Justice after Genocide In the early 1990s, the country of Yugoslavia imploded, collapsing into genocide and mass atrocities. This May, Park Square Theatre presents Flying Foot Forum's Heaven, a theatrical look into war-torn Bosnia told through dance, music, and storytelling.

To deepen public understanding of the conflict, Park Square Theatre and Flying Foot Forum are collaborating with World Without Genocide to offer films, talks, and a compelling personal story of a survivor of one of the 20th-century’s worst massacres. Event Details Film, Men Don’t Cry. War trauma in Bosnia* Film and Talk, Rape: A Crime Against Humanity - Thursday April 4, 7:00-9:00 pm. Park Square Theatre, Boss Stage The Foča 'Rape Camp' Trials* In this 2017 prize-winning drama, veterans of the war attend a group Sunday, May 19, 1:30-3:30 pm, Park Square Theatre, Proscenium Stage counseling workshop. Men Don't Cry was the Bosnian entry for Best Judge Peggy Kuo, one of the lead prosecutors at the International Criminal Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards. Tribunal of former Yugoslavia, will speak following a screening of the documentary film, I Came to Testify. Panel, A Survivor, a Prosecutor, and a Film and talk, Sex Trafficking and Genocide with Forensic Pathologist* FBI Special Agent* Tuesday, April 16, 7:00-9:00 pm, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Tuesday, June 11 7:00-9:00 pm Mitchell Hamline School of Law Panelists: Hasan Hasonović, activist and survivor of the including The Whistleblower, starring and , is based the massacre at Srebrenica, John Docherty, Assistant U.S. Attorney and on the experiences of , a Nebraska police officer who served member of the Terrorism and National Security Team, and Dr. Andrew Baker, as a peacemaker in post-war Bosnia. Followed by a talk with FBI officer Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner. Michael D. Melcher about the FBI's national and local work to combat sex trafficking. Talk, Bosnia, Genocide, and Climate Change* Thursday, April 25, 7:00-9:00 pm, St. Anthony Park Public Library Post-Show Discussion, Exhumations and Justice Prof. Alex Alvarez, author of Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Sunday, June 16. After 2:00 pm performance of Heaven Genocide, examines the human impact of climate change and its potential to Park Square Theatre, Proscenium Stage provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity—ethnic conflict, Experience the powerful percussive dance of Heaven, followed by a war, and genocide. conversation with Andrew M. Baker, MD, FCAP, Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County, who conducted forensic exhumations in the region.

The events are open to the public: $10 general public, $5 seniors and students *$25 for lawyers’ CLE credits; ‘clock hours’ for educators. No advance registration is required.

Tickets for Heaven, running May 31 – June 23, can be purchased at parksquaretheatre.org. More information at [email protected], worldwithoutgenocide.org , 651-695-7621

The series is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Chapter, Federal Bar Association; the Human Rights Committee, Minnesota State Bar Association; DKG, an international women educators’ society; ILSA, the International Law Student Association at Mitchell Hamline School of Law; and the St. Paul and Minneapolis-University Rotary Clubs.