Category: Serbia
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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 Serbian state supports the glorification of war criminals’: an interview with the organisation fighting to remove Mladić murals
CN: war, genocide triumphalism VIDEO In July this year, a mural honouring convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić was painted on a building in central Belgrade. This had occurred on the same day that Bosnia’s outgoing High Representative, Valentin Inzko, imposed changes to Bosnia’s Criminal Code that would prohibit the denial of genocide and glorification of […]
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Serbian parliament refuses to debate resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica
CN: genocide, war REPORT On Tuesday, Serbian MPs voted against debating three proposed resolutions relating to the 1990s Yugoslav Wars. One of these resolutions included condemning the genocide committed by Serb forces against Bosniaks in Srebrenica. The resolution sought to ban the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica that saw over 8 000 Bosniaks (mainly […]
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How Serb paramilitary violence was perpetrated in two Bosnian towns: an interview with Dr. Iva Vukušić
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide, rape, torture and war INTERVIEW Dr. Iva Vukušić is a lecturer at the Department of History at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research focuses on irregular armed forces, perpetrators and perpetration, […]
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Surviving a pandemic from the margins of society: an interview with Opre Roma Srbija
Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, many are looking to vaccination as a pathway to the freedoms they have sacrificed. The Balkan region has been struck particularly hard, with death rates in Sarajevo, for example, exceeding those experienced during the city’s siege of 1992-96. Meanwhile, in Serbia a relatively […]
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‘Pimping’ girls: Vučić ally and MP investigated for sexual exploitation
CN: this article contains brief discussion of sexual exploitation REPORT As another scandal strikes Serbian politics, this time it is former mayor and sitting member of the National Assembly, Dragan Marković, whose name is on everyone’s lips for all the wrong reasons. The MP and city council president of Jagodina now faces a formal investigation […]
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Greek ethnic nationalism and the Yugoslav Wars: an interview with award-winning journalist and author, Takis Michas
PODCAST CN: this podcast episode contains discussion of genocide and xenophobia Before 8,372 Muslim men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995, it was the blue-white Hellenic flag that was raised alongside the Serbian ensign in the defeated Muslim enclave. No Greek writer has done more to uncover the dark and […]
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Telegram revenge porn scandal: police investigate as more than 50 000 men share explicit content of women and underaged girls
CN: this article contains discussion of rape, child pornography and revenge porn REPORT The Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs is currently investigating a case of mass revenge porn that has shaken Serbia and the surrounding Balkan region over the past few days. There is now increasing evidence to suggest that thousands of men have collaborated […]
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Chetnik collaboration and acts of genocide in the former Yugoslavia: an interview with Balkans scholar, Stevan Bozanich
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide INTERVIEW Stevan Bozanich is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia). His research focuses on, among other things, paramilitary violence and far-right nationalism in the former Yugoslavia. Bozanich’s wide range of published works range from the sculpture of nationalism in fin-de-siècle […]
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Evil behind the curtain: Serbian actresses reveal they were raped and sexually assaulted by famous director
CN: this article contains discussion of rape and sexual violence REPORT While COVID-19 continues to dominate our lives, in Serbia, a new story of evil has gripped the public. A few weeks ago, well-known actress Milena Radulović revealed to Blic that her drama teacher and renowned Serbian director, Miroslav Mika Aleksić, raped her several times […]
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