Genocide in Prijedor is a black spot on the conscience of the international community and on the conscience of those who committed the crime
July 19, 2011
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
Sarajevo University awards Mr. Brian Masse and Emir Ramic with the prestigious Golden Badge
July 15, 2011
The Institute for Research of Genocide- Canada is honoured to inform the public that the University of Sarajevo has awarded Mr. Brian Masse, Member of the Canadian Parliament and Sponsor of the Srebrenica Genocide Resolution in the Canadian Parliament and Professor Emir Ramic, Director of the Canadian Institute for Genocide with the prestigious academic award, the Golden Badge of the Sarajevo University. Read more
Brian Masse visited the Memorial in Potocari on Srebrenica Remembrance Day
July 11, 2011
[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
The 16th Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide on Capitol Hill
July 6, 2011
The Bosniak American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH) cordially invites you to the 16th Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide on Capitol Hill. We will commemorate the lives lost during the worst atrocity committed in Europe since World War II.
Monday, July 11, 2011
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Congressional Meeting Room North Read more
It’s Time We Started Talking About the Bosnian Genocide
June 8, 2011
By: Mirza Velagic
In 2005 the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed resolutions (S. Res. 134 and H. Res. 199) commemorating the 10th 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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Dr. Hoare: The trial of Ratko Mladic will not mean that justice has been served
June 4, 2011
Author: Dr. Marko Attila Hoare
The start of Ratko Mladic’s trial today means that the most important Bosnian Serb war-criminal, alongside Radovan Karadzic, is now facing justice. This trial will be crucially important for two reasons.
Firstly, its proceedings may shed some light on the role of Serbia and its military in the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995. Read more
Judge for Mladic case in row over genocide
May 30, 2011
Peter Cluskey of The Irish Times wrote an article today regarding one of the judges who was assigned to the trial chamber at the ICTY past week in the Ratko Mladic trial for genocide and other war crimes . The article refers to Judge Christoph Flügge whose comments in July of 2009 sparked a controversy regarding his views of the Srebrenica Genocide and what constitutes genocide.
(See original Der Spiegel interview here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,635205,00.html) Read more
Rape of Bosnia, A Report From a Concentration Camp
May 29, 2011
Originally published in the New Strait Times on September 4, 1992. Re posted on Daniel Toljaga’s blog in order to preserve the truth about the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian genocide.
Help Us, Say Women of Bosnia
Bosniak women told a Press conference in London recently about the rape, torture and other atrocities they suffered at the hands of their Serbian captors. Zaharah Othman has the story. Read more
Joint letter regarding the initiative for REKOM
May 11, 2011
Mr. Adis Šušnjar
PR KoREKOM BiH
Sarajevo: Coalition for REKOM
Kralja Tvrtka 5/5, Sarajevo,
Bosna and Herzegovina
www.zarekom.org
Joint letter by the Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB), Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada (IRGC), Bosnian American Genocide Institute and Education Center (BAGI) and Australian Council of BiH Organizations (ACBHO) Read more
Sir Malcolm Rifkind: Arms embargo on Bosnia was ‘the most serious mistake made by the UN’
March 17, 2011
Source: Originally Published on March 16, 2011 in Greater Surbiton Blog, by Dr. Marko Attila Hoare.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, as Defence Secretary until July 1995 and thereafter as Foreign Secretary, was one of the architects of Britain’s disastrous policy toward the war in Bosnia. For over three years, on the basis of this policy, Britain obstructed all meaningful intervention to halt Serbian aggression and genocide in Bosnia, Read more
