Serb court rejects Gen. Mladic's appeal

Serbia's war crimes court has rejected an appeal by the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic, against his transfer to the UN tribunal in The Hague where he is indicted for genocide. The appeal...

Political correctness, Southern Baptism, and social peace

I have heard it said by a number of people that social peace is a supreme value. The problem in all cases has been how it has been attempted to achieve. One recent attempt was known as political correctness: Shoving a party line down people's throats to make...

What the West does not know about the Serbs

When people in the West think about the Serbs, they usually think of the First World War and of the ugliness that took place in Bosnia in 1990s. What is less known is that during the Second World War the Serbs led the most powerful guerrilla insurrection against the...

Yugoslavia and Political Correctness

Tito's Yugoslavia was widely regarded as the best country in the Communist bloc. With a standard of living sufficient for it to be included in Organization of Economically Developed Countries, an infrastructure adequate for it to host Olympic Games, universal high-quality...

Belgrade-Sarajevo Train Resumes After 18 years

Sarajevo a city in Bosnia-Herzogevina had just been showcased to the world as it hosted the XIV Winter Olympics in 1984.  The Olympic Express was a direct train from Belgrade, Serbia to Sarajevo.  The...

Niger Crisis escalating after EU suspends all aid to the Country.

By, Uwe Paschen. E.U. Suspends all aid to Niger and freezes all accounts. After Failure of the Niger Government to comply with EU demands as reported in an earlier post. (See links at the end of this post.)...

Former Serbian leader acquitted of war crime charges

Milan Milutinovic, the President of Serbia from 1998 to 2002, has been cleared of all charges laid against him by the UN International Criminal Tribunal. At the end of his presidential term in 2002, Milutinovic...

Serbian Village Unveils Monument to Bob Marley

Perhaps not internationally known for its penchant for reggae music, the Serbian village of Banatski Sokolac has, in a bid to promote "peace and tolerance" in the region, unveiled a monument to Bob Marley that is...

The other side to the Karadzic story

If there can be another point of view on a murderous dictator, you can always count on the historical revisionists.  It was only a few years after WW2 when Holocaust deniers started to gain a voice and...

Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs, UN pressured not to pro...

"Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs, UN pressured not to prosecute them"Sensational and totally ignored by the main stream mediaWhile one of the leaders of Kosovo Albanian terrorists - Ramush Haradinaj - was cleared of charges by UNTribunal, a former war...

RI in no hurry to recognize Kosovo`s independence: FM

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia will not be in a hurry to recognize Kosovo`s independence because it first needs to observe how things in the breakaway Serbian province develop, Foreign Minster Hassan Wirayuda said. "There is no need for Indonesia or other countries to...

Indonesia undecided on Kosovo: foreign ministry

""The Indonesian government will follow developments in Kosovo closely and we are not yet in a position to give our recognition to their one-sided independence declaration," foreign ministry spokesman Kristiarto Legowo said."The Indonesian government hopes that the...

Kosovo Declares Independence from Serbia

Consummating the breakup of Yugoslavia, Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia, and will be recognized by the USA and much of Europe. Kosovo begins its independent life on shaky ground, and will need...

Bali`s handicraft exports to east Europe reach US$2.1 million

"The handicraft products mostly ordered by East European importers from Bali were wooden household utensils, plaited items and bamboo handicraft articles besides garments and toys, she said. She said that the East European countries which imported Balinese handicraft products...

EVENT: Massive Greek Canadian Protest of Bill C-443

Thousands of Greeks descend upon Ottawa, Canada's Parliament Hill to protest the Prime Minister's decision to acknowledge the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", or FYROM as "Macedonia". YourGreekNews.com was...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from