Word: bosnian
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...rhetoric out of the country is alarming. Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik publicly declared that he doesn't believe the common state has a future, and occasionally hints that his Serb-dominated statelet may secede from Bosnia. From the other side of the ethnic divide, leading Bosniak politician Haris Silajdzic repeatedly calls for the abolishment of the Serbian Republic, which he sees as a product of a Serbian ethnic cleansing campaign during the war. "It appears that the status quo created by genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has acquired a degree of sanctity in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...pregnancy or struggled along with the help of food stamps—than by extraordinary powers of leadership or experiences. The campaigns have been more than happy to indulge this demand. Take Hillary Clinton, who, even as she insisted on her own experience, felt compelled to invent a little Bosnian sniper fire and take an uncharacteristic shot of Crown Royal, rather than use the language of the political elite she inhabits.This tension seems most interesting in the case of Sen. Obama; after all, he has criticized politicians who play the “patriotic American” card...
...seminars hosted by the Department of Slavic Studies. The author, who currently resides in Amsterdam, said that her extensive travels have left her with a sense of cultural “schizophrenia and split-personality.” “I am Bulgarian, Dutch, American, Yugoslavian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Croatian, European, Swedish, Mexican...but that is not enough—give me more identities,” said Ugresic, whose collection of essays “Nobody’s Home” was recently translated into English. Svetlana Boym, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures...
Kent calls these works tribunal plays, and in them he has probed German and Bosnian-Serb war crimes, the sale of arms to Iraq, the suicide of British weapons expert David Kelly and the massacre of Irish civil rights marchers by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. The plays are riveting in their attention to detail and at times heartbreaking, as when a visibly haunted former soldier in Srebrenica recounts his forced participation in the slaughter of Muslims. "We've become the BBC of the theater," Kent says. "We've become a trusted voice...
...example, I met one Srebrenica victim who seemed almost staid about her traumas, as if the loss of her husbands and sons was just a bad memory, like a bad grade on a test. This woman could not speak English, and of course I did not speak BCS (Bosnian, Croat, Serbian), so we greeted each other with “As-Salamu Alaykum” (Peace be upon you). She pointed to her T-shirt, which indicated that she was in the “Mothers of Srebrenica” group, and when I looked at her again I could...