Posted on 07/11/2004 5:43:12 PM PDT by ABrit
Srebrenica atrocity commemorated | 22:29 July 11 | B92
SREBRENICA -- Sunday – In the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica, a funeral service was held for 338 identified individuals found in a mass grave in Srebrenica, that were killed in July 1995.
Among the identified was also one female and 16 children.
The funeral services marked the seven year anniversary of the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995, during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Representing the Bosnia0Herzegovina Executive Council, Sulejman Tihic spoke of the atrocity and its political ramifications, and of punishment for those individuals responsible for the war crimes.
“Recently we have seen some positive changes, especially after the adoption of the report on Srebrenica by the Commission and by the leaders of the Republic of Srpska recognizing the crimes and publicly condemning them.” Tihic said, adding, “This is important, but not enough. We expect that words be put into action.”
Member of the Srebrenica Investigative Commission Seftija Cekic said that the public statement of the Republic of Srpska President Dragan Cavic that Srebrenica is a dark page in the history of the Serbian people is just the beginning of acknowledgement for these crimes.
Organizers of the event say that more than 20,000 people attended the funeral including members of the “Initiative of the Young” group from Belgrade, as well as the “Mother’s in Black” from Serbia and most Bosnia-Herzegovina diplomats and officials.
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This is what happens when you depend on the UN. When push came to shove, the UN soldiers went to their bunkers and hid out, and the people they were there to protect got slaughtered.
Correct.
And of those killed, 95% were males. Let's assume a few of the children were aged 17 and the percentage of combat ready males goes up even higher.
So does this not lend credence to Destro's position that those killed in Srebrenica were combat troops?
Add to this Paddy Ashdown's dismissal of Serbs in government positions because they wouldn't go along with the Serbs committed atrocities line.
Again, not saying that a slaughter did not happen, but that these combat ready males were simply overmatched and the Bosnian Serb paramilitary members had a "take no prisoners" mentality.
"Again, not saying that a slaughter did not happen......."
Just be nice, and say SORRY!!!!!!!!
Only one woman? How is it possible? How many women were among this "7,000"? Where the bodies? Where are the death/rape camps? Where are hundreds of thousands of dead Muslims?
FYI.
Smells more and more like one of Stalin's show trials or Poland attacking that Nazi radio station on the border. Who do they think they're fooling?
A total of 600 of the 7,000 unarmed men butchered by Serb forces in 1995 were laid to rest in a dignified ceremony on the edge of town. http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/tri/tri_306_8_eng.txt
Eight years on, a further 107 victims wait for burial alongside 882 already laid to rest at the cemetery.
The Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by the Bosnian Serb Army under General Ratko Mladic after his forces captured the predominantly Muslim town that had been declared a United Nations "safe area".
Mladic and wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic are indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide in Srebrenica and in the siege of Sarajevo. http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/sre030922.html
Drazen Erdemovic described how Muslim men and boys were taken in busloads to a farm, systematically lined up and shot - first with machine-guns, then with a single pistol shot to the head.
Many were blindfolded and had their hands tied, the court heard.
He personally killed 100 people, he said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3179799.stm
Photos from the March 31, 2003 Srebrenica Burial Ceremony
http://www.advocacynet.org/photos/photos_416.html
I am sorry I was ignorant of this event as it was happening but then again, I was still getting my information from the mainstream press at the time.
However, I'm more sorry for the folks that live in the Balkans today. Those who died are at peace now. Those who live must learn to overcome centuries of strife and distrust or be forever doomed to repeat these sorrowful events. Now, that statement has a nice "kumbaya" ring to it so let's be clear. If there is anyone with an agenda to spread fear and murder in the Balkans and can be identified with larger worldwide elements intent on doing the same on a larger scale, then they must first be defeated before the rest can live in peace.
You mean German provocation in Gliwice/Gleiwitz. It was used to justified attack on Poland in 1939. Same approach was used against Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims staged similar provocations to justify NATO attacks on Serbia.
"Where are the death/rape camps? Where are hundreds of thousands of dead Muslims?"
Do you know how to use a search engine?
I tried to be objective and I looked up many times the anti-Serbian sources. I did it again and again from the beginning of breakout of Yugoslavia. I read main stream press with attention and the official PC version did not hold water. Any attentive and critical reader could notice how the great lie is being created if he had patience to follow the events and biased reporting.
That is why I came to conclusion that Serbs got unjustly dehumanized and demonized by the vile propaganda.
Read 1984 carefuly - it will help you.
Search engines bring a lot of noise and rumors generated by the echo chamber of public "opinion". But the real evidence is missing.
"Read 1984 carefuly - it will help you."
I've read it, and it did help.
You, A Pole, should understand the "big lie" a little better.
Just FYI, in regards to Incorrigible's forwarding Destro as some sort of subject matter expert, homeboy's claiming to have been at Srebrenica when it fell.
We're up against a bunch of kids here, ABrit.
It turns out that we've been using the wrong paradigm all along - logic and facts won't suffice.
What the right way to go about it, short of endlessly demonstrating the error and simple stupidity of the denials and rationalizations, thread after thread, ad nauseum, eludes me.
Oh Dear, Oh Dear.
All is now clear.
I think I always suspected because of Destro's silly toy soldier/robot thing on his profile page.
Since, according to the story, they gathered up the men and marched them away to their deaths, there should be no women at all.
Thats not my question. My question is, where are the other 6700 men? They've had quite a few years to unearth them, and they have had forensic specialists there digging them up and trying to identify bodies all this time. 7000 bodies should be fairly easy to find. Where are they?
My assertion is that the deaths were from combat not execution squads. Deaths from mortar rounds, shots fired from a distance, artillery fire, etc. There was no wide spread execution of captured Muslims in Srebrenica. Now there was a case where some Muslim combatants were executed but they are few and the reasons are contradictory (reasons range from revenge, the executed were Muslim Merc foreigners, theft, and Slobo's presenting evidence in court that a rogue French merc unit was doing some work on its own for its own reasons).
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