By: John Pomfret, Washington Post Foreign Service,The Washington Post, February 16, 1994
SREBRENICA, Bosnia: Nasir Oric's war trophies don't line the wall of his comfortable apartment-- one of the few with electricity in this besieged Muslim enclave stuck in the forbidding mountains of eastern Bosnia. They're on a videocassette tape: burned Serb houses and headless Serb men, their bodies crumpled in a pathetic heap.
"We had to use cold weapons that night," Oric explains as scenes of dead men sliced by knives roll over his 21-inch Sony. "This is the house of a Serb named Ratso," he offers as the camera cuts to a burned-out ruin. "He killed two of my men, so we torched it. Tough luck."
Reclining on an overstuffed couch, clothed head to toe in camouflage fatigues, a U.S. Army patch proudly displayed over his heart (provided by Clinton?), Oric gives the impression of a lion in his den. For sure, the Muslim commander is the toughest guy in this town, which the U.N. Security Council has declared a protected "safe area."
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Naser Oric's forces killed over a thousand Bosnian Serb civilians and troops in the Srebrenica area and burned and destroyed at least 50 Serbian villages. It was these Bosnian Muslim attacks that caused a Bosnian Serb reaction and ultimately culminated in the Bosnian Serb takeover of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995. In Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre since World War II, Christian Science Monitor reporter-turned-historian David Rohde conceded that "Serbs estimated that 2,000 Serbs---mostly soldiers but also several hundred civilians---had died around Srebrenica since the outbreak of the war. Over 50 Serb villages were burned, according to Serbs, and dozens of Serb graves desecrated…."
This is the way of Islam throughout the world. They commit aggression until the infidels respond then the Islamics try to portray the infidels as cruel and intolerant.
Unfortunately the infidels often reach a point where they think the only solution is to start slaughtering muslims indiscriminately.
The solution is here:
"...It is our belief that Islamic terrorism will not be eliminated unless and until the ideology behind it is not exposed and eradicated. This is what we intend to do. "
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/main.htm
"A Grave Breach" due out in early 2005 is set in Yugoslavia - past (WWII) and present (90's). Below is part of a conversation that takes place about the point of this thread:
“And it never ends? What was it about 'one man's revenge is the next man’s atrocity?' ”
“Absolutely. Do you think we are unaware of that? We’re brutal, John. Not stupid. Ultimately, it comes down to why should I be the one to forgive or forget? Let the next guy turn the other cheek, hmm?”
Naser Oric didn't come to prominence until after the Serbs had ethnically cleansed the Drina Valley back in the Spring of 1992.
His activities post-date the Serbian massacres of Bosnian Muslim civilians at Bijeljina, Zvornik, and Bratunac.
So what do you hope to accomplish by amending article titles with your obviously false take on the history of the Balkans wars?
Is it really worthwhile to mislead others down the same path of ignorance and Orthodox inspired prejudice and bigotry that you yourself have chosen? What will you gain in the end except having made the world a more confused place for all your efforts?
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"of SFOR, the international peace force in Bosnia, captured Oric and delivered him to the tribunal in The Hague. There had for some time been an indictment prepared against him, but the tribunal had not made it public. "
Surprise, surprise.
Great post Destro. Keep up the good work. Evidently the couragous muslim fighter and war hero (sarcasm) Oric got a bad dose of "intestinal flue"...otherwise known as "NO GUTS"...when he got word the Serbs were coming for him and his boys. So he deserted. What else can you expect from someone who spent the previous 3 years terrorizing and brutalizing women and children. Yellow to the bone. He should be executed.