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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... peace table. NATO air strikes commenced against the Bosnian Serbs, ostensibly to force them to remove their heavy weapons from the perimeter of Sarajevo. This Western action was not agreeable to all the members of the NATO alliance. Yet ...
... peace at any cost. Peace talks were held in Dayton, Ohio, and—despite Radovan Karadžić's pronouncement that, as a result of the peace talks, “Sarajevo will bleed for decades”—the parties in the conflict concluded a peace agreement in ...
... peace. Bosnian government officials have regularly referred to the conflict as “slaughter,” not war, an assessment reflected in David Rieff's 1995 book titled Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. The central question that ...
... peace at the price of ethnic partition or forgiving indicted war criminals is preferable to “more fighting.” We see this as evidence of a significant change in the habitus of Western intellectuals; in contrast to an earlier age when ...
... peace table rather than stopping or punishing genocide), the world has done very little. The visibility of this genocide leaves one with the troubling thought as to whether cognizance of genocide and moral condemnation of it even matter ...
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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