Posted on 08/10/2006 1:45:12 PM PDT by kronos77
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 9 (AP) — Bosnia’s president, Sulejman Tihic, on Wednesday rejected accusations that a wartime Muslim commander had committed atrocities against Serbs, saying that Serbian and Bosnian officials should instead capture the two suspects most wanted on war crimes. He was responding to a statement issued Tuesday by the Serbian government in Belgrade, demanding that the Muslim commander, Atif Dudakovic, a retired Bosnian Army general, be brought to justice. Bosnian Serb officials said they would press charges against him.
A recently released video appears to show General Dudakovic ordering the destruction of Bosnian Serb homes in 1995 in western Bosnia. General Dudakovic said the statements attributed to him on the video were fabricated since they appeared as subtitles on Serbian television stations.
The recordings, made in daylight apparently with a hand-held camera, showed Bosnian Muslim soldiers and soldiers from neighboring Croatia harassing and attacking convoys of Bosnian Serb refugees. The refugees were fleeing from a Croatian military offensive in August 1995 to retake contested territories from Bosnian Serb rebels.
The soldiers were seen yelling at Serbs, pushing them around and executing one who had his hands raised in the air. The troops were also seen burning Bosnian Serb houses. They were shouting, “Burn them all.”
More than 200,000 Bosnian Serbs fled from the Croatian offensive in August 1995.
“I reject any accusation against Atif Dudakovic and the Fifth Corps of the Bosnian Army, who defended their country against aggression and destruction,” President Tihic said in a statement.
Bosnia’s state prosecutor’s office said it was examining the tape.
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Islamosaschist warcrimeinals solidarity
More than 200,000 Bosnian Serbs fled from the Croatian offensive in August 1995.
Double that number from Krajina alone.
President and Primeminister of Christian state in Bosnia, Republika Srpska, signed a warrent for arrest of Muslim general Atif Dudakovic.
In response to move of Christian state, president of bosnia, Muslim Sulezman Tihic asked for annulation of Christian state in Bosnia ant incorporation of its teritorz in unitaristic "Multiciltural state".
This is very bad news.
I belive that it is a time that Christian state republika Srpska separate from Bosnia and start search of its own happiness.
Not good at all.
Hmmmmm... the dude behind him is wearing a Serbian uniform (look at the patch).
No.
You can find the picture on the right side of the page, along with others which enlarge when you click on them.
The Serbian behind him is "Maj. Gen. Cvetko Savic, Chief of the General Staff of the VRS."
OK. I feel much better knowing the context of the photo. :) Thanks, Joan.
LOL.....
Why doesn't Dudakovic wear his Serbian patch? He fought in the Serb army against Croatia.
Forced upon us by Clinton and Serb intrasigence.
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