Tag: history
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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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Ukrainian Roma in times of war
ESSAY Russia launched its re-invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Since then, we have been hearing and reading daily accounts of the Ukrainian army’s responses to the advances of the Russian aggressor, and of the mass exodus of over 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees into neighbouring Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. It is the […]
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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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Europe’s amnesia of Bulgaria’s ‘Revival Process’ and its Turkish victims
CN: ethnic cleansing, murder, Islamophobia, Turcophobia, trauma OPINION While Germany is known for being home to the biggest Turkish diaspora, Bulgaria is home to the largest autochthonous Turkish community in Europe. Bulgaria is the historical land of origin of around 600 000 ethnic Turks, who are also citizens of the European Union by being citizens 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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Androniki and prehistoric pottery: a look at non-binary gender expression in Cypriot culture
Support Politika News on Patreon. With special thanks to Ilaeira. ESSAY ‘It’s cultural’, people have often said to me. The tenacity of multiple systems of oppression – patriarchy, heteronormativity, racism – suggests they are and always have been endemic in Cypriot culture. As a member of the Cypriot diaspora, it has certainly felt that way. […]
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Re-thinking July 1974: problematic discourse in Cyprus’ Greek-speaking diaspora
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this video contains discussion of trauma, displacement, and war VIDEO As Cypriot communities commemorate the events of July 1974 (as well as the decades prior) that led to Cyprus’ partition, Politika News Editor, Georgio Konstandi and From Root To Vine creator, Maria Christodoulou, sit down to discuss problematic discourses […]
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Compellingly nuanced and a crucial contribution to its field: a review of ‘The Muslim Resolutions’
Support Politika News on Patreon. REVIEW The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Dr. Hikmet Karčić, Dr. Ferid Dautović, and Dr. Ermin Sinanović (Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, June 2021) The social and political position of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) community in the Nazi-puppet state, […]
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Divisive politics and Northern Ireland’s obsession with flags
Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION Northern Irish citizens, whichever side of the political spectrum they find themselves on, have an undeniably unhealthy obsession with flags, or ‘flegs’. While these pieces of coloured cloth are used as symbols of cultural or political identity the world over, in few places have they provoked such controversy and […]
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