One of my students in this summer’s grad seminar (a comparative look at 1989 in Eastern Europe and China) alerted me to a story in yesterday’s New York Times about the popularity of UstaÅ¡e regalia among some fans of the Croatian rock star Marko Perković. In the article, Nicholas Wood writes that at a recent…
Tag: Eastern Europe
Justice of a Sort (cont’d)
Yesterday I wrote a post about the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Today’s papers carried the hopeful news that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)–the Cambodian equivalent of the ICTY–may finally get underway, now that international and Cambodian judges have agreed on their procedures for the tribunal. Getting…
Justice, of a Sort
On May 2, 1995 Serbian paramilitary forces from the breakaway Krajina region of Croatia rocketed the center of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, killing five and wounding 121. They used rocket-propelled cluster bombs, warheads that spray shrapnel in order to maximize the loss of human life, rather than the destruction of infrastructure or military assets. This…