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Helsinki Charter No. 109-110

July - August 2007

 

Editorial

SHORTSIGHTED AND LOSING POLICY

By Sonja Biserko

Russia's undertaking in and about Kosovo triggered off a state of mental confusion and chaos among Serbia's political elite. With domestic situation similar to that in Serbia, Russia is, the same as Serbia, incapable to define its true national interests that would take into account not only military power but also the overall social ambience - the population, its education, culture, healthcare, infrastructure and the like. Russia's saber-rattling...   More >>>

 

THE SERBIAN ELITES AND GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA

By Sonja Biserko

HCHRS

Ever since the foundation of the modern Serbian state in the 19th century, but especially since the Congress of Berlin, Serbia's elites have viewed Bosnia as a territory which could solve all their frustrations over borders. It was, namely, at that time that they set the goal of gaining access to the sea and expanding living space, something that could only be had at Bosnia's expense. The idea was that this 'must be solved by force...
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A STATEMNT AR THE SEVNTH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS

Sarajevo, July 2007

Florance Hartmann

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Genocide was defined as a crime of destroying or committing conspiracy to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Genocides or mass killings characterized by their systematic and widespread nature emerge from a long process recognisable by its pattern of purposeful actions that are common to each genocide...   More >>>

 

INTERNATIONAL COMPLICITY IN THE BOSNIAN GENOCIDE

Sylvie Mutton

(A Statemnet at the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Sarajevo, July 2007 )

Ladies and gentlemen,
Having very little time to speak, I will be direct; I'll just say clearly what I believe about Western complicity with the genocide that occurred in Bosnia in the 1990s. But it is disturbing for me to do so here, when among all the scholars here present there are also victims, survivors...   More >>>

 

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