Russia blamed for rising Bosnia tensions
Russia is being blamed for stoking tensions in Bosnia and the Kremlin maintains strong ties with Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian-Serb…
Tag: Srebrenica
Dutch troops ‘10% liable’ for Srebrenica murders: supreme court
The Supreme Court in the Netherlands has upheld the partial liability of the Dutch armed forces for the deaths of around…
Srebrenica still hangs over Dutch psyche
A month after the death of Wim (Willem) Kok, aged 80, it is appropriate to reflect on the life of…
Dutch MPs recognise Armenian ‘genocide’
The Dutch parliament has angered Turkey by voting overwhelmingly to recognise the massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by…
Foul-mouthed Mladic sentenced
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has convicted Ratko Mladic of some of the “most heinous” crimes…
Srebrenica boss cleared of war crimes
A former Bosnian-Muslim commander Naser Oric has been cleared of war crimes by a court in Sarajevo. Oric and another…
Dutch held ‘partially responsible’ for Bosnian deaths
Dutch UN peacekeepers were partly liable for the deaths of about 300 Muslim men killed near Srebrenica in Bosnia in…
Erdogan hits new low with Srebrenica comment
New graves for victims of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 in 2010. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has accused the…
Mladic central at Srebrenica: prosecutors
Srebrenica. Source: Wikimedia Ratko Mladic was described as a central figure in the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims…
Election increases Srebrenica tensions
The Srebrenica memorial. Source: Wikimedia Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb nationalists, has elected…
Bosnia unhappy with Karadzic sentence
Burial of 775 identified victims in 2010 in Srebrenica. Source: Wikimedia The predominantly female survivors of the 1995…