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Srebrenica

"Justice May Be Slow but It Is Inevitable"

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey

Nikolić's and Jeremić's promotion of historical revisionism that denies genocide and accentuates ethnic chauvinism negates what many in Washington and Brussels may wishfully want to see as a more politically progressive Serbia.

Re-living the Balkan Wars Through Serbian Eyes

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 04.11.2013 | World
Evelyn Leopold

The president of the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold an all day debate on whether international justice promoted reconciliation. But his real purpose was to undermine a war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia because of a perceived bias towards Serbs.

Is UN Failing Syria and the Rule of Law -- Mimicking Bosnia?

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey | Posted 04.28.2013 | World
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey

When Kofi Annan last spring assumed the role of UN and Arab League Special Envoy for Syria, the lessons he learned as head of UN Peacekeeping during the Srebrenica genocide should have provided a compass for his new mandate.

UN Court Convicts Serb Officer In Genocide Case

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 02.11.2013 | World

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A U.N. war crimes court convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb army commander Wednesday of genocide for playing a key r...

The Likes of Me

Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 01.20.2013 | World
Jasmina Tesanovic

A couple of days ago, the two former members of the Croatian military won a "not guilty" sentence in the Hague international war crime tribunal. I wa...

Forbidden Love Story Sends Message Of Hope

Reuters | Posted 12.11.2012 | World

By Daria Sito-Sucic SREBRENICA, Bosnia, Oct 12 (Reuters) - To an outsider, there may be nothing strange in the love story between Almi...

Bosnians To Bury 520 Srebrenica Genocide Victims

AP | AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 09.09.2012 | World

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The pain that seared Srebrenica 17 years ago burned fresh Wednesday as tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims ca...

Justice for Atrocity Victims

Eric Schwartz | Posted 08.28.2012 | World
Eric Schwartz

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the start of world's first global court to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- widespread and systematic atrocities -- wherever they occur around the world.

Notorious War Crimes Suspect Acquitted On Genocide Charge

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.28.2012 | World

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide Thursd...

Soldiers Get 142 Years For Srebrenica Massacre

Reuters | Posted 08.15.2012 | World

SARAJEVO, June 15 (Reuters) - Four former Bosnian Serb soldiers were jailed for a total of 142 years on Friday for their roles in the mass execution...

Noam Chomsky Embarrassed by George Monbiot

Ben Cohen | Posted 07.31.2012 | Media
Ben Cohen

I was extremely saddened to see a bad tempered back and forth between two important intellectual figures, Noam Chomsky and George Monbiot, over an article written by Monbiot on the definition of genocide.

LOOK: Bosnia In The 90s

Posted 05.17.2012 | World

On Thursday, a judge at The Hague indefinitely delayed the proceedings in the trial of former Bosnian-Serb general Ratko Mladic, due to 'errors' made ...

Mladic War Crimes Trial Suspended 'Indefinitely'

AP | Posted 07.17.2012 | World

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The judge in Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial on Thursday indefinitely delayed the presentation of evidence due to "err...

Worst Massacre Since WWII Focus Of War Crimes Trial

AP | Posted 07.17.2012 | World

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Prosecutors on Thursday were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. ...

Satellite Photos Of Syria Fighting Reach The Web

iWatch News | Posted 04.05.2012 | World

In 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosnians by Bosnian Serb forces near th...

PHOTOS: Bosnia Honors Srebrenica Massacre Victims WIth Mass Burial

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.10.2011 | World

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Over 40,000 people attended a funeral in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Monday to mark the 16th anni...

Srebrenica Mother Experiences Relief, Anguish As Son's Bones Are Identified

AP | By AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 09.09.2011 | World

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Three bones make Kada Hotic feel like a winner. It may not sound like much after nearly two decades of anguish, but to...

Srebrenica Massacre Victims Win Dutch Lawsuit

AP | By MIKE CORDER | Posted 09.04.2011 | World

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Netherlands is liable for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men slain by Serbs during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, app...

General Mladic Faces Justice, However Late

Eric Margolis | Posted 08.06.2011 | World
Eric Margolis

Justice delayed is justice denied. Accused Serb war criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic killed at least five times more civilians than Osama bin Laden was accused of doing, yet at times no one seemed in any hurry to find the "Butcher of Sarajevo."

Bosnian Muslim Recalls Daring Escape From Mladic's Massacre

AP | By AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 07.20.2012 | World

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The hardest part was the ants. They crawled over his arms and legs, over his face and into his mouth, hour by hour a...

Of Butchers And Boycotts: The Mladic Arrest Seen From Nazareth And The Netherlands

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 07.28.2011 | Religion
Stephen Schwartz

By coincidence, I was thinking about Serbia when I received word of the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the notorious leader of the Serbian extremist forces that devastated Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Mladic Joining Who's Who Of Accuesed Mass Murders In The Hague

Reuters | By Ivana Sekularac and Aaron Gray-Block | Posted 07.31.2011 | World

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - When Ratko Mladic, nicknamed "the butcher of Bosnia," arrives at the international war crimes detention center in the Hague, h...

Inside The Raid That Nabbed Mladic

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 07.27.2011 | World

BELGRADE, Serbia — The old man, hobbled by pain, couldn't coax himself to sleep. He got out of bed just before dawn, pulled on a blue baseball c...

Marcus Baram

Ratko Mladic's Life On The Run: How A War Criminal Spent 16 Years As A Fugitive

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 07.26.2011 | World

Ratko Mladic's life on the run as one of the world's most wanted men was full of twists and turns -- even though he never really left home. The 69-...

Serbian War Crimes Suspect Reportedly Arrested

Posted 07.26.2011 | World

(Reuters) - Serbia has arrested Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic who is wanted by an international court on genocide charges, a family fr...