Posted on 02/21/2003 8:23:13 AM PST by Destro
Serbian Orthodox suffer
At least 110 Serb Christian sites (churches, monasteries, graveyards etc.) have been damaged or destroyed in Kosovo since the United Nations took control in June 1999.
Most recently, a church building in the village of Ljubovo was completely destroyed by an explosion in the early hours of 17 November last.
A second explosion damaged another church in the town of Djurakovac. The bombings came on the eve of a visit to Kosovo by UN General Secretary Kofi Annan.
Church leaders and Orthodox worshippers also face violence and hostility from ethnic Albanians, especially where UN checkpoints in the vicinity of churches have been withdrawn in recent months.
Ethnic Albanian Muslim extremists regard churches as symbols of Serbian domination and see them as legitimate targets.
Karadjordje
VRN
Where or what would you like to discuss? Gorazde - Srebrenica - Sarajevo region?
You have made a choice, and you only have two options. Avoid or confront, which is it?
In the year prior to Clinton's bombing some 250 civilians died (most were Albanians at the hand of the KLA)
After Clinton's bonbing stopped more than 1,000 civilians have been murdered every year. ( again most were Albanians killed by their KLA/KPC bethren )
If the HumWarrior POV were legit, then the civilian murder rate would have dropped after June 1999, instead it skyrocketed. More Albanian civilians have been murdered under Kfor's watch than before, plain and simple.
It is interesting that the liberal HumWarriors always return to the Liberation of Srebrenica when confronted with the harsh reality of their pro-Iztbegovic stance.
And the HumWarriors always use the racist hate mongering tone in their articles when discussing the Liberation of Srebrenica. But the facts regarding Srebenica have been long out.
And those facts contradict the wild and crazy HumWarrior tale of conspircy, moving bodies, coded telephone calls, secret messages, private handshakes, and intrigue worthy of s BBC Mystery TV series.
Curious that the HumWarriors cling to their version of events in Srebrenica despite the mountains of evidence which tell us they are dead wrong. Every time another piece fo evidence is uncovered which contradicts the HumWarriors, they have to add another conpsircy, another plot twist, another bit of far-fetched mystery in order to make the facts fit their story
Here are the facts taken striaght from the article Bosnian DNA Labs Trying to End Search for the missing and the ICTY
1,780 bodies found........via article
at least 600 of those found were members of the 28th BiH killed in a fair fight We don't know how many of the rest were soldiers of the 28th BiH, because the forensic reports are kept under lock and key.........ICTY expert testimony in Krstic hearing
168 identified using DNA.........via artcile
21,000 samples taken.........via article
Now after 7 years of searching, 5 years of trying to id the bodies, doesn't it strike one as odd that they haven't id'd more bodies ? In all the rest of the Bosnian and Kosovo mass graves the forensic experts quickly are able to id 75% - 80% of thye bodies
Yet the Iztbegovic-Dole DNA analysis comes up with a 9% id rate. Hmmmmmm could it be that the 1,180 bodies not id'd are victims of Nasir Oric's exections squads ?
After all the other bodies were found in mass graves exactly were Nasir Oric's execution squads operated. These bodeis were not found where the HumWarriors tell us BSA units shot Bosnian POW's.
Hmmmm........could it be that those much publicized photos of bodies with their hands tied behind their back are actually those of victims of Nasir Oric ?
They haven't been id'd because perhaps the 21,000 DNA samples taken to find a positive match have been taken only from pro-Iztbegovic people in Tuzla. The DNA samples pointedly haven't been taken from the very villagers in whose villages the bodies were found.
It simply boggles the mind that anyone would still cling to the wild and contradictory conspricy tale told by the Iztbegovic regime regarding the Liberation of Srebrenica.
Nazi German SS Divisions, Nazi Croatian Ustasha Divisions, Nazi Bosnian SS Divisions, Nazi Albanian SS Divisions and Albanian Nazi Fascist Ballisti Units exterminated 1,300,000 Yugoslavs in WW2. Yugoslavia had in percentage view, after Poland, the most civilian casualties in WW2. In addition, 300,000 Yugoslav soldiers lost their lifes in battles against the Fascism and Nazism. (Urlanis, Boris, Wars and Population (1971); Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, 1992; Davies, Norman, Europe A History (1998))
And I haven't mentioned WW1.
This terrible experiences burnt in the brains of the Serbian people - don't tell the Serbs what Fascism or what Nazism is, they payed a expensive toll to find this out, my dear Jihad Mujahedeen SS Nazi.
SERBIAN CASUALTIES IN THE 20TH CENTURY (<- click)
Karadjordje
Vooch- the Muslimani had a nasty habit of tying up their victims to torture or "burn to a stake" (figure of speech) prior to killing them. Regarding Oric, that fits his outfits M.O and the jihadians who were brought in from the Middle East.
Tie, Torture and Tap
Karadjordje
But homeagain balkansvet explained us, that therer is no evidence of that?
Serbian testimonies on war crimes in and around Srebrenica (<- click)
Karadjordje
~ Bosnia ~ An Interview with Mujaahid Abu 'Abd ul-Azeez 'Barbaros' (<- click)
Karadjordje
Karadjordje
3 Bosnians guilty of torturing and killing Serb prisoners
Wednesday, February 21, 2001
By JEROME SOCOLOVSKY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- U.N. judges yesterday upheld the convictions of two Bosnian Muslims and a Bosnian Croat for the torture and murder of Serb prisoners during the 1992-95 ethnic conflict in former Yugoslavia.
The five-judge appellate panel led by David Hunt of Australia, however, quashed several other counts against the defendants and ordered the case referred to a new court to review their sentences.
No date was given for a further hearing of the case, which has dragged on since 1997 at the International Criminal Tribunal.
Zdravko Mucic, Hazim Delic, and Esad Landzo sat still between U.N. guards in the high-security courtroom as Hunt announced the decision. Mucic, the Bosnian Croat defendant, smiled and adjusted a chunky wooden crucifix on his chest.
The defendants were sent back to a U.N. detention center in The Hague "until further orders," the ruling said.
The so-called Celebici trial -- named for the camp in central Bosnia where the atrocities took place in 1992 -- is the only case before the tribunal involving crimes committed against ethnic Serbs.
On Nov. 16, 1998, a three-judge court at the tribunal convicted the three defendants of murder, torture and rape. They were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
The defendants, arguing they did not have formal authority over subordinates, said in their appeal that events at the camp occurred among local Bosnians of different ethnic backgrounds.
"A position of de facto command may be sufficient to establish the necessary superior-subordinate relationship," the appellate panel said yesterday in upholding the initial Celebici decision.
In a setback for the prosecution, however, the appeals chamber upheld the acquittal of a fourth defendant, Zejnil Delalic, a Muslim military commander.
Delalic had been accused of having overall control of the camp. The trial judges had said there was not enough evidence to link him to the atrocities.
The appellate case was a potentially embarrassing one for the tribunal: Grounds for appeal included the allegation that the Nigerian presiding judge in the original trial, Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, "was asleep during substantial portions of the trial," occasionally even snoring.
But the appellate judges rejected those grounds, saying they had "not been satisfied that any specific prejudice was suffered by ... the appellants." Karibi- Whyte's term was not renewed and he returned to Nigeria after the verdict.
Although yesterday's complex and technical judgment may have limited consequences for the defendants, it is likely to have broad ramifications for trials of political leaders charged with ordering mass atrocities.
That issue will be crucial in the cases of several Bosnian Serb leaders in custody and in particular if former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other top suspects are ever taken into custody.
Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/bosnia21.shtml (<- click)
Karadjordje
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