Only Vultures and the Holy Care

In Banja Luka, the administrative center of Bosnia’s Serb state Republika Srpska, people seem to hardly take notice of Ratko Mladić‘ death. Mladić‘ war crimes had helped forge Republika Srpska in the 1990s. The only ones who seem to care are football hooligans and the devout. A dispatch from a divided country.

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Identity Politics A Genocide Later

Many members of Croatia’s Serb minority feel they are put under pressure to deny what they see as their ethnic and religious identity in the country’s current census. A hitherto unkown group appeals for people to declare themselves to be members of a „Croatian-Orthodox Church“. This brings back memories of WW II, when Croatian Fascists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Europe’s probably cruellest genocide to date.

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