Fragments of War, a book by Mishka Gora

Fragments of War by Mishka Gora

Just released. A book by Mishka Gora “Fragments of War”. Just a glimpse through the pages of the book promises to take us on a captivating and heart-clenching journey among the hope, despair, love, compassion, merciless existence…that were, during Croatia’s war of 1990’s and into Bosnia and Herzegovina. It’s the story that I eagerly look […]

Genocide is redundant: the long and the short of it according to law professor

Radovan Karadzic

Referring to ICTY’s Radovan Karadzic trial and the June 28 acquittal of one charge of genocide pertaining to crimes committed by Serbs across several municipalities between March and December 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Timothy W. Walters, associate professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law seems to believe that by trying in courts for […]

Carnage in Brisevo – Lest We Forget

Brisevo

Brisevo, like many places in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is in today’s Republika Srpska (Serbian Republic) political entity. It came to be so after Serb forces caused carnage, massacred, raped, ethnically cleansed non-Serb population – young and old. 73 Croatian civilians were massacred in Brisevo during 24th and 25th July 1992. The carnage continued almost incessantly […]

Srebrenica: the silence over Britain’s guilt must be ended

Srebrenica massacre  Photo: David Lee Bathgate/Corbis

The Guardian.co.uk Vernon Bogdanor : “Douglas Hurd’s handling of misguided UK policy on Bosnia contributed to Europe’s worst war crime since 1945”

Lest We Forget – Srebrenica Massacre July 1995

Late on 9 July 1995, emboldened by early successes and little resistance from largely demilitarised Bosniaks, as well as the absence of any significant reaction from the international community, Radovan Karadžić issued a new order authorising the VRS Drina Corps (Army of Serbian Republic) to capture the town of Srebrenica

International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Radovan Karadzic acquitted mid-trial of one charge of genocide – the shock that shudders the very backbone of humanity

Serb concentration camp Keraterm near Prijedor 1992

ICTY, Hague, 28 June, acquitted – mid-trial! – former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide but upheld 10 other war crimes counts related to atrocities in Bosnia’s bloody war. Although Karadzic sought by way of motion to court to be acquitted of all 11 charges of war crimes, he succeeded in […]

14 Serbian former Yugoslav Army soldiers convicted for war crimes against Croatian civilians

Croatia war cemetery

(Reuters) 26 June 2012 – “Serbia’s special war crimes court on Tuesday sentenced 14 former Yugoslav Army soldiers and paramilitaries to a total of 128 years in jail for the 1991 killings of 70 Croat civilians, some of whom were ordered to walk through a minefield. In a ruling Belgrade hopes will boost its chances […]

Serbia looks to disperse and deflate guilt for war crimes

On streets of Belgrade, Serbia - Photo: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP

According to article published in Vecernji List, Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor is currently undertaking preliminary investigations against unknown persons, journalists and editors of some media in Serbia, for inciting war crimes and calling upon people to perpetrate them during 1990’s. A letter by Serbia’s chief prosecutor for war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, reportedly says: “that the […]

ICTY Prosecution creates contemptible deplorable hiatus in Ratko Mladic genocide hearing

Ratko Mladic - Photo: Serge Ligtenberg/Getty Images

Incredulous! No system of justice is perfect, but in a case such as the ICTY case against Serb Ratko Mladic for Srebrenica genocide (1995) and other atrocities of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Balkans War of 1990’s the prosecution’s adherence to rules of evidence (including disclosure) must be water tight and without […]

Franjo Tudjman never went as far as Oliver Cromwell

Election campaigns for leadership of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) are entering the last leg in the race when thick dust gets raised as candidates gallop to the finish line (20 May). There’s renewed pledges by candidates to return HDZ to its original values set by the late President dr. Franjo Tudjman and to return to […]