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With Šešelj's Release from the Hague, Can There be Justice on the Ground in Bosnia?
David Pettigrew, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University,
Member, Steering Committee, Yale University Genocide Studies Program,
International Team of Experts Institute for Research of Genocide Canada,
Board Member, Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center, Chicago, IL
The recent release of ultranationalist demagogue Vojislav Šešelj1 from his detention at the Hague, for "compelling humanitarian reasons,"2 raises new questions about the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Šešelj is charged, for example, with having "made inflammatory speeches in the media" and with having "espoused and encouraged the creation of a homogeneous 'Greater Serbia,' by violence, and thereby participated in war propaganda and incitement of hatred towards non-Serb people."3 Upon his arrival in Belgrade following his release, Šešelj re-affirmed his commitment to pursuing a "Greater Serbia," and brazenly asserted that he would never return voluntarily to the Hague. In addition to his "extreme ethnic rhetoric," Šešelj is charged with "Persecutions" as a Crime Against Humanity, including murder, torture, and deportation.4
Photocredit: David Pettigrew
Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University,
Member, Steering Committee, Yale University Genocide Studies Program,
International Team of Experts Institute for Research of Genocide Canada,
Board Member, Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center, Chicago, IL
The recent release of ultranationalist demagogue Vojislav Šešelj1 from his detention at the Hague, for "compelling humanitarian reasons,"2 raises new questions about the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Šešelj is charged, for example, with having "made inflammatory speeches in the media" and with having "espoused and encouraged the creation of a homogeneous 'Greater Serbia,' by violence, and thereby participated in war propaganda and incitement of hatred towards non-Serb people."3 Upon his arrival in Belgrade following his release, Šešelj re-affirmed his commitment to pursuing a "Greater Serbia," and brazenly asserted that he would never return voluntarily to the Hague. In addition to his "extreme ethnic rhetoric," Šešelj is charged with "Persecutions" as a Crime Against Humanity, including murder, torture, and deportation.4
Photocredit: David Pettigrew
THE URGENT APPEAL BY INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS REGARDING SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN GAZA
Acknowledging the longstanding commitment of the international community to peace and security, and to the protection of basic human rights and freedoms of every individual, regardless of his or her nationality, ethnic, or religious affiliation, it is imperative that the world recognize that massive human rights violations and monstrous atrocities are taking place in the territory of Gaza, particularly against women and children, and against civilians in general. These human rights violations and atrocities must cease immediately.
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Prosecutor: Tomasica Findings to be Admitted into Mladic Case
The prosecution has indicated that the evidence from the mass grave in Tomasica near Prijedor will be tendered into evidence in the case against Ratko Mladic. A total of 470 bodies have been exhumed so far. The trial continued today with the evidence of the prosecution demography expert, Ewa Tabeau. According to the updated data presented by Tabeau, 6,745 victims from the Srebrenica mass graves were identified until the summer of 2013.
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Why was Momcilo Perisic acquitted ?
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has acquitted on appeal Momcilo Perisic, former Chief of Staff of the Army of Yugoslavia (VJ), who had previously been sentenced to 27 years in prison for war-crimes in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. He was one of only six officials from Serbia-Montenegro ever indicted by the ICTY for war-crimes in Bosnia. He was the only member of the high command of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) or VJ ever indicted for war-crimes in Croatia or Bosnia, and the only former JNA officer from Serbia or Montenegro of any rank ever indicted over Bosnia. His acquittal means that, to date, no official or army officer of Serbia-Montenegro and no member of the JNA or VJ high command has been convicted by the ICTY for war-crimes in Bosnia. By any standards, this represents a monumental failure on the part of the Tribunal. Precisely what kind of failure, and whether it is a failure of the Prosecution or the judges or both, is open to debate.
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Cultural Indulgence: Looking Back on the Weekend
This past weekend, the Greater Toronto Area’s Bosnian community got the opportunity to experience an afternoon indulging in local B&H cultural event. Bringing the community together was Zijad Burgic, for the book launch of his recently published book of poetry: Krpljenje ljudske duse.
But the spotlight was not his alone.
Sharing in the afternoon’s creative events included three other Bosnian poets: local Bahra Pasic, flying in from Florida was Goran Simic and traveling from the state of Michigan was Sanela Cvrk Pargan. All three poets read from their published work, with select books available for purchase at the end. In addition to the poetry readings was a musical component, highlighting the beautiful BosnianFolklore dance group, Toronto’s KUD Merak, lead by instructor Edita Sivic.
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But the spotlight was not his alone.
Sharing in the afternoon’s creative events included three other Bosnian poets: local Bahra Pasic, flying in from Florida was Goran Simic and traveling from the state of Michigan was Sanela Cvrk Pargan. All three poets read from their published work, with select books available for purchase at the end. In addition to the poetry readings was a musical component, highlighting the beautiful BosnianFolklore dance group, Toronto’s KUD Merak, lead by instructor Edita Sivic.
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Embracing Bosnian Culture: One Word at a Time
Culture. How one views it determines how one preserves it.
For Bosnians in the Greater Toronto Area, exposure to cultural endeavors can be limited, as few initiatives are made to target Bosnians of all ages, varying religious backgrounds and wide-ranging interests. It appears to be time for a change.
According to the 2011 Toronto Census, there is quite a community of individuals who list Bosnian as his/her mother tongue, totaling 1,030 people. How do we preserve this? How do we keep the youth and future generations interested in the Bosnian culture?
Writer and poet, Zijad Burgic, has the answer: through art and literature. Giving a voice through his poetry, Burgic has recently published his book “Krpljenje ljudske duše”, which is now available for purchase. The introduction of his book has created a prime opportunity for GTA’s Bosnian community to unite in the sharing of literature, a strong voice for culture, at his GTA book launch.
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For Bosnians in the Greater Toronto Area, exposure to cultural endeavors can be limited, as few initiatives are made to target Bosnians of all ages, varying religious backgrounds and wide-ranging interests. It appears to be time for a change.
According to the 2011 Toronto Census, there is quite a community of individuals who list Bosnian as his/her mother tongue, totaling 1,030 people. How do we preserve this? How do we keep the youth and future generations interested in the Bosnian culture?
Writer and poet, Zijad Burgic, has the answer: through art and literature. Giving a voice through his poetry, Burgic has recently published his book “Krpljenje ljudske duše”, which is now available for purchase. The introduction of his book has created a prime opportunity for GTA’s Bosnian community to unite in the sharing of literature, a strong voice for culture, at his GTA book launch.
(To read more, please click here).
Zdravko Tolimir Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Srebrenica and Žepa Crimes
Zdravko Tolimir, former Assistant Commander and Chief for Intelligence and Security of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS), was today sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 1995 after the fall of the enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
To lear more, please visit http://www.icty.org/sid/11175.
To lear more, please visit http://www.icty.org/sid/11175.
The Celebration of the 25th November-Day of B&H Statehood
Bosnia & Herzegovina- A Historic Fact
Prof. Dr. Smail Cekic
Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a region of encounter of different civilizations and cultures, which affected and left the trace on its political, social, and cultural development. All the available documents confirm the fact that Bosnia as a state, its people, territory, and borders have had a long historic and state-legal continuity. Around the mid 10th century, there was a state around the source and the upper flow of the Bosna river and surrounding areas known as Bosnia and its people known as Bosnians.
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Prof. Dr. Smail Cekic
Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a region of encounter of different civilizations and cultures, which affected and left the trace on its political, social, and cultural development. All the available documents confirm the fact that Bosnia as a state, its people, territory, and borders have had a long historic and state-legal continuity. Around the mid 10th century, there was a state around the source and the upper flow of the Bosna river and surrounding areas known as Bosnia and its people known as Bosnians.
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Bosniaks, Muslims, Bosnians By Sanja Seferovic Drnovsek, J.D., MEd, Chair
Bosnian American Institute & Education Center
Whenever there is an article in newspapers about the nations who live in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is almost always about Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims, i.e. about the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic. Besides, my acquaintances here in Chicago often ask me how it is possible that I am a Bosniak, a Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian at the same time. For many it is a kind of a riddle.
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SNSD and SDP Agreement Threatens B&H's Sovereignty
This agreement clearly represents the biggest blow to the democratic, multiethnic, and civic future of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the Dayton Accords. With this agreement, all of the contentious issues regarding the authority of the central government are “solved” by transferring those authorities to the entities which are based on discriminatory ethnic divisions, thus severely undermining the statehood and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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A Culture of Genocide Denial by Suzana Vukic
We stood in the school yard of the Vuk Karadzic elementary school in Visegrad, a town in eastern Bosnia. Although the school year was over, there were a few kids out playing ball.
It seemed like a typical summer day in an average town. But there’s nothing ordinary about Visegrad or this school. In 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War, Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were ethnically cleansed out of Visegrad by Bosnian Serb forces acting in conjunction with the Yugoslav National Army (JNA). Before the war, this school was called Hasan Veletovac. During the war, it served as a concentration camp, one of many in Visegrad where Bosniaks were imprisoned, raped, tortured and killed by Serb forces.
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It seemed like a typical summer day in an average town. But there’s nothing ordinary about Visegrad or this school. In 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War, Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were ethnically cleansed out of Visegrad by Bosnian Serb forces acting in conjunction with the Yugoslav National Army (JNA). Before the war, this school was called Hasan Veletovac. During the war, it served as a concentration camp, one of many in Visegrad where Bosniaks were imprisoned, raped, tortured and killed by Serb forces.
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David Pettigrew, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Member of the International Expert Team of the Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada will participate in the election observation in Srebrenica
David Pettigrew, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven and member of the International Expert Team of the Institute for Research of Genocide, Canada will be in Srebrenica for the election. Mr. David Pettigrew has been officially credentialed as an International Observer in Srebrenica by the Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As observer David Pettigrew will provide an impartial and accurate assessment of the nature of election processes for the benefit of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, specially Srebrenica.
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Protest Letter of the Victims of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the International League of Humanists
Dear Elisabeth Rehn, Zdravko Šurlan, Dubravka Šurlan, Jelena Šipka,
At the initiative of the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada and on behalf of the survivors and witnesses of the genocide and aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we are strongly against the decision of the Council of the International League of Humanists, which granted the mayor of Prijedor Marko Pavic a golden plaque with the badge for alleged achievements in the work and development of local government in accordance with the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
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At the initiative of the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada and on behalf of the survivors and witnesses of the genocide and aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we are strongly against the decision of the Council of the International League of Humanists, which granted the mayor of Prijedor Marko Pavic a golden plaque with the badge for alleged achievements in the work and development of local government in accordance with the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
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Interview with David Pettigrew
A guest of "Al Jazeere" is an American professor David Pettigrew, who dedicated a great part of his research to the suffering of citizens of BiH in the previous war
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Nedjo of Ljubuski - long documentary
The Duško Kondor Civil Courage Award is given to Nedeljko Neđo Galić from Ljubuški, posthumously, because he risked his own life every day expressing his civil courage from August 1993 as follows:
• In the face of the persecution and injustice perpetrated against members of other ethno-national groups in Ljubuški, he protested loud and clear, with the following words: "People, this is insane, this is a crime, you cannot do this!"
• Having learned that the only way out of the Heliodrom camp for his fellow citizens was a call from abroad, which most of them were not able to obtain, he persistently made false calls and released them from captivity, thereby saving at least 1,000 people from the camp - many of them indeed from death.
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• In the face of the persecution and injustice perpetrated against members of other ethno-national groups in Ljubuški, he protested loud and clear, with the following words: "People, this is insane, this is a crime, you cannot do this!"
• Having learned that the only way out of the Heliodrom camp for his fellow citizens was a call from abroad, which most of them were not able to obtain, he persistently made false calls and released them from captivity, thereby saving at least 1,000 people from the camp - many of them indeed from death.
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Chairman Smith Condemns Denial of Genocide in Bosnia, Urgest International Community to Respond
Responding to a statement by Serbia’s newly elected President, Tomislav Nikolic, denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the Helsinki Commission expressed his indignation at the offense given to the memory of the victims, and his concern at the destabilizing effect of Nikolic’s remarks.
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Ratko Mladic Trial at the Hague
The case in the war crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic was suspended indefinitely on Thursday due to disclosure errors by prosecutors. The presiding judge, Alphons Orie, said he was delaying the war crimes tribunal because of "significant disclosure errors".
Not all the evidence was shared with the accused's defence team.
The second day of the trial had seen the focus shift towards the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica. Mladic is accused of killing 7,000 Muslim men and young boys in the town. A mass grave was discovered outside the eastern enclave after the end of the Bosnian War.
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Not all the evidence was shared with the accused's defence team.
The second day of the trial had seen the focus shift towards the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica. Mladic is accused of killing 7,000 Muslim men and young boys in the town. A mass grave was discovered outside the eastern enclave after the end of the Bosnian War.
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Victory of Truth and Justice
Dear Dr. Lin,
On behalf of the survivors of the genocide and aggression that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the 350,000 individuals of Bosnian descent that reside in North America, we welcome the decision of the San Jose Peace and Justice Center to cancel Michael Parenti’s lecture on Thursday, May 31 2012. We appreciate your willingness to meet and take into account the stories of the Bosnian community members in California who are survivors of genocide and war crimes.
The decision that you have made is just and supports the peace and justice around the world. Thank you once again.
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On behalf of the survivors of the genocide and aggression that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the 350,000 individuals of Bosnian descent that reside in North America, we welcome the decision of the San Jose Peace and Justice Center to cancel Michael Parenti’s lecture on Thursday, May 31 2012. We appreciate your willingness to meet and take into account the stories of the Bosnian community members in California who are survivors of genocide and war crimes.
The decision that you have made is just and supports the peace and justice around the world. Thank you once again.
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Ideology of Genocide, Politics, and Practice of Pseudo Republic Srpska
The political project-Serb great state project-" All Serbs in one state" resulted in an internal crisis in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, destroyed a common state and escalated in an aggressive wars and genocide.
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Angelina Jolie, Bosnia in Her Heart
I witnessed a similar situation, forty years ago, in Bangladesh, when a Muslim chief of State, President Mujibur Rahman, made the courageous decision to declare birangona -- literally, national heroines -- the dozens of thousands of young women who had been raped by the ruffian soldiers of the Pakistani army and who, for that, had been outcasts not only of society but often of their own families as well. This, mutatis mutandis, is the gesture of Angelina Jolie. And it is what makes the sombre grandeur of her film.
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A School No Longer Divided: Ethnic Groups Overcome Decades of Segregation in Bosnia-Herzegovina
February 13, 2012, Washington, D.C. - In collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, American Councils for International Education just launched its newest program in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the purpose of bringing together high school students from the Croat and Bosniak ethnic groups to share a classroom for the first time in 20 years.
Seven students from the Bosniak ethnic group and seven students from the Croat ethnic group are sharing a classroom and studying English language and American culture during this 27-week course. Bosniak and Croat teachers of English are working together to instruct the class for two hours per week using an "American-style" curriculum, which includes educational films, games, group activities, and individual presentations. American Councils is implementing this pilot project in two high schools in the town of Zepce, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
As a remnant of the Balkans Wars in the late 1990s, nearly 60 high schools in Bosnia-Herzegovina remain segregated along ethnic lines. Often referred to as "segregated schools" or "two schools under one roof," these high schools hold separate classes for Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks. Students from different ethnic groups even enter the school through separate doors. This new program marks the first time students of different ethnic groups share a classroom and study together in a segregated school.
When asked about the anticipated effects of the new program, Lisa Fiala, American Councils' Regional Director for Southeast Europe, explained, "the unique ability of this program to bring together students from different ethnic groups, otherwise educated in segregated classrooms, while incorporating American-style teaching and learning, will prove invaluable and will serve to promote cooperation, interaction, and understanding among participants." After the successful implementation of the pilot project, there are plans are to expand the program to more schools and include other ethnic groups.
Click here to learn more about American Councils programs in Southeastern Europe: http://www.ac-see.org/.
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Seven students from the Bosniak ethnic group and seven students from the Croat ethnic group are sharing a classroom and studying English language and American culture during this 27-week course. Bosniak and Croat teachers of English are working together to instruct the class for two hours per week using an "American-style" curriculum, which includes educational films, games, group activities, and individual presentations. American Councils is implementing this pilot project in two high schools in the town of Zepce, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
As a remnant of the Balkans Wars in the late 1990s, nearly 60 high schools in Bosnia-Herzegovina remain segregated along ethnic lines. Often referred to as "segregated schools" or "two schools under one roof," these high schools hold separate classes for Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks. Students from different ethnic groups even enter the school through separate doors. This new program marks the first time students of different ethnic groups share a classroom and study together in a segregated school.
When asked about the anticipated effects of the new program, Lisa Fiala, American Councils' Regional Director for Southeast Europe, explained, "the unique ability of this program to bring together students from different ethnic groups, otherwise educated in segregated classrooms, while incorporating American-style teaching and learning, will prove invaluable and will serve to promote cooperation, interaction, and understanding among participants." After the successful implementation of the pilot project, there are plans are to expand the program to more schools and include other ethnic groups.
Click here to learn more about American Councils programs in Southeastern Europe: http://www.ac-see.org/.
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A Miscarriage of Justice
After reading “Peace and Punishments” the sensation of “miscarriage of justice” overwhelmed me. Florence Hartman uses this term to describe the decision made by the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations Judicial body in 2006. This decision, was to forego a remedy for the error of the 3 judges of the International Tribune of Serbia in 2003 that made a secret agreement with Belgrade requesting protective measures for all the documents establishing that the Serbian State had authority over its partners in crime in Bosnia, protecting Serbia from genocide conviction, in which 5 judges of the International Court presided by Italian Fausto Polar confirmed the previous decision. Effectively making them willing partners in the manipulation organized by the government in Belgrade. They found new evidence that the decision from 2003 was “wrong as a matter of law”, understanding that Belgrade was not attempting to protect its “national security” but instead to obstruct justice and its search for the truth. These events allowed information directly implicating the Serbian State in the war in Bosnia and the Srebrenica genocide to remain inaccessible to the ICJ and the public.
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A Statement by the Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center on the Arrest of Ratko Mladic
The significance of the Serbian government’s arrest of General Ratko Mladic as ordered by President Boris Tadic is enormous, as it enables the courts to start criminal proceedings against one of the worst war criminals. The indictment includes war crimes against humanity and international law during the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, as well as the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, where more than 8000 unarmed men and boys were killed and more than 25000 women, children, and elderly were expelled from their homes, all under direct orders from Mladic.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Historic Facts
This paper is intended to give contribution to the celebration of the 25th November – Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina statehood and, in this regard, it represents the objective scientific findings related to the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which confirms that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a permanent political, social, and historic category. Within the framework of the selected topic and the space, we shall present four major issues – social and scientific findings, such as: ZAVNOBiH (Anti-fascistic Council of the National Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and its historic relevance, Communists and the issue of Bosniac ethnicity, Restoration and the escalation of the Great Serbian movement, and Planning of crimes and defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Dayton in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 15 years after – Experiment in Democratic Governance
Comparing Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia) and the U.S. in terms of governance and public policy is a very challenging task even though some of the key elements of Bosnia’s political, legal, economic and judicial systems were created by the U.S. administration. In terms of evaluating the current system of Bosnia and Herzegovina it is important to review the United States’ system of governance and its basic democratic principles. The long term success of the US style of democratic governance can also be attributed to years of trial and error attempts and a somewhat bloody history of civil rights for all American citizens. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s current political and legal system is a result of a war which ravaged the country and the hastily constructed Dayton Peace accord. Even one of the main creators and chief negotiators during the negotiations, the now late Richard Holbrooke, acknowledged the shortfalls of the Dayton Peace agreement regretting not to have made “a stronger effort to drop the name Republika Srpska” and further clarifying that the US administration “underestimated the value to Pale of retaining their blood-soaked name” (Holbrooke, 1999, p. 135).
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Joint Press Release Regarding the Case of Milenko Krstic
Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB) , the Canadian Institute for Research of Genocide and the Bosnian-American Genocide Institute and Education Center (BAGI) are disappointed with the extremely lenient decision by the U.S. court regarding the case of Milenko Krstic, a Bosnian Serb and the father of a former Miss Oregon who lied about his army service during the war in Bosnia when he applied for asylum in the United States. Krstic has been sentenced to only one year of probation, the most lenient federal sentence for a felony crime last week.
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Mladic was the link between the graves and the Serbian (Milosevic’s) palace
Excerpts from an exclusive interview with Florence Hartman (done by Maja Kassa, her associate) for the Bosnian-American Genocide Institute and Education Center (BAGI). The complete interview in Bosnian can be found on the Bosnian library’s website www.bosnianamericanlibrarychicago.com.
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My Experience With Egypt's Central Security Forces
Since Tuesday evening's escalating protests in Egypt, my friends have been contacting me about my Facebook video and photo re-postings of the demonstrations. They are confused about what is happening and why. After all, for many of them Egypt is a tourist friendly destination offering the best of its ancient past wrapped in five-star luxury. Yet, the situation in Egypt has always been complex and the depth of the Egyptian people's anger at its government is difficult to convey in simple a Facebook post. The fundamental problem is decades of life without personal freedoms; the lack of freedom of speech, assembly, association, press, and religion. The government enforced that through menacing totalitarianism.
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On the Eve of the Egyptian Coptic Christmas: A Plea for Muslim-Christian Relations
On the eve of the Egyptian Coptic Christmas this January 7, I am in pain as I think of the Church of the Two Saints in eastern Alexandria, Egypt, the site of a New Years Day suicide bombing that killed twenty-three and wounded seventy-nine. It was the latest in a recent spate of violent attacks against Christian communities throughout the Middle East. (About ten percent of Egypt's 80 million residents are Coptic Christians. (A recent Time magazine article about the Two Saints bombing is "After Bombing, Egypt's Christians Worship and Worry.")
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The Practice of the International Court Of Justice – Legal or Political?
In reference to the practice of the International Court of Justice, we have frequent serious and sensitive scientific debates leading to significant dilemmas for both scientific workers – scholars and the professionals but also some social and political subjects. One of the dilemmas, for example, may be formulated in a question - is it a legal or political practice, which serves as the fundament of the approach in the work of the International Court of Justice. One of the apparent examples, which started the serious debate and division and the judiciary practice is the Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the case Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Serbia and Montenegro of 26 February 2007.
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The Weight of War Crimes
The film “The Weight of Chains”, by Serbian-Canadian filmmaker Boris Malagurski, is yet another of a series of films that seeks to hide Serbian responsibility for the bloody Balkan wars of the last century‟s final decade. Besides this film, others that fall into this category include documentaries by the Norwegian authors Ole Flyum and David Hebditch. The films “The city that could be sacrificed” – about Srebrenica, and “Traces from Sarajevo” – about Al-Qaeda in Sarajevo, were aired recently on Norwegian national television. Also worth mentioning is the documentary “An agreed-upon war”, recently aired on Serbian television. Although “The Weight of Chains” actually premiered last year in Subotica, these days it‟s being aggressively promoted on the internet. This is most likely in response to the media highlighting the July 11th commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide.
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