• Bill Clinton and Bosnia
  Author:  Taylor Branch
  Uploaded:  Friday, 06 November, 2009
  Pending the release (if ever) of the former US president's official White House tapes, this extract from a recent book by his close friend and confidant documents only too credibly - and shockingly - the depths to which French and British policy towards Bosnia sank during the 1992-5 war.
  

• The disgraceful US and EU game in Bosnia-Herzegovina
  Author:  Senad Pecanin
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 05 November, 2009
  Editorial from Sarajevo weekly BH Dani expressing outrage at current EU and US strong-arm attempts to 'resolve' the constitutional impasse in Bosnia-Herzegovina on terms acceptable to Belgrade and Banja Luka, but deeply injurious to the country's own essential interests
  

• The Karadzic trial and Bosnian realities
  Author:  Martin Shaw
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 05 November, 2009
  A leading genocide scholar explains (on Open Democracy) why the trial of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a test of justice and accountability over terrible crimes, and why the trend of events in Bosnia itself also demands the international community’s urgent attention.
  

• An ordinary citizen
  Author:  Boris Dezulovic
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 05 November, 2009
  Acid comment first published in Nezavisne Novine (Banja Luka) on the reception with honours accorded to recently released war criminal Biljana Plavsic by the authorities in Serbia and RS
  

• A land where war criminals are heroes
  Author:  Nenad Pejic
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 05 November, 2009
  Comment from RFE/RL on the background of denial in Serbia and RS of wartime crimes committed in Bosnia, which helps to explain the way in which the release of indicted war criminal Biljana Plavsic was greeted in Belgrade and Banja Luka.
  

• Radovan Karadzic enters the dock
  Author:  Ian Traynor
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 05 November, 2009
  As The Guardian's long-standing East Europe correspondent puts it, the trial of the former Bosnian Serb warlord brings to a climax a 14-year battle to punish crimes against humanity
  

• Denial of genocide - on the possibility of normalising relations in the region
  Author:  Sonja Biserko and Edina Becirevic
  Uploaded:  Friday, 23 October, 2009
  Important essay examining the culture of denial in Serbia about the recent wars, the regional strategy of the Serbian elite, and the dangers of seeking 'restorative truth' on a regional scale before the past has been confronted honestly by the aggressors
  

• Secrecy still shrouds Srebrenica
  Author:  BBC News, 22 October 2009
  Uploaded:  Friday, 23 October, 2009
  BBC news report accompanying a new programme made for Newsnight, which examines whether the full facts are yet known about the Srebrenica massacre, and in particular about Western governments' share of responsibility for it
  

• Bosnia and American exceptionalism
  Author:  Bob Dole
  Uploaded:  Friday, 23 October, 2009
  Former US presidential candidate argues in The Wall Street Journal that it took US leadership to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and it will take new US leadership to prevent the country from dissolving
  

• Hat trick for the Bosnian Lady Macbeth
  Author:  Mirko Filipovic
  Uploaded:  Thursday, 22 October, 2009
  Article translated from the Bosnian Franciscan journal Svjetlo Rijeci, marking the announced early release from prison of the war criminal Biljana Plavšic
  

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