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In Memoriam
András Riedlmayer
1947-2026
Longtime advisor and contributor to Balkan Witness
 

The Andras Riedlmayer Collection

   Tributes from:

University of Sarajevo Oriental Institute
...
"Andras served as an expert witness on the systematic destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s cultural heritage before international courts from 1992 to 1996. He was also one of the founders of the Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project, aimed at restoring the destroyed manuscript collections of the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo, which lost thousands of Arabic, Ottoman, Persian, and Bosnian manuscripts in the fire caused by a phosphorus shell on May 17, 1992."

Marko Attila Hoare

Jasmin Mujanović, author of The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide

Harvard Fine Arts Library

US Committee of the Blue Shield

Darryl Li

Center for Bosnian Studies

The crisis in Kosovo found many progressives concerned about the plight of the ethnic Albanians yet distrustful of NATO intervention. A major difficulty for most Americans is our lack of familiarity with the history of the former Yugoslavia. Most people were largely unaware of events there until the beginning of NATO military action.

This site presents a number of first-hand reports, histories, commentaries, and links to other information sources. We sincerely hope that this first-hand perspective will give us the information we need to understand events in Kosovo in their historical context.

We hope that these observations will provide a glimpse behind the headlines into the heart of the Kosovo conflict.

Our present focus is on countering the disinformation being spread in support of enduring Serbian denial of war crimes. This denial is propagated not only within Serbia but outside as well. See War-crimes Deniers.

 

NEW Trump’s tinderbox: US politics and the next war in the Balkans

Though some international observers have criticized the Biden administration for its concessions to Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s president, it deserves credit for containing Belgrade’s ability to realize its ambitions and preventing two worst-case scenarios: the disintegration of the Bosnian state and armed escalation between Serbia and Kosovo.

That fragile status-quo comes under significant threat from a new Trump presidency in the US. Among other risks, his second administration may seek to reverse sanctions that have constrained separatist appetites among Bosnian Serbs and to revive dangerous proposals for a Serbia-Kosovo land swap. Peace in the region is at stake. By Adnan Ćerimagić and Majda Ruge, European Council on Foreign Relations, October 29, 2024
 


Crisis in Bosnia:
The secessionist threats of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik

 

 
Ethnic Albanians celebrate Kosovo’s declaration of independence
Ethnic Albanians celebrate Kosovo's declaration of independence.
Kosovo Declares Its Independence from Serbia February 17, 2008 Slide show

World court says Kosovo's independence declaration did not break international law July 2010


Speech by war-crimes denier Michael Parenti
cancelled by U.S. peace group, May 2012
A campaign by progressives, Bosniak survivors, and Muslims
convinced the group to withdraw a speaking invitation to Parenti.
 

Updated February 17, 2026

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