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Bosnian Muslims carry caskets containing remains of 66 bodies, during a mass burial ceremony in the Eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad

Bosnian Serb Separatist Leader’s Defiance of Arrest Warrant Stirs Wartime Memories

A war survivor says the response to Dodik's separatism must be firm and unequivocal for the sake of regional and European security.
The image shows the General Assembly chamber with member representatives seated in a semicircle before the podium, and the final vote tally on boards to the left and right of the dias backdrop, showing the vote of 84 in favor, 19 opposed, and 68 abstaining.

UN Recognition to Mark the Srebrenica Genocide Is Only the Beginning

Public and formal education will be needed to fulfill the resolution's purpose of ending genocide denial and preventing future atrocities.

Irrefutable Evidence for Unspeakable Crimes? The Role of the Written Order in Proving and Denying Genocide

An explicit written order has not been -- nor should be -- necessary, whether for international justice or for collective memory.

The Kremlin’s Hand: How Russia Fuels Srebrenica Genocide Denial and Balkan Instability

The hardline backlash to a UN resolution to commemorate the 1995 atrocities highlights the need for a US and EU deterrence strategy.

Refuting Srebrenica Genocide Denial Yet Again, as UN Debates Draft Resolution

The prospect of a UN commemoration of the 1995 massacres in Bosnia as genocide has revived denials of the motives behind the killings.

Critical UN Move: Draft Resolution Confronts Genocide Denial in the Balkans

A pending General Assembly vote on an annual global commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide is spurring vociferous debate.
A local woman prepares to lay a candle among stelae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 26, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Jan. 27, 2024 is the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the biggest of the many concentration camps used by the Nazis during World War II to enslave and exterminate millions of Jews, political opponents, Roma and other Nazi-deemed undesirables. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Finding Light in the Darkness: A Meditation on Remembrance

(Adapted from an address delivered today at a joint Muslim-Jewish observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potoćari, Bosnia and…

Why a Group of Jews Came to Mourn the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide

Seeking to ensure all such horrors – Auschwitz, Srebrenica, Bergen-Belsen, Kigali, Bucha – are integrated into the world’s consciousness.
Bosnian Muslim women, family members of victims of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, gather prior to the burial ceremony of caskets with body remains of their relatives at the memorial cemetery in village of Potocari, near Eastern-Bosnian town of Srebrenica, on July 11, 2021.

Commemorating the Srebrenica Genocide: A Warning for Humankind

A Holocaust scholar calls for an annual global observance to honor victims and survivors and to counter repeated denials of the atrocities.
Bosnian Muslim women, family members of victims of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, gather prior to the burial ceremony of caskets with body remains of their relatives at the memorial cemetery in village of Potocari, near Eastern-Bosnian town of Srebrenica, on July 11, 2021.

Deceptive Report Escalates Srebrenica Genocide Denial Campaign

It now becomes a permanent part of the brazen refusal by Bosnia's Serb authorities to own up to the atrocities committed in their name.
Bosnian families follow the final verdict hearing of the former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic also known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" in the ethnic cleansing case by the International Criminal Tribunal, from a screen at Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari in Srebrenica, Bosnia And Herzegovina on June 08, 2021.

The Mladić Appeal Judgment and the Enduring Legacy of the Hague Tribunals

The Mladić case offers an opportunity to assess not only the judgment itself, but also the legacy of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
a prepared grave at Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica two days before the commemoration 25 years after Srebrenica massacre on July 9, 2020.

Denial of the Srebrenica Genocide Must Be Exposed and Condemned

Imagine the international outrage if murals of Hitler were displayed across Germany, or if a Berlin student dorm were named after Eichmann. Precisely this type of scenario has…
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