Reuters reported Tuesday that Bosnian Serb police had found a bomb near the Potocari Memorial in Srebrenica. It wasn’t long before the viceroy’s office (OHR) issued a statement insinuating that the RS police staged the whole thing to disrupt the commemoration. (!)...
Balkan Express break
Personal reasons have precluded me from doing a Balkan Express this week, but the column will return on its regular schedule next Thursday, June 30.
Hiatus note
Due to some personal obligations, there won't be a Balkan Express this week. Look for a new article next Thursday.
Post Smackdown, Part 2
Serbia-Montenegro Ambassador Ivan Vujacic has gone and done it again. Responding this time to the arrogant blowhard Richard Holbrooke, Vujacic does a splendid job of translating Holbrokese into English: "In other words, the aspirant members of the European Union need...
Whither Steele?
Today's spotlight article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of Jamail's dispatches from Iraq, I was not surprised. What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant by Steele about Blair's "good...
Is this treason, or what?
How often does a former foreign minister and current parliamentarian of a country join an international commission proposing to carve up its territory? Goran Svilanovic, formerly the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro) under the DOS regime and currently...
Pot, Meet Kettle
It's a classic case of pot calling the kettle black: Reuters, a wire service notorious for enabling Imperial intervention by publicizing the most crass and wanton propaganda during the wars in Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia (actually, since the beginning of the Yugoslav...
Serbian envoy delivers Post smackdown
Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador in Washington finally managed to deliver a proper smackdown to the Washington Post, castigating the publication for its vulgar misrepresentation of the situation in Kosovo. The Post’s editorial of March 24 was basically a rehash of ICG...
Vulliamy Accuses Russia
Notorious war reporter Ed Vulliamy - whose claim to fame was "witnessing" the genocide in Bosnia through paid PR plants - came out swinging in Tuesday's Guardian, accusing Russia of hiding Balkans war crimes suspects. Unlike most articles putting forth allegations of...
Roadside bomb targets Rugova
A roadside bomb went off this morning next to the motorcade of Kosovo "president" Ibrahim Rugova, reports AP/The Guardian. Rugova was on his way to meet the EU Commssar Javier Solana, to discuss the next Albanian occupation government after the resignation and...
