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There is not much info available in English about the initial attacks in Bratunac. The Bosniaks were expelled from there where they made up the majority.
"Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak" by Selma Leydesdorff
"Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak" by Selma Leydesdorff
A very good, personal read on Banja Luka by Srđan Šušnica, published in 2015. http://balkanist.net/banja-luka-amnesia/
Please read the article mentioned ^ as it contains important points from a direct personal account about how genocide isn't simply about killing but also eliminating historical/cultural/societal traces/impact of said group.
To tie into the previous tweet/article on elimination of cultural heritage: the burning of Sarajevo Library during the siege. The firemen were shot at. Approx. three million books, hundreds of original documents from the Ottoman Empire & the Austro-Hungarian monarchy burnt.
Srebrenica was the last step in the genocide, that sought to eradicate the Bosniak community, especially in Eastern Bosnia and the territories encompassing Republika Srpska. The international community knew what was going on but decided to mute, until 1995, Srebrenica.
Events happened in 1991 too but the genocide truly began in 1992, never forget this. The UN placed an weapons embargo on Bosnia. In 1995 the UN idly watched as thousands of people were slaughtered in days - after they had idly watched thousands of people slaughtered for 3 years.
Prijedor, Bratunac, Foča, Ključ, Zvornik, Sanski Most, Vlasenica, Sarajevo, Kozarac, Doboj, Derventa, Brčko, Rogatica, Bijeljina, Hadžiči, Goražde, Mostar, Banja Luka & so many other cities/towns/villages in Bosnia destroyed by genocidal campaigns.
We will not forget.
We will not forget.
- Andras Riedlmayer, as quoted in "Understanding Archives and Manuscripts" (2006) by Richard J. Cox and James M. O’Toole //
“Bosnia, or What Europe Means to Us” by Slavenka Drakulic in "A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights: An International Literary Anthology", edited by Marjorie Agosín //
Michael A. Sells, "The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia" (1998)
The destruction of the Sarajevo National Library // Michael A. Sells, "The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia" (1998)
*noticed it accidentally says 1922, it should be 1992 of course
*noticed it accidentally says 1922, it should be 1992 of course
(...) "I also believe that there are moments in history when neutrality is not neutral, but complicit in the crime." - Ed Vulliamy
[note: sensitive/war-time images] https://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/genocide-in-bosnia-the-politics-of-neutrality-in-the-bosnian-genocide-1992/
[note: sensitive/war-time images] https://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/genocide-in-bosnia-the-politics-of-neutrality-in-the-bosnian-genocide-1992/
"Reconstruction: Establishing the facts about the executions" // public lecture in Sarajevo 2015
- Jean-René Ruez, Chief Superintendant at the French National Police, former head of the Hague Tribunal investigative team for Srebrenica
- Jean-René Ruez, Chief Superintendant at the French National Police, former head of the Hague Tribunal investigative team for Srebrenica
"Immediately after Dayton, Milošević said: ‘We have created Republika Srpska on a territory where there never was a Serb state(...)'"
- Florence Hartmann speaking about the role of Serbian President in the genocide in Bosnia in the interview: https://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/serbs-intended-planned-the-destruction-of-bosniak-people/
- Florence Hartmann speaking about the role of Serbian President in the genocide in Bosnia in the interview: https://genocideinbosnia.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/serbs-intended-planned-the-destruction-of-bosniak-people/
Emir Hodzic, whose brother & father were inmates of the Omarska concentration camp, was denied a visit to Omarska by the ArcelorMittal guards on 23 May 2012. The white body bag in front of him symbolizes the crimes committed against women in Prijedor.
"But what that verdict on the sole charge of which Karadžić was acquitted means is that what happened in the camps, around Dautović’s town (...) was not genocide. What happened for three years in places the world has never heard of was not genocide."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/27/i-aws-radovan-karadizic-camps-cannot-celebrate-verdict-ed-vulliamy?CMP=share_btn_fb
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/27/i-aws-radovan-karadizic-camps-cannot-celebrate-verdict-ed-vulliamy?CMP=share_btn_fb
