A review essay covering books by 1) Marko Attila, The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: a history (2013), 2) Emily Greble, Sarajevo 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Hitler's Europe ...(2011) and 3) David Motadel, Islam and Nazi Germany's War (2014).
Reopening the Wounds? Xavier Bougarel
Investigating Srebrenica,
06/2012, Letnik:
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Book Chapter
The July 1995 Srebrenica massacre is unanimously seen by Bosniaks as one of the major symbols of the genocide they experienced during the recent conflict and of the passive—indeed, complicit—attitude ...of the international community while it was underway. Moreover, the majority of works published in the Federation² concerning the events in Srebrenica consist either of survivors’ testimony or of translations of journalistic inquiries and official reports published abroad that focus on condemning Serb crimes and the passivity of the United Nations. Yet at the same time, the question of possible Bosniak responsibility in the fall of Srebrenica remains
Dès l’été 1995, diverses polémiques ont vu le jour sur de possibles erreurs tactiques des dirigeants politiques et militaires bosniaques ou un hypothétique abandon de l’enclave de Srebrenica. Par la ...suite, ces polémiques ont été alimentées par les dissensions internes au Parti de l’action démocratique (SDA), les premières manifestations des survivants de l’enclave et l’approche des élections générales de septembre 1996. Dans ce contexte, le Parlement de la République de Bosnie-Herzégovine a organisé le 1er août 1996 un débat sur les causes de la chute de Srebrenica. L’analyse de ce débat permet de mieux comprendre comment la question des éventuelles responsabilités bosniaques dans la chute de Srebrenica renvoie en fait à d’autres interrogations plus larges sur les modes d’exercice du pouvoir politique par les dirigeants du SDA d’une part, sur leurs buts de guerre d’autre part.
The report commissioned by the Dutch government in 1996 on the national responsibilities in the fall of the Srebrenica " Safe Area ", published in 2002, in exceptional in several regards, notably its ...size over 7000 pages the means and archival resources made available to the team of 12 researchers and its impact. Its publication motivated the Dutch cabinet to resign. The report should be inserted in a national tradition of commissions of enquiry as a means to achieve political consensus. Its methods, its positivism, its very coherence outruling possible dissent or contradiction, its insistence on responsibilities in high places, while carefully sparing the members of Dutchbat themselves, all contribute rather to a closure than a deepening of the national debate on the events of Srebrenica. Adapted from the source document.
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