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Elie Wiesel: Bosnia Not Auschwitz, but Genocide

INTRO: In November 1992, concerned about the continuous reports about mass killing emanating from the former Yugoslavia, Elie Wiesel (b. 1928), survivor of the Holocaust/Shoah, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and committed human rights activist, traveled to Belgrade, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, … Continue reading

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Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic Vowed to Slit Jewish Throats

(Text provided by our friends at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia) David L. Phillips, former executive director of the Holocaust survivor’s Elie Wiesel Foundation, was an adviser to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992-94. He is currently Director of … Continue reading

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Dangerous lies that spread from Auschwitz to Srebrenica

The facts of the genocidal assault on Bosnia’s Muslims are so horrific that a cottage industry of denial has since grown up. You will find websites claiming that the number of victims of the Srebrenica massacre has been exaggerated, and … Continue reading

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Chomsky’s Genocidal Denial – by Dr Marko Hoare

“Chomsky’s Genocidal Denial” was originally published in November of 2005 by one of leading historians  specializing in the history of South-eastern Europe. To contact Dr. Marko Hoare, you may visit his official blog “Greater Surbiton.” Dr. Marko Hoare “The lady … Continue reading

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Jewish, Christian Groups Seek Use of Force to Save Muslims in Bosnia

DAVID BRIGGS Associated Press Section: MAIN, Page: A1 Date: Saturday, May 15, 1993. A growing sense of moral outrage over reports of atrocities in Bosnia is leading major U.S. religious groups to appeal for action their religious traditions tell them … Continue reading

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Jewish and Bosnian Muslim Genocide Survivors Share Stories with Students

The Men’s Club at Temple Ner Tamid and Holocaust Center hosted an evening with two genocide survivors: Stephan Lewy, a Holocaust survivor and liberator, and Jasmina Cesic, of Bosnia. Tara Vocino (Peabody Patch) — Peabody teens and their parents had … Continue reading

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Evening with two Holocaust and Bosnian Genocide Survivors in Peabody

Evening with two genocide survivors planned in Peabody Marblehead Staff Reporter Peabody — The public is invited to hear eyewitness accounts from Stephan Lewy, a Holocaust survivor and liberator, and Jasmina Cesic, a Bosnian genocide survivor, from 6:30 to 8 … Continue reading

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Angelina Jolie Premieres Her Bosnian Genocide Film in the US Holocaust Museum

USHMM, Washington On January 10, 2012, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted the Washington, DC, premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey, written and directed by Angelina Jolie. Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian war of the 1990s, the … Continue reading

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Breaking the Rules of Politics, Europe Begins in Sarajevo

By John Nichols Toledo Blade, p.17 10 June 1994. “We are here to show that there is still honor in politics.” In these days of extreme cynicism regarding government, French scientist Leon Schwartzberg’s words may sound a tad surreal. But … Continue reading

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Inaction to Stop the Bosnian Genocide in Sickening

“Fathers are forced to watch their wives and children as young as 9 being raped by Serbs over a period of days, then finally murdered by having their throats cut. Rape camps are set up for tens of thousands of … Continue reading

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Jews in Miami Protest Abuses at Serbian Concentration Camps

The News, A3 11 August 1992. MIAMI BEACH (AP) — A Jewish human rights group dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust called Monday for military intervention to stop the bloody ethnic conflict in what was Yugoslavia. President Bush should … Continue reading

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Serbian Nazi Sympathizers Protest Ratko Mladic Arrest

Wearing Serbian Nazi-collaborationist “Chetnik” insignia and uniforms, at least 10,000 Serbian Nazi/Fascist sympathizers protested the arrest of General Ratko Mladic, a man indicted for the Bosnian Genocide. Serb Chetniks persecuted and slaughtered Jews and the Bosnian Muslims during World War … Continue reading

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Human Rights Under Assault Near Conference

By William F. Buckley Jr. Reading Eagle, p.B8 30 June 1993. The times give us awful ironies, and this week’s has been a masterstroke. One hundred and sixty countries have sent delegations to Vienna to discuss the subject of human … 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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U.S. Has a Do-Nothing Bosnian Policy

By Ann McFeatters The Telegraph 5 April 1993. President Clinton and former President Bush have been right in sending Americans to fight in the former Yugoslavia — but the United States and Europe will have unclean hands when history judges … Continue reading

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Anti-Semitism, racism and Srebrenica genocide denial

By Dr. Marko Attila Hoare Source: Originally Published on March 24, 2011 in Greater Surbiton Blog The justice or injustice of a cause may in large part be measured by the ethics displayed by those who uphold it. The ongoing campaign … Continue reading

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"Never Again" Applies to Bosnia, Too

The Jewish Post & News, p.4 12 August 1992. Never again! That’s the expression Jewish Holocaust survivors and the rest of world Jewry use when referring to the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Never again should anyone stand by, shrug … Continue reading

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Fall of Srebrenica Brings Echoes of the Third Reich

The Milwaukee Journal 17 July 1995. Missing from the heart-rending photographs of terrified refugees were the dusty railroad cattle cars and the sullen storm troopers watching with expressionless faces. Nevertheless, some of the roads and villages of [predominantly Bosnian Muslim-inhabited] … Continue reading

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Besieged Srebrenica Resembled Nazi Concentration Camps

Starving Bosniak Refugees Tell of Horror Record-Journal, p.3 13 March 1993. TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The first emaciated wounded and sick arrived Friday from besieged Srebrenica, leaving behind near-starvation and desperate hardship, including amputation without anesthetic. Doctors at Tuzla’s main … Continue reading

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Ghettos for Jews and Bosnian Muslims

50 years of European progress: Polish Jews: In 1943, some 400,000 Jewish people were rounded up and herded into the Warsaw Ghetto. German Nazis starved them and murdered many of them – just because they were Jewish. Bosnian Muslims: In … Continue reading

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Bosnian Muslims and Jews have a joint experience of persecution and genocide in Europe

Dr. Mustafa Cerić is the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina (leader of Islamic community) and a prominent member of the Committee on Conscience fighting against the Holocaust denial. Invited by president of Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah, David de … Continue reading

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ICJ Judge, Serbia’s involvement in Srebrenica Genocide supported by massive and compelling evidence

Case: Bosnia v. Serbia Judgement: Dissenting opinion of Judge Al-Khasawneh, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice. The Court’s jurisdiction is established – Serious doubts that already settled question of jurisdiction should have been re-examined – SFRY’s United Nations membership could … Continue reading

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Holocaust Survivor: Forty-thousand Bosnian Muslims Targeted for Extinction in Srebrenica

In 2004, Presiding U.N. Judge Theodor Meron – who is Polish-American of Jewish descent – delivered a historic speech at the Srebrenica Genocide memorial located in Potocari (near Srebrenica). His speech was both moving and inspiring, but also educational. We … Continue reading

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Bosniak Boy Raises Awareness of the Holocaust

Summary: 7th grader Bosniak boy, Emin Seferovic-Drnovsek, reports a visit to his Chicago high school by Samuel R. Harris, Holocaust survivor and president of Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Emin gives a vivid account of how Harris described his … Continue reading

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Jewish leader warns, "Bosnian Muslims suffering like Jews under Nazi"

Article courtesy of San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc., dba Jewish Bulletin of Northern California. Published on Friday, July 28, 1995. Bosnian Muslims suffering like Jews under Nazis, official says by Jewish Telegraphic Agency 28 July 1995. “The expulsion terror … Continue reading

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