In this digital age of viral tweets and snapchats, war crimes committed in Europe during the 1990s are no more present in public consciousness than war crimes committed in Europe during the 1940s. The decision resolved claims and counter-claims Croatia and Serbia had been hurling against each other for almost two decades: Croatia claimed that Serbia… Read more.
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Help! Floods Have Balkan Streets Looking Like Venetian Canals
I readily concede that you can be forgiven a little compassion fatigue. After all, mainstream and social media have been replete recently with heartrending stories about wildfires destroying homes in California, ethnic conflict causing death and starvation in South Sudan, religious conflict causing death and destruction in the Central African Republic, and simmering civil war… Read more.
Dr. Karadzic, Serbian war-crimes fugitive, arrested
Notwithstanding that every Serb I know believes that Dr. Radovan Karadzic was hiding in plain sight, reports are that a tip from a foreign intelligence agency finally enabled Serbian security officers to arrest him yesterday. Indeed, it is a testament to either the incompetence or perfidy of Serbian (and UN) authorities that Karadzic managed to… Read more.