This groundbreaking digital archive provides researches with access to multiple digital collections regarding the ICTY and its activities after the Bosnian Genocide.
Today, more than 30 states mandate the teaching of the Holocaust; however, far less attention is given in schools to other 20th-century instances of genocide.
Allowing students to participate in an actual simulated war crimes trial is an excellent way to promote enthusiasm for the study of international law and politics, facilitate debate and intellectual discourse on complex issues, and promote civility and professionalism in the conduct of serious political and legal business.
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays—three of which are published here for the first time—that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide.
The article presents a study which investigates the association of patterns of conflict-related mortuary practice with the agent of burial which may be identified in the archaeological record. During the investigation, the researchers examine the treatment of the dead resulting from the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the former Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995 and the Anfal campaign targeting Kurdish civilians in Iraq in 1987.
In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership, the question of the responsibility of various international organizations and national authorities for the fall of the enclave is still passionately discussed, and has given rise to various rumors and conspiracy theories.
When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and although fluent in the language, she was advised to avoid letting local workers discover her ethnicity. Her passionate narrative of establishing a morgue in a small town and excavating graves at Srebenica is braided with her family's remarkable history in what was once Yugoslavia.