“[US photographer] Ron Haviv’s 1992 picture of a Serbian paramilitary fighter kicking the lifeless body of a middle-aged woman who his comrades had killed just moments earlier may not have changed the course of the Bosnian war like Nick Ut’s famous photograph of a naked Vietnamese girl running away after a napalm attack in her village.
But to those who at that point had still not fully understood the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ - which reporters were using to describe what was going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina - the shocking photograph quickly explained how dirty the ‘cleansing’ really was.”
Read Igor Spaic’s full story on Ron Haviv’s new documentary on capturing the image of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
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The Presidents and Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo “agreed to leave the tensions behind and to focus on the work ahead,” EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement following the high level meeting in Brussels.
“Both sides agreed to take the Dialogue forward in a spirit of respect, cooperation and mutual understanding. Discussions between the sides will intensify over the next days. We decided to have a series of rounds of the high level Dialogue, starting from the coming days,” Mogherini said.
EU foreign affairs chief also stated that “progress in the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is essential: for Kosovo and Serbia, for the European Union itself, and the Western Balkans region as a whole.”
“Advancing in the Dialogue is key for both sides in moving forward on their respective paths towards the European Union.
“I am encouraged by the leadership, vision, commitment and engagement shown by the political leaders today to address and solve issues of mutual concern through the Dialogue,” said Mogherini.
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Politicians in the Balkans frequently accuse the EU of double standards in its dealings with the region. Do they have a point?
In the months-long protests in Serbia, those marching every weekend are not all demonstrating for purely political reasons – but also to raise their voices over other burning everyday problems.