Richard Newell

Richard S.A.Newell is the International Trips Coordinator for the UK-based student genocide-prevention organisation Aegis Students, which works to support Europe's leading genocide prevention NGO, Aegis Trust. Richard is coordinating annual trips to Rwanda and Bosnia and wrote this article during his last visit to Bosnia.

Bosnia twenty years on: victims return to Višegrad to bury their dead

The author recalls the atrocities committed around Višegrad twenty years ago and suggests that even today, twenty years later, ethnic tensions remain a serious problem in Bosnia and Hercegovina and reconciliation between the different ethnic groups is tenuous at best

By Richard Newell

/ 20 Jun 2012