Alex Thomson
Srebrenica massacre: the unfinished business
Nedzad Avdic survived the Srebrenica massacre that took the lives of 8,000 men and boys. In Serbia, denying his experience is the official policy in and out of schools.
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Erdogan accuses Holland over Srebrenica
The Turkish President has blamed the Netherlands for the massacre by Serbs of 7,000 Bosnian boys and men in Srebrenica two decades ago, escalating a row between the two countries.
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Srebrenica massacre remembered 20 years on
Tens of thousands gather in Bosnia-Herzegovina to commemorate the execution of 8,000 Muslim men and boys 20 years ago. More than 1,000 have yet to be found.
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Alex Thomson
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UN: do not allow Syria to turn into Srebrenica
With Syrian forces pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with helicopter gunships on Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fears another massacre on the scale of Srebrenica.
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The memory of Srebrenica fades – but never goes away
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on why the memory of Srebrenicia will never go away: “Ten years ago I met Hasan Nuhanovic, a survivor of the massacre at Srebrenica.”
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Mladic arrest revives UN’s Srebrenica trauma
On the day Ratko Mladic is arrested, Alex Thomson writes that the UN experience of setting up and policing the “safe haven” in Srebrenica remains a traumatic event for that organisation.
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Ratko Mladic and the Srebrenica massacre
Arrested in Serbia, Ratko Mladic was indicted for genocide after the 1995 slaughter of around 8,000 Muslim men at Srebrenica, in Bosnia.
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Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ is ‘Srebrenica moment’
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into “credible allegations” of war crimes represent Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”.
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Butcher of Bosnia: Ratko Mladic genocide appeal dismissed at UN court
United Nations judges have upheld the convictions of the former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for masterminding genocide and other crimes during the Bosnian war. His appeal was dismissed “in its entirety” by the court in the Hague, meaning he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Mladic jailed for life for Bosnia genocide
The Bosnian general who ordered the slaughter of thousands of Muslim men and boys in the early 1990s has been found guilty of genocide. But Ratko Mladic didn’t hear the verdict as he had been thrown out of the war crimes court room for shouting abuse. He was sentenced to life for organising the massacre…
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Lindsey Hilsum
From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
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Alex Thomson
Genocide: a term we use too often or not enough
“For 30 years I said nothing. But now, if these children meet someone who denies the Holocaust they can say, ‘No – Solly Irving came to see us. He stood before us. He told us’.”
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Paul Mason
How the west slipped into powerlessness
The world is waking up to the fact that Obama’s United States is a declining superpower that no longer wants to act like one.
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Jon Snow
Noam Chomsky speaks to Jon Snow – tweet your questions
Jon Snow interviews one of the world’s most famous political thinkers, Noam Chomsky, live on tonight’s Channel 4 News at 7.35pm – so what should he ask? Tweet your question now.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Western capitals poised to intervene on Syria – but how?
Pressure is mounting on the US to act if the UN finds that the “red line” of chemical weapons has been crossed – and President Obama does not want Syria to become his Rwanda.
