Balkan watching (catch all)
17 Nov. Reuters report - Bosnia Looks Beyond Dayton a Decade after War.
Quote:
Ten years after the ceasefire in Bosnia, the Dayton peace treaty that stopped Europe's worst conflict since World War Two is in need of a serious overhaul.
... as one of Europe's poorest nations prepares to embark on the long road to membership in the wealthy European Union, it faces stern warnings that ethnic divisions still enshrined in its governing structures could greatly delay its progress.
The watchword in no longer stabilization but transition, Bosnia's powerful peace overseer, British diplomat Paddy Ashdown, told a conference on Dayton in Geneva last month.
Wahhabi gathering held in Bosnia
Wahhabi gathering held in Bosnia
Source: http://www.serbianna.com/news/2008/02912.shtml
August 18, 2008
SERBIANNA
Quote:
A Wahhabi gathering was held over the weekend in a Bosnian village of Grmusa near the city of Bosanska Krupa where over 50 senior Bosnian Muslim wahhabi representatives met on the property owned by Fuad Vukovic.
"There is nothing to record. This is a private gathering and reporters are not invited," said leader to the interested media that was stopped by the Wahhabi security at the outskirts of the village.
A spokesman for the group who identified himself as Emir then told the media that the gathering is private and that its intent is to exchange ideas and to talk, mostly, about religious topics.....
Balkan watching (catch all)
Outlaw09 highlighted an unexplained exchange of gunfire in Macedonia (see the first post, after this thread appears) and a gap in our coverage of the region.
So aware that WW1 started with a spark with an assassination @ Sarejevo, it's time for a thread to collect posts and discussion on the region - mainly small, new states.
There are a few historical, closed threads for background reading:
1) Kosovo Independence:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4924
2) Wahhabism in the Balkans:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=5041
3) Bosnia looks beyond Dayton:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...read.php?t=163
If jihadism appears I suggest readers consult the articles by John Schindler's blog, which regularly reminds us how fertile the region can be:http://20committee.com/category/terrorism/
Although the shooting is not explained these two BBC reports explain, 6th May 2015, there is a political crisis in Macedonia, with some public violence:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32610951 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32612508