Sadik Salimovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Teen karatekas Merjema, Kristina, and Aldijana have no trouble ignoring the kind of differences that fueled a genocide in their hometown just decades ago. The result is lasting friendship and international karate success.
"When they admit that genocide was committed in Srebrenica...and apologize to the victims, ask for forgiveness, then we can build a monument to peace."
As a 7-year-old, he lost nearly everything in the Srebrenica massacre, but a Facebook campaign is giving him a new chance.
A proposed memorial to a former leading Russian diplomat who controversially vetoed a UN resolution marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica is angering many in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where ethnic tensions simmer just below the surface.
Nihad Catic was a reporter broadcasting from Srebrenica when the town fell into the hands of Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. He is one of the more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed in Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
