Oslobodjenje

Oslobodjenje, which means "Liberation," was founded in 1943 as an underground organ of Marshal Tito's Communist Partisan movement, whose ranks in Bosnia included Serbs, Muslims and Croats fighting alongside one another. The staff had rebelled against Communist Party control in the late 1980s, in order to establish their newspaper as a genuinely democratic media enterprise, but they retained the Communist's distaste for nationalist politics. When separate Serb, Croat and Muslim political parties were formed in advance of the 1990 elections, Oslobodjenje critisized them all, throwing its support instead behind parties with pan-national programs. In early 1992, when Serb nationalists sought to block the Bosnian independence drive and demanded that the republic be partitioned along ethnic lines, Oslobodjenje aligned itself with the Bosnian government in opposing the Serb campaign."-- taken from Sarajevo daily: a city and its newspaper under seige, by Tom Gjelten, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-06-019052-3. The former Oslobodenje publication weekly magazine Svijet, has recently reappeared as an independent publication Sarajevski Svijet with an on-line edition in Bosnian. For now, I will continue to post translations of articles from Svijet together with those from Oslobodenje since the same journalists and commentators still write for both publications. Svijet can be reached on svijet@bih.net.ba. Oslobodenje has also recently launched an on-line edition with a selection of the articles from the printed edition (the site has been inactive since mid-July 1999). In Bosnian. Oslobodenje can be reached on info@oslobodjenje.net

Unfortunately, Svijet yet again had to stop publication in late 1999 (September-October). On the other hand, Oslobodjenje was fiinally privatized in May 2000. It is now owned by its employees and "their partner from Germany".

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