A decade and more after the former Yugoslavia fragmented in bitter conflict, many thousands of people from the region are still missing. In “Bridges of bone and blood”, Laura Durnford […]
Former Yugoslavia
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Lorenza Bacino visits Sarajevo, which was under siege for more than three years. During the war, the cohesion between Serbs, Bosnians and Moslems was destroyed. Three people tell the story […]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was set up in 1993 in The Hague to bring to trial those responsible for atrocities committed during the conflict in the […]
Until 1989, Kosovo enjoyed the status of an autonomous province within the Yugoslav Federation, with its own legal and administrative institutions and extensive local powers. But this autonomy was revoked […]
The war in the former Yugoslavia uprooted millions of people and forever changed their lives. The three and a half-year war particularly affected the most vulnerable in society: children and […]
In 1991, old scars were ripped back open when fighting broke out again in the former Yugoslavia. Five years of ethnic cleansing, war rapes, concentration camps, a quarter of a […]
Much has been written about the atrocities committed over the past five years in the heart of Europe: the concentration camps, war rapes and the ethnic cleansing. Much has also […]
Five years ago, fighting began in the heart of Europe: the Balkans. Over a quarter of a million people were killed during the war in the former Yugoslavia and nearly […]