9. § 6.3 The world after the Cold War: Srebrenica

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The governance of Europe

• The European Commission
  
• The European Parliament
  
• The Council of Ministers

European Commission

• The European Commission consists of 28 Commissioners.
  
• These Commissioners can best be compared with our ministers.
  
• The Commission proposes new laws and ensures that laws are implemented.

European Parlement

• The European Parliament is composed of 751 Members. They are elected every five years by the citizens of the Member States. The more inhabitants a Member State has, the more seats it has in the European Parliament.
  
• The Parliament decides on the legislative proposals of the European Commission, but has no right of amendment. 

Council of Ministers

• The Council of Ministers is composed of all ministers from all Member States. Actually, the composition is different every time, because when it comes to the environment, only the Environment Ministers come.
  
• The Council of Ministers, like the European Parliament, must approve or reject any new legislative proposal.

What does the UN logo look like?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

What was the UN a successor to?

1. League of Nations
2. NATO
3. Gestapo
4. Commonwealth

You have the freedom to express your
opinion in the EU, but hate speech is
not allowed.

1. True
2. False

You can only work in another EU country if
you have a work permit.

1. True
2. False

EU citizens can travel freely throughout the
whole EU.

1. True
2. False

Every 10 years, EU citizens directly elect their
representatives to the European Parliament.

1. True
2. False

The EU has a special Representative for
Human Rights.

1. True
2. False

If an EU Member State does not respect EU laws, it can be convicted by the EU Court of Justice.

1. True
2. False

The less-wealthy regions in the EU receive
extra financial support.

1. True
2. False

Hate speech in television programmes is
accepted in some EU countries.

1. True
2. False

All asylum seekers in the EU are entitled to shelter, food and sanitary services during their asylum procedure.

1. True
2. False

Every year, the European Parliament has one
debate about human rights abuses.

1. True
2. False

Every EU Member State has to have signed the European Convention on Human Rights.

1. True
2. False

You can explain, in general terms, how the civil war in former Yugoslavia led to a genocide in Srebrenica and what role Dutchbat had in this horrible event.

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You are a research journalist and you're publishing a piece on Srebrenica.

Write a caption for this photo. Make use of source elements.

You are a research journalist and you're publishing a piece on Srebrenica.

Write a caption for this photo.
Make use of source elements.

States that formed Yugoslavia

(year of independence)

Catholic

Muslims

Orthodox Chr.


Americans

German Empire

Russians

During WWII

fighting on the side of:

A multi-ethnic state is best described as 'a state within which ...

1. different cultures exist within the same ethnic group'.
2. an ethnic group lives in a country'.
3. different ethnic groups are persecuted'.
4. different ethnic groups live'.

After WWII

• Dictator Tito
• Rules the country with an iron fist.
• When Tito dies (1980), every group wants to take over the leadership.
• There is a lot of unrest. This worsens after 1991 (collapse of SU).

The Balkans war

• Nationalism rises.
  
• After the fall of the SU, Slovenia, Croatia & Bosnia-Herzegovina want to become independent from Yugoslavia.
  
• The Serbian minority doesn't want this: they dream of a Great(er) Serbia.

1991-1999

Croatia

Slovenia

Macedonia

1991

States that formed Yugoslavia

(year of independence)

Sloboban Milošević

• Serbian leader Milošević
  
• Starts wars in Slovenia & Croatia, which the Serbs soon lose .
  
• In Bosnia-Herzegovina, however, the war lasts for three years. (1992-1995) 

Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Bosnia Declares independence (1992).
• Bosnian Serbs want nation-state of 

     Great(er) Serbia for

     just Serbs.

Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Bosnia Declares independence (1992).
• Bosnian Serbs want nation-state of 

     Great(er) Serbia for

     just Serbs.

Civil war between

Bosnian Serbs vs Bosniaks

(= Muslim Bosnians ).

Non-Serbs are expelled and imprisoned.

Muslims flee

Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Who within the UN has the
responsibility for
the maintenance of
international peace

1. Security Council
2. General Assembly
3. International Court of Justice
4. Secretariat

United Nations

• Avoiding war to keep the peace (peacekeeping)

• Blue helmets (peacekeeping troops) are lightly armed to appear as neutral as possible.
  
• UN establishes safe zones (enclaves) for Muslims to prevent ethnic cleansing
  
• Enclave Srebrenica
  

Dutchbat

• Dutch UN soldiers, Dutchbat, are given the task of protecting  Srebrenica from the Serbian troops led by General Mladić .
• Thousands of Bosnian Muslims have fled to Srebrenica, seeking safety ...

Srebrenica is not the only place where a massacre took place

11 July 1995

Genocide in Srebrenica

Radko Mladic

Radovan Karadžic

Slobodan Milošević

Indicted for genocide; complicity in genocide; deportation; murder ...

Died during the trial on 11 March 2006

Convicted of genocide in the area of Srebrenica in 1995 and of persecution,  extermination,  murder, ...

Life imprisonment

Convicted of genocide in the area of Srebrenica in 1995 and of persecution, extermination, murder, deportation, inhumane acts, ...

 Life imprisonment

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

7 juni 2021

Subject skill

You are a research journalist and you're publishing a piece on Srebrenica.

Write a caption for this photo. Make use of source elements.

You are a research journalist and you're publishing a piece on Srebrenica.

Write a caption for this photo.
Make use of source elements.

bijvoorbeeld

Generaal Mladic van de Servische strijdkrachten,

geeft gevluchte Servische moslims (Bosniakken)

iets te drinken.

Even later laat hij genocide plegen op de Bosnische moslimbevolking.

Meer dan 8.300 Bosniakken (jongens en mannen) werden door zijn mannen vermoordt.

.Define the lesson objective in detail: who, what, where, how and why.

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