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Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide
5 months, 1 week ago

Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims buried 29 years after genocide

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance. The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been laid to rest as thousands of people commemorate the anniversary two months after the United Nations established an annual day of remembrance. Mirza Basic, a genocide …

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UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide
7 months ago

UN approves resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide

Al Jazeera  

General Assembly votes to create memorial day despite fierce opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish an annual day of remembrance for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide despite furious opposition from Bosnian Serbs and Serbia. In a letter sent Sunday to all UN delegations, Serbian charge d’affaires Sasa Mart warned that raising “historically …

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Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

Associated Press  

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the closing months of Bosnia’s 1992-95 interethnic …

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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Associated Press  

OSWIECIM, Poland — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the survivors were accompanied by Polish Senate Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, Culture Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz and Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne. …

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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

LA Times  

Holocaust survivors and relatives arrive for a ceremony at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Saturday. A group of survivors of Nazi death camps marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the survivors were accompanied by …

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Jews and Muslims come together on Srebrenica genocide anniversary
1 year, 5 months ago

Jews and Muslims come together on Srebrenica genocide anniversary

LA Times  

Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael J. Murphy kneels next to coffins containing remains of 30 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Potocari, Bosnia, on Monday. Jews and Muslims came together on Monday in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust, to talk about ways of …

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Netherlands apologises to relatives of victims of Srebrenica massacre
2 years, 5 months ago

Netherlands apologises to relatives of victims of Srebrenica massacre

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has formally apologised to relatives of victims of the Srebrenica massacre, 27 years after some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian forces in a UN enclave guarded by Dutch troops. ‘We cannot take your pain away, but what we can do is look history straight in the eye.’ Fifty victims of the massacre, some of …

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Netherlands apologises to relatives of victims of Srebrenica massacre
2 years, 5 months ago

Netherlands apologises to relatives of victims of Srebrenica massacre

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has formally apologised to relatives of victims of the Srebrenica massacre, 27 years after some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian forces in a UN enclave guarded by Dutch troops. ‘We cannot take your pain away, but what we can do is look history straight in the eye.’ Fifty victims of the massacre, some of …

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Netherlands offers "deepest apologies" for Srebrenica massacre
2 years, 5 months ago

Netherlands offers "deepest apologies" for Srebrenica massacre

NL Times  

The Dutch government offered its "deepest apologies" to the relatives of the thousands of Muslim men and boys massacred in Srebrenica in 1995. "The international community failed to protect the people of Srebrenica," Ollongren said. "As part of this community, the Dutch government shares political responsibility for the situation in which this failure could have happened." Ollongren can't imagine the …

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Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Regardless of how the Russian war in Ukraine ends, getting justice for human rights abuses suffered during the conflict will inevitably be a long and painful process for those who survive to tell of the atrocities they witnessed. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind …

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Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

LA Times  

A gravestone in memory of victims of the Srebrenica massacre is seen at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica, Bosnia in 2011. Subasic, along with dozens of others, testified before the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, helping put behind bars close to 50 Bosnian Serb wartime officials, collectively sentenced to over 700 years in prison. “It is very …

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Infographic: 30 years since the Bosnian War
2 years, 8 months ago

Infographic: 30 years since the Bosnian War

Al Jazeera  

The international armed conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1995 led to a genocide that killed more than 100,000 people. Following Bosnia’s recognition as an independent state in 1992, Bosnian Serbs backed by Serbia’s president, Slobodan Milosevic, began a campaign to ethnically cleanse the Bosnian territory. During World War II, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded – a …

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Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence
3 years, 1 month ago

Bosnians worried push to create Serb army may prompt violence

Al Jazeera  

If nothing is done to curb Serb president’s push for secession of Republika Srpska entity, Bosnians fear another round of violence could ensue. In July 1995, Serb forces killed the 35-year-old’s father, both grandfathers, four uncles and other relatives during the genocide in Srebrenica, which had been declared a United Nations “safe area”. Last week, Dodik announced Republika Srpska would …

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Top international official in Bosnia bans denial of genocide
3 years, 5 months ago

Top international official in Bosnia bans denial of genocide

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The top international official in Bosnia on Friday outlawed denial of genocide in the Balkan country to counter attempts by Bosnia’s Serbs to deny the scope of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe’s only post-World War II genocide. “Hate speech, the glorification of war criminals and revisionism or outright denial of genocide and war crimes prevent societies …

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Radovan Karadzic to be moved from Scheveningen to a British prison
3 years, 7 months ago

Radovan Karadzic to be moved from Scheveningen to a British prison

Dutch News  

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to life in prison by the international tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in 2019, is being moved to Britain from the Netherlands to serve out the rest of his sentence. Karadzic, now 75, was convicted of war crimes in 2016 and given a 40-year sentence for his role in the …

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Survivors mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 in Bosnia
4 years, 5 months ago

Survivors mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 in Bosnia

LA Times  

Women lean on a gravestone in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Saturday. Joined virtually by world leaders, the survivors of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Saturday remembered the victims of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II and warned of the perpetrators’ persistent refusal to fully acknowledge their responsibility. Judge Carmel Agius, president of the U.N. court that is …

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