Srebrenica atrocities: evidence of US complicity (BARF Alert)

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/691/35888 ^

[kronos77]

For years, the role of the United States in conniving with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the destruction of the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica has been shrouded in mystery.

When heavily armed Bosnian Serb nationalists seized the town from Dutch United Nations “peace-keepers” in July 1995, along with expelling tens of thousands of Muslims, they led away 8000 men and boys and slaughtered them in captivity, the largest single massacre in Europe since World War II.

Now the “smoking gun” is being uncovered. Richard Holbrooke, who at the time was assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, recently revealed in an interview with French magazine Paris-Match that his initial instructions from US national security adviser Anthony Lake were to sacrifice the three remaining Muslim “enclaves” in East Bosnia — Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde — to the Serb nationalists, led by indicted war criminals General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

Holbrooke claims he rejected the instructions, but in the past he has emphasised his rejection only of pressure to abandon Gorazde, leaving the question of the other two unclear — till now.

The same issue of Paris-Match also had an interview with the chief prosecutor of The Hague Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, who claims that Western officials held a meeting with Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in 1995, to discuss the plans to seize Srebrenica. She said there were minutes of the meeting and that she knew the names of the officials, but was unable to use this as evidence because they refused to confirm their attendance.

[Hoplite]

I know the truth

Your truth and the objective truth are two very different things.

Take this thread, for example - here we have the Serbs yet again making lying asses of themselves, and instead of trying to dissuade the foolishness, you're right in the middle of it.

As to my interest, as I've stated on many occasions, it is the same as America's interest - and if America's interests conflict with Serbia's, as has happened so often in the recent past, then I'm not going to sit idly by while you and yours lie and misrepresent events to make it look as if America should be pursuing Serbia's interests rather than it's own.

Happily, it's getting to the point where American interests in the region can soon be met by simply ignoring Serbia if it chooses to play the fool.

It's all good.

[Hoplite]

You don't hear about any Irvings in Turkey.

No, you hear about the anti-Irvings whom the government prosecutes for soiling the national honor or some other such nonsense.

If you want to make yourself useful, slap some sense into the Srebrenica denial crowd hereabouts.

[Bokababe]

A Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

And if you are still looking for "a turkey", I'm sure that Hoplite will be trolling around here tomorrow with no where else to go. Just post anything with the keyword "Serb" and he'll show up like the gobbling idiot he is.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["If you want to make yourself useful,"]

Well what you have me do? Tell them that the ICTY is "fair and balanced" and (statistically) not biased against Serbs?

And, that the sentence given to Oric was "fair and just" when juxtaposed to Serbs?

You tell me how I explain this to my community?

[Hoplite]

You tell me how I explain this to my community?

You could start by not playing stupid.

Ya think?

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["You could start by not playing stupid."]

I'm sorry, but I'm not following you.

[tgambill]

there were not 8,000 massacred. They are correct. The Muslims were Jihaders from Afghanistan and also combatants from the Balkans. After the Soviets left Afghanistan, our trained Mujhadeen 8,000-10,000 or so, was put in Bosnia to aid in their "independence" declaration and Jihad against Serbs. Serbs naturally reacted to protect their union, and did so somewhat heavy handed, granted. Look up operation storm with Ceku as well........(Croatia).

CIA worked with ISI, Turkish Intelligence and Saudi Intelligence to make this happen long story short. So, around 1993, the CIA asked the ISI to divert part of the dregs of the HUM and HUJI to Bosnia to help the Muslims there. The funding was supplied by the Saudi Intel. The Arms and Ammo, were reportedly given by the Iranian Intell. and the leadership provided by the serving and retired Officers of the ISI and Turkish intell. Reference the dayview of Omar Sheikh as the "Bosnian Bin Laden". Now it gets real interesting. :) Cohen and company at some point afterwards started claiming 100,000 Kosovar Albanians massacred in Kosovo. So, was this a lie or a complete intelligence failure...because not long after, the number went down to 10,000. Then, when escavations were done in 1999, they could only find 2,108 bodies, and in one grave was 22 massacred Serbs. The other bodies are in question as to whether they were victims of NATO bombing, killed by their very own KLA, or Serbs......From Bosnia a large number of the dregs were diverted to Kosovo by the CIA. I know for a fact as I was there for five years....ie....official report that was an interest of the Russians and myself was the 12 Chechens allowed through Pristina Airport without being checked and they disappeared....one of many such incidents. I held for a long time the "mean ole Serbs" murdering 8,000 muslims in cold blood, rape camps...blah blah blah....where are the bodies....?? and, if you read, Peter Brock. "Media Cleansing; Dirty Reporting", you will find that there were no rape camps relating to genocide....etc....unless something pops up in the next few years or they fabricate another mass grave, where are the bodies. I submit, five thousand or so went to kosovo, Croatia, and Macedonia..to fight instead of being dead in Srebrenica.

[tgambill]

Thanks for the ping. I see that they are trying to pump up the "BS" about 8,000 led to their death. People not knowing the truth will still actually believe this. Dredging this up, makes me think that we are getting ready to pull some more BS off, relative to fostering support for Kosovo independence......and further covert operations in Southern Presevo, NORTH MITROVICA and Macedonia. It's coming...more BS from our side.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["Cohen and company at some point afterwards started claiming 100,000 Kosovar Albanians massacred in Kosovo. So, was this a lie or a complete intelligence failure...because not long after, the number went down to 10,000."]

You are correct.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

["You tell me how I explain this to my community?"]

You're right Hoplite it's not MY community (I don't own it)...Now why not address the more major points of my post?

[Banat]

"...along with expelling tens of thousands of Muslims." Srebrenica only had 17,000 inhabitants at the time.

[infidel_pride]

So then, Hoplite, care to explain this?

The ICTY's story is that about 6,000 Srebrenica men surrendered a couple of days after the fall of the town when their column was cut off by VRS along the Nova Kasaba to Konjevic Polje road. They were, according to you and the ICTY, then executed. Now, everyone agrees that the 28th division evaded the VRS and got across the Nova Kasaba to Konjevic Polje road before it was sealed by the VRS. It was the civilian, second half of the column that got trapped. However, the 28th division lost about 40% of it's men on this huge, almost 100km trek behind enemy lines. Care to explain this 40% casualty rate?

Neither you, nor the ICTY, can.

[Banat]

http://www.srebrenica-report.com/

[FormerLib]

So you finally admit your support of the Nazi atrocities against the Serbs!

Why am I not surprised?

[FormerLib]

The Bosnian Serb government has admitted the massacre(s) took place...

Of course, this required that Paddy Ashdown remove any Serb from the Bosnian Serb Republic government who refuted the Srebrenica propaganda based upon the actual evidence. Once the so-called Serb leadership had been reduced to a group unwilling to stand up to NATO, they "admitted" the phony 8,000 casualties as being real.

secretagent, Hoplite is a devout support of the Muslim Jihad, particularly in the Balkans. Ignoring anything that he say is a good idea (except when decency requires one to prove him a liar, of course).

[infidel_pride]

And don't forget that Jeremy "Paddy" Ashdown perjured himself when he testified at the Hague, against Milosevic.

He was trumpeted by the prosecution as being an ace eye witness to evil Serb behaviour. The only problem was his account meant

a) he'd have to have X ray ability as hills, mountains, etc were blocking his view

b) he was in the WRONG COUNTRY. He first claimed he was on the Albanian side of the border, but later changed his testimony, claiming that he'd accidentally wandered into Serbia.

c) Britain's finest don't know how to use a compass. Oh dear, those images of James Bond saving the world are taking another knock.

The guy's got zero credibility. Though he does love his dear wife, Mary. As he keeps on informing us. Which is sweet.

[kronos77]

Also, in same time another Muslim stronghold some 15 km from Srebrenica, Zepa, (Zhepa) was attacked by Serbs. This time, Muslims from Zepa, entire brigade, crossed Drina river into Serbia, to surender to Serbia authorities and claim political assylum. They were held (several hunderts of them) at immigrant camp and they refused to get back to bosnia when Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic called them back, instead, they went to germany as refugees.

Now look at those two articles, first is written by IWPR, aleftist-anti war organisation, Soros.Founded. Now, allthoug it repeats a number of 8,000 killed in Srebrenica, look at the testemony of Muslim ey-soldier when he descrives that they have surrendert their women and childern to their mortall enemy-Serbs and they, fighting muslim men, ran to Serbia to avoid being captured:

"Most men of fighting age, aware of the slaughter of their counterparts in Srebrenica, had split into groups and melted into the forests around the enclave. The larger group headed for Kladanj. About 800 swam across the Drina into Serbia, accompanied by some of the women and children, where an uncertain fate awaited them.

Omanovic was 13 when he escaped to Serbia. "The women, children and old were evacuated (by Serbs) to Kladanj thanks to Palic while the men ran through the forests," he recalled. "Once there they loaded us onto buses and trucks and took us into camps, where they beat, abused and starved us." Omanovic and most people in his group remained in camps in Mitrovo Polje and Sljivovica in Serbia for six months."

http://www.iwpr.net/?apc_state=hsrfbcr257086&l=en&s=f&o=257087

Secon article is written in time of Srebrenica and Zepa events, in 1995 it states:

"During the last week of July, Muslims from Zepa and Srebrenica increasingly frequently crossed into the FR of Yugoslavia in the 120 km long Bajina Basta border with Bosnia area. Reliable sources say these people further sought refuge across the Drina in three directions. The first is south, over the mountain ranges Tara and Zlatibor, toward Sandzak. Most of the people were found in this corridor and brought in to the border authorities. The second direction heads east: from Bajina Basta, through Uzice or Cacak, to Macedonia. The third route taken by Muslims fleeing Eastern Bosnia is northward, from Bajina Basta and Ljubovija, through Valjevo, to Belgrade and Vojvodina. There are no precise data about how many of the refugees have managed to pass the first control line along the Drina, but it is no secret that over a thousand citizens of Zepa and Srebrenica have passed through these corridors in Serbia.

There is no doubt that the Bosnian Serb authorities already had a scenario of "sending" the Srebrenica population to Serbia. To that aim, the Srebrenica population was recommended by megaphones or leaflets to save themselves: either by giving up on the road to Bratunac, by taking the corridor toward Tuzla and Kladanj, or by crossing the Drina, where, allegedly, the safety of all innocent civilians was guaranteed. The speed with which the troops on the right bank of the Drina reacted testifies that there is some truth in this: the Yugoslav Army border units received special instructions and warnings of the upcoming crossings in mid-July. The first groups that crossed the Drina were uncovered in three ways: they gave themselves up to the army and police in Serbia, they called to the army on the Bosnian bank, or they were arrested in Cacak, Pozega, Valjevo and Uzice. Such crossings lasted the whole second half of July and became increasingly frequent late last week. When news of these events spread, the border authorities and the Interior Ministry, Illegal Crossing Department organized an evacuation of the people fleeing Bosnia. There is no reliable information about where the people during the July 20-30 period have been evacuated, and they are estimated to number 120. They are presumed to have been deported to the Bosnian Serb Republic, whose authorities have expressed extreme interest in and craving for Zepa and Srebrenica runaways.

The latest wave of Drina-crossing took place in the night of July 30-31. A total of 501 Muslim civilians crossed into Serbia in groups of between 5 and 20 people (until the day this article was written). These people are in a horrible state, exhausted and drained. Before heading for the Drina, they spent several weeks wandering the woods round Srebrenica and Zepa. Most of them swam the Drina between Zepa and the village of Jagostica on Serbia's side. Yugoslav Army border units and Interior Ministry services interrogated them and sent them to collective centers. No one expected that the invasion of Muslim civilians fleeing across the Drina would reach such proportions until Tuesday, (August 1), when their number reached 500. Then, in the late afternoon, a political and RTV of Serbia delegations landed in a chopper on the spot, in the remote village of Jagostica. The refugees were visited by Refugee Commissioner Bratislava Buba Morina, who was accompanied by the Health Minister and International Red Cross representatives. This delegation made a "publicity" visit to the refugees in Mitrovac on Tara and the RTV of Serbia cameras shot the statements of "Alija's misled soldiers who trust Serbia and its leadership". At the same time, journalists were forbidden to work in and visit this region.

By the time this article was sent in (Wednesday, 5:30 P.M.), news arrived that all the Muslims that fled to Serbia have been taken to and accommodated in Branesko Polje near Uzice and that all of them are "protected" by the Serbian Internal Ministry."

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest/201/t201-4.htm

Now a digest is folowing:

1. Serbs attacked and crished defence of Srebrenica and zepa.
2. Serbs negotiated safe evacuation of women and children from Srebrenica and Zepa.
3. Muslims, for some reasons, are SURRENDERING THEIR FAMILIES TO THEIR MORTAL ENEMIES, THE SERBS.
4. Muslim fighters are affraid of being captured my Serbs.
5. Muslim Fighters are either executed, like in Srebrenica, either in attempt to brake-trought to tuzla, or surrendered to Serbian (Yugoslav) forces.

Now my questions is following.

1. Why the hell Muslims were surrendering their women and children to Serbs, trusting them, while, they themselves were mortally afraid to surrender to the Serbs?
2. Is it that Muslims knew that Serbs wont take vengance on civilians? Was it maybe cause Muslim soldiers knew that there IS the reason for Serbs to take vengeance on THEM?
3. Milosevic was proclaimed "Butcher of Balkans" and evil person, and Serbia accused that it hade plan to commit genocide over Muslims YET, Muslims fighters from Bosnia Zepa choosed
- Not to surrender to Serbs
- Not to try to brake trough to Muslim held-land
- But to go to Milosevics Serbia and claim assylum!

Something don't fit right!

[kronos77]

Also, the same IWPR dont know number of killed muslims in Srebrenica:

"In the days that followed the fall of Srebenica on July 11, Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic executed about 8,000 Bosniak men and boys."

http://www.iwpr.net/?apc_state=hsrfbcr257086&l=en&s=f&o=257087

"The bodies of victims were thrown into mass graves, which are still being exhumed. Only around 1,000 of the 6,500 so far uncovered have been identified."

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=bcr&s=f&o=156028&apc_state=henibcr2003

[tgambill]

don't forget about the ones that went to Kosovo to join and fight with the KLA, UCPMB later....and eventually NLA...

[F-117A]

I guess one could say, "If you're not a Serb hater, then why do you spend so much time and energy lying about them?"