21 and 22 November we screened the documentary The Siege, on the siege of Sarajevo at the time of Ratko Mladić. Afterwards the director Rémy Ourdan discussed his film. Relisten this talk.
The Russian army does not negotiate and kills both kidnappers and innocent civilians.
In April 1994 the aircraft carrying the Hutu president is shot down. Within 24 hours, two extremist Hutu groups start to murder their Tutsi compatriots.
Conflict has raged in Sudan between the Islamic north and the predominantly Christian and Animistic south for almost 50 years.
After Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed in 1974, a period of death and destruction rages under the brutal dictator Mengistu.
The Afghan government and the international military force have been jointly fighting the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other rebel groups. Peace and security are still a long way off.