Genocide

SREBRENICA, Bosnia: Bosnians commemorated on Saturday (Jul 11) the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked the world and have stood out as Europe's only atrocity since World War Two constituting genocide.Grieving families stood by green-draped coffins of nine…

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has described the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as a "shameful" event in European history, and said Ireland will use its UN Security Council seat to ensure such genocide does not happen again. He was speaking at an event in Blanchardstown to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bosnian…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnians commemorated on Saturday the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked the world and have stood out as Europe’s only atrocity since World War Two constituting genocide.Nine newly identified victims were buried at a…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnians commemorated on Saturday the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked the world and have stood out as Europe’s only atrocity since World War Two constituting genocide. A woman prays at a graveyard, ahead…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Virtually joined by world leaders, the survivors of Bosnia’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. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony for the thousands…

When delegates from 50 states signed the founding charter of the United Nations, the world was still grappling with the ravages of WWII. Today, the ideals they signed up to are undergoing an unprecedented stress test. It was a controversial speech with an unmistakable message to the international community. "The…

1. A Definition of Sovereignty In his classic, The King’s Two Bodies (1957), medievalist Ernst Kantorowicz describes a profound transformation in the concept of political authority over the course of the Middle Ages. The change began when the concept of the body of Christ evolved into a notion of two…

Voting has started in Serbia's parliamentary elections in which President Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is expected to emerge as the winner. More than 6.5 million people are eligible to vote in the parliamentary, provincial and local elections that were postponed from the scheduled April 26 date due to the…

I have never believed much in the notion of journalistic “objectivity.” We all bring our individual sensibilities to bear on what we write. Great journalism involves the head and the heart, the lucidity to think and the passion to feel, the two in balance. If you have lived a privileged…

A vulgar message directed at "Serbian women and children" prompted Croatian police to detain several fans of Dinamo Zagreb football club. The fans also displayed symbols of the pro-Nazi Ustasha militia. Croatian officials slammed an anti-Serb incident that saw a group of youths display a banner in the capital Zagreb reading:…