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On this day in 1995, at the height of the war in the former Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Serb army captured what was supposedly the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. In the ensuing days, thousands of Bosnian ...
DENIAL AS A THREAT TO THE BALKANS On the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide: Manipulating Truth as a Strategy for ...
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Broken glasses, watches, combs and crumpled, faded identification documents. They were among ...
The Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war, created a patchwork quilt of a state made up of two devolved entities that ...
Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world are gathering in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a 1995 ...
Herzegovina, to mark the 30th anniversary of the only acknowledged act of genocide in Europe since World War II.
The commemoration in Potočari and the traditional "March of Peace" mark the 30th anniversary of the crime in Srebrenica.
Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week brings some surprises – some good, some less so – while continuing to look back on 20 years of BIRN.
Members of the North East Bosnian community planted a cherry tree by Newcastle Civic Centre on Thursday evening ...
It condemned denial of the Srebrenica genocide and actions that glorify people convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide by international courts.
Prosecutions for atrocities are not always enough to stop hatred. Societies must also acknowledge what happened.