Showing posts with label Srebrenica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Srebrenica. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Srebrenica victims buried

Or actually "reburied" is the more correct term, because the victims were already buried in primary and secondary graves on the behalf of the VRS to hide the evidence of their murders.

Articles
I thought this excerpt was interesting:
For the first time since the 1995 atrocity, when Bosnian Serb forces
slaughtered 8,000 Muslims, the ceremony takes place in an atmosphere of raised
hopes that justice will be done and those responsible for the killings will
finally be prosecuted.

One can only hope.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Film: Statement 710399

The collective experience is comprised of individual stories and experiences. And the stories of individuals form part of the collective experience. A new documentary, Statement 710399 by Refik Hodzic focuses on the indvidual stories of four men who survived the genocide in Srebrenica and who were taken in by a Serb family; only to disappear again.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Reaffirmation of genocide

A bit lost in the shuffle is the ICJ's reaffirmation of the ICTY's decisions in numerous cases that genocide occured at Srebrenica. I would like to say that such a ruling would finally shut up those who claim that genocide did not occur in Srebrenica, but I have been around too long to be that naive.

As the President noted reading the verdict summary:

Judge Higgins said: “The acts committed at Srebrenica . . . were committed with the specific intent to destroy in part the group of the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina as such, and accordingly. . . these were acts of genocide committed by Bosnian Serb forces. The court has found that [Serbia] could, and should, have acted to prevent the genocide, but did not.”

Unfortunately, Mr. Dodik has apparently failed to recieve a copy of the ICJ's verdict, or of the ICTYs verdicts as well, as he apparently still believes that genocide did not occur at Srebrenica.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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.

http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0702&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&P=55417

Transcripts, Summaries, and clips from the news program.