[NYC-L] Kosovo documentary (fwd)

[Erkanda Bujari]

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See you there.

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:44:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lara Jane Nettelfield <ljn9 at columbia.edu>
To: othereurope at columbia.edu
Subject: Kosovo documentary  



The Harriman Institute and SILPIA would like to invite you to a screening
of a documentary titled:

KOSOVA - from the darkest spring
Testimony of war crimes

Wednesday, September 20th, 2000

6:30pm (Film starts at 6:45pm. Discussion to follow.) 
Columbia University
Room 1219 IAB (International Affairs Building)

When NATO's troops advanced over the border to Kosova in the summer of
1999, it became possible to investigate  and document war crimes committed
during the campaign of ethnic cleansing that the Serbian authorities had
instigated. Together  with forensic pathologists and technicians from
Kosova's Commission for the Missing, Maria Warsinski followed the work to
identify victims of the war and uncover evidence for future war crimes
trials. Every day in Kosova, she met people who told their dramatic
stories of how they fled persecution and massacres, and how they saw
their loved ones taken away. Many of these people are still searching for
their relatives and friends. Others are helping the pathologists with the
identification of family members. The film documents this grim reality for
three months during the summer and autumn of 1999, resulting  in a
documentary that is a testimony of what happened in Kosova from March
until July 1999. 


Maria Warsinski will be attend the screening. 

Albanian with English subtitles
58 minutes

Maria Warsinski's earlier documentary "Crimes and Punishment - War Crimes
in Srebrenica" (1995) was shown at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in
New York City in June, 1999. 

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Lara
Nettelfield at ljn9 at columbia.edu.