A decade and more after the former Yugoslavia fragmented in bitter conflict, many thousands of people from the region are still missing. In “Bridges of Bone and Blood” – a […]
Former Yugoslavia
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Lorenza Bacino visits Sarajevo, which was under siege for more than three years. During the war, the cohesion between Serbs, Bosnians and Moslems was destroyed. Three people tell the story […]
The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was set up four years ago in The Hague for the sole purpose of bringing to trial those responsible for atrocities committed during […]
Until 1989, Kosovo enjoyed the status of an autonomous province within the Yugoslav Federation, with its own legal and administrative institutions and extensive local powers. But this autonomy was revoked […]
The war in the former Yugoslavia uprooted millions of people and forever changed their lives. The three and a half-year war particularly affected the most vulnerable in society: children and […]
In 1991, old scars were ripped back open when fighting broke out again in the former Yugoslavia. Five years of ethnic cleansing, war rapes, concentration camps, a quarter of a […]
Five years ago, fighting began in the heart of Europe: the Balkans. Over a quarter of a million people were killed during the war in the former Yugoslavia and nearly […]
Yugoslavia used to be one of the richest countries in eastern and central Europe. But by 1994, the country had fallen apart, and in the two remaining republics – Serbia […]
In May 1992, the United Nations Security Council imposed strict economic sanctions against the two republics remaining in the Yugoslav Federation: Serbia and Montenegro. The international community imposed the sanctions […]