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Serbia charges five for wartime killing of Muslims
:: Serbian prosecutors said on Monday they had charged five people with torturing and killing 20 civilians, mostly Serbian Muslims, during the 1990s war in neighboring Bosnia. A group of Serb paramilitaries on February 27, 1993, stopped a train in
Bosnians protest against hijab ban in judiciary
Some 2,000 people, mostly women, protested on Sunday in downtown Sarajevo against a recent ban on wearing a hijab headscarf in the majority Muslim country’s judicial institutions. “We gathered to protest against prejudices, discrimination and marginalization,” Samira Zunic Velagic, one
Bosnian police launch operation to root out radical Islamists
Bosnian police on Wednesday launched an operation to root out radical Islamists, arresting several people, a week after a suspected “terrorist attack” in which a police officer was killed. “The search is underway in 32 places in Republika Srpska (the
Gunman kills Bosnian policeman in apparent Islamist attack
A gunman shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) attacked a police station in eastern Bosnia on Monday, killing one police officer and wounding two before he was shot dead, a police spokeswoman said. The attack occurred at around 7 p.m.
Bosnia’s Muslim top cleric slams Mohammed cartoon
The spiritual leader of Bosnia’s Islamic community on Thursday slammed the new issue of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for again featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that many Muslims find offensive. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the
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