Category: English
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What´s Wrong With Handke?
This article originally appeared in Norwegian on the website of Klasskampen.no on September 10th as a part of the debate on the controversial decision to award Peter Handke the Ibsen Award. Written by lyricist, playwright and translator Øyvind Berg who is well acquainted with Handke´s work and his political views, especially his Serbia activism. Article…
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With Šešelj’s Release from the Hague, Can There be Justice on the Ground in Bosnia?
This is a guest post by Professor David Pettigrew. This article was published in Bosnian on Al-Jazeera Balkans 9-12-14 The recent release of ultranationalist demagogue Vojislav Šešelj1 from his detention at the Hague, for “compelling humanitarian reasons,”2 raises new questions about the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Šešelj…
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Paklenik Massacre
Paklenik massacre exhumation 31.8.2000 On 29th of October Bosnian State Court in Sarajevo found Predrag Milisavljević and Miloš Pantelić, two members of the Reserve Police within the Public Security Station in Višegrad guilty of murder. The two men were sentenced to 20 years in prison for the execution of 48 Bosniak civilians from Višegrad in…
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The Norwegian Yugoslavia-Syndrome
This article originally appeared in Norwegian on the website of VG Nyheter as a part of the debate on the controversial decision to award Peter Handke The Ibsen Award. Written by Balkan-expert and senior adviser to The Norwegian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; Aage Borchgrevink This article has been translated and published with the author´s permission. …
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The intellectual and the totalitarian – a sad affair
This article appeared on Friday 19.9.2014 on the website of VG Nyheter in Norwegian as a part of the debate about the controversial decision to award the prestigious Ibsen Award to Peter Handke. Written by professor Øystein Sørensen of Oslo University. On Sunday, Austrian Peter Handke will receive The Ibsen Award. Handke is one of today’s…
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Sarajevo Remembers Second Markale Market Massacre
This week saw Sarajevans pay their respect to the victims of the second Markale Market massacre which took place 28th august 1995 and took the lives of 43 people and injured another 75 when a shell fired from Serb position outside the city landed in the crowded marketplace. According to the UN-report on the situation in Bosnia…
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Mladić Plaque in East Sarajevo: A Continuation of the Genocide
This is a guest post by David Pettigrew, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University. I am honoured to share this on my blog, Bosnian version of Professor Pettigrew´s text was published today by Al Jazeera Balkans In June there were reports that a commemorative plaque honoring Ratko Mladić had been installed in…
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Remembering the Murders and Abuse of Bosniaks in Rogatica
Yesterday marked the 22 anniversary of the killings of Bosniaks in the Rogatica area in eastern Bosnia. Rogatica sits between Srebenica Visegrad and Gorazde about 60 km from Sarajevo nestled on Romanija Mountain. The anniversary of the killings and torture was marked by a commemoration as former prisoners as well as families of the dead vsited the former detention…
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Bosnia Buries Victims Of Tomasica Mass Grave
Last September ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons) and members of Bosnia´s Institute For Missing Persons revealed that they had finally been establish the location of what later turned out to be one of the biggest mass graves in Europe after World War Two, Tomasica, near Prijedor in North west Bosnia where so far 435 victims…
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Open Letter To ICTY President Theodor Meron
This is a guest post by professor David Pettigrew. Dear President Meron: I am writing to you to express a grave concern about the ICTY’s prosecution of Mr. Radovan Karadžić, particularly regarding the removal of Višegrad and other municipalities from the indictment. Approximately one year ago, on July 11, 2013, the Appeals Chamber…
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