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A reminder that the Harpers letter is not the first anti-cancelling initiative Noam Chomsky has supported. Here is a letter Chomsky signed, lavishing praise on a shoddy work of Milosevic apologia and Bosnian genocide-denial by Diana Johnstone. #Srebrenica25 
The letter was part of a campaign against Swedish publishers for declining Diana Johnstone's unabashedly pro-Milosevic book. You won't be surprised to know that Johnstone has since gone on to advocate for Le Pen in France.
And remember also that when ITN took "Living Marxim" (now Spiked) magazine to court for making false accusations and denying Bosnian concentration camps, Chomsky joined British literati in defence of LM.
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#srebrenica25 in the stadium. A long Thread. Today marks 25 years since the start of the Srebrenica massacre. Others talk about what happened. In German I recommend @ballaballablkn in English @SrebrenicaUK I will focus the role of #srebrenica in football (1)
The stadiums in former Yugoslavia are full of national symbols. National narratives range from constructed myths, heroic epics to the reception of tragedies and attacks on the nation. The Srebrenica genocide is one of them and deeply rooted in Bosnian identity. (2)
In the recent years almost all pro-Bosnian fangroups had banners, graffiti etc. With "nikad zaboraviti. nikad oprostiti" "Never forget. Never forgive" the victims are reminded and the perpetrators are denounced. Examples: @fk_velez_mostar, Zenica, @fkzeljeznicar (3)
Today we mark 25 years since the Srebrenica genocide in which 8372 Bosniak civilians were brutally murdered. They were killed after Bosnian Serb forces attacked the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica in July 1995.
#Srebrenica25 ⚪️
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Dutch troops failed to act as Serb forces occupied the area, killing about 2,000 men and boys on July 11 alone. Some 15,000 #Srebrenica people fled into the surrounding mountains, but Serb troops hunted down and killed 6,000 of them in the forests.
This was the worst atrocity on European soil since WWII, a mere 50 years after the world said “never again” to the horrors of the Holocaust. Thousands were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. The victims, mostly Muslim, were selected on the basis of their identity.
Today we mark 25 years since the Srebrenica Genocide in which 8372 Bosniak civilians were brutally murdered. They were killed after Serb forces attacked the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995.
#Srebrenica25 #SrebrenicaGenocide
#Srebrenica25 #SrebrenicaGenocide
The UN Security Council had declared Srebrenica a "safe area" in the spring of 1993. However, Serb troops led by Ratko Mladić - who later found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide - overran the UN zone that was supposed to be protected by Dutch troops.
The Dutch troops failed to act as Serb forces occupied the area, killing about 2000 men and boys on July 11 alone. Some 15 thousand Srebrenica people fled into the surrounding mountains, but Serb troops hunted down and killed 6000 of them in the forests.
