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Gino Yevdjevich – who goes by “Gino” — is the founder and lead singer of the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.

‘Sing every single song like it’s your last’: How conflict in Sarajevo changed this musician’s life

Movement

Thirty years ago, war raged in the city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, where Gino Yevdjevich was once a pop artist. In our latest segment of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, we hear how this conflict changed Gino’s life and led him to create the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.

Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere rest on the ground as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus

Polish border police push back migrants at Belarus border

Top of The World
Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Milorad Dodik holds a speech during the 4th Budapest Demographic Summit in Budapest, Hungary

Bosnia faces the most serious crisis since the Balkans War, analyst says

Conflict
A man holds a flag and sticks his arm out of a car window, smiling and celebrating.

Montenegro was a success story in troubled Balkan region – now its democracy is in danger

Conflict & Justice
A medical worker gives a shot of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to a woman during the vaccination in Belgrade, Serbia, Feb. 17, 2021. 

Serbia lets people choose their COVID-19 vaccine. Some call it a ‘political ballot.’

COVID-19
A woman stands at a memorial.

25 years after Srebrenica massacre, int’l crimes are still difficult to prosecute

Justice

In 1990, Bosnian Serb forces killed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys during the Balkan conflict in what’s now known as the Srebrenica massacre. It was the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II. But 25 years on, war crimes and crimes against humanity are rarely prosecuted. David Scheffer, who was the US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues from 1997 to 2001, explains why.

Migrants rest in a dorm destroyed during the Bosnian 1992-1995 war, in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, May 11, 2018.

Bosnia emerges as new underground migrant route while Europe’s borders tighten

Conflict & Justice

Bosnia, a small mountainous country with a population of around 3.5 million, recorded only 775 migrant arrivals for the whole of 2017. The country’s minister of security said that 7,128 migrants had been registered since the beginning of 2018.

poison in The Hague

Convicted war criminal drinks ‘poison’ in court, dies

Justice

A Bosnian Croat wartime commander has died after ingesting ‘poison’ after a verdict was upheld at The Hague.

A woman writes in a book inside a traveling monument called 'Prijedor 92' outside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY

What does justice in the former Yugoslavia look like 25 years later?

Conflict

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) — created by the UN in 1993 to address war crimes during the Bosnian war — has issued its last conviction.

A Bosnian Muslim woman and child cry near the coffin of their relative, which is one of the 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in the Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica, July 10, 2014.

Young Bosnians react to Mladić conviction

Conflict

The conviction of former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladić divided people in his former home country.