Awake

On the sneakiness of injustice...

I'm not at all up on my Serbian history—political or otherwise—but this bit of news concerns me:
Milosevic wins seat in Serbian Parliment (The Globe and Mail, 12/29/2003)

So, in an effort to repent of my ignorance of the injustices that have taken place in the former country of Yugoslavia, here are a few interesting primary sources of information:

• Trial Reports—International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• Milosevic Trial Public Video Archive
• Amnesty Int'l Document Library: Serbia and Montenegro
• Amnesty Int'l Document Library: Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Amnesty Int'l Document Library: Croatia
• Human Rights Watch News Releases: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Human Rights Watch News Releases: Croatia
• Human Rights Watch News Releases: Serbia and Montenegro

Click to view enlarged image Also, I stumbled across this Web site (which led me to the video and trial archives above), B92 which describes itself as:

"...a multi-faceted media house at the very forefront of the transformation of post-Milosevic Yugoslavia’s cultural life. In our 12-year history, we have grown from our tentative origins as a student radio station to become an umbrella association comprising over 250 staff in the fields of television, radio, internet, music, film and publishing. Along the way we have pioneered the use of the internet as a means of bypassing media repression; won global acclaim for our part in the downfall of a corrupt and violent regime; and nurtured a thriving creative scene in Yugoslavia."

Finally, here's a nice presentation done by BBC on the changing shape of Yugoslavia in the last century. Contains a timeline highlighting the years of 1900, 1913, 1920, 1941, 1945, 1992, 1995, 1999, and 2003.

Oh, and let us be keeping on eye on this sneaky Hitler wanna-be: Vojislav Seselj.