This short piece is based on a thread on X posted on 11 Jul7 2024 on Srebrenica and the genocide in Bosnia. Today marks the 29th anniversary of the genocide in #Srebrenica. Islamic Human Rights Commission has released a recording by Nargess Moballeghi of her essay for #TheLongView ‘Bosnia: the forgotten
Arzu was interview on Press TV to discuss the Srebrenica Genocide. Transcript to follow. Original Photo (c) and courtesy Assed Baig, 2008 shows a rose lain by a surviving relative on the Srebrenica memorial.
Arzu Merali reflects on the failures to remember the genocide in Bosnia, or learn the lessons of the genocide. People born in the late ‘80s onwards, of course, do not remember. Who expects them to? Yet, it wouldn’t be unreasonable that the message of this disaster, rather catastrophe, of ginormous proportions, would
Written in 1996, a year after the worst massacre on European soil since the Second World War, this essay outlines the complicity of international institutions and European governments in the crimes. “How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the oppressed among men and of the women and
Written in 1996. Currently published also on the IHRC website. “How should ye not fight for the cause of Allah and of the oppressed among men and of the women and the children who are crying: Our Lord! Bring forth from this town of which the people are oppressors! Oh give us
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