Sunday, December 26, 2010

 

A minor lynx dump for St. Stephen's Day:

Article on Holbrook:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/magazine/26holbrooke-t.html

Christmas Mass in Rome:

http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=132321037&m=1

Two sue over Dayton discrimination against Roma and Jews.

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2010/12/26/nb-03

This has been a concern for some time. Are not Roma and Jews a part of
Bosnian society? I personally met several Roma who were defenders of
Sarajevo. It is not fair they cannot take part in governing their
counttry!

SRAMOTA!!!

I guess this was inevitable:


http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/Bosnias-Serb-region-adopts-2011-austerity-budget-2010-12-23T132011Z


The Bosnian- Croat Federation is operating under a temporary budget.

BiH wants closer ties with Turkey.


http://www.todayszaman.com/news-230462-bosnia-eager-to-boost-relations-with-turkey-diplomat-says.html


# posted by Katja R. @ 5:49 PM
Comments:
Thanks for the David Rohde article on Holbrooke. We often get interesting insights from people who had walk-on parts in the history of prominent characters. The question I keep asking myself - provoked again by you raising the constitutional discrimination against anyone who is not decisively a member of one main community and an outsider from the other two - is what Holbrooke's own eventual assessment of the long-term outcome of Dayton was.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 2:02 AM
 
Thank you, Roma and Jews are not by any means the only small minority groups in BiH. Nor are the Roma or Jews uniform, utterly united poulations. This makes political unity difficult. What I did not know until I lived in BiH awhile is that there are quite a few micro-minorities. You have to be there awhile to know this. There was a T.V. Show that had information about these groups. I learned that there are Ukranians, (not the victims of trafficking) Czechs, Germans and others. All these groups maintain their own traditions, speaking their original languages in addition to Bosnian.

Maybe the negotiators of the Dayton Accord just could not handle yet another issue. Maybe they just forgot.
# posted by Blogger Katja R. : 10:59 AM
 
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