Bosnia

Sarajevo paralyzed by public transport strike

BosniaSarajevo  - Students and employees in Sarajevo had to take cabs or walk Monday, as a str

Bosnia and Serbia restore railway line after 17 years

Sarajevo (dpa) - Serbia and Bosnia are to reopen the Belgrade- Sarajevo railway line in 2009, 17 years after it was closed by war in for</body></html>

Three Bosnians arrested for aiding war criminals

Three Bosnians arrested for aiding war criminals Sarajevo  - Bosnian police arrested on Tuesday three men including two senior police officials suspected of forging documents and aiding war crimes suspects.

The men were arrested in north-eastern town of Bijeljina, one of the strongholds the extreme Serbian nationalists.

Two other senior policemen were brought in for questioning but they are not arrested. The investigation is ongoing and no names were released yet, Bosnia's prosecutors office said in a statement.

Appeal verdict due at Hague tribunal on Bosnian Serb Krajisnik

The Hague - Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik will hear on Tuesday afternoon if his appeal against a 27-year jail sentence for war crimes has been successful at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Krajisnik was found guilty in 2006 of various war crimes during the 1992-95 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Among others, he was found responsible for the deaths of approximately 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats through murder or extermination.

The court also found Krajisnik responsible of participating in the forcible removal of more than 100,000 non-Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ex-Dutchbat soldier immigrates to Srebrenica to give locals "self- confidence"

Ex-Dutchbat soldier immigrates to Srebrenica to give locals "self- confidence" Amsterdam  - A former member of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion Dutchbat that was stationed in 1995 in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica plans to move to the Bosnian city permanently this summer with his family.

Speaking late Monday on a Dutch television show, Rob Zomer said he wanted to move to Srebrenica because of its beautiful nature and "to boost the local population's self-confidence."

His wife, who also appeared on the show, said she found Srebrenica "a most peaceful environment."

One dead in an explosion in Bosnian mine

One dead in an explosion in Bosnian mineSaraje

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