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    May 5th, 2017 Bosnia and Herzegovina is located upon the Balkan Peninsula within Southern Europe. Sarajevo is the capital city and also holds the title for the largest city within Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the time zone known as “ancient” or during the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. the native name of the land was Illyricum. This piece of land was shuffled through many rulers such as the Roman Province, Goths, Byzantine Empire, Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Bosnia and Herzegovina has been involved

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    SARAJEVO (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) I landed in the capital of Bosnia early in the morning , while the city was still waking up. It was the first time I was in this part of Europe, and I was pretty excited to see what is waiting for me. I heard many stories about the Bosnian war, but I was positively surprised while I was driving with a cab around the city. Moreover, it looks quite modern, though truth be told, here and there you can see the scars of the war. The hotel where I stayed is the greatest

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    Bosnia and Herzegovina and its cultural differences The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have had a tremendous history. The diversity of its people is not unlike that of the United States. In the United States there are many different cultures such as Hispanics, Germans, Italians, Jewish, Irish, and many more. These are the groups currently practicing in Bosnia: Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, Orthodox Catholics, and some smaller groups. A majority of the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats are

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    2. Methods This report aims to investigate causes of unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as problems and solutions of unemployment in this country. Exploration of causes of unemployment is analyzed by utilizing of the book written by Rajko Tomas entitled Nezaposleni. Moreover, data related to problems of unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is gathered from the book by Miomir Jaksic entitled Makroekonomija. The articles related to poverty and going abroad of young population are collected

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    behind trends so we might mitigate in a productive and beneficial way. Also it is imprtant to understand the trends that occur after particular events so we might predict future needs. This report will look at two developing countries, Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina(BIH), who share a bloody past, one from the position of agresor, one of an occupied country. The aim is to see how the the conflict and its consequences influenced their GDP, poverty levels and migrations. And how has the change in

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    that records the events within the city from April 5th 1992 to February 28th 1994. The document’s purpose is to shine a light and describe the consequence of the Battle of Sarajevo and its violations of human law. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city’s name is derived from ‘Seraglio’, meaning ‘palace in the fields’ in Turkish. Sarajevo’s history dates back to Roman times with the Slavs eventually conquering the area. The cities architecture is comprised of 3 influences, which

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    Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo Abstract As a criminal investigator, I choose to view the genocide that occurred in Bosnia -Herzegovina and Kosovo as plain ordinary murder, albeit murder on a massive scale and murder that has many different types of victims. In this paper I tried to outline some of the background of the country and its people attempting to show these events as a crime scene. Introduction The purpose of this paper was to inform of the genocides that took

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    class including all members of the group. Killing all the people in a family was considered the root and branch method. This was used to assure that no other generations could come in the future. This is not the case for all genocides. In the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide, battle-aged men were murdered while the women were taken as sex slaves. This is still considered genocide because the Serbs, killing all males who were Muslim or Croats, would make it impossible for them to continue to reproduce and

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    tragic genocides was with the Nazi Holocaust that took place from 1938 until 1945. Another one of the horrifying genocides in history was the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide that took place from 1992 until 1995. A genocide is essentially a systematic murder. Genocide is basically an attempted murder on individuals based on social or political reasons. Bosnia-Herzegovina was responsible for 200,000 deaths and the Nazi Holocaust was responsible for 6,000,000 deaths! Just because the amount of deaths between

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    The Bosnian Genocide: 1992-1995 From 1992 to 1995, Bosnia experienced an extended period of turbulence due to a Serbian nationalist movement that resulted in violent upheaval. After many years of being part of an empire or another country, Bosnia finally gained the opportunity to be independent in 1992. Yet there was little reason to rejoice independence when many non-Serbs were dispossessed of their home in Bosnia. Although this genocide was coined “ethnic cleansing,” in the early stages

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