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They Would Never Hurt A Fly
''They Would Never Hurt a Fly'' () is a 2004 historical non-fiction novel by Slavenka Drakulić discussing the personalities of the war criminals on trial in The Hague that destroyed the former Yugoslavia (see International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia). Drakulić uses certain trials of alleged criminals with subordinate power to further examine and understand the reasoning behind their misconducts. Most of those discussed are already convicted. In her book, Drakulić does not cover Radovan Karadžić, however, Slobodan Milošević and his wife each rate their own chapter, and Ratko Mladić is portrayed as a Greek tragic figure. There are no pictures, although the physical appearances of the characters are continuously mentioned. Synopsis ''They Would Never Hurt a Fly'' begins with an introductory section explaining Drakulić's purpose in the book as well as her choice in characters. She explains that she wants to learn more about their personalities in order to j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages. Biography Drakulić was born in Rijeka, Socialist Republic of Croatia (at that time, part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, socialist Yugoslavia), on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff writer for the ''Start'' bi-weekly newspaper and news weekly ''Danas'' (both in Zagreb), writing mainly on feminist issues. In addition to her novels and collections of essays, Drakulić's work has appeared in ''The New Republic'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Internazionale'', ''The Nation (U.S. periodical), The Nation'', ''La Stampa'', ''Dagens Nyheter'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', Eurozine, ''Politiken'' and ''The Guardian''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banality Of Evil
''Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'' is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for ''The New Yorker''. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964. Theme Arendt's subtitle famously introduced the phrase "the banality of evil." In part the phrase refers to Eichmann's deportment at the trial as the man displayed neither guilt for his actions nor hatred for those trying him, claiming he bore no responsibility because he was simply " doing his job." ("He did his 'duty'...; he not only obeyed 'orders,' he also obeyed the 'law.'") Eichmann Arendt takes Eichmann's court testimony and the historical evidence available and makes several observations about him: * Eichmann stated in court that he had always tried to abide by Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative. She argue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Norac
Mirko Norac (born 19 September 1967) is a former Croatian general of the Croatian Army (HV), and a convicted war criminal. He was the first Croatian Army general to be found guilty of war crimes by a Croatian court, in 2003, after his case was transferred from The Hague to Zagreb. He was released on probation in November 2011. Military service Mirko Norac (also known as Mirko Norac Kevo) was born in the village of Otok, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now part of the Republic of Croatia. He attended school in Sinj. Soon after the first multi-party elections in Croatia in August 1990, he joined the Ministry of Interior. On 12 September 1990 he joined the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, a unit of the Croatian police. As a member of the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, he took part in early activities by the Croatian police forces including the Plitvice Lakes incident. Gospić Operations In September 1991 Norac left the police force and moved to Gospić, where he took part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirjana Marković
Mirjana "Mira" Marković ( sr-cyr, Мирјана "Мира" Марковић, ; 10 July 1942 – 14 April 2019) was a Serbian politician, academic and the wife of Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. She was the leader of the far-left Yugoslav United Left (JUL) which governed in coalition with Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia in the aftermath of the Bosnian War. She was reported to have huge influence over her husband and was increasingly seen as the power behind the throne. Among her opponents, she was known as The Red Witch and the Lady Macbeth of Belgrade. Marković was accused of abuse of office, inciting several associates to allocate a state-owned apartment for her grandson’s nanny in September 2000. She was indicted in December 2002 and fled Belgrade on 23 February 2003. In June 2018, she was declared guilty ''in absentia'' by a court in Belgrade, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, but the verdict was overturned on appeal in March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Levar
Milan Levar (c. 1954 – 28 August 2000) was a Croatian whistleblower, a former officer in the Croatian Army. The Gospić-born Levar was murdered by a bomb placed under his car outside his house in Gospić 28 August 2000, because he had publicly campaigned for justice for victims of crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence. After volunteering for the Croatian Army in 1991, according to reports, in 1992 he was ordered to round-up Croatian Serbs for execution which he refused. He had helped to defend the town in 1991 when local Serbs rebelled against Croatia's declaration of independence. In 1991 he witnessed Serbian civilians taken by truck to locations outside of Gospić where they were executed by military police squads and buried in hidden mass graves. Thereafter, he witnessed the plunder of their homes. Levar reported the crimes at the time they occurred but nothing was done. He was so shocked by his own side's actions that he left the military and decided to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoljub Kunarac
Dragoljub ( sr-cyr, Драгољуб) is a Serbian masculine given name, derived from Slavic '' drag-'' ("dear, beloved") and ''ljub'' ("love, to like"), both very common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "dear love". It may refer to: * Dragoljub Brnović, Montenegrin footballer * Dragoljub Čirić, Serbian chess player * Dragoljub Janošević, Serbian chess player *Dragoljub Jeremić, footballer *Dragoljub Ljubičić, Serbian actor *Dragoljub Mićunović, Serbian politician *Dragoljub Mihailović, Chetnik leader * Dragoljub Milošević, football player and coach * Dragoljub Minić, Montenegrin chess player *Dragoljub Ojdanić, Serbian civil servant *Dragoljub Popović, judge * Dragoljub Simonović, Serbian footballer *Dragoljub Velimirović, Serbian chess player *Dragoljub Vidačić, basketball player and coach See also * *Dragomir *Slavic names Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic peoples, Slavic countries. The main types ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radislav Krstić
Radislav Krstić ( sr-cyr, Радислав Крстић; born 15 February 1948) is a former Bosnian Serb Deputy Commander and later Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska (the " Bosnian Serb army") from October 1994 until 12 July 1995. He was promoted to the rank of major general in June 1995 and assumed command of the Drina Corps on 13 July 1995.ICTY official siteCASE INFORMATION SHEET: RADISLAV KRSTIĆ/ref> In 1998 Krstić was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the genocide of around 8,000 Bosniak prisoners of war and civilians on 11 July 1995 during the Srebrenica massacre – Europe's first genocide since World War II. The Telegraph"Radislav Krstic: Serbian war criminal attacked in British jail" ''The Telegraph'', 8:30AM BST 8 May 2010 On 2 August 2001, Krstić became the first man convicted of genocide by the Tribunal, and was sentenced to 46 years in prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radomir Kovač
Radomir may refer to: People * Radomir (given name), a Slavic male given name * Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria (died 1015), Tsar of Bulgaria Places * , a village in Cetinje Municipality, Montenegro * Radomir (mountain), a mountain peak on the Bulgarian/Greek border * Radomir (town), a town in Pernik Province, Bulgaria * Radomir Municipality Radomir Municipality () is a municipality in the Pernik Province of Bulgaria. Demography At the 2011 census, the population of Radomir was 20,896. Most of the inhabitants were Bulgarians Bulgarians (, ) are a nation and South Slavs, South ..., a municipality in Pernik Province, Bulgaria * Radomir, a village in Dioști Commune, Dolj County, Romania See also * {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Jelisić
Goran Jelisić ( sr-Cyrl, Горан Јелисић; born 7 June 1968) is a Bosnian Serb soldier who was found guilty of having committed crimes against humanity and violating the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Luka camp in Brčko during the Bosnian War.Case Information Sheet: Goran Jelisić (IT-95-10) ICTY.org; accessed 27 April 2015. Jelisić called himself the "Serb Adolf Hitler" and admitted that his "motivation and goal was to kill ". Biography Jelisić was born in 1968 in |
Dražen Erdemović
Dražen Erdemović (born 25 November 1971) was a soldier who fought during the Bosnian War for the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) and was later sentenced for his participation in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Background Erdemović was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia to a Croat mother and a Serb father. During the Bosnian War, he was mobilized into the VRS 10th Sabotage Detachment, a part of the Army of Republika Srpska. Srebrenica In July 1995, Erdemović and his unit were sent to Branjevo military farm in the village of Pilica, north of Zvornik. After the VRS forces took over Srebrenica on 11 July, the Serbs began to send male Bosniaks to various locations for execution. One of those places was the farm in Pilica, 15 kilometers from the border with Serbia, where Erdemović and the 10th Sabotage Detachment were tasked with executing about 1,200 Bosniak men and boys between the ages of approximately 17 and 60 years, who had surrendered to the members of the Bosn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahim Ademi
Rahim Ademi (born 30 January 1954) is a retired Croatian Army general of Kosovar Albanian origin. Biography Born and raised in the village of Karač, Vushtrri, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (modern day Kosovo), Ademi graduated from the Yugoslav Military Academy in Belgrade in 1976. He was assigned to a station in Rogoznica near Šibenik in Croatia where he married and had two children. In 1986, the Military Court in Sarajevo convicted him of ''counterrevolutionary acts'' and ''Albanian irredentism'', but after serving a year and a half in prison, the Supreme Military Court agreed with his appeal and acquitted him. He would spend the next years serving as an officer in Sinj until 1990 when the war in Croatia was starting and he deserted the Yugoslav People's Army in order to help create Croatian army formations. He officially joined the Ministry of the Interior in 1991 and later became part of the Croatian Army forces during the Croatian War of Independence. Betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
