Genocide

In times of uncertainty and anxiety, it’s always nice for some people to have someone to blame. In times of COVID-19, the culprit seems abundantly clear: the People’s Republic of China. Ever since the virus started spreading across the globe, an increasing number of voices have argued that the country…

Bosnia and Herzegovina is weathering the COVID-19 outbreak better than some other nations, but there’s a real danger that corruption will undermine global efforts to help it contain the pandemic, the international community’s High Representative to the Western Balkan country told the Security Council on Wednesday. Valentin Inzko said that, 25 years…

Thank you very much, Mr President and thank you to both of our briefers this morning. I’d like to begin by thanking the High Representative and his team for this thorough report. While we would all prefer to see local actors taking responsibility to deliver a secure, peaceful and sustainable…

Corruption and political stalemate still hamper post-war progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, but the international community must not lose sight of what is at stake in the Western Balkan country, High Representative Valentin Inzko said during a 6 May videoconference meeting* of the Security Council.…

Preface. This article makes a good case that we did indeed wipe out other hominids. “…Yet the extinction of Neanderthals, at least, took a long time—thousands of years. While Neanderthals lost the war, to hold on so long they must have fought and won many battles against us, suggesting a…

Illustration: Adam Maida for The InterceptEver since Donald Trump declared his presidential candidacy and rank racism in 2015, those of us who’d witnessed the nationalist undoing in the Balkans at the end of the last millennium have found the subsequent rise of Trumpism frighteningly familiar. We quickly recognized a host…

Dr. TedrosBy Owei Lakemfa TEDROS Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Ethiopian microbiologist who heads the World Health Organisation, WHO, is simultaneously engaged in perhaps the two biggest battles in his 55 years on earth. He is leading humanity’s fight against the treacherous COVID-19 virus, and a battle to remain in office against…

A cemetery holding the victims of the 1993 Ahmici massacre in Bosnia, an atrocity that pushed Graham Bamford to take his own life - Haris Badzic/ Anadolu AgencyA British man who set himself on fire to protest Western inaction over war crimes in Bosnia should be honoured with a statue…

In 2019, former Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in war crimes during what was one of the worst genocides in modern history: the Srebenica Massacre in Bosnia.Motivated by staunch Serbian nationalism, this dark chapter of history saw more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims…

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