Ethical Responses to Genocide

Sarajevo
Srebrenica
Zvornik/Divič
Višegrad

David Pettigrew, PhD,
Philosophy Department,
Southern Connecticut State University

email: pettigrewd1@southernct.edu

Bosnia

Report on Local Elections in Srebrenica, October 7, 2012. LINK

Read Hikmet Karčić's essay/report:
"An Australian in Višegrad"
LINK
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"Justice in Bosnia after Mladić"
by David Pettigrew LINK

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Indicted War Criminal Ratko Mladić
arrested in Serbia, 26 May 2011

Read the Statement of the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on the arrest of Ratko Mladić LINK

The Case Against Mladić LINK

Read the statement on Mladić's arrest by the Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada LINK

Read journalist Ed Vulliamy's perspective: LINK


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David Pettigrew's Report on Višegrad August 4, 2010
LINK

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Seven Senior Bosnian Serb Officials Convicted of Srebrenica Crimes
10 June 2010

Seven former high-ranking Bosnian Serb military and police officials were today convicted by Trial Chamber II of a range of crimes committed in 1995 in relation to the fall of the enclaves of Srebrenica and Žepa, eastern Bosnia…LINK

(The Summary of the Judgement LINK)

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From Institute for War & Peace Reporting --IWPR:

"Kravica Survivor Recounts Mass Killings: Witness describes how hundreds of Bosniaks were executed in a warehouse near Srebrenica."

By Velma Saric -
International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 648, 4 Jun 10 LINK

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Report on the Divič Mosque
LINK

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Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada

World Intellectuals Urge Canadian Parliament to Adopt Srebrenica Genocide Motion (M-416)
LINK

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International Scientific Conference
"Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Consequences of the International Court of Justice"


Potočari (Srebrenica) July 10-12, 2009 - A visit with Fata Orlović Link

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United States House of Representatives passes Resolution 171

H. Res.171 expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on the need for constitutional reform in B-H and the importance of sustained U.S. engagement in partnership with the European Union (EU).

From the Resolution:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that--
(1) it is increasingly urgent that Bosnia and Herzegovina work toward the creation of an efficient and effective state able to meet its domestic and international obligations with more functional institutions, including a state government capable of making self-sustaining reforms and fulfilling European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) requirements..."

Read the complete resolution:
Link To document
Link To website

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Klotjevac Memorial

A stone monument has been placed above
the Klotjevac spring in memory of those of Klotjevac who were killed during the war, both in Klotjevac and at Srebrenica. The official unveiling too place July 12, 2009

To see photographs of the unveiling click here: LINK

Selected Web Resources

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia

http://www.un.org/icty/

Selected Books

Clea Koff, The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (New York: Random House, 2005).

http://www.thebonewoman.com/

Selected BibliographyLINK

Selected Films

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120490/

Grbavica (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464029/

Home

 

 

 

 

 

The National and University Library
of Bosnia and Herzegovina

***undergoing reconstruction***
(Photo by David Pettigrew, July 2008)

"On August 25, 1992, the Serb army began shelling the National Library of Bosnia Herzegovina in Sarajevo from positions on the mountainside directly in front of it. In the next few days, the largest book-burning in modern human history, over a million books, more than a hundred thousand manuscripts and rare books, and centuries of historical records of Bosnia Herzegovina went up in flames. Volunteers formed a human chain to rescue what they could. One of them, a graduate student at the University of Sarajevo never made it home."

Michael Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), p. 1.

To see additional photos
from the
National Library go to the Sarajevo page

 

For further related reading see The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 1954

http://www.icomos.org/hague/

Also see: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol 1), Adopted on 8 June 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of
International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflict (Part IV, Section I, Chapter III, Article 53)
LINK

and see International Humanitarian Law