Archive for Yugoslav Wars

White Armband Day 1992 / 2013

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 31 May 2013 by delclem

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“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

 

“Watching it happen…”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 24 April 2012 by delclem

The Canadian radio show Living Out Loud featured news reports from the early 1990’s and recordings with people who escaped the fighting in Bosnia and Croatia – also people who came to Canada before the wars broke out, people of Bosnian, Serb and Croatian background and their Canadian born children. All of them were interviewed separately in Toronto in 1992/ 1993, and then twenty years later >audio link (c) CBCradio, 2012
>More photos from Sarajevo, 1992-1995

The “Croatian Stalingrad”, 1991 / 2011

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 18 November 2011 by delclem

Exactly 20 years ago, the Slavonic city of Vukovar (aka. the “Croatian Stalingrad”) was taken by Serbian forces after three months of battle & siege, with massacres, expulsions and other human rights violations as consequences. However, this should only be the gory prelude to even more dreadful events… Continue reading