Members of the Armed Forces need to be extra careful about the type of information they post, blog, tweet and instant message to others online. By design such postings are meant to be “public”. They also reveal a lot about you and what you do, even if you don’t realize it. It’s also possible using […]
Sarajevo Still Bears Its Scars
Twenty years on, city remembers victims of siege as ethnic divisions persist. By Merdijana Sadović At dawn on April 6, Sarajevo woke to an unusual scene. All along the main street of the Bosnian capital, thousands of red chairs were lined up in neat rows. There were 11,541 chairs in total, each representing one citizen of […]
Russia: “Anatomy of a Protest” Film Causes “NTV Lies” Scandal
Written by Veronica Khokhlova On Sunday, March 18, 2012, there were old TV sets [2], a mock coffin [3], and plenty of flowers [4] and cookies [5] outside the Ostankino TV tower [6] in Moscow, where a few hundred protesters gathered for a mock funeral of the “truthful television.” The unsanctioned rally was organized via social networks [7] [ru] in response to “Anatomy of a Protest [8],” a film produced by and […]
Former Dutch Soldier Told to Hand Over Notes
Radovan Karadzic requested notes after witness gave testimony in November. By Rachel Irwin Judges at The Hague tribunal this week requested that a Dutch colonel who testified in the trial of Radovan Karadzic turn over the wartime notes he kept as a United Nations peacekeeper, or else face a subpoena and a possible jail term. The […]
Angelina Jolie Film Recalls Bosnian War Horrors
Reactions to movie show that old wounds have not yet healed. By Merdijana Sadović I first saw Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey” – which had its official premiere in Bosnia this week – at a private screening held in Sarajevo in December. As I watched the scenes of mass rape […]
Two Koreas, a border conflict become global challenge
The death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il ensures that, even for a moment, focus too much in a state that is on the other side of the planet and we hear from time to time with regard to its ballistic missile program nuclear capacity. North Korea is not among the concerns of Spanish foot, […]
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