An Israeli immigrant from the former Yugoslavia has been arrested for alleged involvement in Bosnian genocide. Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, who moved to Israel and obtained citizenship in 2006 with his Jewish wife and their children, is accused of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenicia massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces shot and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Radovan Karadzic has been arrested. He faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity before the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. It\’s an occasion to recall the genocide in Bosnia and the shame of those who did not prevent it
\”A triumph for the civilized world.\” So characterized The New York Times about the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic that started this past week in The Hague.
Having endured 10 years of oppression and the largest expulsion in Europe since the Holocaust, it is not uncommon to hear the Albanians of Kosovo draw parallels between themselves and Jews.
So it was little surprise to Greta Kacinari that Jews would be among those lending a hand in Kosovo, the war-torn southern province of Yugoslavia.
It was March 31, the first night of Passover, and his native Yugoslavia was again convulsed by war.
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