Sadly there are still lessons to be learnt from Srebrenica
If this massacre could happen in once-integrated Bosnia, it could happen anywhere
If this massacre could happen in once-integrated Bosnia, it could happen anywhere
Last week the eighteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre passed, prompting a chorus of sombre statements from European leaders.
The anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate (HNH) has started a petition to prevent two American bloggers from being given permission to enter the UK.
According to the dictum attributed to Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Yet evil will triumph even more easily if good men help the evil-doers. In the Syrian civil war, with more than 80,000 dead and no end in sight, that is what the European Union has been doing, by upholding an arms embargo on the supply of weapons to all sides.
Seventeen years ago this week, more than eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred in Srebrenica.
A round-up of Serbian reaction to the arrest of Ratko Mladic and a look back at eyewitness accounts looking back of this evil man’s atrocities.
Shamik Das reflects on the capture of Bosnian Serb war crime suspect Ratko Mladic, and looks back at the bloody massacre, the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995.