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To: DestroyEraseImprove
Those particular VRS members (the ones who had previously been JNA members) were only receiving their social insurance payments which they had legally accrued as citizens of Yugoslavia and as members of the JNA. They were simply being paid the money that they were already owed.

"As for the funds spent on weapons and ammunition and the other needs of the Bosnian Serb Republic Army and the Croatian Serb Republic Army, as these were state secrets they could not be shown in the budget, which is a public document. The same is true of the expenses for equipping the security forces and counter-terrorist forces."

That would be none other than Slobodan Milosevic - in his appeal against the charges of Abuse of Power in Serbia.

So you've got Milosevic himself stating that money from Belgrade was paying for the war in Bosnia - you can quibble about the salaries being something else with Borisav Jovic, who has already admitted that, as the Bosnian Serbs couldn't afford to pay them, Belgrade continued to do so after the soldiers took off their JNA patches and replaced them with BSA patches, which was about the only change that occurred upon the JNA's supposed withdrawal from Bosnia.

The command responsibility charge is pretty much a done deal right now, DEI.

78 posted on 06/21/2003 7:32:48 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
So what do you want? All bosnian Serb JNA officers should have left Bosnia with the JNA, or what? No, they took off their JNA patches and replaced them with BSA patches. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. 100% correct.

Croatia and Germany financed the bosnian Croat army, the US and Saudi Arabia financed the bosnian muslim army. Serbia financed the Bosnian Serb Army and the Croatian Serb Army. So what? Serbia should have annexed these territories during the early 90's instead of providing covered support to them. That's about the anything Slobodan Milosevic can be charged with.

79 posted on 06/22/2003 3:04:50 AM PDT by DestroyEraseImprove
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