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August 12, 1996
Ruins of Sarajevo Library Is Symbol of a Shattered Culture
By JANE PERLEZ
ARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Eerie with shattered beauty, the burned ruins of Bosnia’s national library have stood for the last four years as a wrenching symbol of an attempt to destroy a city and its culture.
Now the gouged granite columns, the crumbling crenelated trim and the once...
July 2008
9 posts
"High Fidelity" and "Love Thy Neighbor"
“High Fidelity” and “Love Thy Neighbor”
August 13, 2002
Peter Maass My book may not have been turned into a movie, but it had a cameo role in one, about which there has been some mystery, until now. The backstory: there’s a scene in “High Fidelity” in which the character played by John Cusack is lying in bed with his girfriend, who will leave him for the guy...
Bosnia’s Cantons ‘Must be Scrapped’
balkaninsight.com
07 July 2008 Sarajevo - Bosnia’s internal setup is ‘dysfunctional’ and the cantons system in the larger Federation entity should be scrapped, a member of the European Parliament argues.
The statement from Doris Pack, chairwoman of the European Parliament Committee for South-East Europe triggered differing reactions from Bosnian Serb, Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)...
A soldier's story: Fred Doucette's Bosnian war...
The Hill Times, July 7th, 2008
By Kate Malloy
When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette returned from Bosnia where he had served as a UN peacekeeper in 1995, he was so full of rage that when he finally tried to get some psychiatric help, he felt like ripping out the heart of a military social worker and “shitting in the hole.” A seasoned soldier, Mr. Doucette had been with the UN...
Robbers hit Sarajevo post office while guards...
July 1, 2008
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Robbers wearing police uniforms and armed with automatic weapons stormed a post office in central Sarajevo and stole hundreds of thousands of euros as security guards watched the Euro 2008 soccer final, media reported Tuesday.
Sarajevo police confirmed that an undetermined number of armed men robbed the post office at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, injuring three...
June 2008
7 posts
Back to Bosnia: A war correspondent returns.
Peter Maass A flashback: I heard the sniper’s shot before I saw Haris Bahtanovic fall to the ground. He was walking through a park-turned-shooting-gallery behind Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn. A few men rushed into the open and dragged Bahtanovic into a car that tore away. I wrote a story about this, about the odd way you can cover a war by sitting in your hotel room, out of the line of...
