By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2026
Dissent to the Last: Srebrenica and the Ratko Mladić Judgment
Leave a reply
Tag Archives: crimes against humanity
A Note on the Role of the United Nations in the Civilian Evacuation From Srebrenica
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2026
A United Nations report published in 2012 under the authority of the U.N. Secretary-General explains the role the U.N. played in ordering and organising the evacuation of civilians from Srebrenica after the town was captured by the Bosnian Serb Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) around 14:00 on 11 July 1995.
Continue readingIt Doesn’t Have to Be “Genocide” To Be Condemned
Gilles Veinstein Reviews the Evidence of the Armenian Genocide Claim
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 October 2026
Gilles Veinstein was a leading historian of the Ottoman Empire, the director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) from 1986 and the Holder of the chair of Turkish and Ottoman History at the Collège de France from 1999. He held both posts until his death in 2013. In April 1995, amid the controversy in France over the attempt to prosecute Bernard Lewis for refusing to agree that the 1915-16 Armenian massacres were the same as the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry, Veinstein wrote an article for L’Histoire, ‘Trois Questions sur un Massacre’, reviewing the evidence for the claim that what happened to the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War resulted from a deliberate genocidal plan by the Ottoman government. A translation of the article is given below.
Continue reading
