Tag Archives: Genocide in Eastern Bosnia

State of Michigan Adopts 2nd Bosnian Genocide Resolution (2012)

We thank the Congress of North American Bosniaks for another round of successful advocacy & lobbying efforts. The State of Michigan Senators and Representatives adopted the Senate Resolution SR 161 of 2012 and HR 295 of 2012 respectively, proclaiming July 11, 2012, … Continue reading

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Twenty Years Later: Funeral of 32 Victims Killed in Zvornik During Bosnian Genocide

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Serbs Told “All Balijas Must Be Killed”, Annihilation of Srebrenica Men & Boys

SENSE Tribunal / BIRN  / Hague Tribunal– Former Serbian security officer in the Bratunac Brigade is testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. As the witness said, the fate of the citizens of Srebrenica had already been decided before the … Continue reading

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Bosniak Survivor of Vlasenica Massacre Remembers How Serbs Killed His Family

My Story: Crimes in the Eyes of a Boy By: Mirna Buljugic BIRN — A twelve year-old boy from Vlasenica fled his home in 1992, while his father and young brother were killed. Fearing for his life, he recognized the … Continue reading

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Annual Bosnian Genocide Commemoration in Visegrad

28 May 2011 (Saturday) The central commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Visegrad genocide will be held on 28.05.2011 on the Mehmed-pasa Sokolovic bridge in Visegrad. The commemoration will be followed by the burial of Visegrad martyrs at the … Continue reading

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Clinton Opens Bosnian Genocide Memorial

“We remember this terrible crime because we dare not forget because we must pay tribute to the innocent lives, many of them children, who were snuffed out in what must be called genocidal madness.” – Former President Bill Clinton in … Continue reading

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Clinton Following ‘Doctrine Of Timidity’ In Bosnia

The Serbian aggressors have become increasingly cynical in their cruelty, increasingly contemptuous of all those trying to stop the fighting. This week Serbian military leaders gave their solemn assurance that they would maintain a cease-fire to let United Nations helicopters … Continue reading

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UN: Serbs Massacred 500 Bosniaks in Muslim Villages Around Srebrenica

St. Petersburg Times, p.16A 6 March 1993. Editorial According to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, the horror of Bosnian genocide has escalated another notch in eastern Bosnia. “Lots of civilians, women, children and old people are being killed, … Continue reading

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Graves of Bosnian Genocide Yield Clues

Bosnia Graves Yield Clues The Telegraph-Herald, p.3C 17 July 1996. By The Associated Press Dr. Robert H. Kirschner has painstakingly pulled from makeshift graves hundreds of bodies of people who have been shot, slashed or bludgeoned to death. The Chicago … Continue reading

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Remains of 274 Bosniak Victims of Glumina Massacre Found

12 October 1996. New York Times GLUMINA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct. 11— A total of 274 bodies of Muslim victims of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war have been exhumed from the biggest mass grave yet discovered in the Balkan country, Lejla Spahic, … Continue reading

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500 Corpses of the Bosnian Genocide near Mratinci

Unburied Corpses in Bosnia Manila Standard, p.23B 4 April 1996. MRATINCI, Bosnia — The bodies, stripped of their flesh by marauding animals but still wearing tattered rags, are scattered on a forested hilltop where they fell. From the clothing, it … Continue reading

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Dictionary of Genocide (2008), the Bosnian Genocide

Dictionary of Genocide, Volume Two: M-Z (2008) By Samuel Totten, Paul R. Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs (Purchase info: Hardcover $199.95, Greenwood Press) Page 471. Entry: Wiesel, Elie and the Bosnian Genocide. In November 1992, concerned about the continuous reports about mass … Continue reading

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Serbs in Srebrenica, “We All Know that Thousands of Muslims were Massacred Here”

Serb Refugees Start to Rebuild ‘City of the Dead’ The Free Lance Star, p.A13 2 March 1996. By Dusan Stojanovic Associated Press Writer SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — To Rajko Brajic, a Bosnian Serb refugee, Srebrenica has an eerie feel. “It stinks … Continue reading

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Retrieving Bodies of Bosnian Genocide Victims

  Retrieving Bosnia’s Dead – Bodies ignored since war’s end finally collected The Free Lance Star, p.A4 18 September 1996. By Colleen Barry The Associated Press MRATINCI, Bosnia-Herzegovina — They lay exposed for 14 months in the Bosnian woods, hundreds … Continue reading

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