Marija Arnautovic is a reporter for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Bosnian emigrants made headlines recently when France deported an entire Muslim family for beating a love-struck teen over her wish to marry an Orthodox Serb. It's still frowned upon by many in their emotionally scarred homeland.
While EU leaders mull a controversial new system for migration, disturbing reports are emerging of migrants being beaten and abused by Croatian police as they seek to enter the European Union via Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Trapped by Bosnian Serb troops, tens of thousands of Sarajevo residents endured almost four years of daily fire from heavy artillery and snipers in the nearby hills.
Dozens of Serbian workers have returned to Serbia and the ethnic-Serbian part of Bosnia with horror stories of their time working construction jobs at the Russian Olympic host city of Sochi.
Thousands of Bosnians are gathering in Sarajevo for another day of protests against the government's failure to set aside ethnic divisions and pass a law providing basic identification documents for infants. The so-called "baby-lution" has seen a rare show of ethnic unity among Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks, and has won support throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina and even Serbia.
The Serbian Orthodox Church has formally removed from duty a powerful 74-year-old cleric bishop implicated in a sex scandal allegedly involving orgies and the rape of underage boys and girls.
April 6 marks 20 years since the start of the siege of Sarajevo, a 44-month blockade of the city by Bosnian Serb forces. All of Bosnia was ravaged by the war, but it was the siege of its capital city, together with the Sarajevo market massacre, that represented the worst of the horrors of the Bosnian War. RFE/RL reports from Sarajevo, a city that refused to die but where the war lives on.
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," tells the story of an ethnically mixed couple that is torn apart by the country's civil war. Initially, victims' groups resisted the film. On December 8, Jolie brought the film to Sarajevo for a special screening.
Still recovering from the ravages of war, Bosnians have no shortage of anxiety, what with growing unemployment and poverty. This has sparked a rise in depression, and with it, a rise in the use of tranquilizers and antidepressants.
The genocide trial of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic opened in The Hague today with Karadzic boycotting the proceedings. The trial was adjourned, with judges saying they may be forced to appoint a legal team to represent Karadzic.
