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To: johnnyBbad
>>>>Apparently a shooting at a Sarajevo wedding party is grounds for surrounding and shelling the city for four years.<<<

Your cynicism aside, you forgot the following:

1. In 1991 Bosnian Muslims have organised clandestine Patriotic League of over 70,000 armed fighters. The aim was to repeat script from Croatia - kill and intimidate JNA officers and rectuits. JNA officer, Bosnian Muslim Sefer Halilovic was the brain behind this and he spoke openly what Muslims planned and what they did. JNA trusted him with command. He was a traitor.

2. March murder of a Serb father in a wedding procession was calculated provocation. There is enough evidence from Muslim sources. The perp although known was never punished.

3. Prior to Bosnia gaining independence April 6, JNA was legitimate armed force in Bosnia Herzegovina, not an invader as claimed by the Muslims. National Guard is not an invader in Georgia or Tennessee. JNA retreated when it was decided on political level, after Bosnia gained independence. When JNA retreated from Sarajevo garrison, the column was ambushed from front and back and many recruits and officers were murdered. JNA had had capability to lever Sarajevo but no such action took place. The response was a encircling of the city.

In any conflict, unilateral use of force makes truce null and void. Muslims have attacked retreating JNA not once, but two times (Sarajevo, Tuzla).

4. During four years of conflict, Sarajevo was Bosnian Muslim garrison. Muslim government took all citizens of Sarajevo hostage because they were not allowed to leave. Taking hostages is a war crime per Geneva Convention.

Methinks you know all of this too well.

55 posted on 07/18/2005 4:52:08 PM PDT by DTA
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To: DTA

Completely agree when it comes to Muslim intimidation of the JNA.

However I'm also aware of how the JNA functioned in both Croatia and Bosnia. Serb paramilitaries would take a town and the JNA would arrive to secure their holdings. This was repeated throughout eastern Bosnia until the JNA left in May/June 92, but not before turning over most of its heavy guns to the Serbs.


56 posted on 07/19/2005 5:10:03 AM PDT by johnnyBbad
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