COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 16, 2015 “Denying” the Srebrenica Genocide Because It’s Not True: an Interview with Diana Johnstone by ANN GARRISON Saturday, July 11th, was the official 20th anniversary of what is called the “Srebrenica Massacre” and “the Srebrenica Genocide,” when Muslim men were killed by Serbian forces in the Bosnian civil war of 1992 to…
«War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portuguese Peacekeeper (II)
In his memoir, «War in the Balkans», (1) retired Portuguese general Carlos Martins Branco, who during the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia was in the strategically important post of Deputy Head of Mission of UN Military Observers in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1994-1996), recounts his knowledge of events that took place around Srebrenica in…
«War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portuguese Peacekeeper (I)
General Carlos Martins Branco is one of the most fascinating (and until quite recently also inaccessible) actors in the Srebrenica controversy. From his Zagreb vantage point as deputy head of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) between 1994 and 1996, during the latter phase of the 1990s Yugoslav conflict as it unfolded in Croatia and Bosnian…