Posted on 04/20/2008 5:15:41 PM PDT by Diocletian
BELGRADE, Serbia-Fourteen former Serb fighters went on trial Thursday on charges that they killed 70 Croat civilians in 1991 after forcing some of them to walk through a minefield.
The group includes former Yugoslav army soldiers and paramilitary fighters suspected of "torture, inhuman treatment and killing" of the Croats in a border town in Croatia during the war there.
Croatian investigations have discovered dozens of bodies in mass graves in the village of Lovas, the remains of people apparently killed in October and November 1991 when Serbs controlled the area.
The Serbian prosecutors charged the Serb fighters with killing 22 Croats by forcing them to march over a minefield as a human shield. Another 48 villagers were shot dead in their houses, on the streets or in detention, the indictment said.
The war in Croatia erupted in 1991, when the republic declared independence from the Yugoslav federation, triggering a Serb rebellion backed by the Serb-led Yugoslav army. The war lasted until 1995.
Prosecution of Serbs responsible for atrocities in the war became possible after the removal of the late leader Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 by Serbia's pro-democracy forces.
Posted on the wrong board. People have pretty much swallowed hook, line, and sinker propaganda here that the Serbs were completely pure and innocent and right in everything they did in the Yugoslav civil wars.
Well, if what you say is true, then it seems rather odd that the article comes from Serbianna - doesn’t it?
The article is from Associated Press. Mickey, the owner and operator of Serbianna.com links to any news article mentioning Serbs or Serbia.
Seventeen years later? I’d say it’s about freaking time!
There are many individuals in this forum who regard a post with "Serbianna" attached to it (in any way shape or form) as null and void. Are you aware of this?
Anyway, the more important point is that some of us (Serbs) know that we were not "pure and innocent and right during the Yugoslav wars." - as the poster in #2 attempted to imply. And, I'm sure you are completely aware of this.
That said, Serbs were not the vampires the Croatians were.../sarc :-)
Which side sold the organs of the other side on the body parts black market?
The K-Albanians.
Note: Please look (simultaneously) in terms of both geography and time.
I don’t know much about this particular crime but it sounds terrible. I hope that the defendants are given a fair trial and if proven guilty are punished to the full extent of the law.
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