People versus Monsters: Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo
In a place scarred by genocide, we gathered as another unfolded in Gaza. This people's tribunal is more than a legal inquiry; it is a moral intervention against the global complicity that enables it.
It could not be a more apt place for this to take place. Amid the grand green mountains and clear rivers, with Sarajevo’s history pressing in as both weight and warning, an assembly was convened.
A group of leading international lawyers, historians, political scientists, former diplomats, policymakers, journalists, and activists met this week, two and a half hours from Srebrenica, where, in 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniaks were massacred over two days, in what is now formally recognized as genocide.
In Sarajevo, a Tribunal was held to examine Israel’s destruction of Gaza, and the complicity of states, corporations, and media systems in a war that has killed over 53,000 Palestinians, displaced close to two million, generated a “pandemic of life-altering disabilities,” and starved a population that has refused to flee or chosen to stay.
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