BSA today has an article on a book by Bosnian Muslim leader, Ibran Mustafic re Srebrenica, where he was during the war. His assertion was that Srebrenica was a set up by the Izetbegovic government to gain Western sympathy. Apparently there have been numerous assassination attempts on Mustafic and he was also called as a witness at the Hague in Naser Oric's trial.
Probably the most shocking chapter of the book is the one with Naser Oric's personal admission of the first Serb he killed by his own hands, murder of the Srebrenica Judge Slobodan Ilic."When we took that group captured in Zalazje from [Srebrenica] prison to take them back toward Zalazje, and when the slaying begun, Slobodan Ilic came into my hands. I climbed on his chest. He was bearded and hairy like an animal. He looked at me without saying a word. I took out the bayonet and jabbed it straight into one eye, and then turned it back and forth. He didn't let the single sound out. Then I hit him with the knife in the other eye... I couldn't believe he's not reacting. Frankly, that's when I got scared for the first time, so I cut his throat right after that", Oric described his 'feat' to Mustafic word-for-word during one evening Mustafic visited him.
Oric's admission is followed by the testimony of Mustafic's uncle Ibrahim, who witnessed the same slaughter.
"Naser came over and told me to get ready at once and go with the flag in front of Srebrenica prison. I dressed up and went over. When I came in front of the prison, they took out all those captured in Zalazje and ordered me to drive them towards Zalazje. When we reached the depot, they ordered me to stop and park the truck. I moved to a safe distance. But, when I saw their savagery and when the slaying begun, I felt all the blood drain from my head. When Zulfo (Tursunovic) ripped the knife down the chest of the nurse Rada, while asking her where is her radio-station, I couldn't watch any longer. I came back to Srebrenica on foot from the depot, and they drove the truck over afterwards, which I took from Srebrenica to go home to Potocare. The inside was all bloodied up", Mustafic cites the testimony of his uncle.
The above mentioned medical nurse Rada Milanovic stayed in Srebrenica even after her family moved away. Srebrenica territorial defense headquarters assigned her to medical field group and to a local hospital.
"The Whole Bridge was Floating in Serbian Blood"
Mustafic also recounted other crimes against the Serbs from the town of Srebrenica which were more or less well known. He mentioned that, after the assault against the village Jezestica "Kemo from Pale [near Sarajevo] was carrying a severed head around with him, scaring people".
The murder of the Stjepanovic family is also described. Stjepanovic family members were taken out of their apartment in the Srebrenica Battalion Street by Oric's butchers in July 1992, and taken to nearby Potocare.
"Andjelija Stjepanovic (74) and her son Mihajlo (50) were among those brutally slain then. One Bosnian Muslim from Potocari described afterwards how the whole bridge where these poor people were slaughtered was literally swimming in blood. The killer of Stjepanovic family is Kemo Mehmedovic from Pale, Naser's loyal follower in atrocities. The executioner today lives in Austria, and there are tons of similar examples from Srebrenica. It is a shame that not one of these monsters in the human form have faced responsibility for their crimes, and their main organizer and the one who ordered them to kill, Naser Oric, is today parading in freedom," commented one of a handful of Bosnian Serb civilians who survived the hell of Srebrenica imprisonment.
The previously little known details about the torture and murder of the severely ill Krsto Dimitrovski and his wife Velinka, from Srebrenica, were also revealed in Mustafic's book, charging Ejub Golic, former commander of the "Independent Hill Battalion" from the village Glogovo. Golic was freed of charges raised against him for this crime.
Interesting to note that all these named Srebrenica Muslims who participated in the murders are all alive - living in Bosnia, Austria, etc. Plus the Muslims threatening the author for his revelations are no doubt Srebrenica Muslim men.Note that a lot of the described killings of Serbs happened in areas where bodies are found - many still "unidentified" after all these years but claimed as Muslims. I'd say many are Serb civilians and POWs.
"First of all, the indictment against Naser was entirely ridiculous. He was charged for the things he wasn't guilty of, but not for any of the things he was guilty for."
Seems to me that the Serbs can draw up indictments and try Naser Oric for his crimes and it not be double jeopardy - since that did not try Naser Oric for his own crimes but those of others. They basically tried him for some prisoner abuse done by other Muslims to the Serb prisoners in Srebrenica. So he received a mild sentence for failure to prevent this abuse, but nothing for the gruesome murder of the Serb judge which was, I believe, the first murder of the war, nor the subsequent murders Naser Oric was involved in, nor the scorched earth campaign he carried out on Serb villages.
Nor did they allow this author or his uncle, witnesses to Naser Oric's bragging and some of the murder scenes, to testify, nor the western journalists such as John Pomfret of the Washington Post, nor Bill Schiller of the Toronto Star to testify about seeing Naser Oric's show and tell gory videos of his actual crimes at his home in early 1994.