Category: War Crimes
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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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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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Peace Reaserch and Conspiracy Theorists
This article originally appeared on Norwegian Website, Vepsen 06/03/2014 Last month many Sarajevo citizens found the way to the memorial Markale massacre 5 February 1994 (1), in which 68 people were killed when a shell hit the crowded marketplace. Massacre provoked international outrage, one year later on August 28, five Serb mortar shell landed on the same…
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Srebrenica- The remains of a young boy found in four different mass graves.
On Saturday Bosnian media reported that the body of one; Senad Beganović and his compatriot, the two years older Muvaz Orlović were identified after their remains had been exhumed from several mass graves around the Podrinje area. ( Drina Valley) Beganović was fourteen when he was killed, he was originally from Bratunac, while Muvaz (16)…
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Bikavac Live Pyre
Back in October 2013 I wrote about the Pionirska Street Live Pyre that took the lives of 53 people, mostly Bosniaks from the village of Koritnik near the town of Višegrad. Altogether some 70 people were forced into the house at gun point by Serb ultranationalist paramilitaries led by Milan Lukić and his cousin Sredoje…
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Pionirska Street Live Pyre
On Thursday 10th of October 2013 Bosnian media reported that the local authorities in the town of Višegrad decided to hold off on the planned decision about the expropriation of a house on Pionirska Street in which on June 14 1992, 53 people were burned alive by Serb paramilitaries. The decision adds to the sense…
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INTERVIEW: Greek journalist sued for writing about the presence of Greek paramilitaries in Bosnia/ Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic´s Serbia
About 10 years ago I read Greek journalist’s and author Takis Michas book on the role Greece had played during the wars in former Yugoslavia and the close relationship Serbia and Greece during those wars. A relationship that included Greece breaking the oil-embargo imposed on Serbia as a result of the sanctions on the Milošević…
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Genocide Denial and the Need for Maintaining Necessary Illusions
It is utterly depressing having to write about Bosnian Genocide and the subsequent denial of it by those that have inherited the policy of discrimination based on political racial and religious ground which was the trademark of Slobodan Milosevic main client; Radovan Karadzic and his Republika Srpska, yet here we are. Still I guess it´s…
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Joint Criminal Enterprise
On 28th of Febuary the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted on appeal Momcilo Perisic, the former Chief of Staff of the Army of Yugoslavia. He had originally been sentenced to 27 years for his role in assisting and supporting war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia. The trial chamber originally found Perisic…
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The trouble with Vuk and Tomo
Imagine if twenty years after the Second World War, a German diplomat who also happens to be the chairman of the UN General Assembly decided to schedule a debate on the work and the findings of the Nuremburg trials. Also imagine if one of the main speakers was the German head of state, who during…
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