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This is one of the biggest archeolical stories in the Balkans, and certainly in the history of Split. For a very long time no one has known where the sarcophagus of Emperor Dioclecian has been. Now someone has found it.
http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20060616/index.asp

http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20060616/split01.asp
Some may remember that Bosnia Hercegovina pulled the citizenship of a number of people suspected of terrorist activities.In some cases this was well justified, but whenever a nation does this on any large scale, it's open to questiion.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR630112006
A new mass grave was found near Srebenica two weeks ago, and now it's being excavated. Funny I don't remember seeing anything about it in the various news sources I check, not in English, not in Bosnian.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/16-06-2006/82103-Srebrenica-0
Romania finds no evidence of CIA prisons
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1665219.htm

A group is giving free TV sets to Kosovo Serbian communities. I remember a discussion in the comments section of another blog where the ability to watch TV at all in Kosovo came under discussion. It's worth mentioning that TV reception in the Balkans is not at the standards usual in most Western countries due to factors like weather and terrain, but it's generally available, and a lot of people have satellite dishes. TV is the main news source actually. There are however areas like Kosovo where it's one way or another not available. Now for some nice electricity! That would be the second problem! Privatization hasn't helped with this either!

com/news/technology/540136/serbian_company_donates_tvs_to_serb_communities_in_kosovo/index.html?source=r_technology

I got up early to feed the dog, he is a very good dog, and I think he was happy that he has a new bag of dog food to eat from. Yesterday in all the excitement there was a fledgling robin who was making her first flight. She flew very low and the dog caught her. I don't believe he meant to harm her, just wanted to help actually. Anyway I got the dog to leave her alone, picked her up and let her go, since she wanted to go, and birds that can fly are ok right?
he caught her again so I took her to the front yard. I put her in a tree, hoping the other birds who were chirping madly would come to her aid. No such thing happened. She had no obvious injuries, all her feathers were there, and she could perch, but she must have had some sort of internal injuries as she died. I went in to get her something to eat, and some water and came back finding her near death. I still tried to coax her to eat. And she didn't. So not wishing to spoil the kids camping trip I told them she'd flown off to be with the other birds and later buried her.
She may have had some internal injuries. It's hard to read bird's expressions, but I think she was in pain, and probably terrified by her encounter with the very well meaning dog, and probably afraid of me too. Birds don't normally allow humans to handle them, but both kids carried her too, and so did I. She seemed ok with being carried. She did not resist it, or make a serious effort to fly away. We all handled her VERY carefully. The kids would have been terribly sad had I told them the truth. So I didn't. I wanted them to enjoy their trip.I know something is wrong when a bird will fly that low close to where a dog is and healthy wild birds really resist being anywhere near humans.

Updates:

Carina Kontrol
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=124&newsid=90477&ch=0&datte=2006-06-16



Relief at Hague Decision not to try Croatian Journalists
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18047
Serbia loses to Argentina in World Cup