This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in BosniaThomas Cushman, Stjepan Mestrovic NYU Press, 1 oct. 1996 - 422 pages We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity. The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most uninterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide. |
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... action. In Orwell's case, his contempt for fascism served as a compulsion to act against it by supporting antifascists with his thoughts and, if need be, his life. In the present day, it seems, a new kind of Introduction • 5.
... act of objective reporting, or even moral engagement and advocacy, as it is a form of therapy or an occasion for paeans, a chance for the world to hear the case of war criminals and be given the option to decide that they may be ...
... acts of retribution by Croats have been given the same status as the large-scale, ongoing, and systematic atrocities and war crimes committed by Serbs in Bosnia; much of the mainstream media have been quick to use any act of violence on ...
... act because to act would involve “choosing sides” and the relativism of postmodernism makes such choices difficult. Even some intellectuals who are committed to the modern project of Enlightenment (which some postmodernists challenge) ...
... acts, yet Serb leaders and spokesmen get all the play they want on CNN and have been interviewed frequently by major media. Jimmy Carter is sometimes interviewed alongside them (and, in one instance, brought flowers to indicted war ...
Table des matières
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Five Israel and the War in Bosnia | 90 |
Six The Politics of Indifference at the United | 128 |
Seven The West Side Story of the Collapse | 163 |
Diaspora Groups | 187 |
Attitudes to the War in the Former Yugoslavia | 244 |
Ten The Former Yugoslavia the End of | 282 |
Twelve The AntiGenocide Movement on American | 313 |
Thirteen Western Responses to the Current Balkan War | 350 |
A Definition of Genocide | 359 |
Contributors | 403 |
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