Judge Theodor Meron visits the former concentration camp of 1992.
Former prisoners of the camp expressed their anger that the Hague Tribunal’s
president (who is a Holocaust survivor himself) was not permitted to see all the
former buildings of Omarska during his visit.>full article
(c) Bosnian Genocide 26 Nov. 2013
“From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.” A documentary with English subtitles. (Later, unfortunately, the camp of Jasenovac would me used to legitimize and/or relativize Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s.)
“The White Armband Day campaign aims to give a voice to victims of mass atrocities around the world in their struggle for the truth, dignity & remembrance. We call upon you to wear a white armband on 31 May and place a white sheet on your window for ten minutes in memory of the non-Serb citizens of Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, who were subjected to a campaign of extermination in 1992, and all victims throughout the world who are facing denial of their suffering. The actions of the authorities in the city of Prijedor then, in 1992, when this brutal campaign of violence was implemented and now, when the city government denies the crimes that have taken place, is a universal example of the oppression we are fighting in all corners of the world.” >more (c) STOP GENOCIDE DENIAL
If “writing poem about Auschwitz is barbaric, as German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno claimed: what about feature films on genocide? In this case Body Complete (about the Srebrenica massacre) by Austrian director Lukas Sturm >interview (c) wieninternational.at 2013
“Ethnic divisions continue to plague this town, where more than 8,000 people were slaughtered in July 1995.” >Full report (c) AL JAZEERA, 2012; photo (c) AFP.
“The ‘double genocide’ wars that pit Stalin’s crimes against Hitler’s are raging in wide swathes of Europe and every now and again along comes a gust from the past to stoke them.” Commentary by Robert Cohen (c) NYT, 2012; illustration by Gianpaolo Pagni.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Dead
There are many crime scenes where the idea of Europe was murdered in the “short” 20th century. One of them certainly is Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, the place where the largest massacre after the Second World War executed by military personnel took its course.
delirium clemens 