Bosnia Elected to UN Human Rights Council

In a 112 to 72 vote, Bosnia defeated Belarus to join Slovenia on the UN Human Rights Council.
The news was welcomed by the US State Department, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and various human rights groups.
Speaking on the election, UN Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch Steve Crawshaw, noted that while Bosnia's human rights record is far from perfect; Belarus' human rights record is simply in a "league of it's own."
According to this article Bosnia's Ambassador to the UN, Milos Prica, has called Bosnia's election to the Council a "huge achievment" and hoped the country could share the lessons it has learned from its own war torn past.
Not, everyone was so impressed. Sudan's Ambassador Abdalmahmood Mohamad seemed upset that his personal trip to the UN to vote for Belarus was for naught.

New: Srebrenica Report

Brand new reports, including transcripts and clips from the a Dutch investigative news program on the events in Srebrenica and the role of the major international powers.

Voorhoeve, minister at the time of the fall, said Friday on radioprogramme Argos that the sole responsibility for the massacre lay withthe Bosnian-Serbian army leader Mladic and his people. But from the USside, there was no willingness to defend the enclave with air support,and this policy was supported by the British and French, he stressed.

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Transcripts, Summaries, and clips from the news program.