Life After Genocide - Foreign Affairs
MICHAEL F. HARSCH is a Faculty Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and is currently based at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) in New York. It was 20 years ago this month that Europe saw the worst crime on its soil since World War II. From July 11–13, 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army methodically executed approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims after conquering the UN-designated “safe area” of... The genocide in Bosnia was particularly shocking because it occurred less than one year after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which members of the Hutu majority killed approximately 800,000 people in a gruesome ethnic cleansing campaign... Their civil wars and genocidal violence left both countries severely damaged and traumatized. Twenty years later, Rwanda is frequently cited as a success story and Bosnia is widely viewed as teetering on the brink of renewed violence. A Bosnian flag and a sign flutter in front of a burned government building in Tuzla, February 8, 2014. Protesters across Bosnia set fire to government buildings and fought with riot police on Friday as long-simmering anger over lack of jobs and... Source: www.foreignaffairs.com
