Bosnian Serbs to Probe Muslim Massacre

Associated Press ^ | Dec 26, 2003 | IRENA GAJIC

[optimistically_conservative]

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - The Bosnian Serb republic, facing international pressure to admit atrocities committed during the 1990s, has appointed a commission to investigate Europe's worst massacre since World War II

The government of Bosnia's Serb-run republic said Friday it has appointed a seven-member team to review the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia overrun by Serbs in 1995

"The commission's main task is to establish the complete truth about the events in and around Srebrenica ... in order to achieve permanent peace and trust in Bosnia," the government said in a statement.

The move comes as Bosnian Serbs come under foreign pressure to admit that their forces committed the Srebrenica atrocities, to name the perpetrators and to locate where the victims' remains were buried. Forensics experts have found about 5,000 victims in mass graves, but the fate of thousands of others is still unknown.

Paddy Ashdown, the British diplomat who now oversees the peace process in Bosnia, gave Bosnian Serb authorities in October a six-month deadline to reveal the truth about what happened at Srebrenica, threatening them with "the gravest legal consequences" should they not comply.

Under the peace accord that ended the 1992-1995 war, Ashdown has the power to impose laws and fire local officials as high as presidents who fail to comply with the peace process.

The same agreement also divided postwar Bosnia into two mini-states, a Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.

Last year, the Human Rights Chamber — the country's highest court for human rights — ordered Bosnian Serbs authorities to pay about $2.5 million to a foundation for relatives of the Srebrenica victims and to submit a report that would answer families' questions about the massacre.

Authorities drew up an interim report in March that minimized the number of victims and suggested that the victims were soldiers who died in battles. The report was rejected by the court and denounced as a disgrace by international officials.

A second report, submitted in September, acknowledged that the massacre occurred, but offered no answers about the identity of the perpetrators or the victims' whereabouts.

Ashdown then ordered a new commission be formed — made up of experts who would come up with an acceptable report within six months.

The latest commission includes Bosnian Serb judges and lawyers, a representative of the victims' families and an international expert.

Included in the group are Gordon Bacon, the head of the International Commission for Missing Persons and Smail Cekic, a Bosnian Muslim professor who heads the Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law.

[Burkeman1]

Where is the website for the "victums" of Srebrenica to consult each other and email each other? I know there is lawyer who represents these "8000" victims but where are they? Just give me a list of 100 people!

[thatdewd]

Why don't the Muslims ever have to do this???

Because the EU doesn't see them as an obstacle to its long-term plans for the Balkans. Yeah, I know, but it really is the answer to your question.

[Burkeman1]

Couldn't open a one. Gee? Why not copy it and post it here?

[greenwolf]

The people accusing the Serbs of all this shit are mainly Slick Clinton, Madeline Albright, George Soros, and a number of similar villians. What more does anybody need to know about the business?

[thatdewd]

Here is the list that international court and legal representative will be using.

So now it's grown to 10,000. Apparently, they are still breeding.

[greenwolf]

As I read it, one prosecution witness actually stood up in court and claimed the prosecution had tried to TORTURE an accusation against Milosevic out of him.

[Burkeman1]

The funniest thing is that this was a Clintonian era fraud and the phoney "conservatives"s on this site are supporting it. But they must since they must defend the even more liberal GWBII in his expansion of the Federal government and wars abroad.

[optimistically_conservative]

Couldn't open a one. Gee? Why not copy it and post it here?

ROTFLMAO, I don't think the size of the list would be appreciated on this site. I did open the files prior to linking to the site. If you cannot open .zip file and you are serious about wanting to see the list, here is a link to WinZip.

[Burkeman1]

Why would I want to prove myself wrong? Do it yourself? I will cyber kneel before you and ping whomever if you post the list butchered, starved, or murdered outright at Srebrenica right now? Thanks for the ping.

[A. Pole]

Rounding up men of military age, and hauling them off to a killing field, and slaughtering them, is a war crime.

Muslim fighters in Srebrenica were armed and would not permit to be rounded. They put up a fight, lost a few hundred and most of managed to escape to Tuzla.

Milosevic has his own legal problems, which would fill a thick volume of an encyclopedia.

Milosevic had nothing to do with this battle - he was a leader of Serbia, while Bosnian Serbs had their own separate leaders.

[Burkeman1]

Just post your evidence!

[optimistically_conservative]

Why would I want to prove myself wrong?

Please .... stop .... laughing ... too hard ... can't type ....

[Destro]

That also happened. The UN court was designed to serve as a kangaroo court to cement a political outcome - ever see the movie "Breaker Morant"?

[Burkeman1]

Yeah right leftie:

"I Love GW and all his policies and wars!"!

[optimistically_conservative]

"I Love GW and all his policies and wars!"!

Obviously that must be a self-quote, since you won't find it in any of my posts.

As much as I agree with Destro and A. Pole on their points, yours is simply intellectual laziness or downright dishonesty. I have generally found that you will quickly resort to an ad hominem attack - proclaiming yourself the sacred guardian of true conservatism.

In the process, you usually only demonstrate a shallow thought process.

That's pretty much what I'm reading in your posts here, again.

[Burkeman1]

Ah Ywp.

[Burkeman1]

Lests keep those stupid animals protaciv!e! That way the fish feel they matter (of course anyeone with near dark skin has long since meaat meant more than you figgin lossers from Anglo towns THAT HAVE NO MONENY ANY MORE.

Welcone Irish, Welsh, and Scotch mixed who are Catholc. The "teachers" who "Profess" to tell us their marxists and left ling ways to spite their rich daddie and mommies?

[optimistically_conservative]

IIRC, Clinton used Srebrenica and potential massacres as prior justification, whereas Bush now seems to be using 30 years of mass graves as his main justification after-the-fact since the tons of WMD haven't materialized.

One of the troubling about-faces in the Clinton justification was Slobo went from peacemaker to "bloodthirsty dictator" in a couple of years.

Saddam was also a tool of US foreign policy when he attacked Iran, but at least he's been labeled a "bloodthirsty dictator" for 10 years now with ample evidence to support his direct involvement.