"The chief prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia opened proceedings by releasing transcripts of tapped telephone conversations of the Bosnian Serb leader from 1991, which record Karadzic saying: “There are 20,000 armed Serbs around Sarajevo ... it will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die. They will disappear. That people will disappear from the face of the earth.”
It’s true that these recordings do not mention Srebrenica, where 7,000 captured Bosnian Muslim men and youths were massacred; but as a clear indicator of genocidal intent they leave no room for doubt."
Really? Not if you read the entire quote (bottom of page 7 thru 8) in context instead of plucking only the selected bits that make Karadzic look like a maniac.
The whole link to the quote in context:
"They [the Bosnian-Muslims] are preparing for war ... they will try to wage war here [in Sarajevo] ... they're totally crazy ... they will disappear, that people will disappear from the face of the earth if they start [a war] now ... they have to know that there are 20,000 armed Serbs around Sarajevo, that's insane, they will disappear, Sarajevo will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die, they're not right in the head."
Karadzic is saying that the Muslims will die, IF THE MUSLIMS DECLARE WAR, not that he was "plotting their genocide".
These prosecutors and their fans are living in an alternate universe, telling themselves stories that defy logic -- no more or less than the Muslims he complains about are doing toward the US & Britain.
The author should "pluck the log out of his own eye" before passing judgment on anyone!
A perfect example of “selective context”.
You can take ANYTHING anyone says and make it fit a predetermined conclusion.
I always LOVE ‘listening’ to the British pass judgment on the Serbs.
Beyond hubris.
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That’s the usual MO of the prosecution at the Hague, they need to cherry pick through evidence and pull it out of context in order to make their case.
Pathetic.