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...covering the wars and turbulence of the Balkans at close quarters, suffering harassment from the government of former president Slobodan Milosevic for his efforts to report on the actions of Serb security forces in Bosnia and Kosovo. Anastasijevic later testified for the prosecution during Milosevic's ongoing war-crimes trial at the Hague. On the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, he offers this assessment of his country's reckoning with the crimes committed in its name...
...basic details of the massacre all well-known in the wider world, and have recently been reprised in great detail during the ongoing trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague. On July 11, 1995, Serb forces overran the small eastern Bosnian town, which they had kept under siege for more than three years. Less than a week later, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims taken prisoner, many just teenage boys, were dead, their bodies dumped in deep forests surrounding the enclave. Even today, some two thirds of the victims remain unaccounted for, buried in mass graves...
...bubble of Serb denial was ruptured last month by the release of a video clip presented as evidence by the prosecution at Milosevic's trial. On that tape, shown on TV in Serbia, viewers saw a group of soldiers from Serbia - all of them identified as members of Serbian special police unit known as Scorpions - executing six starved Muslim prisoners in cold blood...
Jurors in the original trial convicted Pring-Wilson of stabbing Colono, then 18 years old, during an April 12, 2003 confrontation outside Pizza Ring on Western Avenue. Pring-Wilson testified that he attacked Colono in self-defense, after being beaten by Colono and his cousin, Samuel L. Rodriguez—both of whom had prior criminal records involving drugs and violence. But prosecutors claimed Pring-Wilson had started the fight...
Last week, three members of the original jury sent a letter to the Boston Globe expressing concern that a second trial, in which the defense could be allowed to discuss Colono’s and Rodriguez’ pasts, could devolve into a spectacle of “race and class...