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Irish Times
April 23, 2018
Karadzic lodged 50 grounds of appeal on Monday against his 2016 conviction, when he was found responsible for crimes including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica and the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, which claimed about 10,000 lives. “Certain statements were misused, rightsÃâà...
The Times
April 16, 2018
In March 1995, Radovan Karadzic, president of Republika Srpska, issued Directive 7, ordering his troops along the Drina river to create “an unbearable situation of total insecurity, with no hope of survival or life for the inhabitants of Srebrenica and Zepa”. They could just as easily be the words of PresidentÃâà...
HeraldScotland
April 14, 2018
This weekend I will be back in Srebrenica, leading, along with Kezia Dugdale MSP, a 12 all-women delegation, visiting the sites of the genocide and hearing from survivors and those affected by what has been termed the worst atrocity in Europe since the Second World War. Within the space of a week inÃâà...
RT
April 14, 2018
On April 16, 1993, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 819, establishing the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia as a “safe area, free from any armed attack or any other hostile act.” The concept of “safe areas” was expanded on May 6, 1993, with Resolution 824 adding the cities of Sarajevo, Tuzla,Ãâà...
The Sunday Post
April 12, 2018
LABOUR MSP Kezia Dugdale is among those leading the first all-women delegation from a Scottish charity heading to Bosnia to forge links to tackle gender violence. The former Scottish Labour leader is one of 12 women visiting Bosnia with charity Remembering Srebrenica Scotland to meet organisationsÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 11, 2018
Surrounded by journalists, Seselj stood outside the Higher Court in Belgrade two weeks ago where a hearing was about to start against eight former Bosnian Serb policemen accused of killing some 1,300 Bosnian Muslims from Kravica, a village near Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia. Seselj had arrived toÃâà...
Sky News
April 11, 2018
He was not present in court on Wednesday as he undergoes treatment for colon cancer, but after the verdict said he did not regret his actions in the conflict and was "ready to repeat them in the future". He has previously rejected the genocide label given to the Srebrenica massacre, which saw Bosnian SerbÃâà...
The Guardian
April 9, 2018
Eastern Ghouta has become a Syrian Srebrenica. It is our shared shame. If morality is not enough, then consider self-interest. What difference is there, really, between unleashing chemical weapons on the streets of Douma and the streets of Salisbury? May has been at pains to stress the measures takenÃâà...
New Statesman
April 3, 2018
I was reminded of this recently when I paid my respects at the Srebrenica Memorial Cemetery in Potočari, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Potočari is home to the site of remembrance for the 8,000 men and boys who were systematically murdered because of their Muslim faith in July 1995. This was the event nowÃâà...
HSToday
April 1, 2018
... detention and transportation of Muslim prisoners. Additionally, Trisic admitted that the Bratunac Brigade, operating primarily in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was one of the military units responsible for the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre that resulted in the deaths of between 7,000 and 8,000 BosnianÃâà...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON – A Bosnian Serb residing in North Carolina was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for his criminal conviction of obtaining a Permanent Resident Card (I-551), commonly referred to as a “green card,” by making materially false claims and statements on his initial application forÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 30, 2018
Trisic had faled to disclose that he had served in the Bosnian Serb army, the Army of Republika Srpska, as a member of the Bratunac Brigade, which took part in the 1995 Bosnian Serb massacre of Bosniaks in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. In court, he admitted that he had engaged in variousÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 30, 2018
Trisic had faled to disclose that he had served in the Bosnian Serb army, the Army of Republika Srpska, as a member of the Bratunac Brigade, which took part in the 1995 Bosnian Serb massacre of Bosniaks in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. In court, he admitted that he had engaged in variousÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 29, 2018
“Give me back my son, I'll give you all the riches in the world,” Hotic told Seselj as he was addressing the media in front of the Higher Court, where a hearing in the case against eight former Bosnian Serb special policemen accusing of killing some 1,300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica was due to start.
TRT World
March 23, 2018
Srebrenica was under United Nation protection when Mladic's forces took over, killing 8,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys. (Reuters Archive) (Reuters Archive). Former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic on Thursday appealed against his convictions for genocide and war crimes, urging UNÃâà...
Independent Balkan News Agency
March 13, 2018
In his statements early after the war, Dodik said several times that the "genocide has taken place in Srebrenica" so, "Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić must be sentenced" in this regard. Less than a decade after that, Dodik became a man who repeates that there was no genocide in Srebrenica and thatÃâà...
Pulse Nigeria
March 12, 2018
Authorities in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica angered relatives of the 1995 massacre there by handing its top municipal award on Sunday to the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, local media reported. The town's city hall under its Serb mayor Mladen Grujicic awarded the distinction, the Golden Plaque ofÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 7, 2018
The professors' 27-page request lists the court's key conclusions related to the events in Srebrenica, as well as a timeline, and the connections between the times when Karadzic had certain information and gave statements, and explains which inferences and conclusions were made from these facts.
Balkan Insight
March 6, 2018
The Srebrenica municipal assembly decided on Monday that an honorary certificate of thanks will be presented to Milorad Dodik on March 11, when town's annual holiday is celebrated, sparking anger from Bosniak war victims who describe the Bosnian Serb leader as a genocide denier. “This whole storyÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 5, 2018
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Ahram Online
March 3, 2018
After the United Nations described the bombardments taking place in Eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus as producing a “hell on Earth” last week, commentators have argued that the suburb is now Syria's Srebrenica in the former Yugoslavia where the worst crimes committed on EuropeanÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 3, 2018
On cue, on February 20, and not mincing words either, the London Guardian newspaper made it unambiguously clear where the upcoming Propaganda ministerium campaign is going, even as it was gathering steam: “Eastern Ghouta is another Srebrenica, we are looking away again — The horror of theÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
More than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were murdered as part of a genocide carried out by units of Bosnian Serb forces under the command of army general Ratko Mladic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia. But Avdic managed to escape his would-be executioners – one of the only survivors of the SrebrenicaÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
More than 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were murdered as part of a genocide carried out by units of Bosnian Serb forces under the command of army general Ratko Mladic, known as the Butcher of Bosnia. But Avdic managed to escape his would-be executioners – one of the only survivors of the SrebrenicaÃâà...
NL Times
February 23, 2018
About 23 years ago in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb forces killed 7,000 Muslims while the Dutch UN peacekeepers stationed in the Muslim enclave failed to protect the population. Dutch military leadership there was accused of complicity by ignoring the situation as it developed.
The Guardian
February 20, 2018
With every child who dies, with every act of brutality that goes unpunished, eastern Ghouta more closely resembles what Kofi Annan once called the worst crime committed on European soil since 1945. Eastern Ghouta is turning into Syria's Srebrenica.
Balkan Insight
February 16, 2018
Former Srebrenica mayor Camil Durakovic confirmed on Friday that he will run for the post of president of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, in the October elections and will seek support from associations, political parties and the community. "I offer a civic-oriented, pro-European andÃâà...
Balkan Insight
February 16, 2018
The judge also said it was not apparent from the evidence that Saric had interacted with the participants in the joint criminal enterprise aimed at expelling and killing Bosniaks from Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb military and political leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. Saric was acquitted on charges ofÃâà...
RTE.ie
December 31, 1999
Mladic, once dubbed the Butcher of Bosnia, was sentenced to life imprisonment in November for his role in the Balkans war, including the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. In filings to the UN court, he asked that "all erroneous findings" be reversed or quashed. Prosecutors also filed an appeal, urging that theÃâà...
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