Tag: Yugoslav Wars
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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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Remembering the genocide in Srebrenica: an interview with survivor, Almasa Salihović
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this interview contains discussion of genocide, war-related violence, threats, trauma, and grief VIDEO This week marks 26 years since genocide was perpetrated in Srebrenica, in July 1995. The genocide took place within the context of the Bosnian War, which lasted from 1992 to 1995. In Srebrenica, 8,372 Bosniaks (Bosnian…
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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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Justice remains painfully scarce for Kosovo’s wartime rape survivors
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains detailed discussion of rape, sexual violence, and war OPINION In loving memory of Arzana Kraja, who helped to bring Kosovars together to support rape survivors through her conceptualisation and design of the Anemone symbol, in collaboration with Dardan Luta. In a recent panel discussing the prosecution…
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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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‘Nationalism goes hand in hand with patriarchy’: an interview with Nela Pamuković
VIDEO Nela Pamuković is the Co-Founder of the feminist, anti-militaristic non-governmental organisation, Centar Za Žene Žrtve Rata (Centre for Women War Victims) in Zagreb. The centre was founded in 1992, in response to the increasing violence against women during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. In our interview, Nela notes with a smile that the…
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