Srebrenica Now debate
Chair: Paul Reynolds (ex BBC diplomatic correspondent)
Panellists:
Dr Jan Willem Honig, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.
Dr Honig holds a degree in Medieval History from the University of Amsterdam and received a PhD in War Studies in 1989. Prior to joining the Department in 1993, he taught at the University of Utrecht and New York University. He is author of Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime.
Eva Klonowski, forensic anthropologist working in Bosnia
A Polish-born Icelandic citizen who lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eva Klonowski is senior forensic anthropologist for the International Commission on Missing Persons, which helps families to determine the fate of relatives lost in the 1991-99 wars in the former Yugoslavia. In Bosnia since 1996, she is the longest-serving international forensic expert there, and even worked unpaid for a few years.
Dr Maria Kett, Leonard Cheshire Centre of Conflict Recovery at University College, London
Maria Kett has worked in Tuzla, Bosnia, researching the repatriation of internally displaced people there and the issues preventing them from rebuilding their lives, This work was done in conjunction with HMD Response, a non-governmental organisation that has been providing medical and social services to camps and centres around Tuzla. Dr Kett is also a qualified nurse, and has worked in several central London Accident and Emergency departments.
Emir Suljagic, Srebrenica survivor, journalist and author. Emir Suljagić was born in 1975 in Ljubovija in Serbia. In 1995 the lives of nearly every man he had ever known – and those of many women too – were wiped out in the Srebrenica genocide. After the war he went to the University of Sarajevo to read Political Science. From September 1996 he worked as a reporter and staff writer with the Sarajevo-based weekly magazine Dani. Between 2002 and 2004 he worked in The Hague as a correspondent from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for Dani, and for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting. He lives in Sarajevo.
Ed Vulliamy, Guardian journalist and author of Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia’s War. His coverage of the fighting in the former Yugoslavia earned him Grenada Television’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year award in 1992.
The debate was supported by Refugee Week 2005.
For an interview with Suljagic, click here . For an article by debate panellist Ed Vulliamy on Srebrenica, ten years from the genocide, click here. For more about debate panellist Eva Klonowski, forensic anthropologist, click here.