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Seven Bosnian Serbs convicted over Srebrenica massacre
Published: 10 June, 2010, 14:59
Edited: 14 June, 2010, 10:57
A Bosnian Muslim woman, survivor of Srebrenica atrocities in 1995, Sehida Abdurahmanovic, arrives at Potocari memorial cemetery, near Srebrenica (AFP Photo / Elvis Barukcic)
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Two Bosnian Serbs have been jailed for life by a UN court over the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Five other officers were sentenced to between 5 and 35 years.
The genocide saw more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys killed in one week, in what was a UN-declared safe zone.
If the guilty verdicts are upheld, they'll be the first to be jailed over the killings.
Marko Gasic, from the British-Serbian Alliance for Peace, says vital facts about the tragedy are kept in secret and not taken into account.
“We all want justice, but justice has to be based on truth,” Gasic told RT. “But so many truths haven’t been heard on this Srebrenica story because what we have is an exaggerated end and a horrific end.”
“The leading representative of the international community in Bosnia at the time, General Morion, said that the events of 1995 – that is, the site of Srebrenica massacre – was directly a response to genocidal massacres perpetrated by the forces of Naser Oric [former Bosnian military officer who commanded the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina forces in Srebrenica] in the same area in the year preceding that,” Gasic continued. “He was asked by the presiding judge of the same tribunal, ‘Are you saying, Mr. Morion, that the events of 1995 were a direct result of what Oric did in the years preceding that?” And General Morion said, ‘Yes, I am convinced of that.’”
“The international community’s leading man confirmed that what we had in 1995 was savage revenge,” Gasic said. “A mish-mash of events, but we’ve got a spin which is trying to give us the same gloss over them and pronounce one side guilty and the other side innocent because it serves U.S. purposes.”
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Well, this is not the biggest lie of the exYU wars! Do you remember all those conc camps, mass rapes, hundreds of thousand of killed poor civilians murdered by those awful Serbs, etc.? And, all those stories turned out NOT to be true!!! During the last several years, Srebrenica is the main dish from the same cuisine. What is really going on? The Srebrnica collection of dead bodies recently reached more that 2000 bodies thanks to bringing a lot of bodies died or killed in fight from entire Bosnia there, and the list of alleged victims is longer and longer (with very alive people, with people died from zillion different causes, etc.). And, if you try to challenge their claims (as some historians. jurnalists and and Institutes DID; Serbian part of Bosnia DID ask for investigation after pointing to obvious "irregularities" in the muslim- made "official story") muslims and so called "international community" (read NATO) start screaming insults and do NOT respond! Let me be clear: These seven Serbs, if they were involved in killing of unarmed prisoners, deserve punishment BUT, please, DO NOT use this occasion to repeat the same big lie of alleged "huge Srebrenica massacre"!
An (IM)Morality Tale In the latter part of 1992 , beginning of 1993 Bosnian Muslim Nasser Oric launched a surprise attack on 22 Serbian villages from a UN SAFE ZONE Srebrenica. His troops were well-armed & in large part Muhajedeen trained by the CIA.The CIA used UN 'safe-havens (like Gorazde) for the training of NATO troops & the manufacture of weapons. When Oric's Muhajedeen attacked, hundreds of innocent Serbian civilians were killed and their houses were looted and burned. NATO did nothing. Serbian POWs were massacred, beheaded and mutilated. Still NATO did nothing. One of the attacks occurred on Christmas day. NATO did nothing......Finally Serbian General Mladic returned the favor routing Oric's forces in Srebrenica. Nasser Oric was air-lifted out of Srebrenica by the CIA to abandon his troops to death....and NATO began a vicious bombing campaign against the Serbian forces... Today Nasser Oric, a vicious war criminal, hero of muslim jihad in Europe & no doubt a friend of Al Qaeda has been acquited of all war crimes & lives comfortably in Tusla, Bosnia. Muslim Bosnia produced 2 terrorists that killed Spaniards in a train explosion & are probably training more in their Madrasses.... Ratko Mladic is a hunted outlaw in his own country.......Thanks Hague...Europeans & Americans owe their fear of terrorists to you......