Plans for Bosnia's first Pride parade prompt backlash

An announcement by activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) that the first official LGBT parade will take place in the capital Sarajevo on 8 September has attracted mixed response on social media but very little official comment. Vladana Vasic, one of the organisers, announced the Coming Out Now parade at a midday news conference on…

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Dodik condemns ‘nocturnal assault’ on RS flag

The removal of the flag of Republika Srpska (RS), Bosnia’s Serb majority region, from Bosnia’s Presidency is “unacceptable” and “scandalous,” the Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Presidency said on Saturday, adding that he perceives the act as a message that there is no place for Serbs in the Presidency. “That move only confirms the…

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Bosnia: SNSD, HDZ BiH leaders agree on future cooperation

The coalition agreement with the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) does not mean an agreement against a third party, said Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb leader and the newly elected member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite Presidency. Following a meeting with HDZ BiH leader Dragan Covic, whom he met in Istocno Sarajevo on Monday to discuss…

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Komšić is not legitimate and without rights to represent Croats

Academician Muhamed Filipović, one of the leading Bosniak intellectuals, said on Tuesday that Zeljko Komsic had no legitimacy to represent the Croats because he was chosen by Bosniaks for the Croat member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that if Komsic has some moral he would not take candidature. “If Zeljko Komsic had…

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What Are Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina Complaining About Now? A Rebuttal to Jasmin Mujanović

By Luka Misetic “Why should I be a minority in your country when you can be a minority in mine?” This one sentence uttered by the son of former Macedonian president Kiro Gligorov famously captured one of the root causes of the wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. No nation wished to remain an…

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Former High Representative expresses concern after election of Milorad Dodik to Bosnian presidency

The former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Miroslav Lajčák has expressed concern at the election on October 7 of Bosnian Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik to the three-member rotating presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Lajčák, currently the president of the United Nations General Assembly, stated that he is worried by the outcome of the…

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Mostar protests against Komsic's election in Presidency

A number of Mostar citizens (southern Bosnia) took to the streets protesting the election of Zeljko Komsic for the member of Bosnia’s Presidency from among the Croat people. The protesters are dissatisfied that the leader from the main Croat party in Bosnia, the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), Dragan Covic, lost to Komsic. The protest…

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KOMSIC ELECTION NEITHER CONSTITUTIONAL NOR LEGITIMATE

SARAJEVO, October 10 /SRNA/ – The president of the Main Council of the Croatian People’s Assembly, Bozo Ljubic, has said that the election of Zeljko Komsic /DF/ as the Croatian member of the BiH Presidency is neither constitutional nor legitimate and can be characterized only as “as a hostile act against Croats and political violence.”…

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INSTEAD OF WEAPONS TODAY THEY USE HATE SPEECH

Director of the Center for Cultural Dialogue (CKD) from Sarajevo and wife of university professor Ugo Vlaisavljevic, Sanja Vlaisavljevic again became the victim of aggressive hate speech on social networks. She had experienced a whole set of insults into her account because of some harmless comment. Namely, Vlaisavljevic compared the official biography of two candidates…

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