srebrenica

Eurosphere agenda: “Netherlands partly to blame for Srebrenica…”Plane crash in eastern Ukraine…

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Change vs more of the same (40 reasons to support Scottish independence, 39) open Democracy News Analysis – by Adam Ramsay Independence offers a rare chance to change a British system built before anything to protect itself.   MAIN FOCUS: Netherlands partly to blame for Srebrenica | 17/07/2014   The Dutch state bears partial responsibility … Read more

for the record, today is the anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre

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  The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide,[1][2][3][4][5][6] refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000[7] Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladi? during the … Read more

From Italy with love: Italians say no to nuclear… Europride in Rome… a Euro roundup…

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Europride and Gaga in Rome from Boing Boing by Jasmina Te?anovic (Lady Gaga performs during a gay pride concert in downtown Rome. Stefano Rellandini / Reuters) The gay icon Lady Gaga was there wearing her green wig, together with up to one million people marching chanting singing in a carnival gay pride march. Rome is … Read more

Euroblogging roundup (and more from Europe…)

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Fundamental challenges for Euroblogging

by Grahnlaw

The Open Europe blog made the point that there is blogging on the fundamental questions of the future direction of Europe, as well as on EU politics in a narrower sense, the outcome of EU policies.

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Serbia “apologizes”

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Serbia apologises for Srebrenica massacre

from FT.com – World, Europe
Parliament adopts a resolution that expressed sympathy to victims and apologised for not doing enough to prevent the massacre but stopped short of calling the killings ‘genocide’

MAIN FOCUS: Serbs apologise for Srebrenica | 01/04/2010

from euro|topics

The Serbian parliament on Wednesday officially apologised to the Bosniaks for the Srebrenica Massacre. In July 1995 the general of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladi?, had around 8,000 Muslim Bosnians murdered and the Serbian leadership failed to intervene. The apology deserves praise, commentators write, even if it is motivated by pragmatic interests.

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