Serb Who Led Bosnian Forces Back Home After Austrian Extradition Battle -video-

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Last updated (GMT/UTC): 29.07.2011 16:18

By RFE/RL
WATCH: Supporters and friends of the 72-year-old Divjak welcomed him back after his arrival in Sarajevo from nearly five months awaiting an extradition ruling in Austria. (Video by RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
By RFE/RL
SARAJEVO -- The retired Serbian-born Bosnian army general at the center of a high-profile extradition battle has arrived in Sarajevo following Austrian authorities' dismissal of a Serbian handover request, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports....more...
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Bosnian Intellectuals Rally for Divjak

balkan insight
13 JUL 2011 / 14:36

A group of Bosnian artists and intellectual has called for the release of Bosnian Army General Jovan Divjak, who was arrested in Vienna on March 3.

Eldin Hadzovic Sarajevo

Divjak was taken into custody in response to a request from Serbia, where he is suspected of war crimes against the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA.

He was placed in home custody by an Austrian court, where he awaits a decision on extradition to Serbia. Bosnia has also sent an extradition request for him....more...

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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-intellectuals-rally-for-divjak

Ex General Divjak Asks to Return to Bosnia

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10 JUN 2011 / 16:13


Retired Bosnian Army general Jovan Divjak, who was arrested in Vienna in March on a Serbian warrant, has asked Austria to allow him to return to Bosnia as soon as possible


Daily.tportal.hr, Radio.net

Divjak, who was released on bail shortly after his arrest, is awaiting extradition hearings in Austria. Serbia has requested his extradition

as part of investigation into his alleged involvement in an attack on a convoy of the Yugoslav People's Army as it was leaving Sarajevo in May 1992.....more....
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Sarajevo massacre of JNA troops commemorated

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Region

Tuesday 3.05.2011
14:28
Source: Tanjug

SARAJEVO -- The commemoration of the deaths of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) soldiers in Sarajevo's Dobrovoljačka Street passed without incidents on Tuesday.
This was the case although the Sarajevo Canton police violated an earlier agreement by not allowing a three-member Serb delegation to lay wreaths at the place of the murder of the soldiers, citing security reasons....more...
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Bosnian Serbs Mark Anniversary of Dobrovoljacka Incident

balkan insight
03 May 2011 / 14:04

Representatives of Republika Srpska on Tuesday marked 19 years since a convoy of the Yugoslav People’s Army was attacked in Dobrovoljacka Street as it was leaving Sarajevo at the beginning of the siege of the city.
Eldin Hadzovic

Sarajevo
The Committee for Nurturing the Traditions of Liberation Wars of Republika Srpska, which was formed by the government in the majority Serb entity, headed to Sarajevo for the second year in a row on Tuesday to light candles for those killed and leave white roses at the site of the incident....more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-serbs-mark-19-years-of-dobrovoljacka-incident

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