Twenty years ago today, shots were fired on peaceful protesters in Sarajevo, igniting Bosnia’s brutal three-and-a-half-year war. Today, there is peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina but hardly stability.
Bosnian-Americans in the Chicago area today welcomed news that longtime war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been captured in Serbia. Mladic is expected to stand trial at the International Criminal Court at the Hague for crimes dating back to when he was a Bosnian-Serb General.
