Census sparks tensions across Balkans

[Pete]

Census sparks tensions across Balkans

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=425867&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

".......Because of the painful history organisation of the count sparked debate and controversy throughout the region: from Macedonia, where ethnic Albanians fear that their importance will be reduced, across Montenegro, where there are complaints that Serbs are being “assimilated”, to Bosnia which did not even manage to adopt a census law..............."

The Balkans - what can ya' say.

[Richard]

Tensions there go way back - and then not so far back...

And so it goes...

Richard :munchin

Dark Past in Balkan War Intrudes on New Life
NYT, 3 aPR 2011

...the woman known here (sTANTON, ky) as Issabell is identified in court papers as Azra Basic, and prosecutors in Bosnia allege that in 1992 she was part of a vicious brigade of Croatian Army soldiers that tortured and killed ethnic Serbs at three detention camps in the early years of the Bosnian war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/us/04hide.html