Posted on 12/18/2006 10:58:24 AM PST by kronos77
New York, 18 Dec. (AKI) - Serbs living in the United States are reported to be deeply disturbed and worried by recent arrests of fellow Serbs in connection with the 1990s Balkan wars, community leaders have said. In a six-state swoop, American agents arrested 13 Serb immigrants last week and are looking for another three who are still at large. One of those arrested, Nedjo Ikonic, is being investigated for allegedly having taken part in the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it was overrun by Serb forces in July 1995.
If convicted, Ikonic and other suspects face up to ten years in jail and deportation from the US. "These cases demonstrate our resolve to identify and prosecute those who enter the US under false pretences," said deputy attorney general Paul McNulty. "Especially those who hide their military past," he added.
Those arrested were poor immigrants who had no money for lawyers of bail to defend themselves from freedom, the Serbian consul in Chicago, Desko Nikitovic, told Vesti daily. He said Serbia could not help them because most were Bosnian citizens.
"Unfortunately, this is a huge operation in which only Bosnia-Herzegovina can intervene with Washington. No-one needs to spoil the relations between our two countries, which have been improving," said Nikitovic.
Milwaukee lawyer, Nikola Kostic, said he was trying to organise a team to offer legal help to the arrested and their families, because neither Serbia nor Serb organisations in America have shown much interest in helping the suspects.
"Serbs are being hunted throughout America, but no one is checking Bosnian Muslims and Croats who have immigrated to the United States in the past 10-15 years," Zika Petrovic of Denver, Colorado, told Vesti. "No one asks them whether they have concealed what they did in the wars, what army they served and whether they committed crimes against Serbs," Petrovic said. "All this is creating an unfortunate impression that the war against Bosnian Serbs has now shifted to US soil," he concluded.
Vesti, distributed throughout Serbian emigre community - which numbers a million in the US - said that there is a list of over 300 people, submitted to the United States by Bosnian authorities and the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, who are suspected of having committed crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war.
Officially, the suspects are being charged for failing to report to immigration authorities that they served in the Bosnian Serb army, which fought against local Muslims. (Vpr/Aki)
Dec-18-06 15:00
"That's because your analogy (Serbia=Nazi-Germany) is ill-conceived."
Now , now , LR , at least quote the great historian of the 20th Century correctly .
Red6 actually said
"The Serbs killing thousands like the Nazi killing thousands like the Maoist, or Stalinist"
He's not equating one side in a war that claimed at most 100,000 lives with the Nazi's , thereby claiming that the Nazis killed way under 100,000 in total , he's claiming that theNazis , Mao and Stalin were responsible for the deaths of way under 100,000 too.
I think you should apologise to Red6 . He's not a Hitler apologist . He's that rare breed , a Hitlercum Stalincum Mao apologist .
You should apologise in writing and it'd better sincere .
He defends the monsters of the 20th Century ( 'they didn't murder in the millions , the only killed thousands ' ) and his heroes in the Balkans in the 90s follow the same honourable road .
a) Izetbegovic . Muslim Brotherhood , lifelong supporter of Khomeini , Holocaust Denier , SS recruiter , friend of ringleaders to both WTC terror attempts . The list is proud , long and glorious .
b) The KLA . Largely made up of Stalinists/Maoists supporters of that deranged midget , Enver Hoxa . Also large numbers of Mujahideen and Neo Nazi supporters of the Skanderbeg SS division ( based in Kosovo in WW2 ) . You've gotta love 'em .
About Bosnia seceding from Yugoslavia . So determined was Izetbegovic to choose war instead of peace that he
a) said "No" to a proposal by Milosevic to become President of a Rump-Yugoslavia . He didn't want to be President but wanted Independence even though that would mean war .
b) as pointed out , scuppered the last chance for peace by taking his signiature away from the Cutileiro Plan . Both the Bosnian Croats and Serb had already inked the deal. Izetbegovic said "No" . The last chance for peace in Bosnia .
c) he was on record as saying "I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty." i.e. War , if he doesn't get his way.
d) he stole the Presidency from the Bosnian Serbs ( he should have stepped down after two years )and then unconstitutionally declared independence . Trust the Muslim Brotherhood to ignore the legality of an action .
e)armed over 100,000 of his SDS supporters into a militia who then murdered hundreds of Serbs even before civil had broken out .
As I said , the guy's priceless . Happy New Year , LR .
"e)armed over 100,000 of his SDA supporters into a militia"
Obviously .
["Happy New Year , LR ."]
Happy New Year to you as well. I thought I'd until about the right time. Only a few hours left of 2006 :-).
It does not surprise me that Clinton would side with Muslims. He had several chances to have OBL handed over to him. Acting on that, we may have had 3000 lives still with us. Clinton was such a failure in so many ways. Gee, weren't we supposed to be out of Kosovo by Christmas that year? Funny, media never mentions it.
I leave you to with your Serbian support group here on the Free Republic. You guys can stroke each other off quiet well but at this point are wasting my time.
I still don't understand what people like you have in common with Conservatism or America all together for that matter, since you don't subscribe to some of our most basic principals. Maybe you're just like all the other "new" immigrants and seek the jobs, but not really the idea behind it.
Whether alcohol or any other vice, the true looser is the one stuck in a rut and unable to fix himself. You guys caused a war, didn't want to stop, then lost a war, and today can't stop obsessing over it.
It seems his definition of Conservatism is to make unbelievably bizarre comparisons and when everyone stands and laughs , to throw a hissy fit and storm off to Mumsy .
Red6 had left the building , Red6 has left the building
It was fun while it lasted .
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