Lukes in La Razon on Life Sentence for Radko Mladic
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the life sentence for former Bosnian Serb General Radko Mladic.
Lukes was quoted in a November 23, 2017 article in La Razon entitled “Life Imprisonment to the ‘Butcher of Bosnia.‘”
From the translated text of the article:
“If we consider this case in isolation, we can say that justice has been done. However, if we contextualize it with other judgments of the ICTY, it seems that the court punishes the Serbs, while the other participants of the war, Bosnian Croats and Muslims, have been declared innocent by this court when they were not at all. The most notorious cases of double standards include the Croatian generals Janko Bobetko and Ante Gotovina, ” said Igor Lukes, a professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
“We are still far from total reconciliation in the Balkans. The situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina remains unstable and can turn into violence at any time. The status of Kosovo is an open wound that bleeds not only in the Balkans, it has also degraded relations between the United States and Russia. Further, Despite a large-scale international effort to identify the remains of the victims, there are still many who are listed as missing, “says Lukes.
Igor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.