Congress of Bosniaks of North America - Kongres Bošnjaka Sjeverne Amerike

09/16/2026

Washington, DC · 4–6. septembar 2026.

09/15/2026

Read the report:https://keating.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/keating-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/keating-bosnia-report.pdf

09/15/2026

This morning, Congressman U.S. Representative Bill Keating released an important congressional report examining recent U.S. policy toward Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The report raises serious questions about several consequential developments, including the removal of sanctions against Milorad Dodik and his network, the Southern Interconnection project, and U.S. policy regarding state property.

The questions raised in this report come at a particularly critical moment, as we witness growing signs of the rehabilitation and normalization of fascist and ultranationalist ideology in parts of the Western Balkans - including the public glorification of convicted war criminals and ideologies responsible for mass atrocities in the 1990s.

At a time of growing uncertainty in Bosnia and Herzegovina and across the Western Balkans, sustained bipartisan congressional attention and oversight are critically important. Decisions being made today have implications not only for Bosnia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also for regional stability and long-term U.S. interests.

For more than three decades, the United States has played an indispensable role in securing and preserving peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That leadership remains as important today as ever.

We thank Congressman Keating for his continued leadership and attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for raising difficult questions that deserve serious examination.

We encourage our community, policymakers, and all those concerned about the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans to read the full report.

09/15/2026

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Meeting Status: Scheduled Hearing Date: Tue, 09/15/2026 - 10:00 AM Location: 2172 Rayburn Witnesses Mr. Daniel J. LawtonDeputy Assistant SecretaryBureau of European and Eurasian AffairsU.S. Department of State Meeting Documents Hearing NoticeCommittee Repository Subcommittees Europe Subcommittee (11...

09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago today, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken in an act of unimaginable terror.

We remember them.

We remember the first responders and ordinary citizens who ran toward danger when every instinct told them to run away. We remember the families whose lives were forever divided into before and after September 11.

And we remember what was attacked that day.

It was more than buildings. It was a country built around an extraordinary, if imperfect, idea: that people of different faiths, races, backgrounds, and histories could belong to one nation and share in its promise of liberty.

For generations of immigrants and refugees - including so many Bosniak-Americans - that promise was not abstract. America became the place where families who had known war, persecution, and displacement could find safety, rebuild, and call this country home.

September 11 attacked that sense of safety. But it did not destroy the idea behind it.

Few images capture that better than three New York City firefighters standing amid the ruins of the World Trade Center, raising the American flag over Ground Zero.

In the hours and days that followed, Americans showed the world what that flag represented: firefighters climbing the stairs while others came down. Strangers reaching for strangers. Communities giving blood, opening their doors, comforting the grieving, and refusing to surrender to fear.

America has never been perfect. No country is. Its governments change. Its politics divide us. At times, it falls painfully short of the ideals it asks the world, and itself, to believe in.

But America is bigger than any political party, or any single moment in its history.

America remains an idea: that liberty and human dignity matter; that people should be free to worship as they choose, speak without fear, pursue opportunity, and live alongside neighbors who may look, pray, or think differently.

Those ideals are not self-sustaining. Every generation inherits the responsibility to defend them.

That, too, is part of what it means to remember September 11.

Today, we honor the lives stolen that day, the families who have carried their absence for twenty-five years, and the ideals that terror sought, and failed, to extinguish.

May we never forget.

09/11/2026

We do not make a habit of responding to Milorad Dodik’s endless rants and ramblings.

But when one of the darkest days in American history is invoked to rewrite the history of the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina for an American audience, the historical record matters.

September 11 is not a political prop.

Nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered on American soil that day. Families were shattered. First responders gave their lives trying to save others. Our nation was forever changed.

Their memory should not be appropriated to sell Americans a revisionist history in which the systematic persecution and mass killing of Bosniaks is retroactively transformed into an early front in America’s war against terrorism.

It was not.

The attempt to recast the RS entity’s wartime forces as an early front in the fight against international terrorism is historical revisionism. Russian volunteer units fought alongside those same forces - a reality conveniently absent from Dodik’s account.

More importantly, the historical record is not a matter of political interpretation. International courts established through years of evidence the persecution, concentration camps, mass executions, forced displacement and sexual violence committed during the war, culminating in the Srebrenica genocide.

Those crimes were not “counterterrorism.”

Bosniak-Americans need no lectures on the evil of terrorism. We have on many accounts unequivocally condemned all forms of extremism and every ideology that targets innocent human beings because of who they are.

For Bosniak-Americans, these histories are deeply personal. September 11 is part of our nation’s collective trauma, while the crimes committed in Bosnia touched our families and communities directly. Using the memory of one tragedy to distort the history of another does a disservice to the victims of both.

There is also important context for Americans hearing this narrative today. The RS entity has retained paid representatives in the United States to influence American officials and public opinion, while its leadership maintains what Dodik himself calls a “strategic” relationship with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. We deserve to know when our national tragedy and the historical record of another war are being used in ways that exploit our patriotism, grief, and legitimate concerns about terrorism.

September 11 should unite us in remembrance of the innocent lives taken, gratitude for those who ran toward danger, and resolve against terrorism in all its forms.

It should not be used to rewrite the history of another country’s war.

The victims of September 11 deserve to be remembered for what happened to them - not enlisted in political arguments they had nothing to do with.

Their memory deserves better.

09/10/2026

We thank Representatives Congressman Greg Murphy, MD and Congressman Marc Veasey, members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, for honoring the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and for their clear and principled message.

Their condemnation of genocide denial and the glorification of convicted war criminals, along with their call for accountability for those threatening Bosnia and Herzegovina’s peace and stability, is both timely and important.

The Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act has given the United States concrete tools to hold destabilizing actors accountable. We join Representatives Murphy and Veasey in calling for those tools to be used.

Thank you for standing firmly with truth, accountability, and the victims and survivors of the Srebrenica genocide.

WASHINGTON—Yesterday, Representative Greg Murphy (NC-03) and Representative Marc Veasey (TX-33), members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, visited the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center, toured the site with the Memorial Center’s Director, and laid a wreath in honor of the victims of the Srebren...

09/10/2026

🇺🇸🇧🇦Yesterday, Representative Greg Murphy (NC-03) and Representative Marc Veasey (TX-33), members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, visited the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center, toured the site with the Memorial Center’s Director, and laid a wreath in honor of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide.

“Remembering Srebrenica requires defending the truth. Ratko Mladić died a convicted war criminal, held responsible for genocide at Srebrenica as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes. His funeral today is not an occasion for his glorification,” Dr. Murphy and Mr. Veasey said. “Genocide denial and the glorification of convicted war criminals are not only morally wrong, but also deepen ethnic divisions, intimidate survivors, and undermine the stability and democratic future of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider region.

“We call on the Administration to fully implement existing U.S. sanctions authorities, including by restoring or imposing targeted sanctions against individuals whose actions threaten Bosnia and Herzegovina’s peace and stability or undermine the Dayton framework, pursuant to the Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act.”

09/05/2026

09/05/2026