Padua, Italy: The International Conference - "Populism, extremism and New Media"
While Rome tried to avert the Bosnians from their heresy by an act of abjuration, the Orthodox Serbian Church issued a strong and lasting anathema against Bosnian Bogumilism in 1221 at the Monastery of Žiča, today's area of Sanjak in Serbia.
More importantly, after the Partisan’s regained control of the Balkans, the Serb Chetniks and Croatian Ustasha replaced their military caps with Partisan ones at the end of World War II, so as to not be recognized and executed for their crimes. This particular gesture from Tito and his communist party will prove to be a fundamental mistake and a main cause of the breakup of Yugoslavia shortly after his death.
Lord Ashdown remained loyal to Bosnia until the end, stating that the proposed Kosovo-Serbia border changes would only incite further ethnic tensions, and only benefit Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Bosnian Serbs.
“The defendants have been charged with committing the murders of more than 300 Serbs, most of whom were civilians, mainly elderly people, as well as soldiers who had either surrendered or had been captured, which means they were deprived of the ability to fight,” the prosecution said in a statement when the indictment was initially raised.
“At the same time, the ICTY has rigorously and methodically reviewed, explained, and applied key provisions of international law, increasing understanding of the law and, I hope, its application in conflict zones around the world and in national courts, including in the countries of the former Yugoslavia,” he added.
And that’s exactly what she recalls from the immediate aftermath of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, a woman named Zada, her husband and brother among 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, “shoulder to shoulder with the workmen” building her new home in Sarajevo.