Bosnian War

Bosnia still has about 120,000 unexploded landmines from the war that raged there in the early 1990s. Now, after a week of heavy rains, flooding and landslides, those mines are on the move.Bosnia still has about 120,000 unexploded landmines from the war that raged there in the early 1990s. Now, after a week of heavy rains, flooding and landslides, those mines are on the move.

Former Bosnian military commander Ratko Mladic came face-to-face with the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, for the first time in two decades at a criminal court in the Hague. But he refused to testify for his old ally.

Bosnia, a republic of the former Yugoslavia, was torn apart by ethnic violence in the early 1990s. A diplomatic breakthrough helped end that war in 1995.

The conflict in the former Yugoslavia offers some lessons for policymakers considering how to intervene in Syria. Reuters columnist David Rohde has covered both struggles and sees some parallels.

Srebrenica was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the lengthy Serbian civil war. Thousands of Bosniaks, Bosnian Muslims, were killed there. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is largely Serbian. But a quirk of policy has allowed Bosniaks who moved out of town to continue to vote in the city’s elections. But that’s poised to change.