Tag: Bosnia
I hope everybody’s weekends are going well! Here are some great reads for you to look back on this past week. Olympic Game: Washington Hopes Sochi Will Force Putin’s Hand on Syria I don’t know about that… It certainly doesn’t seem that way. Russia is again paralyzing the Security Council on a crucial Syria resolution. CAR is Falling Apart. And Everyone Knows Why Despite the Security Council resolutions, the peacekeeping troops on ground, and the new president elected, things don’t seem to improve in the CAR. Why Bosnians Are Protesting Great piece on Bosnia after the Dayton Peace Accords and…
Happy Bastille Day to everybody reading from France! Just when I announced layoff season last week, things got going again. Which I don’t mind at all since I can’t take off time for a holiday this year anyway. Let’s see what I have found worthy of reading and sharing this week. On world affairs: Laura Dean’s Cairo Diary Please keep following Laura Dean’s Cairo Diary on Lawfare. Yes, I am recommending this for the second time, but it really is that good! How We Are Failing Syrian People Yet another piece on how the international community is failing to do…
June is my favorite month of the year! With the longest daylight hours, the hot weather (which I hope will arrive in Hungary soon), all the great outdoor events – concerts and festivals, and so on. Reading outdoors until like 9 p.m. on long June nights used to be my favorite thing in the world! I have great expectations for this month and also some good ideas and plans for this blog that I hope you’ll like! Until then, here’s what I have today: On world affairs: Guéhenno: lifting European arms embargo on Syrian rebels ‘backfired’ Yes, the decision did…
Radovan Karadzic opens his defence on genocide charges – Telegraph Describing himself as “mild and tolerant”, Radovan Karadzic has today disputed how many Bosnian Muslims died in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as he begins his defence against charges of genocide and war crimes.
thalamtnafsee: [Flickr] 8372 civilians murdered in the course of six days during the Bosnian massacre, today, July 11, we commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
find no enemy: Ratko Mladic goes on trial for genocide. lifeisliterallylimited: Bosnian Serb military leader faces 11 counts of war crimes at UN court over Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo. The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special UN court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia made their opening statements against Mladic on Wednesday almost a year after his arrest in Serbia and subsequent deportation after years on the run. Mladic is accused…
: Thousands of red chairs are standing empty along Sarajevo’s main avenue on Friday as Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 20th anniversary since the start of the country’s war. A classical orchestra will play a concert for the 11,541 empty seats, one for each civilian killed during a near-four-year siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces, which became a symbol of the 1992-1995 conflict.
Bosnia Marks 20 Years of the Beginning of Its War – ABC News Exactly 11,541 red chairs have been lined up in rows along Sarajevo’s main street — one for every man, woman and child killed in the siege that ended up being the longest in modern history.
Christiane Amanpour: Bosnia’s lesson for Syrian slaughter Amanpour: Bosnia was where I learned objectivity does not mean drawing a false moral equivalence
