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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... victims of genocide are simply getting what they deserve for past injustices, the fact remains: from the perspective ... victim, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the sanctions against Belgrade are openly violated, the United Nations in Bosnia and ...
... victims to defend themselves, again, along the lines of the rationalization discussed above: all sides are potentially bad, so an increase in weapons would “escalate the violence.” If Western weapons and troops are to be sent to Bosnia ...
... victims of Croats and Muslims, blaming all Muslims for their defeat at Kosovo in 1389, and insinuating that all contemporary Croats are Nazis.” Such propaganda, as Daniel Kofman points out in his criticism of IsraeliSerbian relations in ...
... victims with aggressors by presuming that all warring parties have committed the stated sins in equal ImeaSure. 2. Islamic fundamentalism is a threat to the West; Europe should not allow an Islamic nation (Bosnia) in Europe, since to do ...
... victims, an idea that is preposterous when thought of in the context of Western Europe, but that is invoked ... victims (in this case the Bosnian Muslims). This type of equivocation recasts victims as villains. For example, Serbs ...
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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