The newspaper - in English (12 pages) (PDF / 6.65KB)

• Bosnian town's symbol of unity - kung fu legend Bruce Lee The ethnically divided Bosnian city of Mostar has agreed to erect a new symbol of unity - a statue of kung fu legend Bruce Lee, worshipped by Muslims, Serbs and Croats..... (Reuters/MSNBC - 12 September, 2005)

• Obstacles to Reconciliation
A priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Bosnian town of Prijedor, Ranko Maletic, urges his congregation every Sunday sermon to respect the rights of all their neighbors and help returnees to the Prijedor region make a peaceful and dignified life for themselves. Every Friday, Imam Merzuk Efendi Hadzirasidovic, sends the same message to Muslims gathered in the mosque. Despite this, however, attacks against religious buildings, not only in the Prijedor region, but throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, are ever more frequent......
(by Ljiljana Kovacevic - BETA - MDI, 2003)

• Female War Victims
Hajra Catic, from Srebrenica, on the 11th day of every month joins peaceful demonstrations organized by Mothers about family members who disappeared during the Bosnian Serb campaign against their two native towns......
(by Merima Spahic - BETA - MDI, 2003)

• Kumanovo's Attempt at Reconciliation
A time-bomb planted in front of the Goce Delcev high school in the Macedonian city of Kumanovo killed one passer-by and wounded another five people, including a 16-year-old pupil who was leaving the school building. The bomb exploded on Dec. 27 at 4:45 p.m., exactly at the time when classes were to end. A tragedy was avoided purely by accident, thanks to the forgetfulness of a cleaning woman, Silva Ristic. "I was talking to the other cleaners and forgot to ring the bell on time. I was two minutes late," said Ristic......
(by Snezana Lupevska - BETA - MDI, 2003)

• Vojvodina Germans Seek Moral and Cultural Rehabilitation
Franz Jerger, 72, holds firmly a snapshot of his family while standing in front of a monument to Germans who died in a communist camp in Knicanin, Vojvodina. Almost all his brothers and sisters were killed in the camp immediately after World War II. As he remembers these events, his eyes begin filling with tears......
(by Darko Sper - BETA - MDI, 2003)

• Two War Buddies
Suad Jasarevic, 10, says he wants to be a painter when he grows up. Then, he says, he could repaint the Rada Vranjesevic Centre for Children Without Parents in Banjaluka, where he has been living ever since war broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is to say a whole decade ago
(by Ljiljana Kovacevic - BETA - MDI, 2002)

• A Multiethnic Police Force: Macedonia's New Hope for Peace
In September Fihret Elmazi, a 34-year-old officer of Macedonia's multiethnic police force, was murdered in the village of Bogovinje in Tetovo municipality, an area that saw fierce fighting between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian security forces last year. He was shot dead while standing in front of a police station that had opened justtwo days before. Elmazi was one member of a four-man police unit thatpatrolled the village......
(by Snezana Lupevska - BETA - MDI, 2002)

• Three Years Under House Arrest
"Mr. Milos Nekic has been barricaded in his house since 1999 and cannot leave it, not even for basic reasons. Do you, people of Prizren, believe that a 73-year-old man should not be allowed to lead a normal life in your town if he is not of the same ethnic background as you?" Kosovo Ombudsman Marek Nowicki asked the town's Albanian residents, who have not been letting this elderly Serb leave his home in downtown Prizren for three years......
(by Haris Velijevic - BETA - MDI, 2002)

• Missing People: The Agony of Not Knowing
Radivoje Simovic from Montenegro and Katica Majic from Vukovar (eastern Croatia) for ten years have been sharing the same pain. Radivoje is searching for his brother Ratko, who disappeared in Bosnia as a Yugoslav People's Army reservist, and Katica hasn't heard anything about her son Robert who, as a member of the Croatian army, disappeared in Vukovar after Serb forces captured the town......
(by Sandra Caric and Marija Prijic-Sladic - BETA - MDI, 2002)

• Pupils Reject Ethnic Divisions
Pupils in the ethnically-mixed Bolaj Farkasz high school, from the Romanian town of Trgu Mures, gave a veritable lecture urging the school authorities and their parents to be tolerant: they refused to accept a decision to have classes held exclusively in Hungarian this school year, meaning that the pupils of Romanian ethnicity should move to other schools......
(by Mirko Atanackovic - BETA - MDI, 2002)