United States Holocaust Museum launches “Mladic files” documenting war crimes of Ratko Mladic

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has launched “The Mladic Files,” a multimedia website providing in-depth, real-time reporting of the trial of Ratko Mladic in The Hague. In addition to documenting the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the largest massacre in Europe since World War II, the project will examine related issues such as whether bringing to justice those responsible for mass atrocities may help prevent future ones. Read more

Matt Damon: Documentary on Systematic Rape of Bosniak Women & Girls

Author: Daniel Toljaga
Throughout long, difficult, strenuous history of the Bosniak people, they were subjected to racist, state-imposed, and often violent denials of their identity, their uniqueness, their culture, and even their language: the Bosnian language; the very language that produced the first printed dictionary of its vocabulary nearly 200 years before the first printed dictionary of the Serbian language. Read more

Perisic judgment confirms Serbia’s direct involvement in wars in Bosnia and Croatia

Source: Srebrenica Genocide Blog

In evaluating the sentence of 27 years of imprisonment for General Perišić, the Trial Judgment emphasized that “the Army of Republika Srpska’s crimes lasted over a long period of time and that the victims were numerous and particularly vulnerable and that General Perišić kept providing assistance to the VRS [Bosnian Serb Army] for months after being informed of the massacre in Srebrenica”… ” Read more

Serbian Orthodox Church Endorses War Criminals

By Daniel Toljaga

A convicted war criminal who burned alive scores of Bosniak civilians and systematically tortured and raped Bosniak women and under-age girls enjoys the uncritical endorsement of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade reports that the Serbian Orthodox Church has hosted a book launch at the parish house of the Cathedral of St. Sava in Belgrade to promote a prison memoir, “Ispovest haškog sužnja” (“Testimony of a Hague prisoner”). The book’s author is the convicted war criminal Milan Lukić — a ruthless mass murderer and serial rapist. Read more

Genocide in Prijedor is a black spot on the conscience of the international community and on the conscience of those who committed the crime

Author: Prof. Emir Ramic, Institute for Genocide Research in Canada  (http://www.instituteforgenocide.ca)

On 6 December 1992 The New York Times described a May 1992 attack in Prijedor:

“When the attack began, Serbs from the village guided the tanks to the homes of certain Muslims…and the inhabitants were asked to come out and show their identity cards. Many of those who did were summarily executed…The bodies of the dead were carried away by trucks, which left a trail of blood. Those not killed on the spot were transferred to a convoy heading toward Omarska, a Serb concentration camp.” Read more

Brian Masse visited the Memorial in Potocari on Srebrenica Remembrance Day

[WINDSOR, ON] After securing unanimous support for a motion in the House of Commons acknowledging the genocide in Srebrenica—Brian Masse and representatives from the local Bosniak community have accepted an invitation from the Organizational Committee to mark the 16th anniversary of the genocide against Bosniaks in ‘UN Safe Haven’ Srebrenica to participate in the ceremonies marking the atrocity. Read more

It’s Time We Started Talking About the Bosnian Genocide

By: Mirza Velagic
In 2005 the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed resolutions (S. Res. 134 and H. Res. 199) commemorating the 10^th anniversary of the fall of the U.N. “safe zone” of Srebrenica and officially recognizing the Bosnian Genocide. Both resolutions contain the same central paragraph:
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