Enabling Genocide

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Nov 26, 2017 The sentencing of a former general for the slaughter of civilians in the Bosnian war is a bitter reminder: Key nations of the West, including the U.S., have been deeply complicit in genocide. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Revealed: The West’s Role in the Genocide at Srebrenica

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 5, 2015 A new investigation into declassified evidence shows that, in an attempt to secure a larger peace deal, British, American and French governments knowingly left the Muslim population of the Bosnian town vulnerable to a genocide that killed 8,000 men and boys in 1995. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

General Points Finger at Gays in Bosnian Massacre

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2010 Listen to this: John Sheehan, a retired U.S. Marine officer and former NATO supreme commander during the war in Bosnia, has finally found a scapegoat for the estimated 8,000-plus Muslims who died in 1995's Srebrenica massacre: homosexual Dutch soldiers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Former Serb Leader Calls Bosnian War ‘Just and Holy’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2010 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial for genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for his role in the mass killings of Croats and Muslims during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, but a defiant Karadzic apparently doesn't believe that he presided over an ethnic-cleansing campaign. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

War Crimes Tribunal Awaits Karadzic

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2008 He is almost unrecognizable in the guise of alternative therapist Dr. Dragan Dabic, but it apparently took more than long hair, a beard and an invented identity to keep former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's past from catching up with him. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Serb War Crimes Suspect Arrested

Staff / Truthdig Jul 22, 2008 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the murder of civilians in Sarajevo and Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, has been arrested in Serbia after being underground since 1997. Seems the lure of EU membership is getting the government there to turn up some old stones. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Serbs Jailed for 1995 Killings

Staff / Truthdig Apr 10, 2007 Four Serbian men charged with killing six Bosnian Muslims during 1995's Srebrenica massacre have been convicted by Serbia's war crimes court. The four, members of a paramilitary group called the Scorpions, were given jail sentences ranging from five to 20 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Serbia Not Guilty of Genocide

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2007 In an unprecedented case, Bosnia sought payback in the form of billions of dollars from Serbia for the ethnic conflict that claimed thousands of lives in the 1990s. On Monday, the U.N.'s International Court of Justice absolved Serbia of accountability for genocide but accused Belgrade of failing to thwart the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, according to the BBC. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )