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• Balkans: Yugoslav Crisis in the 1990s

  The Yugoslav Crisis – Remembering Srebrenica: 20 years after the massacre

  17 July 2015, by RYAN Geoff

  Last Saturday (11^th July) all sorts of ‘worthies’ gathered in Srebrenica on the 20^th anniversary of the massacre of over 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by Bosnian Serb forces under the control of Ratko Mladic. Mladic is now on trial for war crimes in the Hague alongside Radovan Karadzic , (...)

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  Yugoslav Crisis – Srebrenica 20 years after: From commemorations to interpretations

  10 July 2015, by SAMARY Catherine

  All the diplomatic posturing surrounding the commemoration of the Srebrenica massacre (whether they are for or against the resolution proposed by London characterizing the massacre as genocide), fail to question the essence: what were the causes and authors of these crimes, in the area and on (...)

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  The Women’s Court in the former Yugoslavia – 1990s war crimes

  8 May 2015, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme

  Yesterday May 7 the Women’s Court on war crimes against women during the war in the 1990ies formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
  Women have come together from all the corners of the former-Yugoslavia to participate in the Women’s Court in Sarajevo, to demand justice for the crimes committed (...)

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  The continuity of the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica

  11 April 2010, by Women in Black (Serbia)

  On March the 30^th, 2010. the Parliament of Serbia adopted the Declaration on condemning the crime in Srebrenica.
  After a long debate in the Parliament, when we could hear fascist statements from the members of Radical party, Democratic party of Serbia and Serbian Progressive party, the (...)

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  Yugoslavia – Dossier - On Slobodan Milosevic

  July 2006, by SAMARY Catherine

  Faced with the wars of ethnic cleansing which have ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina, the dominant theses have centred either on deadly inter-ethnic hatreds or on Slobodan Milosevic - the “butcher of the Balkans” or adversary and victim of the great powers.
  This ignores the deep causes of the crisis of (...)

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  Ten days that shook Serbia

  November 2000, by SAMARY Catherine

  A fundamental obstacle fell on October 5 for those who want to establish a genuine “left”. The whole day had been marked more by jubilation than by confrontations; the police presence ’guarding’ the Parliament or state television buildings was derisory - by comparison with what is seen in Paris for (...)

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  The NATO War Against Yugoslavia and The Twilight of the European Project

  14 January 1999, by GOWAN Peter

  In the midst of the bombing campaign it is impossible for us to grasp the full significance of the NATO war against Yugoslavia. This is particularly true for those of us living in NATOland since the war, for us, is purely synthetic experience, television images as part of our daily, normal (...)

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  Kosovo: Dismantling Yugoslavia

  July 1998, by SAMARY Catherine

  Belgrade’s take-over of the autonomous province of Kosovo nine years ago was the first blow to the system of constitutional balances inherited from the Tito era and marked the rise to power of Slobodan Milosevic. The second was the constitutional change to the status of Serbs in the Croatian (...)

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  Serbia: Milosevic’s Manoeuvres

  March 1997, by SAMARY Catherine

  The Serbian Socialist Party has has dominated politics ever since the Communist league dissolved itself in 1990. Manipulation of the electoral law and the media are only part of the explanation.
  The population sees Milosevic as their best defender in a context they perceive as characterised (...)