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Theatre of war: Alistair Moulton Black as Aleksander and Aimee Mica Komorowsky as Mirela in the play Sarajevo.

Hell is others: Sarajevo and the tragedy of intimacy

In war-torn Sarajevo, desire collides with brutality in a play that refuses resolution or easy moral comfort

‘Monster of Grbavica’ jailed for 45 years over Sarajevo killings

A Montenegrin warlord has been jailed for 45 years for murder, rape and torture of non-Serb civilians in Sarajevo in the Bosnian war.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Ratko Mladic guilty on 10 counts including genocide

Mladic ‘personally ordered Srebrenica massacre’

Prosecutors say the ‘Butcher of Bosnia" sought to "cleanse" Bosnia of Croats and Muslims, and ordered the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

Bosnia hopes for fame after 7 000 kisses

Organisers of an event in which almost 7 000 couples kissed simultaneously in a Bosnian town on Saturday said their effort deserved a place in the Guinness World Records book. A…

Long-lost Sarajevo cake shop rises from ashes of war

Sarajevo had been dreaming of it for 15 years: a moist, dense cube of thin pastry and hazelnut cream, skilfully layered, then drizzled with chocolate glaze by the master…

Beware of men wearing burqas

Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some 000. They said the pair entered a Union bank branch in the capital wearing…

Bosnia mass grave yields 156 Srebrenica victims

Forensic experts exhumed the remains of 156 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave found in an eastern Bosnian village, an official of a commission for missing…

Better days ahead for Sarajevo’s stray dogs

Sarajevo, where some people used to go hungry in order to feed their pets during Bosnia’s war, today shows little sympathy to stray dogs, killing them in their thousands each…

Bosnia to ‘beat’ Hong Kong with Bruce Lee statue

Youths in the Bosnian city of Mostar said on Thursday they were delighted they would beat Hong Kong to erect a statue honouring the late martial arts film legend Bruce Lee. The…

Rough justice lands Bosnian ref in hot water

A referee who stopped a player protesting a decision by knocking him out is under investigation by the Bosnian football association. ”We are currently gathering reports on the…

Srebrenica: 227 bodies of massacre victims found

Forensic experts have recovered the remains of 227 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II, an official said on Friday. In 1995, Serb…

Bosnian thief caught three times in a day

It was a case of third time unlucky for a hapless but determined Bosnian thief who was arrested three times on the same day for three different crimes, a report said. The…

243 bodies found in Bosnian mass grave

The remains of 243 people have been exhumed from a mass grave in northwestern Bosnia, believed to have been inmates of a notorious Serb detention camp during the 1992-95 war, an…