Where were these things when I was growing up?!
Off to watch “Shadow Company” (2006), a documentary about mercenaries (or PMCs) with a strong South African element. Apparently it is superb.
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“The prosecution has strong incentives to try to tell the story of the war, rather than focus narrowly on successful conviction. This is the international tribunal’s signature case — especially after the termination of the Milosevic prosecution — and it will be heavily institutionally invested in the outcome and the legacy it creates, the more [...]
In June this year author & Balkanologist Misha Glenny was interviewed by B92 about his new book on organized crime “McMafia”.
The interview gives a fascinating insight into the role of organized crime in the Balkans, in particular their central role in the recent Balkan wars.
I have quoted the interview extensively here in a few sample [...]
Someone posted this video on my Facebook account in response to my recent article on Karadzic.
Setting aside who did what to whom in Bosnia this video does reveal that Pallywood tactics were used by the Bosnian Muslims in a very similar way that Palestinians and Hezbollah use them.
It does seems a feature of the Muslim [...]
ISN Security Watch has a great two part series on the real Lord of War, notorious international arms dealer Victor Bout.
Bout was arrested in Bangkok in March 2008 and is on remand awaiting trial.
He first came to my attention when contacts at SEESAC told me about the scale and ruthlessness of his operation.
Wikipedia has a [...]
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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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Originally published at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
Very interesting comments from former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith testifying in the Ante Gotovina trial.
Apart from his rather weak contention that the expulsion of the Krajia Serbs was not ethnic cleansing because the population had fled before the invaders arrived, the bulk of his statement is damning.
Galbraith [...]
Originally published at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
One of the coffee ladies at work popped into my office today to ask me about a ring she had found on her plot of land in the Belgrade suburb of Kotez.
It looks to me like either a survivor’s ring or guards ring from Stalag III A, a [...]
The headline sounds like one of those pitchs movie makers have to give to studio executives where they summarise their proposed film in one line.
This one sounds like an episode from one of those cheesy sci-fi shows in the 70s featuring with an unbelievable plot that even the keenest fans deride.
The real horror here is [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
Belgrade’s Holocaust Memorial - one of several in a city populated by a people famed for their resistance to the Nazis
I am used to reading lies and vitriol about Serbs and Serbia but an article emailed to me today is one of the most racist, hateful and biased articles I have read in a [...]