Just one hour after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) gave its verdict in the case of ‘Popovic et al.’, the director of the Bosnian Serb (RS) Center for the Research of War Crimes, Janko Velimirovic, chose to misrepresent the facts laid out in the judgement by informing the Serb public that the Tribunal had reversed its earlier finding that 8,000 Bosniaks had been massacred in the Srebrenica genocide. According to Velimirovic, the Hague Tribunal ruled that “ [Tribunal] dropped the claim of 7,000 to 8,000 Muslim victims.” (1) Velimirovic’s allegations are both incorrect and misleading.
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Srebrenica Numbers: DNA Evidence v. Genocide Denial
US, Turkish officials get physical in Qatar
A fight broke out between high-ranking US and Turkish officials at a meeting held between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Qatar.The fight was reported between the US ambassador to Qatar and an advisor to the Turkish prime minister at the end of a 20-minute meeting between Clinton and Erdogan on Monday.
Having Arab or Muslim sounding name hinders getting a job in France
One of Europe's leading Muslim scholars, Tariq Ramadan, told French lawmakers Wednesday they were failing to address the real problems facing French Muslims by debating whether to ban the burqa.Montenegro's Hidden Historical Treasures
In 2003, archaeologists Louise Schofield and Sean Kingsley described Montenegro as both a "dream and a nightmare".
In a piece for an academic jounral, they added: "One is hard pressed to think of any other European country whose archaeological landscape remains so enigmatically terra incognita.
Sarkozy vs. Muslim Women
POLITICAL opportunist Nicolas Sarkozy forgot three fundamental lessons when he decided to denounce the burka.
The first one is that men should stay well clear of becoming embroiled in expressing opinions on women's clothes, unless of course you happen to be called Lacroix, Gaultier, Lagerfeld or Ghesquiere.
Highway connecting Albania and Kosova
A spectacular 61km section of highway through mountainous northern Albania opens today, creating a strategic link with fellow ethnic Albanians in landlocked Kosovo. For Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia last year, the modern four-lane route is a vital commercial link through a friendly country.
At more than €600m (£561m, $922m) the new stretch of road will cut the eight-hour journey between Tirana and Pristina by at least two hours, according to Ernest Noka, Albania's deputy transport minister.
Hamas gaining sympathy as onslaught continues
With the massive Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip continuing unabated, and with Israeli political and military leaders threatening to “decimate” Hamas, Palestinian intellectuals as well as ordinary people expect Hamas’s popularity to rise dramatically when the present Israeli campaign is over.
Israel claims that its war on Gaza is with Hamas, not with the Palestinian people. However, There is hardly a Palestinian who would give the Israeli claim the benefit of the doubt.
Freed Bosnian Calls Guantanamo "The Worst Place In The World"
As three Bosnian Algerians -- Mustafa Ait Idr, Hadj Boudella and Mohammed Nechla -- returned to their families in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday, Ait Idr spoke briefly to reporters. "For almost seven years," he said, "I was at the end of the world, at the worst place in the world. It would have been hard even if I had done something wrong, but it is much harder if one is totally innocent."
