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The European Union provided satellite photos from the Copernicus Programme to help the authorities estimate damages. Albania, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania and Turkey provided materials for emergency shelters through an EU programme. [32] [33] Kosovo has allocated €200,000 to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in its recovery from the severe ...
The highest death toll was in Sarajevo: with around 14,000 killed during the siege, [167] the city lost almost as many people as the entire war in Kosovo. In relative and absolute numbers, Bosniaks suffered the heaviest losses: 64,036 of their people were killed in Bosnia, which represents a death toll of over 3% of their entire ethnic group. [164]
Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
Serbs consider the Sarajevo wedding shooting, when a groom's father was killed on the 2nd day of the Bosnian independence referendum, 1 March 1992, as the first death of the war. [36] The Sijekovac killings of Serbs took place on 26 March and the Bijeljina massacre on 1–2 April. On 5 April, after protesters approached a barricade, a ...
Death rates from gun crime in the Western Balkans are at least 30% higher than those in the largest EU countries, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The world had said "never again" to genocide, only to abandon the people of Bosnia to an unspeakable nightmare. Today, let us remind ourselves of the consequences: Srebrenica was the worst single atrocity in Europe after World War II. We cannot pretend that Bosnia's struggles are simply in the past, nor that the country has fully stabilized.
It was the second city in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was forcefully taken over by Serb forces during the Bosnian War. [7] A total of 3,936 people were killed or went missing in the Zvornik municipality between 1992 and 1995 (of which 2,017 were Bosniak civilians), according to the Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo . [ 8 ]
JESENIK, Czech Republic/WARSAW (Reuters) - The death toll from the worst flooding central Europe has seen in at least two decades rose on Monday, as authorities in some areas counted the cost of ...