“As Germans push austerity, Greeks press Nazi-era claims.”>article (c) NYT, 2013
Archive for war crimes
“For those who can tell no tales”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrićgrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Emir Kusturica, ethnic cleansing, film, Jasmila Žbanić, review, Višegrad, war crimes on 10 September 2013 by delclem
Jasmila Zbanic‘s “brave drama commemorates the victims of atrocities in 1990s Bosnia, making a substantial impression despite a short running time. She commemorates the more than 3,000 Bosniaks murdered during ethnic cleansing in the Visegrad area in the 1990s, especially the women tortured in rape encampments.” Thus, her movie van be seen as a direct response to the nationalitic Potemkin Village project of another Bosnian director: Emir Kusturica. See the full review (c) variety.com 2013 Cf. the text on Kusturica in THE GUARDIAN, 2012
“Tragic massacre(s) in Volyn remembered”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags massacre, occupation, Poland, Second World War, Ukraine, UPA, Volyn, war crimes on 20 July 2013 by delclem
“Ukrainians call it a tragedy, for Poles it was a massacre. Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia, former Polish territories now in western Ukraine. (…) Around 20,000 Ukrainians also died at the hands of Poles or Ukrainians who saw them as too close to the hated occupiers.”
>full article (c) THE ECONOMIST, 2013
The Srebrenica Massacre of 1995: still counting…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, commemoration, cultural memory, genocide, massacre, Srebrenica, war crimes on 11 July 2013 by delclemMinnesota man accused of Nazi war crimes
Posted in Uncategorized with tags collaboration, Germany, Holocaust, Michael Karkoc, Second World War, Ukraine, war crimes on 14 June 2013 by delclem
Michael Kardoc, commander of a SS-led unit “accused of burning villages filled with women and children, lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.” Behind this archetypical story the ugly face of Ukrainian nationalist Nazi collaboration in the Holocaust appears once again. >full text & video (c) HUFFINGTON POST, 2013
>Additional information (c) CANADA.COM 2013
“All the news that’s fit to . . . draw”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, graphic novel, Joe Saccho, journalism, Malta, Palestine, war crimes on 24 October 2012 by delclem
“Comic-book journalism is a rare phenomenon, and there are few better practitioners than Joe Sacco. The work might be labour intensive, but the results can tell stories that other media can’t.” >Full text (c) IRISH TIMES, 2012
“My weekend at the ‘Hague Hilton’”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags ICTY, International Criminal Court, Netherlands, photography, prison, The Hague, war crimes, yugoslavia on 28 January 2012 by delclem
“As I entered, the first journalist ever allowed to report from inside, I had butterflies in my stomach. For I am a prisoner of my past. Some of the people detained here were accused of crimes against members of my family. We lived through the siege of Sarajevo.”
Photographer’s blog (c) REUTERS by Damir Sagolj who took pictures in the war crimes unit of the prison in The Hague.
Another unpunished massacre
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Ardeatine Caves, criminal justice, Germany, Italy, National Socialism, Rome, war crimes, World War Two on 19 January 2012 by delclem
“In the spring of 1944, Nazi troops massacred hundreds of Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome. After World War II came to an end, however, the German government did little to track down the perpetrators. At the time, both Rome and Bonn were more interested in politics than justice.” Article by Klaus Wiegrefe
(c) DER SPIEGEL, 2012; photo (c) Koch/Bundesarchiv
delirium clemens 