Srebrenica victims reburied at massacre site

Yahoo News ^ | March 31, 2003 | AFP

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SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) - More than 600 victims of the infamous Srebrenica massacre were finally laid to rest, almost eight years after Europe's worst atrocity since World War II, with many relatives making a painful trip back to the town.

Over 10,000 people, including many of the bereaved as well as overseas officials, helped re-bury 600 Muslim men and boys, removed from mass graves, at a memorial cemetery in Potocari, just outside Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are believed to have been slain in Srebrenica after Serbs overran the enclave on July 11, 1995.

At the time of the massacre, Srebrenica was a UN-proclaimed "safe haven," but lightly armed Dutch UN soldiers could not protect the civilians from the Serb onslaught.

"The United Nations remembers the horrific events of Srebrenica with the deepest pain," Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, said in a letter read by top international representative in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, at the sombre ceremony.

Ashdown expressed hope that the Srebrenica memorial "will remind the world of what happens if we stand by and do nothing while evil flourishes."(emphasis mine)

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"The United Nations remembers the horrific events of Srebrenica with the deepest pain," Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, said in a letter

You have done nothing to show there is any meaning to that statement, Kofi, as you continue to show you care more about what's on the menu for dinner than the welfare of the world..

This news is a few days old, but I felt it was important in light of the atrocities of Saddam's regime.

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Let's see muslim men and teens LOVE to dress up in civilian clothes and go out and play, WAR... when they get killed ...OH, what a massacre of civilians!! HA!!

I suppose ALL those Iraqi soldiers who did the same thing recently and got themselves killed when the coalition troops fired on them, will be called "poor civilians" caught and killed by those wicked coalition troops by the same LIBERAL KLINTOON LOVIN' PRESS AND MEDIA.

Boo hoo for the islamic "civilian" soldiers.... NOT!!!

And, no BOO HOO for the mosques they use as shooting towers either!! Iraqis did the same dern thing!! And, then complained if someday shot back ....YUK!

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The Serbs were ruthless in their ethnic cleansing. When people are lined up and summarily shot, it ain't quite the same as guerilla fighters, terrorists, or soldiers/fedayeen posing as civilians.
Additionally, this was a town that was (supposedly) protected. I think your attitude is deplorable.

Nothing to see here folks, just move along..

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I think you are a radical muslim apologist and I think you are also a "KNOW NOTHING" liberal who believes all the klintoon propaganda about the Serbs.

By the way, ALQUEERDA was arming the bosnian muslims mujahadeen as early as 1989 in Bosnia. CLEARLY A CRIME AT THAT TIME UNDER YUGOSLAVIAN LAW.

I know hundreds of Serbian refugees right here in the USA and they say the muslims we fight in Afganistan are JUST like your muslim buddies in the Balkans. All supported by radical islamic leaders like izbeg-o-bitch and osama bin laden.

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Additionally, this was a town that was (supposedly) protected.

visualpsyops,

The town was also a center for thousands of armed Muslim soldiers/terrorists which was a violation of a "protected" area status.

The bulk of which were destroyed when they were abandoned by the Muslim leadership in Sarajevo and forced to fight their way through Serb lines to Tuzla.

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radical muslim apologist


hahahahhah haha

you sure are hasty to paste labels. whatever makes you feel better I guess.

[Destro]

There is no such thing as a safe haven under the rules of war and none can be created because the UN says it is so. The only legit concept in war that comes close is an "open city" where the city disarms. Allowing Muslims to stage attacks under the UN flag of a safe haven was the real crime.

But that was when Clinton was helping al-Qaeda's Balkan division.

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I not saying there weren't a multitude of lies, crimes, and disinformation *on both sides*.
But, there were massacres.
IMHO yet another instance of people who hate for the sake of hate, and each side would just as soon see the other wiped from the earth.
If you read the article, the comment from a Bosnian girl at the end is quite telling:
"From this day on our memory is stronger than the evil you inflicted on us and it will follow you until there is not a single trace of your existence on earth"
Pretty sad statement.

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I've read the article. It says nothing about the fighting withdrawal. The Dutch report covers it in some detail and even the PBS documentary shows the massive columns of Muslim troops marching out of town and the very haggard survivors straggling in 1's and 2's and small groups. Those that died in the firefights along the way make up the bulk of the bodies.

The real criminals are the people that recognized Bosnia-Hercegovina before a peaceful settlement could be made!

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Is this your first run in with our local Serb apologists/psychopaths?

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Let's see muslim men and teens LOVE to dress up in civilian clothes and go out and play, WAR... when they get killed ...OH, what a massacre of civilians!! HA!!

C'mon. There's no evidence that these muslims were paramilitaries.

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Yes, there do seem to be quite a few Serb apologists around here. There were certainly atrocities on all sides in the Bosnian war. But there seems to be a consensus from many observers that the Serbs committed by far the largest share. There need to be more posts like this.

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All Serb apologists who are not Serbs or Russian, cast the first stone.

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lol apparently so...
the vehemence of the response to me was surprizing. Part of the point of my post was it was another example of the many failings of the U.N.

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Thanks...
At the time, about the last thing I wanted to see or believe was that the Serbs (or anyone for that matter) were massacring innocents. Some of my (now ex)in-laws are Macedonian and I had been married in a Russian Orthodox church, and as such, at the time I felt some small common bond with other Orthodox.

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Hey, wide@$$, I am a 12th generation AMERICAN... not a Russian or Serb gene in my body. My family is English and Scottish. So there...you twit!

How many times a week do you head over to the mosque, mooohammed?

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example of the many failings of the U.N.

And it continues in the persecution of Milosevic in the 'kangaroo' semi secret Hague 'tribunal'.

Read the 'tribunal' transcripts where the Muslim/NATO attemped spin on Sebrenica is debunked.

I see that 'disinformation' Hoplite still has his job.

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It's usually a waste of time to reply to someone who is so intemperate, but I'll give it a try.

I have never been to a mosque.

Three of my grandparents are English. In the male line of my family, I am a 14th generation AMERICAN. I am not related to any of the ethnic groups involved in the recent Balkan wars.

I didn't say that you were necessarily a Serb. I just meant to state my opinion that if you were, your opinion on the subject of this thread should be discounted quite a lot.

There are many fine Serbs but as a group they seem to have one of the worst persecution complexes on the planet. This doesn't come across too well when the mass graves and refrigerator trucks full of their victims are there for all to see.

Actually I am very curious. Since you claim not to be a Serb, why don't you just come out and honestly say how you became involved in this issue to the point that over 50% of the articles you post seem to be heavily pro-Serb. Maybe you married one. Seriously, I would really like to know.

As for my screen name, I was looking for something that would connote that I wasn't a narrow-minded, one-issue person such as yourself. "Openminded" was taken.