusmir Mahmutcehajic explained why he left the government in 1994. He said that he wanted to show his disagreement with reducing BH society to its ethnic subjects, defeatism, and misuse of religion... Asked who leads us, Mahmutcehajic said 'people who don't

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Becirovic: Friar Markovic was right – HZ HB is the biggest failure of Croat politics

Mostar saw marking the anniversary of self-proclaimed Croat community of Herzeg-Bosnia. The event was also attended by the President of HDZ BiH and the member of the President BiH, Dragan Covic. - Today, across BiH and Croatia, candles are being lit, we are remembering past, hard times, historica

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Metropolitan Mihailo: It is a sin before God and people not to bow down before Srebrenica victims

The Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro is among the best educated clergymen in the Balkans. He graduated from the Theological faculty in Belgrade and earned his master’s degree at the Spiritual Academy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia. He is one of the postgraduates of SANU

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Stadion Grbavica od 1. oktobra zadovoljava kategoriju 3

FK Željezničar obavještava navijače, članove, prijatelje i sponzore Kluba da će FK Željezničar do 1. oktobra 2017. godine izvršiti radove na unaprijeđenju infrastrukture u vrijednosti od 147.444 KM, prenosi agencija Patria. Radovi koji će se izvoditi su: Servis terena u vrijednosti od 19.949 KM, a

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Disowned by generals: Sefer 'Boris' Halilovic intended a coup and a conflict within RBiH Army!

Of all the former Yugoslav republics, it is only in Bosnia and Herzegovina that ex members of the secret police and intelligence officers of JNA's KOS (counterintelligence service) are allowed to (legally) head political parties. That in itself presents a serious security deficit of Bosnia and Herze

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Revisionists in action: Ustashas and chetniks still walking together

By: Sead OMERAGIC Both Mladen Ivanic and Milorad Dodik attended this year's marking the anniversary of the crime in Jadovno held on the 1st of July. So Dodik and Ivanić remember the crimes committed over Serbs. And what about the Srebrenica genocide and numerous crimes against humanity which Serb

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Jane Fonda: Kao dijete sam bila silovana i seksualno zlostavljana

Poznata glumica Jane Fonda otkrila je da je kao dijete bila žrtvom seksualnog zlostavljanja. U razgovoru sa glumicom Brie Larson za magazin Net-a-Porter, Fonda je otkrila: - Kao dijete sam bila silovana, seksualno zlostavljana, a kasnije u životu i otpuštena jer nisam pristala spavati sa svojim še

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Covic's denying Srebrenica and Vukovar

By: Edina Latif Considering the politics of the Republika Srpska political parties, it is quite understandable (but not justifed) that the Chairman of BiH Presidency, Mladen Ivanic, has fiercely opposed BiH filing a request for revision of the lawsuit against Serbia. Perhaps even more enthusiastic

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Father Ivo Markovic: Croat politics in BiH is directed by so-called Herzeg-Bosnia and UDBA

'Croat politics seems undefined. The Croats are lacking orientation. Big problem is that the Croat politics is directed by so-called Herzeg-Bosnia, which is the worst, most catastrophic part of Croat politics that is still so powerful', father Ivo Markovic, a Bosnian friar and a professor at Francis

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Crescendo of the political crises on the horizon

By: Adis Arapovic When observing the events on the political stage of Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past few weeks, one cannot help but notice obvious correlations between seemingly unrelated events and processes. On the one hand, there are more frequent meetings and more compliance between SNSD

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Budimir: The arrests were done to jeopardize Croat - Bosniak relations

Zivko Budimir is a retired general of the HVO (The Croatian Defense Council). He is also a longtime seasoned politician. He was the president of Federation BiH from 2011 to 2015. In an interview with Patria he revealed his views about the arrest of the former members of the HVO in Orasje as a 'fra

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Emancipation in the background

By: Sead Omeragic 'BiH is not politically emancipated', President of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, said in an interview. What does 'political emancipation' of a state really mean? The dictionary says it is 'the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; l

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Covic's Herzeg-Bosnia

By: Sead Omeragic 'Had HZHB not been founded, it is unlikely that we would have been talking about all this today. Maybe even somebody else would have been lighting candles for us. We are proud of HZHB and HRHB', Dragan Covic, HDZ BiH leader said during the celebration marking the 25th anniversary

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Bosniaks are in 30 political parties and as many politics

By: Sead Omeragic Independent candidates exist only in the areas with Bosniak majority. They have painted entirely different picture of BiH. How come there were no such candidates in the RS or the areas with the Croat majority? There's political pluralism at the Bosniak end, there are disagreement

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Vinko Jakic gets dismissed, OdRaz gets shut down: Who gets 70 million KM

The federal government instructed the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Finance to implement the procedure of closing down the Foundation of Sustainable Growth (OdRaz). Prior to that, the federal government dismissed the director of foundation, Vinko Jakic, due to a gross breach of duty. That's h

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Subpoena and disciplinary action in one day: Dodik fights back Salihovic via Tegeltija

Only a few hours after BH Chief Prosecutor, Goran Salihovic, opened an investigation and subpoenaed Milorad Dodik to hearing as a suspect in relation to his failing to implement a decision of the Constitutional Court, the High Judiciary and Prosecutor Council BiH reacted by starting a disciplinary a

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Dodik's private referendum, spreading fear among the unfitting Serbs

The referendum in the RS and issue of confirmation of 9 January as the day of Republika Srpska have been exaggerated for no reason. The entire campaign is going to the benefit of Milorad Dodik as the tension around the referendum will secure him a victory at the upcoming elections, most of all in Ba

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Izetbegovic: BH Presidency members should not be presidents of political parties

SDA President Bakir Izetbegovic said that his meeting with Fahrudin Radoncic, Dragan Covic will take place when Covic decides to call it. - Last time, unfortunately, I failed so I hope the next time it will be more successful. So it is up to him, Izetbegovic said. Asked if he is still angry with C

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Reaction, any: RS can use Law on forests to declare independence

Unless constitutionality of the Law on forests in RS is urgently disputed before the Constitutional Court of BiH, this BH entity will be able to declare a full independence. - That will be the end of a war against BiH, warns Muharem Cero, an expert for state property. In 2008 the RS Government ado

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Law on lottery games: SDA changing its mind twice in a day

Changes to the Law on lottery games caused a rift between coalition partners SDA and HDZ, while yesterday's Parliament session confused even the biggest democracy experts. The reason is SDA, which in one day managed to change its position about the changes to the Law on lottery games three times: fi

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From 'ethnic cleansing' to 'extermination'

By: Sead Omeragić Today, after the verdict for Karadzic, I'm wondering where our intellectuals are. Where are the experts of the international law? I'm hearing that in Belgrade, there are serious discussions about the verdict and its possible consequences. What are our experts and top lawyers doing

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Švedska odlučila: Štokholm domaćin Eurosonga 2016.

Predstavnik Švedske Mans Zelmerlow odnio je pobjedu na ovogodišnjem Eurosongu i ovo takmičenje ponovo odveo u Švedsku, piše novinska agencija Patria. Tri švedska grada konkurisala su za domaćinstvo Štokholm, Geteborg i Malme. Danas je odlučeno da će grad domaćin zvanično biti Štokholm, jer se Malme

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Grbavica se sprema za reprezentaciju, radovi u završnoj fazi

Radovi na stadionu Grbavica iz dana u dan sve su intenzivniji, prenosi agencija Patria. Kako sada stvari stoje Grbavica će biti spremna za posjetu UEFA-nih inspektora, koji će 1. oktobra posjetiti Željin stadion kako bi dali zeleno svjetlo za odigravanje utakmice kvalifikacija za Svjetsko prvenstvo

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Cormack na FKN: Korupcija je ključni problem u BiH

Na Fakultetu za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studije u Sarajevu svečano je otvoren kabinet „American Room“ u kojem je donirana informatička oprema za potrebe studenata u realizaciji projekta „Praćenje suđenja u predmetima koruptivnih krivičnih djela“. Kabinet su zajednički otvorili amb

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Za subjekt pravičnosti in proti inkluziji

Zakaj sem še vedno za subjekt pravičnosti, za emancipiranje javnih prostorov in proti inkluziji hendikepiranih ljudi? Razlogov za tako držo imam več, čeprav je zlasti inkluzija zelo popularna in se včasih zdi, da jo podpirajo prav vsi; pravzaprav jih imam veliko, a bom zaradi omejenosti prostora o

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Ali sem jaz slep ali pa ste vi nagi

Mislim kajpak na zaroto molka oziroma na tisto znamenito zgodbo o nagem cesarju. In zarota je možna le, če v njej sodeluje več ljudi. To pa je že dober uvod v množično psihologijo. Knjiga je zanimiva, ker ima dober in simptomatičen podnaslov: Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to I

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Človeštvo med prepovedjo malikovanja in zapovedjo ljubezni, Jeremija Grand

Uvod Živimo v času, ki je poln protislovij. Že iz pradavnine imamo izročila, ki so se vsa pretekla stoletja dopolnjevala z idejami, izumi in mišljenjem ljudi, ki so stremeli k razumevanju sveta, kozmosa in svojega življenja. Človek je že nekdaj dobil navodila, kaj naj dela in kako živi. Vendar člove

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