@AlexanderSoros@CrisisGroup Great to see ICG back in Sarajevo. I worked In Sarajevo office 1997-1999, our office was just to the right of the view in your backdrop photo, overlooking the Princip Bridge. Fond memories, and times full of hope they were.
Calling Srebrenica a “massacre” is not accurate. It was a genocide - as confirmed by ICTY, ICJ, and the Court of BiH.
Genocide ≠ massacre.
Massacre = mass killing.
Genocide = systematic extermination of a group.
Using the wrong term minimises, fuels denial, offends survivors.
TW: rape, genocide
30yrs ago this month, Serb paramilitaries turned a hotel called Vilina Vlas into one of the biggest rape camps of the Bosnian war.
My friend @AhNidzara took me there in 2016. I wrote this about it.
https://t.co/sQg1cH4apz
Today 🇬🇧’s @tariqahmadbt will lead @UN security council annual debate on #CRSV. Theme is Accountability as Prevention: Ending Cycles of Sexual Violence in Conflict - could not be more important, as reports from #Ukraine tragically remind us @UKUN_NewYork#PSVI🧵
#OTD 30 years ago, the Siege of Sarajevo began. 5th April 1992 marked the beginning of the longest siege in modern history with the people of Sarajevo suffering 1,425 days of constant attack. Over these three years, 11,541 civilians were killed, among them 1601 children.
For Ukraine, a lesson from the war in Bosnia: "An underdog fighting for survival can stave off, though with immense loss of life, a far larger force that lacks its motivation." My latest story for @theintercept. https://t.co/lbFASHcFE5
This film about the siege of east Mostar by @BowenBBC & his team, is truly one of the most remarkable pieces of journalism. They risked their own lives to raise awareness of what was really happening in Bosnia at the time. Every time I watch it, I wonder how anyone survived.
In the summer of 1938, small ads starting appearing in the Manchester Guardian from Jews in Nazi-run Vienna looking for families in Britain to take in their children. My dad was one of them and was saved. I set out to find what happened to the others.
https://t.co/IrGoWJICzr
The movie "Quo Vadis, Aida?" tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre, the only genocide to occur in Europe after World War II.
It depicts the tragedy that struck Bosnia during the war of the 1990s, and of the pain that still endures.
https://t.co/sIt6vhyFzW