Erdemovic and Boskic are Croats and proven liars. They were part of a Croat unit from Tuzla; there is no official records of them being apart of Serb units.
Both are let off easily after telling tales to fit in with the Srebrenica massacre hype/hoax.
They may have killed Muslims on their way to Tuzla - perhaps to frame the Serbs. But how can anyone believe a Croat from Tuzla (Erdemovic) who initially joined the Muslim forces, then switched to fight for Croats, then allegedly joined the Serbs - how can anyone believe a guy with so much freedom to quit and join could be FORCED to kill?
And the man is free today - free because he went along with the script and claimed he killed a large nice even round number of Muslims. He claims he was forced at one time, and another, he is sipping his drink in a cafe and watching another execution.
Srebrenica men were pouring into Tuzla starting a week after the fall, and they continued to come in the following weeks and months. Many had be discovered on other fronts.
They include Zepa Muslims among the 2,500 number of "Srebrenica" identified. Zepa was another Muslim army base not too far from Srebrenica.
There's no weeding out the battle deaths, so they include those who died by fighting and mines.
The Muslim government would not give the Red Cross access or information to the Srebrenica men who arrived in Tuzla and elsewhere.
There were major battles during the closing months of the war - including Operation Storm only three weeks later. The Bosnian Muslims sent thousands of men to fight during Operation Storm. I have no doubt that the men who went missing after the fall - some of them - were assigned to other fronts and died in those, without ever getting a chance to see their families again.
And the nonsense concerning Erdemovic, which you detailed, is just touching the surface, Joan.
Let's look at Erdemovic. He was THE KEY EYE WITNESS at the Krle, Blagojevic and Jokic and Slobo trials, etc.
His testimony was eaten up by the western media, with not one single hint of skepticism.
Not a hint.
1) He fought for all three sides in the civil war.
Now think about how difficult it is to somehow fight for all 3 sides in a civil war.
2) He lied in his first statements about having fought for
the muslims. He denied it in his first interviews with the ICTY and only later owned up.
So he's a liar.
3) He was completely unable to give his salary whilst a member of the 10th SD. He couldn't even hazard a wild guess.
A billion years on and I still know EXACTLY my pay for my paper round.
4) Erdemovic and his 10th SD comrades were paid in gold.
Yes, I said gold.
Tons of the stuff.
Now the richest army in the world BY FAR is the U.S. army, yet I'd be mildly curious if I heard that squadies were being paid in gold bullion. And here we are talking about the bankrupt VRS.
Their regular soldiers weren't paid for months on end.
5)And he was given orders to execute over 1,000 muslim POWs by whom?
Well, according to Erdemovic, a guy comes up to him and claims to be a colonel in the VRS. From a completely different CORPS.
He had no insignia, no name, no ID and Erdemovic had never seen this guy before. Or since. I think Erdemovic said he was balding and had a loud voice. That's it.
6) His unit didn't have a single ethnic Serb in it for
most of the war and by July 95 (when it did at last
did have some ethnic Serbs) it had become a truly
international unit. For example, Erdemovic's boss was French. Now if you're not thinking "MERC UNIT", well, I give up.
7)Now, a note about the VRS.
The VRS was an unbelievably strict army. It was geared round Soviet military thinking. It was geared COMPLETELY round the chain of command.
COMPLETELY.
Even down to the most simple of orders. The prosecution expert British military witness commented at length about this.
We are talking "STRICT".
Now, just before Srebrenica was taken, Erdemovic admitted that he'd been given direct orders NOT to harm any of the civs. In fact, days before, the entire VRS formations were given a huge speech/notice not to harm POWs etc.
Obey the Geneva Convention at all times.
However, the Erdemovic's story is:
"Up comes a guy who says "Hey you! Kill those POWs in cold blood. I'm not even claiming to be from your CORP. Oh! Here's some gold for your troubles. Be seeing you"".
That's the ICTY's story.
This "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Prodrinje plateau" had absolutely no authority over Erdemovic at all. NONE.
8) A week or so after wiping out almost 2,000 POWS, Erdemovic is nearly killed in a gunfight in a coffee
shop. His comrade tries to kill him and his
mates. The reason? Well don't ask Erdemovic, he has no memory of the event. Or, at least so he claims.
9) OK. He's in hospital, recovering from these wounds, and whilst there, his wife's going on shopping sprees with other wives from the 10th SD. They're buying the most expensive blingy crap their hands can handle.
Yes, SHOP TILL YOU DROP reaches the Balkans.
Which is strange, for, most of the civil war, Erdemovic and his family were basically destitute. Homeless and penniless.
10) Stories of what the 10th SD MAY have done filter through to Serbia. So Erdemovic and his blingy-laden chumps are locked up by MILOSEVIC's Gov't.
Yes, THAT MILOSEVIC.
11) Don't worry about Erdemovic for slobo's
kicked out of office and the new pro najo gov't
immediately release the 10th SD suspects. Erdemovic turns himself over to the ICTY (he's an ethic Croat from Bosnia).
If he'd been found guilty in Serbia, he'd have been executed.
The ICTY it seems are more lenient.
A lot more lenient.
12) Now the other members of the 10th SD form an international MERC unit, "Spider" that fight for the French in Zaire/Congo and if that wasn't surprising enough, then how's this?
They also work for the ICTY.
Yes, the ICTY.
They are paid to capture naughty Serbs who are wanted by the ICTY.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
13) Many of these 10th SD are allowed to settle down free as a canary in the west. The US, for example, has a few of them.
14) Our hero, Erdemovic, goes to the hague , admits to murdering countless pows in cold blood and is immediately
released, allowed to settle in the Netherlands and given a
new identity.
15) After the caputre/liberation/ of Srebrenica, the units that took part in the 1st echelon were given leave. Now, the 10th SD was one of these units, which means that when Erdemovic and his buddies were taking orders from that rather elusive colonel, they were actually ON LEAVE.
16) Erdemovic is nuts.
He's ga ga. Lost the plot.
The light's on but no ones at home.
He spent time in a loony bin, and was so unstable that even the ICTY noticed the dribbling and had to hold hearings to see if he were competent to stand trial.
Yes, he's fruit.
But to the ICTY, our dear friend Hoplite, etc. Erdemovic's testimony is rock solid. The quill. Top notch. Chiseled in granite.
It's called Dhimmi logic to you and me.
And how we all fell for it.
From Hoplite:
"Close - the 10th sabotage executed approximately 1,200 men at Branjevo farm. Erdemovic and recently Boskic were members of that unit and have admitted their part in the executions. As to the bodies, however, the Bosnian Serbs excavated the mass grave at Branjevo and transported the bodies to secondary and sometimes even tertiary mass graves - mass graves which are still being exhumed to this day, so the Bosnian Serb hide-and-seek game with their victims is not yet over."
Trust Hoplite to vouch for the testimony of a perjured loon.
Oh so apt.
Oh and if that's not enough, he's fallen for the charms of Doctor Ball.
"#4. Serb forces observed an Easter cease-fire, NATO did not. Refugee flow lessened considerably during the Serbian cease-fire, and picked up immediately after it ended. Taken in to consideration with the statements of the refugees themselves, (Serbs murdering certain villagers and then robbing and expelling the rest), you're yet again demonstrating both a gullibility and willingness to repeat BS. It's embarrassing. Really.
Remember Patrick Ball? I expect he'll be back for the Milutinovic et al trial."
Here's a clue to how bad Dr Balls research was. He was unable to name a single court in the entire world that would touch his research. Not a single court. Except for the ICTY.
But to Hoplite, Doctor Ball is gold dust. A semi-literate version of Erdevmoic but without the foaming or Napoleon impressions.