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 readingBy Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 August 2018
Kofi Annan (picture source)
Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006, died yesterday aged 80. Annan and the U.N. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, and he was credited with “bringing new life to the organization” and emphasising “its obligations with regard to human rights”. The reality was quite different, and Annan’s disastrous record was hardly confined to his time at the helm. Both before (as head of the U.N. peacekeeping department) and after (as U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria), Annan presided over some of the institution’s worst catastrophes. Continue reading
