Genocide

Raimondo fell in love with sitting volleyball when looking for a new sport to play after losing his leg in a motorbike accident. A dual citizen, he went on to represent Great Britain at the Paralympic Games. It's the perfect pub quiz question. In which sport have Iran and Bosnia…

Maren Hennemuth/picture alliance via Getty ImagesGuantánamo Bay detention camp, Cuba, October 2018The following text is adapted from “The Death of Human Rights,” the 2019 Robert B. Silvers Lecture, delivered at the New York Public Library in honor of the founding co-editor of the New York Review, who died in 2017.…

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday postponed until further notice the appeals hearings of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, citing concerns about his health and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak. Mladic, who was sentenced in 2017 to life in…

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday postponed until further notice the appeals hearings of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, citing concerns about his health and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak.Mladic, who was sentenced in 2017 to life in prison…

FILE PHOTO: Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/PoolTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday postponed until further notice the appeals hearings of…

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia on Thursday postponed until further notice the appeals hearings of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, citing concerns about his health and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak.Mladic, who was sentenced in 2017 to life in prison…

On this episode of Changed My Mind, Aimen Dean talks to academic Thomas Small about what triggered him to join al Qaeda and then leave the terrorist organisation. Decades on, he reflects on why it remains difficult to stop others following in his footsteps. Changed My Mind is a podcast…

Kamari Clarke’s Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback is an ambitious, thought provoking, tour de force showing the historical and ethnographic trajectory of the idea of law as justice and how it is felt, experienced, and institutionalized, through the workings of The International Criminal Court (ICC)…

In her column “Detroit Archives,” Aisha Sabatini Sloan explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit.  Kerry James Marshall, 7am Sunday Morning, 2003 (Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago) My great aunt Cora Mae can’t hear well. She is ninety-eight years old. When…

News How does genocide happen? Can anything be done to prevent it? Samir Mustafic survived genocide in Bosnia. Rosalyn Kliot’s parents met in a concentration camp in Estonia. We learn how their experiences have shaped them, and what we all can learn from that trauma. Read More