Author: Georgio Konstandi
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Bosnia 2022 elections: the vultures of Serb and Croat nationalism are circling
ANALYSIS by Georgio Konstandi Georgio Konstandi is the Founder and Editor of The Scroll. Georgio spent two months volunteering at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potočari, and is currently working on a project to create an educational resource for British schools on the 1992-1995 genocide in eastern Bosnia. On 2 October, the people of Bosnia…
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“The war never ended for us”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo
INTERVIEW April marks 30 years since the Siege of Sarajevo began in 1992. It remains the longest military siege of a capital city in history. The failed attempt by Bosnian Serb forces and their sponsors in the Milošević regime to seize Bosnia’s capital involved atrocities against civilians and crimes against humanity. The multiethnic and multi-faith…
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“Why didn’t the world act sooner?”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo
INTERVIEW April marks 30 years since the Siege of Sarajevo began in 1992. It remains the longest military siege of a capital city in history. The failed attempt by Bosnian Serb forces and their sponsors in the Milošević regime to seize Bosnia’s capital involved atrocities against civilians and crimes against humanity. The multiethnic and multi-faith…
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Fascism knocks on France’s door this election… and this time it may knock it down
ANALYSIS With two days to go before French voters head to the polls, far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen stands just 2.5 percentage points away from victory in the first round of the presidential election (IFOP). Yes, you read that correctly. Never has a far-right candidate polled this close to the winner’s spot, not even when…
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Arab queer film finds success: an interview with the director of Lebanon’s award-winning “Warsha”
INTERVIEW As the world marks LGBT History Month, film director of Lebanese and Syrian origin Dania Bdeir is making her mark as a contributor to queer history, with her award-winning short film, “Warsha”. “Warsha” follows Mohammed, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to operate one of the…
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‘The Tories are overthrowing democracy’: an interview with Britain’s new socialist party
INTERVIEW When Corbynist Labour lost their second election in 2019, many socialists were left scratching their heads. Jeremy Corbyn, the man whose feverish popularity among hardline socialists had seen him survive the party’s greatest antisemitism crisis in decades, was gone. As the nationalist right bathed in its post-victory hubris, it was socialists who were left…
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‘We cannot afford to be onlookers’: Holocaust survivor recalls horrors of genocide, and warns of repeated failures
CN: the Holocaust, genocide, antisemitism, torture, trauma, war INTERVIEW As the world marks 77 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors becomes more and more apparent. With it, the burden of responsibility to preserve and honour the truth of what happened to Europe’s Jews falls on allies and those among…
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‘The PRC must know it will pay for its crimes’: calls mount for diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics in Beijing
CN: genocide, torture, genocide denial INTERVIEW In just over a month’s time, Beijing will attempt to pull off its biggest PR stunt yet when it welcomes the world’s athletes to its Winter Olympics in February 2022. Ostentatious ceremonies, bright lights and smiling faces will play their familiar role in dazzling audiences through their television screens.…
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International leaders play dubious role in Bosnia’s ethno-nationalist terror
ANALYSIS As Bosnians look towards the new year, the list of challenges facing their country grows ever longer. Despite 26 years of peace-building by war survivors and activists, actors both within and without the country threaten to tear its fragile peace apart. EU officials appear to dither on imposing sanctions against the country’s far-right secessionist…
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On Islamophobia, enlightened France is spoilt for choice in the 2022 election
CN: Islamophobia, xenophobia OPINION Don’t be misled by the French liberal outrage at Eric Zemmour. The foundations of his presidential campaign, swollen with the pus of supremacist yearnings and anti-Muslim intent, were laid long ago when a dangerous rhetoric was co-opted by the very voices now denouncing his campaign. The process of legitimising some of…
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