Informazione

http://www.srebrenica-report.com/


Srebrenica And the Politics of War Crimes


Findings of the Srebrenica Research Group into the allegations of
events and the background leading up to them, in Srebrenica, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, in 1995.

Website established July 1995, maintained and organized by the
Srebrenica Research Group

Overview

* The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/politics.htm
by Edward S. Herman, Z-mag

* "Srebrenica and the Politics of War Crimes"
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/defense.htm
by George Bogdanich, Defense and Foreign Affairs Special
Reports


Selections from the Report

* Foreword
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/foreword.htm
by Philip Corwin former UN Civilian Affair Coordinator

* Prelude to the Capture of Srebrenica
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/prelude.htm
by George Bogdanich

* The Numbers Game
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/numbers.htm
by Jonathan Rooper, former BBC Reporter

* The ICTY calls it 'Genocide'
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/icty.htm
by Michael Mandel

* The UK Press on Srebrenica
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/UK-press.htm
by Philip Hammond


CONCLUSIONS of the Srebrenica Research Group
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/conclusions.htm
(Released July 11, 2005)


Articles related to Srebrenica

* Muslim leader says Srebrenica was "sacrificed"
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/sacrificed.htm
Slobodna Bosna, July 14, 1996

* Was Srebrenica a Hoax?
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/hoax.htm
by Carlos Martins Branco, former United Nations Military
Observer in Bosnia

* "Making Peace with the Guilty"
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/peace.htm
by General Charles Boyd

* Nasir Oric - Srebrenica's Tough Guy
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/Oric.htm
By John Pomfret, Washington Post Foreign Service

* Fearsome Muslim warlord
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/Oric2.htm
by Bill Schiller, Toronto Star


UN Documents

ON WAR CRIMES
AND CRIMES AND GENOCIDE IN EASTERN BOSNIA
(COMMUNES OF BRATUNAC, SKELANI AND SREBRENICA)
UN Security Council, 2 June 1993

* Introduction - Pages 1 - 21 of the document.
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-1.pdf
* Victims - Pages 22 - 40 of the document.
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-2.pdf
* Massacres - pp. 41 - 51
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-3.pdf
* Perpetrators - pp. 52 - 80
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-4.pdf
* Statements (Part 1) - pp. 81 - 104
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-5.pdf
* Statements (Part 2) - pp. 105 - 132
http://www.srebrenica-report.com/docs/UN-1993-6.pdf

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Last revised: July 11, 2005

[Di seguito la versione in lingua serbocroata del testo:
"Srebrenica, menzogne e giochi mediatici" di Z. Trajkovic
apparso su OGLEDALO (Belgrado) lo scorso 21 giugno
e da noi distribuito in lingua inglese:

Srebrenitsa, lies and media games
"OGLEDALO" Belgrade, June 22, 2005
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/4473

Di seguito anche un articolo apparso su POLITIKA lo scorso 3 luglio
a proposito del lavoro di ricerca compiuto dal

Gruppo di Studio su Srebrenica
http://www.srebrenica-report.com

e pure da noi già segnalato nel precedente messaggio su questa lista
JUGOINFO]


Zvonimir Trajkovic´ u autorskom tekstu:

Evakuisao sam civile iz Srebrenice

Srebrenica, lazˇi i medijske igre

Karadzˇic´ev ratni savetnik iskreno o Srebrenici – Zapadu je potreban
navodni genocid u Srebrenici kako bi opravdali svoje zlocˇine nad
Srbima i razbijanje Jugoslavije

OGLEDALO
21. juni 2005.

Sˇta se stvarno doga?alo u Srebrenici
Zasˇto je bas sada, posle deset godina, prikazan snimak likvidacije
sˇestorice muslimana.
Hoc´e li ova medijska euforija u koju su se ukljucˇili i najvisˇi
drzˇavni funkcioneri dovesti od nacionalne katarze ili je to samo
ispunjavanje obaveza nasˇih marioneta na vlasti preuzetih pre 05.
oktobra 2000.
Koliko c´e nas taj politicˇki egzibicijonizam nasˇih politicˇara
kosˇtati i ko c´e ga platiti.


Operacija Srebrenica je vo?ena i planirana u obliku potkovice, namerno
ostavljajuc´i otvoren prostor da se muslimanska vojska i civili mogu
povuc´i prema Tuzli. To je udaljenost od oko 36 Km i teren koji mozˇe
prepesˇacˇiti svaki cˇovek sa prosecˇnom kondicijom. Takav nacˇin
izvo?enja operacije je sproveden da bi bilo sˇto manje zˇrtava u
borbenim dejstvima jer su muslimani na tom prostoru dovukli ozbiljne
vojne snage. Ako bi ih hermeticˇki zatvorili dosˇlo bi do zˇestokih
borbi u kojima bi i vojska RS imala ozbiljnije gubitke, pa se stoga
pribeglo planu potkovica.

Sve ovo se vidi na americˇkoj karti povlacˇenja muslimanske vojske s
tim da kod Snagova nije pravljena nikakva zaseda vec´ je glavnina
muslimanske vojske planirala da se infiltrira u Zvornik i stvori novi
gradski problem vojsci RS. Sukobi kod Nove Kasabe u Konjevic´ Polju su
nastali zbog muslimanske blokade magistralnog puta
Beograd–Zvornik-Vlasenici–Han Pjesk–Sarajevo, odnosno Pale.

Prema podatcima vojske RS u toj operaciji je nastradalo izme?u 600 i
700 muslimanskih boraca koji su pokusˇavali da na pojedinim tacˇkama
probiju obrucˇ potkovicu kako bi se spojili sa nekim svojim
dislociranim delovima jedinica. Glavnina muslimanskih snaga, kao i deo
civila otvorenim planinskim putevima presˇao je u Tuzlu.

U Srebrenici i Zˇepi enklavi u kojoj su se muslimani zadrzˇali skoro
tri godine bilo je izme?u 6,5-7 hiljada muslimanskih vojnika koji su
pod zasˇtitom snaga UN iz te zasˇtic´ene enklave stalno istrcˇavali i
napadali okolna srpska sela. Tom strategijom stalnih prepada u okolini
Srebrenice potpuno je unisˇteno 128 srpskih sela i ubijeno oko 2400
srpskih civila. Ovakva muslimanska strategija drzˇanja brojnih snaga u
Srebrenici i Zˇepi imala je visˇe cilja. Da znacˇajan deo srpske
vojske vezˇe radi odbrane tog podrucˇja od stalnih muslimanskih
prepada, te da se ta srpska vojska ne bi mogla prebaciti na Sarajevsko
ratisˇte i pojacˇala opsadu Sarajeva. Osim toga po savetu
hrvatsko-zapadnih stratega trebalo je Republiku Srpsku odvojiti od
granica sa Srbijom kako bi njeno kasnije unisˇtenje bilo olaksˇano.
Zato su i od strane UN stvorene zasˇtic´ene enklave duzˇ Drine kao
Srebrenica, Zˇepa i Gorazˇde. Osim toga Snazˇnom propagandom o
hiljadama pobijenih trebalo je drzˇati tenziju svetske javnosti i
potpuno u zaborav potisnuti muslimanska zverstva u Bratuncu, Kravici,
Skelanima i drugim spaljenim srpskim selima oko Srebrenice, u kojima
su stradali iskljucˇivo srpski civili.

Na podrucˇju istocˇne Bosne sve tri godine vodile su se borbe sa
muslimanskim snagama i sve svoje poginule vojnike kao i civile u tom
periodu muslimani su sahranjivali na tom skucˇenom prostoru cˇesto i u
grupnim grobnicama pa se sada to otkopava kao navodne zˇrtve genocida.
Par meseci posle zauzimanja Srebrenice nasˇi patolozi su na cˇelu sa
generalom Stankovic´em i zajedno sa zapadnim patolozima u svim
masovnim grobnicama pronasˇli 1.284 lesˇa koja je trebala metodom DNK
i ostalim poznatim metodama identifikovati. Ta istrazˇivanja su
trajala sve do sredine 1997 i upravo tada sa zapada je stigla naredba
da se dalja istrazˇivanja zaustave jer se smatralo da je to sˇto je
okvirno i konacˇna brojka zˇrtava. I posle pet godina intenzivnog
traganja KFOR-a i hasˇkih istrazˇitelja na podrucˇju Srebrenice nije
prona?eno visˇe od 1.700 lesˇeva u svim grobnicama zajedno.

Posle bombardovanja Srbije 1999 ponovo se aktuelizuje Srebrenica i
pojavljuju se nove grobnice ali sada to istrazˇuju iskljucˇivo zapadni
strucˇnjaci pod okriljem hasˇkog tribunala. Ta istrazˇivanja josˇ do
danas nisu zavrsˇena, pojavljuju se cˇak i nove grobnice a navodno je
identifikovano oko 3.000 lesˇeva. Nec´e me zacˇuditi da se cifra popne
i na 12-15 hiljada. Valjda c´e voditi racˇuna da ne premasˇe ukupnu
cifru civilnog stanovnisˇtva tog podrucˇja.

Ja sam u doba izvo?enja operacije Srebrenica bio savetnik Radovana
Karadzˇic´a i bio sam uz njega sve vreme izvo?enja te operacije.
Neposredno posle zavrsˇetka vojne operacije poslat sam u Srebrenicu
radi obezbe?ivanja autobusa i kamiona za prevoz muslimanskih civila,
do tuzlanskog regiona. Nisˇta nije ukazivalo na takav masakr niti su
na to upuc´ivali vojnici UN koji su se tamo nalazili svo vreme
izvo?enja operacije. Tada oni nisu dali ni jednu izjavu ili komentar
koji bi ukazivao da je do masakra dosˇlo. Tek kasnije po instrukcijama
svojih komandi oni pocˇinju sa izjavama da je bilo ubijanja civila i
masovnih egzekucija a sve u sklopu medijske propagande dirigovane iz
lobisticˇkih i ostalih svetskih centara moc´i.
Osim toga na ovoj fotografiji se lepo vide odrasli musˇkarci a ne samo
zˇene i deca. Srebrenica ima i bukvalno dve ulice jer je to malo
rudarsko naselje u koje se tiskalo oko 35.000 civila i vojnika Nasera
Oric´a. I na fotografiji se vidi da niko ne kuka i ne zapomazˇe sˇto
bi bilo logicˇno ako pobijete 1⁄4 ukupnih zˇitelja te enklave, kako se
danas to zˇeli da prikazˇe.

Postavlja se i pitanje kako to da kod tolikog masakra nije stradao ni
jedan od komandanata muslimanskih jedinica pod komandom Nasera Oric´a
vec´ su se svi bezbedno izvukli do Tuzle.

Na prvim izborima posle dejtonskog sporazuma zbog muslimanske
neopreznosti i zˇelje njihovih stranaka da postignu sˇto bolji izborni
rezultat na biralisˇtima sˇirom BiH pojavilo se na hiljade
»streljanih« iz Srebrenice i Zˇepe. Kasnije su svi ti ljudi ekspresno
dobijali nova dokumenta sa drugim imenima kako bi se ova farsa o
Srebrenici mogla i dalje da eksploatisˇe.

Posebnu ulogu na tom prostoru imala je i francuska legija stranaca jer
je francuski general Morion dugo vremena bio komandant snaga UN za
zasˇtic´ene zone. On je mimo sporazuma o zasˇtic´enim zonama tolerisao
hiljade naoruzˇanih muslimana pa ih kroz humanitarne konvoje redovno i
naoruzˇavao. O tome nasˇa drzˇava ima i nekoliko video zapisa gde je
na licu mesta i uz kamere utvr?eno da je u kamionima sa humanitarnom
pomoc´i isporucˇivano oruzˇje i municija za srebrenicˇke muslimane.
Osim toga mi imamo bogatu arhivu video dokumentacije masakra nad
Srbima u selima oko Srebrenice ali ovoj antisrpskoj i marionetskoj
vlasti ne odgovara da se ti snimci prikazˇu javnosti. Tada bi nasˇa a
i svetska javnost mogla dobiti drugacˇiju sliku doga?anja u Srebrenici
i zasˇto je bilo neophodno neutralisati tu „Slobodnu zonu".

Zˇepa se iz cele ove iskonstruisane Srebrenicˇke pricˇe na volsˇeban
nacˇin izgubila jer je tamo zarobljeno oko 1500 vojnika sa bogatim
arsenalom oruzˇja. Svi oni bezbedno prebacˇeni preko Drine u Srbiju,
kasnije u Bosnu, a da nikome ni dlaka sa glave nije falila. Pre nago
sˇto su vrac´eni u Bosnu te zarobljene vojnike su u Srbiji obisˇle
brojne "humanitarne ekspedicije" me?u kojima i gospo?a Ogata kako bi
se uverile u korektan tretman prema zarobljenicima. Zato se Zˇepa
nigde i ne spominje jer mozˇe biti jak dokaz kako se nasˇa vojska
ponasˇala u tom sukobu. Treba napomenuti da je operacija Srebrenica i
Zˇepa izvo?ena istovremeno pod komandom istih tih komandanata koji su
u Srebrenici navodno napravili masakr a valjda su im ovi muslimani iz
Zˇepe bili simpaticˇniji pa su ih prebacili u Srbiju ne ubivsˇi ni
jednoga.

Zasˇto je bas sada prikazan snimak koji snimljen pre 10 godina

Video snimak ubistva sˇestorice muslimana koji se ovih dana vrte na
svim medijima, a lansirao ga je sorosˇev B92 jer ko bi drugi, su samo
deo tempirane kampanje pred vazˇne pregovore o Kosmetu.
Ne radi se ni o kakvom sucˇeljavanju sa istinom jer taj zlocˇin nema
nikakve veze sa Srebrenicom. On je pocˇinjen u okolini Trnova blizu
Sarajeva, odnosno 170 km od Srebrenice. Povezivanje tog zlocˇina sa
Srebrenicom ima za cilj da se ponovo ozˇivi mit o stradanju
Srebrenicˇkih muslimana pred obelezˇavanje desetogodisˇnjice na kojoj
sa izvinjenjem treba da se pojavi i nasˇ predsednik Tadic´. To je
nastavak propagandnog rata, koji treba da Srbe svetu predstavi kao
genocidnu naciju. Prema takvoj naciji je sve opravdano pa i
bombardovanje iz 1999. Takva nacija ne zasluzˇuje da u njenom sastavu
ostane Kosmet, pa c´e nasˇim „drzˇavnicima" kao predstavnicima
genocidnog naroda biti vezane ruke u bilo kakvim me?unarodnim
pregovorima. RS Srpska je u tom slucˇaju genocidna tvorevina koja se
kao takva mora unisˇtiti i Srbima odrediti tutor. Zato se sve cˇini da
se Srbima nametne »sucˇeljavanje« sa njihovom »istinom« kako bi Zapad
ostao cˇist i moralan. U te svrhe koriste se sva raspolozˇiva
sredstva, od raznih »nevladinih« organizacija i fondacija, nasˇih
potkupljivih intelektualca i svetska propagandna masˇinerija.

U tu svrhu uterivanja „istine" se zˇustro ukljucˇio i sam Pedi
Esˇdaun. Ljutito je pocepao izvesˇtaj nezavisne komisije RS o
zlocˇinima u Srebrenici i pod pretnjom smenjivanja naredio predsedniku
Cˇavic´u i ostalom rukovodstvu RS da je u Srebrenici pobijeno 8.000
muslimana i da od njih ocˇekuje takav izvesˇtaj. Inacˇe u cilju
utapanja RS u jedinstvenu Bosnu ovaj engleski demokrata je vrlo
„demokratski" smenio sa rukovodec´ih funkcija 73 legalno izabranih
funkcionera RS jer su se usudili da misle svojom glavom ili brane
odredbe Dejtonskog sporazuma.

Na stvaranje slike o Srbima rade mnogi, od nama dobro poznate
Me?unarodne krizne grupe (MKG) pa sve do kancelarije David Barnouw
koja se cˇesto spominje kao izvor „informacija" o masakru 6.000 pa
8.000 muslimanskih civila u Srebrenici. Ta kancelarija je dobro
plac´eni muslimanski lobisticˇki centar u Americi, koji je osmislio i
sprovodio ovu lazˇnu kampanju oko Srebrenice, kao i ranije lazˇi o
hiljadama silovanih muslimanki, konc-logorima za muslimane….

Neodgovornost politicˇara i aktuelne vlasti

Nasˇa tragedija nije Srebrenica, pa i cˇak ni ostala srpska
stratisˇta. Nasˇ problem je postojec´a marionetska vlast koja i ne
pokusˇava da se izbori za istinu, brani nacionalno dostojanstvo i
srpske interese. Nasˇa tragedija je sˇto nam je drzˇavna politika u
sluzˇbi Natasˇe Kandic´ i ostale bande stranih plac´enika, sˇto nam se
predsednik izvinjava po narudzˇbini sa zapada ne marec´i kakve c´e to
reperkusije imati po drzˇavu i naciju.

Milosˇevic´ je krio istinu da ne bi iritirao Zapad pokusˇavajuc´i da
na taj nacˇin za sebe „kupi" josˇ koju godinu predsednicˇkog mandata,
a sad je u Hagu. Hoc´e li bar sada izneti punu istinu zavisic´e od
toga dali c´e mu biti dostupna sva dokumentacija koju imamo, ili c´e
mozˇda i on na kraju pribec´i nagoditi sa tribunalom radi ublazˇavanja
kazne, kao sˇto su to dosad mnogi od optuzˇenih ucˇinili.

Za srpski narod bi najidealnije bilo kada bi se mogla izneti puna
istina. Mi Srbi basˇ u cilju istine imamo obavezu da na lazˇi i
konstrukcije osˇtro reagujemo jer je to jedini put da nacija dozˇivi
stvarnu katarzu. Zlocˇin je ubiti i jednog cˇoveka a da ne govorimo o
hladnokrvnom ubistvu sˇestorice mladic´a. Ali takvi zlocˇini su delo
maloumnika koji imaju ime i prezime i kojima se obavezno mora suditi.
U ovim gra?ansko-verskim sukobima na nasˇim prostorima bilo je raznih
i stravicˇnih zlocˇina na svim stranama, pa stoga nemojmo da od nekih
stradanja stvaramo epopeje a na druge zaboravljamo kao da se nisu ni
dogodili.

U ovim gra?ansko-verskim sukobima Srbi su etnicˇki ocˇisˇc´eni iz
Slovenije, Hrvatske, dela BiH sa Kosmeta, a jedino smo mi optuzˇeni za
etnicˇka cˇisˇc´enja. Drugi su zapocˇinjali sukobe a nas optuzˇuju za
rat i raspad Jugoslavije. Pogledajte mapu i jasno c´ete videti da je
stvorena velika Hrvatska a nas optuzˇuju za stvaranja velike Srbije.
Pa dokle sa tim lazˇima i izvrtanjem cˇinjenica. Kada c´e nasˇe
drzˇavno rukovodstvo da poturi pod nos zapadu sve te vrlo jasno
vidljive i dokazane cˇinjenice. Kada c´e Americi i EU rec´i da
Sˇiptari mogu da dobiju isti onaj stepen autonomije koji je taj isti
zapad dao Srbima u Hrvatskoj, odnosno RSK. Nadam se uskoro ako ne ovo
onda neko drugo rukovodstvo.

Zvonimir Trajkovic´
www.trajkovic.co.yu

PS. Sve slike i mape mozˇete razvlacˇenjem povec´ati radi bolje
cˇitljivosti

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Lazˇna svedocˇenja o Srebrenici

Izvesˇtaj me?unarodne grupe za istrazˇivanje o Srebrenici

POLITIKA
03. juli 2005 - (Od nasˇeg specijalnog izvesˇtacˇa)

Lazˇna svedocˇenja - Zasˇto je srpska visoka komanda nasumicˇna
pogubljenja poverila mentalno nestabilnom bosanskom Hrvatu


Plave tacˇke oznacˇavaju kontrolne punktove Holandskih UN snaga, a
kvadrati njihove kasarne i komandne centre.

- Kako je moguc´e na ovakvo cˇuvanom prostoru (u Potocˇarima)
streljati 8.000 ljudi, munjevito i tajno ih pokopati a da to UN
vojnici ne vide.

CˇIKAGO, jula – Sve ono sˇto je Grupa za istrazˇivanje o Srebrenici
utvrdila kad je recˇ o ulozi Sarajeva objasˇnjava i otkuda da svedoci
dolaze iz bliske okoline Nasera Oric´a, ukljucˇujuc´i njegovog ro?aka
Mevludina Oric´a, cˇije su tvrdnje da je bio ocˇevidac tih doga?aja
visˇe puta pobijale kontradiktorne pricˇe razlicˇitih reportera.

Neki od ovih navodnih ocˇevidaca rekli su reporteru Luisu Brensonu iz
„Sandej tajmsa" i Robertu Bloku iz „Independenta" kontradiktorne
stvari – da su hiljade musˇkaraca ubijene, po jednoj verziji u sˇkoli,
a po drugoj u oblizˇnjem sportskom kompleksu. „Hjuman rajts vocˇ",
koji je priznao da nije u stanju da u?e u trag prezˇivelima ovih
zlocˇina, zatrazˇio je „detaljniju istragu".

Me?utim, holandski oficir UN kapetan Sˇute, koji je bio jedini oficir
UN u Bratuncu u periodu u kom se navodno dogodilo krvoprolic´e, rekao
je holandskom listu „Het parol" 27. jula:
– Svi svasˇta brbljaju, ali niko ne pokazuje cˇvrste dokaze.
Primec´ujem da se zˇeli po svaku cenu da dokazˇe da je genocid
pocˇinjen... Ako je bilo egzekucija, Srbi su ih onda prokleto dobro
sakrili. Zato ja u to uopsˇte ne verujem. Dan posle pada Srebrenice,
13. jula, stigao sam u Bratunac i tamo ostao osam dana. Mogao sam da
idem gde god sam hteo. Imao sam svu pomoc´ na raspolaganju; nigde me
nisu zaustavljali" – citira izvesˇtaj visokog holandskog vojnog
zvanicˇnika.

Cˇiji je Erdemovic´

– Su?enje generalu Radislavu Krstic´u je pokazalo da su Srbi, suocˇeni
sa izgledom visˇegodisˇnjeg zatvora, spremni da lazˇno svedocˇe kako
bi podrzˇali zvanicˇnu verziju o doga?ajima u Srebrenici isto koliko i
muslimani.
Tokom su?enja, srpski vojni oficir po imenu Momir Nikolic´ tvrdio je
da je nadzirao masakr visˇe od hiljadu bosanskih muslimana u jednom
magacinu u Kravici, ali u unakrsnom ispitivanju advokata odbrane
Majkla Karnavasa Nikolic´ je priznao da ne samo da nije dao nare?enje,
nego nije ni bio prisutan – podsec´a i na dimenziju lazˇnih svedoka
„srebrenicˇkog slucˇaja" Dzˇordzˇ Bogdanic´.

„Bilo je potrebno da mu date ono sˇto (tuzˇilac) nije imao, zar ne?"
pitao je advokat odbrane Majkl Karnavas. „Hteli ste da ogranicˇite
vreme u zatvoru na 20 godina, to je bio deo dogovora, je li?"
„Nisam govorio istinu kad sam to rekao", priznao je Nikolic´.
„Lagao sam."
Kljucˇni svedok koga je Tribunal upotrebio da podrzˇi tvrdnju da su
lideri bosanskih Srba naredili egzekucije u Srebrenici bio je Drazˇen
Erdemovic´, lider plac´enicˇke grupe koji je uhapsˇen u Srbiji 1996.
Iz niza razloga, bilo bi tesˇko nac´i manje pouzdanog svedoka od
Erdemovic´a, Hrvata iz Tuzle, koji tvrdi da se nekoliko puta borio u
sastavu armije Bosne i Hercegovine i bosansko-hrvatske HVO.

Niko se ocˇigledno nije upitao zasˇto bi, ako je uopsˇte htela da
sprovodi nasumicˇna pogubljenja, srpska visoka komanda poverila takav
zadatak mentalno nestabilnom bosanskom Hrvatu, koji se ranije borio sa
muslimanskim snagama i hrvatskom HVO? Na kraju se ispostavilo da su
Erdemovic´evi nekadasˇnji partneri u zlocˇinu sluzˇili kao plac´enici
u Kongu za francusku obavesˇtajnu sluzˇbu.

Nekadasˇnji kolumnista Dzˇordzˇ Zˇamueli, tako?e iz Grupe za
istrazˇivanja o Srebrenici, napisao je da je Tribunal „neka vrsta
obrnutog Nirnberga. Princip koji je trebalo da bude ustanovljen
su?enjima za ratne zlocˇine posle Drugog svetskog rata – da
sprovo?enje nare?enja nadre?enih nije nikakva odbrana – okrenut je
naglavacˇke. Tribunal proglasˇava da vojnici nizˇeg ranga koji su
cˇinili zlocˇine uistinu nisu odgovorni za svoja dela zato sˇto su
samo sprovodili naredbe nadre?enih. A sˇta je dokaz da su sprovodili
naredbe? Pa razumljivo je da ne bi radili ono sˇto su radili da im
nije bilo nare?eno".

Vijetnamski i bosanski standardi

– Kada je tokom Vijetnamskog rata otkriven masakr Maj Lai, optuzˇnice
nikada nisu stigle dalje od porucˇnika Kejlija i kapetana Medine.
Niko visˇeg ranga od specijalca Grejnera i redova Inglanda nije
optuzˇen za skandal sa torturom u Abu Garibu. Ipak, zato sˇto su SAD i
NATO pod dominacijom SAD zauzeli stranu u bosanskom gra?anskom ratu,
ne samo da su razmere zlocˇina naduvane, nego je odgovornost za ove
zloupotrebe svaljena na srpske lidere, bez dokaza da su ih oni
naredili ili odobrili – podvlacˇi Bogdanic´.

On zatim ukazuje na propust da se osudi i podigne optuzˇnica za
slicˇnu vojnu operaciju hrvatskih snaga u zapadnoj Slavoniji koja je
prethodila osvajanju Srebrenice, i mnogo obimniju operaciju „sprzˇena
zemlja"
kojom je 200.000 Srba proterano iz Krajine, pokazuje izuzetnu
nedoslednost uporednih moralnih standarda. Tribunal je sa zadrsˇkom i
nevoljno sudio hrvatskim vojnim oficirima srednjeg ranga umesˇanim u
operacije „Oluja" i „Bljesak", ali zbog americˇke podrsˇke ovim ratnim
zlocˇinima nije se maklo dalje od optuzˇnica, niti je ozbiljno
razmotrena moguc´nost da se sudi Amerikancima umesˇanim u te
operacije. Pentagon je odbio da preda satelitske snimke, ali cˇlanak
koji je nedavno objavljen u hrvatskom cˇasopisu „Nacional", autora Ive
Pukanic´a, tvrdi da je americˇki predsednik Bil Klinton licˇno umesˇan
u vojne pripreme tih napada na civile u oblastima pod zasˇtitom UN.

„Pocˇetkom 1993, stvoren je konsenzus – posebno u Sjedinjenim
Drzˇavama, ali i u nekim zapadnoevropskim zemljama – da su Srbi jedini
zli momci u celoj Jugoslaviji i da su zˇrtve u najvec´oj meri ili cˇak
u potpunosti Hrvati i muslimani. Ovakvo stanovisˇte nije u skladu sa
zapazˇanjima visokih predstavnik UN koji su se smenjivali i koji su
bili u kontaktu sa dnevnim doga?ajima u celom regionu; kako me je
upozorila jedna ljubazna osoba u sedisˇtu UN u Njujorku, bliska
poverljivim diplomatskim izvorima, sklanjaj se – sve je dogovoreno –
citira visokog zvanicˇnika UN Sedrika Tornberija na kraju svog
izvesˇtaja Dzˇordzˇ Bogdanic´, primec´ujuc´i da i Rezolucija
americˇkog Kongresa o Srebrenici dokazuje da je i dalje – sve dogovoreno.

Radivoje Petrovic´

Voce jugoslava - Jugoslavenski glas - 12.07.2005.


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Program - programma 12. VII. 2005


1. Jucer, danas sutra, datumi ... da se ne zaboravi;
2. "Od Triglava do Vardara...":
- Srebrenica - po E. Vlajkiju.
- U Rimu, u organizaciji "Un ponte per..." (Most za ... Beograd) se
nalazi 20-oro djece iz Kraljeva. Djeca su izbjeglice sa Kosova i
Metohije. U studiju Mirjana Lisanin, direktorica Crvenog krsta iz
Kraljeva.


1. Ieri, oggi, domani, date ... da non dimenticare;
2. "Dal monte Triglav al fiume Vardar, dal Danubio al Mare Adriatico...":
- Srebrenica, secondo E. Vlajki, e non solo...
- A Roma, per l'organizzazione di "Un ponte per...", si trovano una
ventina di bambini adottati "a distanza". Si tratta di bambini di
profughi provenienti dal Kosovo e Metohija, e sistemati, ancora, nei
centri profughi in Serbia. In studio ne parliamo con Mirjana Lisanin,
direttrice della Croce Rossa di Kraljevo.

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yugoslaviainfo/message/5925

1. Genocide or propaganda?
by Christopher James (Morning Star - UK)

2. Remember Srebrenica — a.k.a. `So what if we globalized al Qaeda!'
by Julia Gorin (Jewish World Review)


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Genocide or propaganda?

Christopher James questions the one-sided portrayal of the fall of
Srebrenica 10 years on.

Morning Star (UK) Monday 11 July 2005

DOESN'T everybody know the Srebrenica story all too well by now? One
week of
bloody slaughter in and around the war-torn Bosnian town, sparked by its
fall to Serb forces exactly 10 years ago today.

Throughout the past decade, our media and politicians have never tired of
informing us that up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered there in
cold blood - an act of genocide unsurpassed in Europe since World War II.

The crime was all the more appalling, it is said, because Srebrenica was a
demilitarised UN safe-haven for Bosnian Muslims surrounded on all
sides by a
sea of Serb hostility.

Furthermore, last month's presentation of a video, at the war crimes and
genocide trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic,
purportedly
showing the brutal execution of six Bosnian Muslim prisoners by Serb
paramilitaries, is widely hailed as ultimate and final proof in the
matter.
If any lingering doubts remain, these can now be safely dispatched,
courtesy
of the US Congress which has, with impeccable timing, just declared the
incident to be genocide. So there you go, it's official.

Under such circumstances, who would deny the official Srebrenica narrative
of Serb evil and Muslim victimhood? Holocaust revisionists perhaps? How
about conspiracy theorists or war crimes apologists? Diehard
Stalinists? Why
not diehard Satanists for that matter?

Well, here is what Phillip Corwin, the senior UN civilian official in
Bosnia
during 1995, had to say on the subject: "What happened at Srebrenica
was not
a single large massacre of Muslims by Serbs but a series of very bloody
attacks and counter-attacks over a three-year period, which reached a
crescendo in July of 1995."

The official version of events, recalled Corwin in his book Dubious
Mandate,
has been a "campaign of disinformation that has all but buried the facts
along with the bodies."

Corwin's appraisal tallies with the following analysis of Muslim
tactics in
the 1992-95 Bosnian war from UN General Francis Briquemont.

"The Bosnian [Muslim] Army attacks the Serbs from a safe area. The Serbs
retaliate and the Bosnian presidency accuses UN forces of not protecting
them against Serb aggression and appeals for air strikes against the Serb
gun positions."

Muslim forces using "safe areas" to attack Serbs? How could this possibly
refer to Srebrenica which, as we are told ad infinitum, was a
demilitarised
civilian haven?

In truth only a very small, central part of Srebrenica remained
demilitarised, giving free rein for Muslim fighters to operate out of
suburban and other outlying areas, from where they launched murderous
raids
on surrounding Serb villages.

Forces under the infamous Muslim commander Naser Oric caused mass carnage
between 1992-95 with their attacks out of Srebrenica, leaving at least
1,300
Serb civilians butchered and thousands wounded.

Oric was "as bloodthirsty a warrior who ever crossed a battlefield,"
commented Toronto Star reporter Bill Schiller, who visited the Muslim
warlord's home in 1994.

"I sat in his room, watching a shocking video version of what might have
been called Naser Oric's Greatest Hits. There were burning buildings,
severed heads and people fleeing. Oric grinned throughout, admiring his
handiwork."

Schiller continues: "When a bullet-marked ghost town appeared without any
visible bodies, Oric hastened to announce: 'We killed 114 Serbs there'."

His final raid out of Srebrenica came on June 26, 1995 with an attack
on the
village of Visnjica where 40 perished. It was one atrocity too far for the
Bosnian Serbs, who began preparations to take the town.

But, when they rolled into Srebrenica on July 11 1995 there was no Naser
Oric or any other senior Muslim officers.

They had been pulled out, in an apparent tactical move by Bosnian
president
Alija Izetbegovic, whom both Muslims and Serbs later accused of
deliberately
sacrificing the town in order to undermine the UN and give NATO
justification for air strikes against the Bosnian Serb army.

Izetbegovic, an enthusiastic collaborator with nazi occupiers during World
War II, had been imprisoned under Tito for his crimes. He served a further
jail term in socialist Yugoslavia during the 1980s for seeking to turn
Bosnia into "an ethnically pure Islamic state."

Seizing the Bosnian presidency in a mysterious power grab, despite losing
the election to a moderate Muslim rival, it was Izetbegovic who imported
4,000 foreign Mojahedin, fresh from their battles with Soviet troops in
Afghanistan, to fight holy war in Bosnia.

In her book, Fools Crusade, US academic Diana Johnstone, the outstanding
left analyst of the 1990s Balkan wars, notes that chaotic scenes
greeted the
Serb troops on their arrival at Srebrenica as terrified, leaderless Muslim
combatants clashed violently among themselves over what to do.

"Some wanted to surrender, but most decided to break through Serb
lines and
flee. By all accounts, this chaos deepened during the long retreat. Wild
scenes occurred as confused soldiers fell into Serb ambushes, sometimes
fighting back, sometimes shooting each other or even committing suicide."

All the above testimonies comprise part of a body of evidence compiled by
the Srebrenica Research Group - an international team of academics and
Balkan analysts under the leadership of University of Pennsylvania
professor
Edward S Herman. Its report, which aims to bring some balance to this
highly
charged subject, is due for publication this month.

Herman, who is perhaps best known for co-authoring the seminal tome
Manufacturing Consent - his collaborative study alongside Noam Chomsky
into
media complicity with imperial Washington policy - insists that
misinformation and myth surrounding Srebrenica has proved a handy
smokescreen to obscure Western intrigue in the Balkans throughout the
1990s.

He contrasts the fixation of Western governments and media on
Srebrenica to
their complete lack of interest in Operation Storm, the 1995 ethnic
cleansing of 200,000 Krajina Serbs from their ancestral lands
including the
murder - unlike at Srebrenica - of women, children and the elderly at the
hands of US-backed Croat forces.

In a manner that is reminiscent of the tale of the Emperor's New Clothes,
glaringly obvious questions regarding the "Srebrenica genocide" remain
unasked by Western politicians and mainstream media alike.

Why, if the Serbs were so intent on genocidal murder, were the victims all
males of combat age? The nazis, of course, made no allowances for women or
the elderly while slaughtering their Jewish, Roma and Serb victims.

The Srebrenica myth was born at the UN security council in August
1995, when
US representative Madeleine Albright, in a theatrical display that was
repeated eight years later by her successor Colin Powell and his infamous
phial of "anthrax," produced satellite photos showing "disturbed earth"
where Muslim victims of genocide were supposedly buried. These
pictures have
never been made public.

No matter that only about 4,000 bodies have to date been recovered. No
matter that the vast majority are unidentified and certainly include
victims
from all sides of a vicious, internecine three-year civil war.

No matter that the figure includes combatants who failed to surrender
- many
of whom were themselves guilty of heinous crimes against civilians.

No matter that the Serbs have always acknowledged that crimes were
committed
- that civilians accompanying Muslim regular and irregular troops had been
killed in the fighting.

No matter that Naser Oric's grisly snuff movies have never been shown
at the
West's bogus Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at The Hague, whereas last
month's
video evidence allegedly showing the summary execution of six Muslims - a
sickening, though not unusual, crime in wartime - is aired and declared
proof positive of genocide.

No matter that Slobodan Milosevic, the man charged with orchestrating that
genocide, had no authority over the Bosnian Serbs from 1993 and who was
cleared of any involvement in whatever happened at Srebrenica by a Dutch
government report in 2002.

"The Srebrenica massacre is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge
from the Balkan wars," concludes Herman. "It reigns supreme for symbolic
power. It is the symbol of Serb evil and Bosnian Muslim victimhood and the
justice of the Western dismantling of Yugoslavia and intervention there at
many levels."

. Christopher James edits the website www.free-slobo-uk.org


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Jewish World Review July 11, 2005 / 4 Tamuz, 5765

Remember Srebrenica — a.k.a. `So what if we globalized al Qaeda!'

By Julia Gorin


http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Recently, "Hannity & Colmes", of the
usually less-easily-fooled-than-other-networks Fox News Channel,
treated us
masses to a "genocide" video that's been handed over to the Hague's
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Pouring
even more fuel onto the carefully cultivated and long accepted
caricature of
the evil Serb, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes were of one mind when Hannity
called the actions of the Bosnian Serb soldiers in the video "pure
evil" and
"evil incarnate."


Without being wrong about evil on display in the video, the network
had been
had. The circulation of, and the outrage surrounding, this tape —
especially high right now in guilt-ridden Serbia itself — is a sign that
things have gone from bad to worse in the prosecution of Slobodan
Milosevic.
Especially in anticipation of today's 10-year commemoration of the
Srebrenica massacre, the Hague desperately required a new wave of shocking
images to win in the court of public emotion the case that's being lost in
the court of foregone conclusion.


Tsk, tsk, Fox. Somebody hasn't been following the Milosevic trial. But
since
that somebody will look silly only to the six or so Americans who have
been
following it, there's no risk in spouting the tribunal's PR. PR
because this
trial is supposed to justify the new International Criminal Court's (ICC)
existence and convince the Bush administration of its utility, not its
futility.


There's a reason for the conspicuous three-year near silence by all major
media on this oh-so-momentous Second Nuremberg, as it was billed — a
silence broken only one or two days a year, when they're finally able to
offer up a damning piece of evidence that will perpetuate the version of
events we've been sold from the beginning.


What even the most sporadic trial observer would know is that the
Court has
spent the last three years discovering what many of us knew in 1999:
Milosevic was "a thug whose brutality played into the terrorists'
hands," as
former Boston Herald and JWR columnist Don Feder has repeatedly explained,
but he was no exterminator. Working backwards to make the crime fit the
punishment, however, the ICTY has had to redefine "genocide." Thus,
Milosevic faces charges of genocide even while the extermination of more
than 100,000 black Muslim and Christian men, women and children by Arabic
Muslims in Sudan still hasn't been granted the label. But then, the
exterminators there aren't white Christian Serbs.


The 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 7,000 Muslim males was inexcusable, but it
wasn't genocide. If you would, imagine a scenario in which a single
event is
manipulated to lend credence to an ocean of lies. Imagine Srebrenica. Here
it is in April 1993, from someone who was there. Haris Nezirovic was a
Bosnian journalist writing for the weekly "Slobodna Bosna" ("Free
Bosnia"),
and this for the UK Independent:




"The UN hopes to evacuate 15,000 people over the next few days. The
Muslim
command defending Srebrenica claims the UN operations amount to complicity
in Serbian 'ethnic cleansing'. Privately, the commanders add, they believe
that the Serbs will not launch an all-out attack as long as refugees are
there. More importantly, they say that without the civilians the
defense of
the town would crumble. They believe that Muslim fighters are better
motivated when their families are there behind them. …
"What this means in practice is thousands of civilians will have to
remain
in full range of Serbian guns: children with scabies who cannot be treated
because of a lack of medicine; the elderly who are so weak from hunger
that
they cannot fight for air-dropped scraps of food; and mothers who feed
their
babies with warm water because nothing else is available. …

"When the first UN trucks came last month, they were supposed to
evacuate
only a few wounded, but hundreds rushed on board. When the next convoy
came
on 28 March, thousands stampeded towards the vehicles.

"'We'll screw up those convoys,' said Naser Oric, the local Muslim
commander....When another convoy came on 30 March, masses of civilians
surrounded the trucks but were kept back by the commanders' personal
uard — a group of 30 foul-mouthed soldiers suspected of robberies and
other crimes. During the night, the guards accepted bribes in German marks
to let people on board. Many refugees on the UN list for evacuation were
beaten up. Witnesses said the deputy commander slapped and kicked
women and
pushed children from the trucks.

"On 4 April the local [Muslim] police used fire hoses to keep people
away
from the UN vehicles. Jets of water knocked down anyone who approached.
Soldiers climbed on trucks and fired into the air. …

"Ever more frequently, you hear civilians say, 'Our soldiers are worse
than Chetniks, the Serbs.'"


Sarajevo, meanwhile, "never seemed very interested in the fate
of…Srebrenica," says Radio Netherlands editor James Kliphuis, "except to
list it as [a] supreme example of the outside world's lack of interest in
what happened to the Bosnian Muslims." A statement entered into
testimony at
the ICTY in Feb. 2004, by UN Commander in Bosnia from 1992 to 1993
Philippe
Morillon, read: "The aim of the [Bosnian] presidency from the very outset
was to ensure the intervention of the international forces for their own
benefit, and this is one of the reasons why they never were inclined to
engage in talks."


That presidency refers to Alijah Izetbegovic, who was being
investigated by
the ICTY for war crimes (which the Court revealed only upon his death in
2003), and who was part of the Nazi SS Handzar division during WWII, which
butchered Serbs and the ethnic minorities of Yugoslavia. He also authored
"The Islamic Declaration", in which he stated: "The shortest definition of
the Islamic order defines it as unity of faith and law, upbringing and
force, ideals and interests, spiritual community and State…a Muslim
generally does not exist as an individual… […] There can be no peace or
coexistence between 'the Islamic faith' and non-Islamic social and
political
institutions."





Pursuant to Izetbegovic's end game, writes Michigan-based Balkans
writer and
historian Carl Savich, "the Bosnian Muslim faction engaged in propaganda,
staged massacres, killed Bosnian Muslim civilians to garner sympathy and
used civilian hostages or shields to further its propaganda of
victimization." For example, the 1992 Breadline Massacre and the Markale
Marketplace bombings of 1994 and 95 resulted in U.S. economic
sanctions and
a bombing campaign, respectively, of the Serbs — despite European
headlines like the Sunday Times of London's "Serbs 'not guilty' of
massacre,
Experts warned US that mortar was Bosnian" (Oct. 1, 1995).


The widely cited 2002 official Dutch report on Srebrenica seems to confirm
the use of such tactics. As BBC.com reported that year, the Dutch
Government
"pins part of the blame on the Bosnian Muslims themselves, saying the
Bosnian army had provoked attacks."


Srebrenica Muslims "ravaged and ransacked neighbouring ethnic Serb
villages," continues Kliphuis, "killing and maiming the residents, who
were
often too old to offer any resistance….The Serb villages were then set on
fire." After his role in killing up to 2,000 Serbs, Oric himself fled
Srebrenica just before it was stormed by the Bosnian Serb army.


The Serbs evacuated women, children and elderly before the males were
killed
without being distinguished as civilians or POWs, making Srebrenica a
massacre, something the Serbs admit.


By deeming Srebrenica a genocide, however, the court at the Hague has
expanded the term's legal definition, so that now, not only do 7,000
bodies
qualify (regardless of how many belong to armed fighters), not only does
there not have to be genocidal intent, but it doesn't even have to involve
eliminating the child-bearing sex or the offspring of the ethnic group in
question. As a BBC.com report concluded, "the definition may now be
applied
to conflict in a small community, where local atrocities can be labeled as
genocide."


The 2002 Dutch report, meanwhile, goes on to state that no evidence
"suggests the involvement of the Serbian authorities in Belgrade," with
principal responsibility attributed to fugitive Bosnian Serb general Ratko
Mladic.


Which brings us back to the Milosevic trial. Like a Moliere farce, within
months of 19 Muslim hijackers (some of whom fought in Bosnia)
attacking the
United States, the trial of Slobodan Milosevic began at the Hague in the
Netherlands, today a country where artists and members of parliament are
hunted down for practicing freedom of speech (e.g. Theo van Gogh, Geert
Wilders, Ayaan Hirsi Ali) — by the co-religionists of those on whose
behalf Milosevic is being prosecuted.


If one wonders why, 364 days out of 365, our media organs send us no word
from this "Nuremberg II" — incidentally a laughing stock among legal
experts (deputy prosecutor Geoffrey Nice had to reprimand reporters for
knocking the prosecution's performance and flimsy evidence) — the
following trial developments, easily gleaned from a casual perusal of wire
copy or European press, may help explain:


The first week of the trial in particular was marked by one embarrassment
after another for the prosecution, starting with the testimony of Ratomir
Tanic, who was supposedly present when the genocide order was given
but who
under cross-examination couldn't even say where in the presidential palace
Milosevic's office was located — and eventually turned out to have been
paid by British intelligence to testify. Then there was a witness named
Halit Barani, whom Milosevic asked if he knew that KLA commanders were to
assassinate all Albanians loyal to Serbia. Barani revealed that he was
sympathetic to the KLA, had met with numerous commanders, then
indicted the
entire Albanian population of Kosovo: "The KLA was born from within the
people, to protect parents, brothers and sisters."


A 2002 BBC wire report related Albanian "farmer" Agim Zeqiri's
testimonythat
Serb forces burned down his village and killed members of his family. Upon
cross-examination, when the proceedings brought to light that his
village of
Celina was harboring and supporting Albanian rebels, Zeqiri claimed to
feel
too ill to continue, but "did acknowledge that the KLA had used the
village
as a source of provisions and that at least 300 members of the KLA were
based there."


Another witness, Fehim Elshani, was actually rebuked by the now deceased
presiding judge Richard May, when he refused to answer Milosevic's
questions
at all. In the end, he testified that he did not know of any KLA crimes,
while admitting that his son was KLA. Elshani, Zeqiri and another
"farmer",
Halil Morina — who claimed to have no knowledge of any KLA presence
in his
village of Landovica (where after the war a monument was erected to the
town's fallen KLA soldiers) — frequently avoided eye contact with
Milosevic as he cross-examined them.


The three-judge panel actually ruled in favor of Milosevic's objections to
admitting testimony from chief Kosovo war crimes investigator Kevin Curtis
because of the irrelevance of "evidence" composed entirely of "repeating
stories he had heard from others," the AP reported. When the prosecution's
intelligence analyst Stephen Spargo detailed through maps the routes taken
by 800,000 or so deported or fleeing Albanians in 1999, Milosevic asked
whether he knew that 100,000 Serbs left Kosovo along with everyone
else once
NATO started bombing. Spargo answered that he "hadn't been assigned to
document Serb displacements." Naturally. In Kosovo, Milosevic continued,
since there were 10 Albanians to every Serb, proportionally speaking, more
Serbs than Albanians fled Kosovo — casting doubt on the
forced-deportation
argument that the Clinton government helped craft for our consumption.


Milosevic scored points early on when he showed the court an Albanian map
depicting Greater Albania, which included southeast Montenegro, southern
Serbia, western Macedonia and parts of northern Greece in addition to
osovo — a long-harbored dream of many in Albania and Kosovo. It goes
without saying that the American people were not shown this map of Greater
Albania as they were being sold a story of Milosevic's push for a "Greater
Serbia."


Meanwhile, the forensic evidence at the Racak "massacre", our final-straw
pretext for bombing our historical ally whose people saved 500 downed U.S.
pilots in WWII, disproved that a massacre had taken place. And virtually
every Albanian-rumored "mass grave" in Kosovo turned up empty, as Wall St.
Journal's Daniel Pearl was finding a few years before Muslims decapitated
him in Pakistan.


The first Western leader to appear at the trial was Lord Paddy Ashdown,
former head of England's Liberal Democrat Party and current UN High
Representative in Bosnia. Ashdown was also the first witness to admit that
the KLA fighters were a terrorist organization which Yugoslavia was
fighting.


Eastern European and Balkan affairs writer Neil Clark summed up the
trial in
a UK Guardian article of Feb. 2004 (the month the prosecution wrapped
up its
two-year case): "Not only has the prosecution signally failed to prove
Milosevic's personal responsibility for atrocities committed on the
ground,
the nature and extent of the atrocities themselves has also been
called into
question."


Without a smoking gun linking Milosevic to crimes in Kosovo (widely
anticipated to be an easier indictment to make stick than Croatia and
Bosnia, where local Serbian leaders were in command), the Tribunal gave
prosecutors the green light to tack on charges related to Croatia and
Bosnia. It was a move that chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte initially said
the prosecution wouldn't pursue, given that that conflict was closed with
the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which the Clinton administration hosted and
for which the administration hailed Milosevic as a force for peace and
stability in the Balkans.


Going ahead with the Bosnia charges, then, the prosecution brought in
the UN
Commander Philipe Morillon in February of last year, his testimony
meant to
tie Milosevic to Srebrenica. Giving instead unwelcome testimony that
Milosevic had headed off an initial attack on Srebrenica's Muslims,
Morillon
said he had asked Milosevic in 1993 to intervene with the Bosnian Serb
government to prevent a potential massacre in Srebrenica, which Milosevic
did, convincing the Serbs to halt their offensive so the UN could set up a
safe haven. Morillon, whose residence was shelled by Bosnian Muslims
during
the war, was the one to set up the safe haven — but he failed to
demilitarize it, enabling the Bosnian Muslim commander Naser Oric to turn
the enclave into his military base of operations, from which he launched
attacks on Serbs.


Morillon saw the exhumed remains of tortured, mutilated, and executed
Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers, and testified that Oric's forces
engaged in "attacks during Orthodox holidays [including Christmas Eve] and
destroyed villages, massacring all the inhabitants. This created a
degree of
hatred that was quite extraordinary…."


If there was a clear guilty party, and a clear victim on behalf of whom
support, and later war, by the United States was warranted, logic
demands an
explanation as to how it can be that more than a year into the
proceedings,
the Court haltingly, quietly decided it had to issue warrants for, and
try,
Croats and Albanian and Bosnian Muslims for war crimes as well, making the
"victims" guilty too. Nasir Oric, who didn't take prisoners, was
ultimately
indicted — though his indictment was not made public. There are
videotapes
of Oric's atrocities; as well, images of Albanians and mujahedeen in
Bosnia
victoriously holding up or stepping on disembodied Serb heads are
viewable.


And yet even in those once- or twice-a-year "updates" on the Hague
Tribunal
by our major newspapers and networks, the only graphic details we're
permitted to know of and judge are of Serbian crimes. Tapes showing the
slaughter of Serbs by Bosnians and Albanians have been conspicuously
absent
from our airwaves, leaving the American public with only Serb crimes to
speak of. It's a silence that should be deafening to any American patriot.


When, for the sake of context, mentioning Bosnian Muslim acts becomes
unavoidable, such acts are referred to as "attacks", but not "slaughters",
"massacres", "atrocities", "crimes against humanity" or, perish the
thought,
"genocide" or "ethnic cleansing", even if in this case intent was present.
Such inflammatory language, after all, is reserved for Serbs. "Revenge
killings", the term that continues to be used to describe Albanian murders
of Serbs in Kosovo (including octogenarians) and that could easily
describe
what the Serbs did in Srebrenica, remains the exclusive privilege of the
Balkans' Muslims.


Americans don't hear about the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Srebrenica,
just as they didn't hear much about the ethnic cleansing by Croatia of
up to
half a million Serbs. Anyone looking for the truth about the Balkans is
labeled "pro-Serb", "anti-Muslim", or a victim of "Serbian propaganda"
(try
and find that in this country). Meanwhile, even the truest Bosnian Muslim
victims, genuinely "believing themselves the virtuous victims of
'aggression' and 'genocide'," writes Washington-based blogger and Balkans
observer Nebojsa Malic, are "blinded to Izetbegovic's hateful ideology of
domination that tore Bosnia apart."


Serbia has been experiencing a uniquely weird national phenomenon of late.
Tired of being a pariah nation, whether that status is deserved or
not, the
Serbs are putting themselves through a sort of self-punishment. Wanting to
be allowed back into the international fold of "decent" nations, they
desperately want their government to just fall in line with any Western
demands, and they want Milosevic convicted, so they can finally put
the 90s
behind them. To that end, many Serbs alternate between practicing
self-censorship (it's politically incorrect in Serbia today to defend or
explain Serb actions of the 90s), and self-deception, wherein Serbs manage
to convince themselves that the world is right and they were the bad
guy of
the 1990s, themselves chiefly to blame for the civil wars that destroyed
their country. In other words, the Serbs are betraying their own history.
Perhaps the first intimation that this would come was a NY Times op-ed in
1999, written by a Serbian woman who said that although the numbers in
Kosovo aren't panning out, even if a single Albanian was killed
excessively,
her country deserved what it got.


It's gotten so that in January 2004, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) had to issue a statement disputing a self-blaming Belgrade
report on
mass graves in Kosovo: "Some media reports have quoted a senior Belgrade
official as stating that there are 198 mass graves in Kosovo. The
Office on
Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) would like to categorically state
that
no evidence has been provided to OMPF regarding existence of any mass
graves
in Kosovo. Such unfounded statements reflect a lack of sensitivity to an
issue that is extremely emotive and causes considerable anguish for all
affected families."


In the meantime, the authentic mass graves that are being found
contain Serb
bodies — presumed to be those of civilians missing since 1998 and
thought
to be kidnapped by the KLA, as BBC.com reported in March. "If confirmed,
this would be the second such find in a month after 24 bodies were
found in
a cave" in February, with wrecked cars thrown on top of them, according to
local media.


The "Hannity & Colmes" hosts said that it seemed whoever the Serb was that
offered up the Srebrenica tape to the Court apparently had a "bout of
conscience." But if one knows anything about the way things work in the
Balkans today, the more likely story is that someone was just looking
to get
paid (or to get amnesty and a new life), and the easiest way to do that
today is to help push the old story.


Last December, when some wayward media in Serbia published graphic
photos of
crimes committed by Ramush Haradinaj — who recently stepped down as
Kosovo's prime minister to face war crimes charges — the
Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and other members of the
international community were critical, saying that "by publishing such
vivid
reminders of crimes committed against the Serbs, the media was guilty for
perpetrating hate and intolerance, whereas its task is to look ahead
towards
peace and reconciliation," reports Serge Trifkovic, author of "The
Sword of
the Prophet" and director of the Institute for International Affairs in
Rockford, IL.


Offering a glimpse into the Serbian state of mind, along with a hope for
reconciliation with America, is a letter from Aleksandar Kis, of Vrsac,
Serbia:




"In my country today it is almost illegal to say that we are right.
Sometimes when I wake up, I believe that I live in Albania or Croatia.
Even
our own media are anti-Serbic! Only few media are free to comment
anything,
others are under democratic censorship. ...

"You see, there are less than 2-3% Serbs in Kosovo comparing to pre-war
numbers, but there are 100,000 Albanians in Belgrade. In my hometown, I go
to Albanian-held bakery. ...


"In Serbia, we have few free media, of which one is 'Srpski Nacional'
newspaper that was supporting Bush campaign last year, calling for
Serbs to
influence their relatives in USA to vote for Bush. This paper is trying to
tell Serbs that USA is no longer foe and aggressor. [I hope] to
achieve that
Star Spangled Banner isn't a symbol of oppression for us anymore…We never
considered USA as evil. Strangely for Europeans, we more liked Nixon and
Reagan than Kennedy. I want to say, we considered USA a country
'across the
lake'. We don't understand what happened with our relationship."


Trying to improve that relationship, Serbia has offered a battalion to
assist U.S. troops in Kabul. But who will assist Serbia with the terror
haven that is Kosovo? Certainly not those pushing for the province's
independence, something that would be a key nail in the free world's
coffin
once peacekeepers, now acting as our eyes and ears there, have to leave.


As the world adeptly looks the other way, not only is cultural
genocide and
defamation taking place and history being perverted, but the international
meddlers are capitalizing precisely on the public's disinterest in the
Balkans, officially establishing an Islamic gangster state in Europe
as our
exit strategy.


The meddlers include the Council on Foreign Relations, the International
Crisis Group, a number of Congressmen, most of the Clinton-era State
Department — now working for quasi-governmental institutes — and
Wesley
Clark. Clark warned in a February Wall St. Journal op-ed that "a violent
collision may occur by year-end" if we don't give the Albanians what they
want — and this four-star general advocated doing just that. After
all, a
violent collision would shine an unwelcome spotlight on his "successful
war", as he spent all of election year billing it in contrast to Iraq. So
Clark wants to close the book as soon as possible on Kosovo, where there
were four more explosions over the July 4th weekend — ongoing
attempts to
persuade the international community that only one final status is
acceptable: complete independence, without border compromises. Besides, he
already promised his erstwhile campaign donors, the National Albanian
American Council, that "Kosova" would be independent, using the purposeful
Albanian mispronunciation of the Serbian word as his old boss had. In the
Journal piece, Clark even suggested pummeling the Serbs again if Belgrade
got in the way (since it's easier than fighting Albanian terrorists).


So that Americans don't start connecting any obvious dots, two things must
remain obscured as the Milosevic verdict nears and as the push for Kosovo
independence goes full throttle this year: the al Qaeda connection to
Bosnia
and Kosovo, and the ever-present atrocities against Serbs.


The broadcasting of the Srebrenica video was actually an opening salvo in
this campaign, whether the Fox News Channel is aware of it or not (the
hosts
certainly are not, but if the network is, it's an ominous sign). The
channel
that's supposed to function as a deprogrammer for the public's
media-produced minds has itself become part of the machine. A couple weeks
ago, Fox News announced Wesley Clark, whose Albanian friends are promising
war against NATO and UN forces if there is no independence for Kosovo, as
its newest military and foreign affairs analyst. (On July 19th, PBS
will be
broadcasting a Dutch documentary about one Albanian-America making
precisely
this promise: Brooklyn roofer Florin Krasniqi, who has been smuggling arms
into Kosovo for years and helping resettle KLA fighters here.)


Understandably, for Sean Hannity the broadcast offered a rare chance to
throw a bone to the Muslim world — precisely the purpose the Serbs have
been serving for the rest of the globe all along. (Because somehow, even
while atrocities across the planet are indeed brought to us by
Muslims, in a
bizarre twist from the trend, we found a singular, exceptional case not of
Muslims waging a jihad, but of secular Europe's religious misfits
doing so,
the Orthodox Christian Serbs.)


Serbs are the universal punching bag; there are no repercussions for
anything one might say about them. Initial reports in 1993 even attributed
the World Trade Center bombing to "Serbian terrorists." Serb concerns are
routinely trivialized, their perspectives dismissed as whining or
self-serving. When, in the midst of our 1999 offensive on Yugoslavia, a
friend calling in to a talk radio show dared imply that Serbs weren't
responsible for the Markale Marketplace bombings, she was instantly
reprimanded by the incredulous hostess: "Are you defending the SERBS?!"


"Serbs perfectly meet all the PC-villain criteria," explains political
satirist Oleg Atabashian, who runs PeoplesCube.com (the site will be
operational again tomorrow). "They're another white, Christian, European
minority supposedly guilty of oppressing the most popular 'minority', the
Muslims. A whole new nation of Serbs is getting sacrificed right
before our
eyes on the altar of the self-hating cult that western society has
become."


The Serbs have been "targeted by propaganda of unprecedented proportions
accusing them of Nazi-like evil," writes Malic (recall former CNN reporter
Christiane Amanpour showing us a funeral she said was for two Muslim
babies
killed by a Serb sniper but who turned out to be Serbian babies killed
by a
Muslim sniper). If there has been hesitation from Serbian authorities,
whether in handing over war criminals or officially admitting that
Srebrenica was a massacre, it's because they are "rightly afraid it
would be
considered an admission of the fabrications as well," Malic explains.
He is
echoed by Trifkovic: "Serbia needs to come to terms with all that came to
pass under Milosevic, but not at the cost of losing its soul."


With the current media blitz surrounding the Srebrenica video, which was
seized on by every major news organization and news site, there is a
renewed
rehashing of Serb wickedness, its pitch highest in Serbia itself
where, Mr.
Kis reports, all media are pointing an accusing finger at Milosevic, the
country and the Serbian people in general. One law professor on
national TV
said the execution showed the "collective guilt" of the Serbian people. No
connections are made about the disparity that while Muslims returning
to the
now Serb-dominated Srebrenica do so without incident or danger, Serbs
daring
to return to Kosovo face pogroms (which reached a crescendo in March
of last
year).


As the July 11th mark has neared, we've seen a sensational flurry of Serb
vilification — again. On July 4th, the New York Times ran a Srebrenica
article that devoted a single paragraph to the trial of Muslim forces at
Srebrenica. To corral any potentially wayward readers, the writer
paraphrased the prosecution's take that "while war crimes were
committed by
Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the wars, evidence is overwhelming that
most were committed by Serbs." Indeed, that was the only evidence being
sought.


In contrast to the current anti-Serb orgy, we haven't heard much about all
the Bosnian charities being monitored or raided for funding terrorism, or
about the Bosnian who was one of the masterminds behind the Madrid
bombing,
or about the six Algerian-born Bosnian citizens held at Guantanamo for
planning to blow up the American and British embassies in Sarajevo (NY
Times, 10/21/04), or about Bosnia issuing passports to Osama bin Laden and
his second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, who has operated camps and WMD
factories throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and
Bosnia. Nor will we hear that the terrorists who carried out a spate of
suicide attacks in Iraq last August, including one at the UN headquarters
that killed 22, were trained in Bosnia, or that al Qaeda's top Balkans
operative, al-Zawahiri's brother Mohammed, had a high position in the KLA.
We'll never know that Bosnia today is the "one-stop shop close to Europe"
for all the terrorism needs — weapons, money, documents — of
Chechen and
Afghani fighters passing through Europe before heading to Iraq. Little
wonder, then, that when SFOR (the UN Stabilization Force in Bosnia)
intercepts weapons shipments to Iraq, we don't hear about that either.


Three weeks into our 78-day bombing of Belgrade, an Indian UN commander in
Bosnia, General Satish Nambiar, gave a speech in New Delhi saying,
"Portraying the Serbs as evil and everybody else as good was not only
counter-productive but also dishonest. According to my experience, all
sides
were guilty but only the Serbs would admit that they were no angels, while
the others would insist that they were. With 28,000 forces under me
and with
constant contacts with UNHCR and the International Red Cross officials, we
did not witness any genocide beyond killings and massacres on all sides."


Yet when former Kosovo Verification Mission observer Roland Keith
testified
earlier this year that he had seen no evidence of genocide in Kosovo,
Canada's New Democratic Party forced him to withdraw his candidacy in
British Columbia's provincial elections.


Starting with the elder President Bush and escalating under Clinton, we
consistently abetted nationalism and xenophobia in the Balkans, and today
our media and government continue trying to make a square peg fit into a
round hole. With the decision on Kosovo's status looming, the
administration
of George W. Bush has an opportunity to right a historic wrong and chart a
straight course in the Balkans, one that will finally be in line with his
defining vision, the War on Terror.


Great nations admit their mistakes. They don't reinforce them. But in the
past weeks, as this country has fallen way short of its potential for
greatness and Americans have been treated to a rare, genuine propaganda
campaign reinforcing our Balkans mischief, it is up to the American people
to demand that the record be set straight.


If a commission was set up to determine whether a presidential
administration did or didn't do all it could to prevent kamikaze
attacks on
9/11, good G-d, what of an administration that committed the might of the
U.S. Air Force to bomb Europe for a legacy beyond sexual harassment —
lying about genocide to achieve it?


Anyone looking for evidence of a "treasonous war", of being "misled into
war", "rushed to war" or being "lied to", look no farther than 1999.
Recovered at an Afghanistan al Qaeda training camp was an Albanian
Kosovar's
application reading, "I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat experience
against Serb and American forces. ...I recommend (suicide) operations
against (amusement) parks like Disney." If the protests reserved for a
Republican war had also been mounted against the Democrats' war in Kosovo,
had we known our friends from our enemies and not allowed the Balkans to
become a terror gateway into the Western world, it's just possible we may
never have had 9/11.


It was Lee Hamilton, the man who would become co-chairman of the 9/11
Commission, whom President-elect Bill Clinton patted on the shoulder
in 1992
and assured, "I've been traveling around our country for a year and no one
cares about foreign policy other than about six journalists."


Hamilton responded by reminding Clinton that the last two presidents had
built their legacies on foreign policy. It would appear that ultimately,
President Clinton fell back on Hamilton's suggestion.


Testifying at the Milosevic trial at the Hague last September, former
policy
analyst James Jatras, who worked for the Senate Republican Policy
Committee
from 1985 to 2000, quoted the 9/11 Commission's finding that it was in
1990s
Bosnia that the "groundwork for a true terrorist network was being laid."
That network is today known as al Qaeda.


The Balkans were the early, key prize that Iran and Osama bin Laden sought
as a terror corridor to the West. We delivered it to them. Why?


Senator Hamilton, your commission's work is unfinished.

--- End forwarded message ---

(italiano / english)

Falluja: il peggior massacro americano in Iraq (LINKS)


=== ITALIANO ===

http://www.diario.it/index.php?page=wl05060100

Falluja. IL VIDEO DEL PEGGIOR MASSACRO AMERICANO IN IRAQ

In esclusiva per Diario, il video che mostra il peggior massacro
americano in Iraq. Le immagini, molto forti e adatte a un pubblico
adulto, seguono l'inchiesta sulla battaglia che ha aperto il XXI
secolo pubblicata nel numero del 27 maggio 2005 di Diario

NOTA: Il video contiene immagini crude e impressionanti, adatte
esclusivamente a un pubblico adulto.

Questo video e' stato girato a Falluja ai primi di gennaio del 2005,
quando la citta' e' stata riaperta dopo l'attacco americano iniziato
l'8 novembre 2004, denominato "Operazione Al-Fajr" ("l'alba"). È un
documento prezioso perché in quel momento la citta' era chiusa alla
stampa internazionale.
Il video e' stato consegnato al settimanale Diario dal Centro studi
per la democrazia e i diritti umani di Falluja. Diario ha pubblicato
un'ampia inchiesta sulla battaglia di Falluja il 27 maggio 2005.
"Falluja-The Day After" mostra la completa devastazione della citta'
irachena, i corpi delle vittime, le fosse comuni, la riesumazione dei
cadaveri da parte delle squadre di soccorso locali per tentare il
riconoscimento delle vittime. L'ultimo corpo mostrato dal video e' di
una ragazza di 14 anni.

Durata: 18 minuti 12 secondi.

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FALLUJA, THE DAY AFTER

Le immagini della piu' grande strage degli americani in Iraq, girate a
Falluja ai primi di gennaio del 2005, quando la citta' e' stata
riaperta dopo l'attacco americano iniziato l'8 novembre 2004. Il
video, consegnato al settimanale Diario dal Centro studi per la
democrazia e i diritti umani di Falluja, mostra la completa
devastazione della citta' irachena, i corpi delle vittime, le fosse
comuni, la riesumazione dei cadaveri da parte delle squadre di
soccorso locali per tentare il riconoscimento delle vittime

http://www.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Unique&id=2914

Falluja

25 maggio 2005 - Su Diario la prima grande inchiesta sulla battaglia
che ha aperto il secolo. Le vittime, le distruzioni, le testimonianze,
i documenti. per capire di che cosa parliamo quando parliamo di guerra.
di Diario

http://www.diario.it/index.php?page=wl05052501

Papà, che cosa successe a Falluja?

Su quanto è successo a Falluja durante gli attacchi dell'aprile 2004
e, soprattutto, del novembre dello stesso anno, continua a emergere
documentazione agghiacciante.
Un ampio Dossier, realizzato grazie alla collaborazione fra Diario e
Osservatorio Iraq, è stato pubblicato sul numero del settimanale del
25 maggio.
I testi integrali di interviste e testimonianze dirette (un medico
iracheno, una interprete-volontaria, un ingegnere), che non hanno
trovato posto nel Dossier per mancanza di spazio, sono riportati sul
sito , assieme a una documentazione fotografica, e al rapporto
presentato dal Centro Studi per la Democrazia e i Diritti Umani di
Falluja, nel gennaio 2004, e al successivo del marzo 2005, in un
nostro Dossier che continueremo ad aggiornare.

http://www.osservatorioiraq.it/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=1130

APOCALYPSE FALLUJA. L'INCHIESTA DI DIARIO

Nella guerra irachena e' stata finora la battaglia piu' imponente,
sanguinosa e misteriosa: dieci giorni di assedio e distruzione di una
citta' di 350.000 abitanti per "rompere la spina dorsale" del
terrorismo. A sei mesi di distanza, insieme alla totale inefficacia
dell'operazione, emergono i particolari di un massacro imposto nel
nome della "punizione collettiva" di una citta' ribelle. L'inchiesta,
sulla scorta di testimonianze dirette e di documentazione finora
riservata, ricostruisce una storia di trattative inutili, calcoli
elettorali, disprezzo per la vita umana, saccheggi, ruberie e silenzi
postumi. Sul terreno, migliaia di morti, fosse comuni, dispersi,
sfollati e una dimostrazione della piu' moderna tecnologia bellica.
Falluja e' stato il primo esempio della guerra del nuovo secolo.
Diventera' un modello o un orrore da non ripetere?

http://www.iraqlibero.at/pag/falluja.pdf

Una testimonianza da Falluja
A cura di Adelina Bottero e Luciano Salza – 09/06/2005

Quanto segue è la trascrizione di un incontro col Dr.Mohammad Hadeed,
medico iracheno di Falluja, nei giorni scorsi in Italia per un giro di
conferenze. Come lui stesso dice: "Non sono un politico, ma un medico,
e prima ancora di essere medico sono iracheno"...

http://www.resistenze.org/sito/te/po/ir/poir5f08.htm

Gas, napalm, torture, bombe al fosforo
in un film i crimini di guerra americani a Falluja
(Sabina Morandi, Liberazione)

... Perché nei video ci sono donne, uomini, bambini. Ci
sono esseri umani resi irriconoscibili da qualche oscuro
rogo chimico, armi capaci di staccare la pelle dal corpo
in un istante, visto che questi anonimi resti umani sono
congelati nell'atto di alzarsi dal letto o di ripararsi il
viso con il braccio. Una mano stringe ancora una
catenina. Qualcosa che assomiglia a una donna tiene fra le
braccia qualcosa che assomiglia a un bambino. I filmati
"amatoriali", riorganizzati con un faticoso quanto
presumibilmente straziante lavoro da Barbara Romagnoli,
sono stati realizzati il 18 novembre 2004 nella città
ribelle di Falluja, a conclusione dell'operazione Al-Fajr
(letteralmente, l'alba) che, secondo la Us Army, avrebbe
dovuto distruggere definitivamente la resistenza irachena...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13006&s2=26

Bombe incendiarie su Falluja
(Mike Whitney, ZNet)

...Il 28 Novembre, il commentatore politico del Daily Mirror Paul
Gilfeather, ha pubblicato un servizio che riporta: "Le truppe
statunitensi stanno usando in segreto dei gas al napalm proibiti per
spazzare via i restanti ribelli a Falluja e nei dintorni. La notizia
che il presidente George Bush ha consentito l'uso del napalm, una
miscela mortale di polistirene e benzina, proibita dalle nazioni unite
nel 1980, sbalordirà i governi di tutto il mondo"...

http://www.uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8035&s2=11

LETTERA DI UN SOLDATO AMERICANO A FALLUJA:
''QUESTA NON E' UNA GUERRA, E' UNA MATTANZA''

Un soldato americano in Irak, conosciuto come hEkLe, descrive l'orrore
dell'attacco statunitense contro Falluja. La lettera e' stata
pubblicata su GI Special, un sito quotidiano che da' informazioni e
notizie ai soldati americani ed alle loro famiglie e su Socialist
Worker online il 3 dicembre 2004

http://www.radiocittaperta.it/nuovo/scheda.php?id=14429&tipo=9

A FALLUJA USATE ARMI CHIMICHE: LO CONFERMA IL MINISTERO DELLA SANITA'
IRACHENO

Il dottor Khalid ash-Shaykhili, al quale e' stato affidato l' incarico
di accertare le condizioni di salute degli abitanti di Falluja, ha
detto che le ricerche effettuate dalla sua equipe medica provano che
le forze Usa hanno usato gas ''mostarda'', gas nervino e altre
sostanze chimiche nocive

http://www.osservatorioiraq.it/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=782

IL NEW YORK TIMES IN FALLUJAH
E questo lo chiamate normale?
(MIKE WHITNEY, www.comedonchisciotte.org)

Le telecamere non sono permesse a Fallujah; e così i giornalisti. Se
ce ne fossero stati avremmo avuto prove di prima mano del più grande
crimine di guerra americano degli ultimi trent'anni; il bombardamento
in stile Dresda di un'intera città di 250.000 persone. Invece,
dobbiamo affidarci a testimonianze oculari che appaiono su internet o
alle false relazioni che appaiono sporadicamente nel New York Times o
nell'Associated Press...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11405&s2=08

Falluja: Guernica irachena
(Jonathan Steele e Dahr Jamail ( traduzione di Anna Marchi))

... Ve la ricordate Falluja? Una città di circa 300 mila abitanti che
veniva dichiarata essere la roccaforte della resistenza armata. Lo
scorso anno gli USA hanno tentato due volte di distruggere questo
simbolo della sconfitta. Il primo tentativo, in aprile, sfumò quando
alcuni politici iracheni, compresi molti di quelli a favore
dell'invasione, condannarono i raid aerei che terrorizzavano un'intera
città. Gli americani allora ritirarono l'attacco, ma non prima che
centinaia di famiglie fossero fuggite e più di 600 persone fossero
state uccise. Sei mesi dopo gli americani ci hanno riprovato...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11385&s2=08

Il genocidio perpetrato dagli americani a Falluja
(aljazeera.net - al-Watan)

A Falluja si compì un genocidio che ora l'esercito statunitense cerca
di coprire cremando rapidamente i corpi dei civili uccisi... Una fonte
militare della NATO, ha rivelato al quotidiano saudita al-Watan, che
nei corridoi dell'organizzazione atlantica, circolano informazioni
militari, circa la perpetrazione di decine di massacri collettivi a
danno degli iracheni, da parte dell'esercito statunitente dopo le
operazioni militari contro Falluja...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11931&s2=30


=== ENGLISH ===

http://www.diario.it/index.php?page=wl05060100#english

FALLUJA-THE DAY AFTER (ENGLISH)


This video has been recorded in Falluja in early Janury, 2005, when
the city was reopened to civilians after the American attack of
November 8th, 2004 ("Operation Al-Fajr", i. e. "the dawn").
It's an important document since the city was closed to reporters at
that moment. This video was handed over to the Italian weekly magazine
Diario by the Studies Center of Human Rights and Democracy of Falluja.
Diario issued a broad enquire on Falluja battle on May 27th, 2005.
"Falluja-The day After" shows the total devastation of the Iraqi town,
the corpses of the victims, the mass graves, the exhumation of many
corpses by local rescue teams in order to try to recognize some of the
victims. The last corpse shown in this video belongs to a 14 year old
girl.
The video lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds.

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In the rubble of Falluja
Nermeen Al-Mufti

Nermeen Al-Mufti accompanies a relief convoy into the city of untold
stories and unbearable pain

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=7804&s2=04

Fallujah Refugees Tell of Life and Death in the Kill Zone
Dahr Jamail, The New Standard

Baghdad , Dec 3 - Men now seeking refuge in the Baghdad area are
telling horrific stories of indiscriminate killings by US forces
during the peak of fighting last month in the largely annihilated city
of Fallujah...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=7807&s2=04

Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless
(Patrick Cockburn and Kim Sengupta)

The Black Watch arrives back in Britain this morning ­ home in time
for Christmas as Tony Blair had promised. The regiment's five-week
mission ­ the toughest British troops have faced since the invasion of
Iraq 21 months ago ­ made possible the US assault on Fallujah, which
now lies in ruins (...) The Red Cross team ­ which entered without
escort and left before curfew ­ met no residents, apart from engineers
and technicians. The Red Cross reported that hundreds of dead bodies
remain stacked inside a potato chip warehouse on the outskirts. Some
of the bodies were too badly decomposed to be identified. Raw sewage
runs through the streets...

http://www.uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8022&s2=11

'Cleaning up' in Fallujah
(Helena Cobban)

...So if the US Army knows that "several hundred" bodies have been
warehoused in that single location-- I'm hoping it's a refrigerated
warehouse but fear it probably isn't-- then what prevents them from
either (a) arranging for a handover of these bodies to civilian
bodies outside outside of the city who could help identify them,
notify the relatives, and arrange for as proper and expeditious a
burial as possible, or at least, (b) allowing an ICRC team in to
photograph the bodies and start planning for their eventual removal
and burial? Could the reason be that the US military are embarrassed
about the condition of these bodies-- and perhaps, about the
proportion of them that seem not to be the bodies of fighters-- and
therefore don't want the ICRC to see them at all?...

http://www.uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8016&s2=11

FALLUJAH -The End Of Warfare
(ABHAY MEHTA / outlookindia.com - Iraqwar)

...The Iraqi resistance has put an end to "the end of history". A new
history is being written.Yes indeed it has been written.Not just
another chapter but an entirely new book. One may see the the
beginning of the great American retreat across the oceans, if they are
lucky. Over 50,000 American soldiers have been medically evacuated out
of Iraq till Nov. 2004 (interesting number, is it not?)...

http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8300&s2=21

This is our Guernica
Ruined, cordoned Falluja is emerging as the decade's monument to brutality
(Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail, The Guardian)

...Remember Falluja? A city of some 300,000, which was alleged to be
the stronghold of armed resistance to the occupation. Two US attempts
were made to destroy this symbol of defiance last year. The first, in
April, fizzled out after Iraqi politicians, including many who
supported the invasion of their country, condemned the use of air
strikes to terrorise an entire city. The Americans called off the
attack, but not before hundreds of families had fled and more than 600
people had been killed. Six months later the Americans tried again.
This time Washington's allies had been talked to in advance.
Consistent US propaganda about the presence in Falluja of a top
al-Qaida figure, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was used to create a climate of
acquiescence in the US-appointed Iraqi government...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11348&s2=27

JAZEERA: The Horror Of Fallujah
Journalists Tell Of US Falluja Killings
(jihadunspun.com)

All is quiet in Falluja, or at least that is how it seems, given that
the mainstream media has largely forgotten about the Iraqi city. But
independent journalists are risking life and limb to bring out a very
different story. The picture they are painting is of US soldiers
killing whole families, including children, attacks on hospitals and
doctors, the use of napalm-like weapons and sections of the city
destroyed...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11599&s2=08

Fallujah: An Unnatural Disaster
(Joe Carr, Electronic Iraq)

Today, I did what few internationals have dared to do, I went to
Fallujah. Fallujah is completely surrounded by US Forces, the only way
in or out is through one of four very restrictive checkpoints. People
normally have to wait hours, but since we had our magic US passports,
we made it through in about 45 minutes. We did not observe them
searching any cars, soldiers just held-up traffic and slowly checked
IDs. Like Palestine, these checkpoints seem to have little to do with
security and more to do with harassment and intimidation. Fallujah is
devastating to drive through. There is more destruction and rubble
than I've ever seen in my life; even more than in Rafah, Gaza...

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12171&s2=31

WITH COMPLIMENTS


Il "presidente kosovaro" Ibrahim Rugova ha conferito pochi giorni fa a
Pristina una medaglia d'oro alla ex segretario di Stato USA Madeleine
Albright.
La Albright è stata premiata per avere contribuito in maniera
determinante a scatenare i bombardamenti della NATO contro la RF di
Jugoslavia nel 1999 - violando il diritto internazionale, commettendo
crimini di guerra, e ponendo le basi per la ennesima secessione su
base etnica-razziale sul territorio jugoslavo: quella della provincia
serba, dove, dal tempo dei bombardamenti, vige infatti un regime di
apartheid e discriminazione ai danni di tutte le nazionalità
non-albanesi nonchè ai danni degli albanesi non-secessionisti.

Il "presidente kosovaro" Rugova si era già distinto, quest'anno, tra
l'altro, per avere festeggiato l'anniversario dei bombardamenti NATO
sul proprio paese.
A Pristina, vie e piazze sono state in questi anni rinominate in onore
dei leader statunitensi ed occidentali (primo tra tutti: Bill Clinton)
che ordinarono quei bombardamenti.

(a cura di IS)


--- In yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com, Rick Rozoff wrote:

http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2005/07/albright-honoured-with-medal-in-kosovo.html

Agence France-Presse
July 5, 2005

Albright honoured with medal in Kosovo

-"Six years ago you gained your liberty. In the time
since, you have made good use of that freedom and in
the years to come you will be tested continually by
the demands of democracy," [Albright] said.
-Kosovo Albanians see Albright's efforts as crucial to
the international intervention, which went ahead
without United Nations approval and in the face of
opposition from Russia.
-Six years after the UN took control of Kosovo the
province remains economically paralysed and wracked by
ethnic hatreds, with the Serb minority in need of
constant protection from NATO peacekeepers.


PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - Former US Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright was presented with a 'Golden
Medal of Liberty' during a ceremony in the Kosovo
capital Pristina.

President Ibrahim Rugova presented the medal in honour
of Albright's efforts to end a Serbian crackdown
against ethnic Albanian separatists in the breakaway
Serbian province in 1998-1999.

The war ended after a NATO bombing campaign forced
Serbian forces under then Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic to withdraw. Kosovo is now a UN protectorate
but its ethnic Albanian majority still demands
independence.

"She will always be respected and loved," Rugova told
reporters Tuesday, after the decoration ceremony.

Albright also addressed the provincial assembly
Tuesday as part of her visit to promote democratic
values.

"Your name commands respect throughout Kosovo. Without
you the world would be completely different and Kosovo
wouldn't have brought its dream to fruition,"
parliamentary speaker Nexhat Daci said in his
introductory remarks.

Albright stressed economic stability, the rule of law
and minorities' rights as the biggest challenges that
Kosovo would face in the coming years.

"Six years ago you gained your liberty. In the time
since, you have made good use of that freedom and in
the years to come you will be tested continually by
the demands of democracy," she said.

"Your future is up to you, as it should be," she added
in the speech which was broadcast live by Kosovo's two
main television channels.

It is Albright's first visit to Kosovo since 1999 and
she would have been impressed by the Kosovo Albanians'
lingering affection for former US president Bill
Clinton, whose name adorns everything from hotels to
shopping malls.

Kosovo Albanians see Albright's efforts as crucial to
the international intervention, which went ahead
without United Nations approval and in the face of
opposition from Russia.

Albright arrived Monday on a three-day visit to the
province in her capacity as chairwoman of the National
Democratic Institute, a non-profit US-based
organization.

Six years after the UN took control of Kosovo the
province remains economically paralysed and wracked by
ethnic hatreds, with the Serb minority in need of
constant protection from NATO peacekeepers.

--- End forwarded message ---


http://www.tanjug.co.yu/

Tanjug (Serbia and Montenegro) - March 24, 2005


Rugova congratulates citizens on anniversary of NATO
air strikes


PRISTINA - Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova said on
Thursday that this province "has achieved big progress
in all areas in the six years of freedom".

In a message to citizens on the occasion of the 6th
anniversary of the onset of the NATO bombardments of
the FR Yugoslavia, Rugova said that "the direct
recognition of Kosovo's independence would make that
progress even greater."

---

Da: "icdsm_italia"
Data: Dom 10 Lug 2005 18:27:03 Europe/Rome
Oggetto: [icdsm-italia] Le risorgive carsiche di Peter Handke (di I.
Slavo)


LE RISORGIVE CARSICHE DI PETER HANDKE

Considerazioni in seguito alla lettura dell'ultimo lavoro di Handke
sulla Jugoslavia

di Italo Slavo


Con il passare degli anni, diventano sempre più numerose le opere di
Peter Handke - il più grande scrittore contemporaneo di lingua tedesca
- sulla questione jugoslava.
Aveva cominciato, subito dopo lo "shock" del 1991, con il pezzo breve
"Addio al sognatore del Nono Paese" (1991, in italiano all'interno di
"Jugoslavia perchè", a cura di Tommaso di Francesco), polemizzando
duramente con Milan Kundera per avere, quest'ultimo, proclamato il suo
sostegno alla secessione slovena nel nome della "Mitteleuropa".
Un'intervista in proposito rimane pubblicata su "Ai confini e nei
dintorni del nono paese", del 1994 (ed. Braitan). Più importante, il
libro "Viaggio d'inverno sui fiumi Danubio, Sava, Morava e Drina,
ovvero: Giustizia per la Serbia", e poi l'"Appendice estiva ad un
viaggio d'inverno" - entrambi apparsi in Italia con Einaudi nel 1996
e 1997. In seguito, nel 1999, si teneva la prima rappresentazione
della piéce "Viaggio in canoa, ovvero: Piéce su di un film di guerra",
amaramente sarcastica sul teatrino (quello si: teatrino delle
marionette) del giornalismo, della diplomazia e dell'interventismo
"umanitari".
Dopo la aggressione della NATO su Belgrado uscivano "Domandando tra le
lacrime" (2000), su due viaggi compiuti in Serbia nel 1999 - tradotto
in italiano come: "Un disinvolto mondo di criminali" (di nuovo per
Einaudi, 2002). Ed infine: "Attorno al Grande Tribunale" (2003, che
non ci risulta essere ancora apparso in Italia), a mo' di relazione
come osservatore al "processo Milosevic". Il tutto inframezzato da
ulteriori sporadiche interviste. E da polemiche. Recentemente, Handke
è stato di nuovo soggetto ad un violento attacco di stampa - per
l'esattezza, di nuovo da parte della Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
per aver devoluto la metà degli incassi di una sua piéce teatrale per
la causa intentata contro la NATO dalle vittime del bombardamento del
ponte di Varvarin (10 morti e ben più feriti).

Il testo "Le Tablas di Daimiel - relazione di un testimone di
passaggio sul processo contro Slobodan Milosevic", risale al gennaio
2005, ma appare solo adesso, nel fascicolo estivo del bimestrale
"Literaturen".
Handke sente di dover spiegare, con questo nuovo pezzo breve, la sua
rinuncia a comparire come testimone "a difesa" di Slobodan Milosevic.
Di fatto però lo scrittore prende spunto piuttosto dalla sua personale
esperienza di visitatore del Grande Tribunale per riassumere e
rielaborare, in queste venti pagine in lingua tedesca, un pò tutti i
suoi lavori e le sue considerazioni precedenti sul tema Jugoslavia.

Handke è uno dei circa 1600 testimoni citati "a difesa" da Milosevic.
Tuttavia: <<non mi va. Non voglio. Non posso>> comparire come
testimone per il Grande Tribunale, scrive Handke. Egli spiega di non
riconoscere la legittimità di un "tribunale" del tutto
auto-referenziale, la cui procedura cioè non ha precedenti ne' metri
di paragone. Esso è stato creato con un atto inedito, al di là di ogni
consuetudine giurisprudenziale nazionale ed internazionale: è dunque
al di fuori di ogni controllo. Al di là degli Stati, al di là delle
istituzioni, nato e confinato in uno spazio astratto, lontano
centomila miglia da qualsiasi società e senza alcun rispetto per la
divisione dei poteri nelle società reali.
Una Gilda, quella dei giudici - raffigurati in toga uno per uno in una
schiera di ritratti fotografici all'inizio della scalinata che porta
alla grande Aula 1, come fosse la galleria privata di un potente - che
non deve rispondere a nessuno.

<<La Giustizia è la Giustizia, è stata la dichiarazione di uno degli
attuali, episodici, fittizi detentori del potere in Serbia,
dichiarazione con la quale egli ha salutato il Tribunale
Internazionale e lo ha sostenuto. No, la Giustizia non è la Giustizia.
Ed "un testimone è un testimone?" No, un testimone non è un testimone.
Al limite, io mi considero un testimone di passaggio. Ed uno così -
forse non è il niente, ma certo è niente per il Tribunale.>>

D'altronde, un senso profondo di estraniazione assale chiunque, con
occhi innocenti, si avvicini al Grande Tribunale: lo spreco inaudito
di risorse (Handke ricorda l'insistenza con cui fu spinto a servirsi
delle automobili di servizio con conducente) da un lato, l'assenza dei
cittadini (le sale quasi senza pubblico, meno che mai olandese)
dall'altro; lo scenario asettico ed ipersorvegliato (le grandi
vetrate, le telecamere ed i grandi schermi) da un lato, il senso di
abbandono (la grande Aula 1 in penombra, per il solo Milosevic: <<in
effetti... benchè al primo piano, dà fortemente l'impressione di un
sotterraneo>>) dall'altro.

Chi è che frequenta questo brutto palazzone, ex sede della Camera di
Commercio olandese ma più simile ad un teatro in crisi di pubblico?

Sono solo pochissimi studenti di giurisprudenza di passaggio, assai
raramente i conoscenti degli imputati o persone interessate ai fatti,
singoli funzionari prezzolati di organizzazioni "non" governative,
pochissimi diplomatici. I giornalisti (qualcuno capita, ogni tanto, ma
si ferma con la sua troupe televisiva all'esterno dell'edificio) non
hanno bisogno di seguire le udienze - innanzitutto perchè non sono
interessati ad un reale approfondimento dei fatti (si limitano a
ripetere in centomila salse la stessa identica versione
dell'Imperatore), e poi perchè possono usufruire, se proprio vogliono
o devono, delle connessioni web e tv a circuito chiuso.

Handke spiega di essere comunque voluto andare a visitare Milosevic in
cella nell'estate 2004 - quasi contemporaneamente alla visita da parte
del giornalista del quotidiano francese Figaro (vedi l'edizione del 6
agosto 2004: "Parla Milosevic") - più che altro per un "dovere"
(testuale), un dovere di conoscenza e di chiarimento con l'ex
presidente jugoslavo.
Per parlare del suo incontro, Handke si avvale in gran parte di (e
commenta) l'articolo del Figaro, con le sue incongruenze ed ambivalenze.

Di fatto, durante l'incontro con Handke, era stato <<quasi solo
Milosevic a parlare, con tutta l'energia, la presenza di spirito, che
ben conoscevo avendo assistito al suo processo, ma con in più forse
una specie di tranquillità, non dovendo, qui nell'ufficio, contraddire
nulla o dimostrare qualcosa a qualcuno...>>
Milosevic si esprimeva in una maniera che <<non era ne' privata ne'
pubblica, piuttosto una combinazione, anzi una unione di entrambe, una
maniera così ovvia, così naturale, come non mi era ancora mai capitato
da nessun politico... mentre tutt'attorno alla prigione imperversava
una implacabile tempesta da Mare del Nord, e mi veniva da pensare alla
giornalista di Libération, che aveva contestato il mio pezzo "Attorno
al Grande Tribunale" - in cui avevo messo sotto accusa il suo giornale
- bollandolo come "non professionale" perchè io lì avevo menzionato
anche certi fiori di Scheveningen...>>

Milosevic si dilunga, dinanzi allo scrittore, seduto vicino ad un muro
con una sola finestra in alto, una finestra "senza vista" - così aveva
già notato il giornalista del Figaro -, a spiegare in che cosa
avessero consistito le sue famose, per alcuni famigerate, di fatto
completamente fraintese, visite e manifestazioni in Kosovo nel 1987 e
1989.
E Milosevic sciorina, davanti al sostanzialmente estraneo, benchè
noto, scrittore, dettagli ed estratti da articoli di giornali
occidentali.
Tre ore a spiegarsi, davanti ad un ospite che in fondo non glielo
richiedeva, quasi come per allenamento, oppure quasi come per non
perdere l'occasione, visto che questo "tribunale", di occasioni per
spiegare essendo ascoltati davvero, non ne fornisce.
Lunghe spiegazioni che sfiniscono l'ascoltatore, mentre Milosevic:
<<non un tremito della voce, non un tremore nella mano, ne' un rossore
sul volto>> - nonostante i noti problemi di pressione alta. Ed in più,
nel corso di tre ore, Milosevic fuma un paio di sigarette, ed il
caffé, preparato da lui stesso, lo offre ai suoi visitatori.

Handke vorrebbe porre domande su tutt'altro, per parlare d'altro - gli
chiede della marca di sigarette, e se senta la mancanza dei fiumi Sava
e Morava, e gli accenna alle sue visite a Pozarevac, al museo
civico... ma a Milosevic interessa portare fino in fondo il suo
discorso, il suo ragionamento. Quando Handke lo definisce "un
personaggio tragico" (pentendosene poi), Milosevic tradisce una
smorfia di irrigidimento. Addirittura appare "patetico", Milosevic,
quando - sempre nel suo tono uguale, serio, senza accenti esclamativi
- afferma che non si tratta della sua persona, ma della verità: "sarà
la verità a vincere."

<<Quello che io, sulla verità destinata a vincere, pensassi, me lo
sono tenuto per me; e non intendo parlarne nemmeno qui.>>

"Lei ritiene che sia stato solo un caso se l'accusa contro di me è
stata resa pubblica mentre gli aerei della NATO bombardavano il mio
paese?" (il 26 maggio 1999), aveva chiesto Milosevic al giornalista
del Figaro. Quest'ultimo spiegava invece candidamente al lettore che,
ci mancherebbe!, il Grande Tribunale può lavorare liberamente, in
totale autonomia, come solo nelle democrazie occidentali... Ah! Ma
Milosevic, che viene da un paese e da un partito "comunista", ai
tribunali imparziali non ci crede - dice il giornalista del Figaro.

Handke vede le cose con altri occhiali.
<<La mia "intima convinzione" mi porta non solo a ritenere che
Slobodan Milosevic sia di fronte alla corte sbagliata, ma anche che
egli sia - "innocente" proprio no (questa, come ho già detto, non è
cosa che mi riguardi), ma sicuramente: "non colpevole nel senso
dell'accusa", e neanche nel senso dell'organizzazione del processo.>>
Alcune immagini, toni ed impressioni sono bastate allo scrittore per
formarsi quella "intima convinzione": le immagini, i toni e le
impressioni dello scrittore, appunto, quelle che in letteratura dicono
tutto, condensando le verità e le personalità più profonde in poche
parole rivelatrici.

Il linguaggio sperimentale e poetico dell'Handke narratore, il suo
argomentare per impressioni, che non sente il bisogno di discernere
rigorosamente le cause dagli effetti, lo stile "girovagante" tipico di
questo autore, sono ben noti. Handke "gira attorno" ("Umkreisen") -
tra le nuvole? senza verificare l'ancoraggio col terreno? -, lasciando
cadere come gocce di pioggia queste impressioni che hanno la struttura
e la consistenza dei pensieri. Lo dice lui stesso: solo scrivendo ha
chiarito a se stesso i suoi pensieri. Pensieri, immagini, impressioni,
ahinoi confinate su di un bimestrale di letteratura, nel circuito
sostanzialmente chiuso del dibattito letterario contemporaneo (tra
"iniziati" dunque?), che aiutano a ristabilire elementi di conoscenza
solo indirettamente, in maniera traslata - per le questioni che
evocano, per la curiosità ed il discorso che suscitano, negli ambiti
in cui lo suscitano.

Questa è d'altronde l'opera artistica di Handke, ed insieme è la sua
testimonianza come intellettuale sincero - neanche "impegnato": più
semplicemente "sincero", che ritrasmette esperienze sue reali. Tanto
che Handke si dichiara esplicitamente contrario alla scrittura di una
qualsivoglia "relazione" ("Expertenzeugnis") attorno ai fatti di cui è
accusato Milosevic, relazione che pure gli era stato richiesto di
scrivere da uno degli "avvocati d'ufficio" di Milosevic. Del tutto
diffidente verso gli "specialisti" dei Balcani, Handke
comprensibilmente contesta quelle <<analisi, inevitabilmente
incatenate alle opinioni - e non semplicemente opinioni, ma vere e
proprie prese di posizione.>>
Ma si può evitare di prendere posizione? E se anche si potesse,
sarebbe lecito?

Infatti nemmeno Handke si sottrae dal prendere posizione, a modo suo:
andando a zonzo, come è uso fare, in letteratura e nella vita.
Racconta di essersi fatto lasciare apposta, dopo la visita,
dall'autista del "tribunale" (per la sorpresa di quest'ultimo) in
mezzo ad un bel nulla, per fare quattro passi. Racconta il suo
girovagare per Pristina, nella primavera 1996, ed il suo raccogliere
parole, sensazioni ed immagini, il comprendere da queste in maniera
subitanea la condizione di isolamento, di esclusione, di minoranza di
quelli che, su quel territorio, usavano l'alfabeto cirillico. Racconta
di incontri a Srebrenica nel 1993, di aver saputo dalla voce dei suoi
ospiti e dai canti del "guslar" delle devastazioni di Nasir Oric, del
massacro di Kravica (natale ortodosso 1993), della rabbia, di averne
parlato con i parenti delle vittime, serbi, illusi che il mondo
sappia! (e che contrasto con le "madri di Srebrenica", quelle
organizzate ed attivate come orologi a carica ad uso e consumo della
opinione pubblica occidentale).
Racconta dell'incontro con i profughi dal Kosovo, in una camera di un
albergo di provincia riadattata a rifugio, nella città di Negotin,
verso la Romania: nei loro spazi angusti, rinchiusi tra camere e
corridoi, senza contatti o prospettive fuori da quelle mura, senza
alcuna speranza, "assenti" per chi è all'esterno ed in qualche modo
anche a loro stessi, a sognare di riunirsi con familiari "più
fortunati" lontanissimo, in Brasile o Canada. Racconta di aver
visitato profughi anche sulla Fruska Gora, e di avere scoperto
l'atelier di un pittore, e di avere scoperto i suoi quadri viceversa
forti di speranza come quelli di Max Beckmann.

Con questo perciò in effetti termina il contributo dato da Handke al
"ristabilimento della verità": la verità di Handke è una verità
artistica. La sua può essere dunque solo una testimonianza
artistico-letteraria, non valida dal punto di vista giudiziario.
E dal punto di vista storico-politico?

Di analoga letteratura sulla distruzione della Jugoslavia, stranamente
(o forse no), c'è poco di fruibile per noi. La maggiorparte è opera di
altri "testimoni di passaggio", trovatisi ad essere scrittori per
caso, talvolta addirittura controvoglia, per la impellente necessità
di raccontare. Ci sono soprattutto, infatti, altri diari di viaggio
(in senso stretto o in senso lato) - Kurt Koepruner, Mariella Cataldo,
Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti, Babsi Jones - che miscelano
informazione preziosa e testimonianza personale; e quest'ultima ha
necessariamente un risvolto lirico. C'è poi la poesia di Bruna
Sibille-Sizia. Sono tutti contributi di conoscenza - meglio laddove,
come questo di Handke, hanno un grande valore artistico aggiunto.

Ma gli anni passano, le "sedute" del Grande Tribunale pure, e noi
abbiamo ancora drammaticamente bisogno di conoscenza puntuale dei
fatti, oltre che di conoscenza artistica, e da queste (entrambe, se
vogliamo) abbiamo bisogno di passare immediatamente alla politica,
alla lotta politica; perchè solo "la politica" significa uscire dalla
dimensione individuale, personale o inter-personale dell'avvenimento,
per entrare in una dimensione collettiva e storica, e per potere
interpretare e dunque raccontare l'avvenimento nel suo complesso,
descrivendolo per quello che esso è oggettivamente - nel senso proprio
di: "al di là della esperienza individuale" - così che esso sia
conoscibile da tutti.

Noi abbiamo dunque ancora o avremmo drammaticamente bisogno di dati,
di date, di nomi e cognomi, luoghi, articoli di legge, circostanze:
abbiamo bisogno di uno sforzo titanico di organizzazione delle
conoscenze su questo avvenimento, su questo oggetto di analisi
(storica, politica, o artistica): "la distruzione della Jugoslavia".
E su questo invece abbiamo solo dei pezzi, dei brandelli di discorso.

Non sto parlando più solamente di Handke: sto parlando di tutti quelli
che sono, che sanno di essere testimoni (ad esempio in quanto vittime
- troppi - o in quanto conoscenti, frequentatori di vittime - troppo
inutili) del crimine epocale commesso con la distruzione della
Jugoslavia. A tutti costoro vorrei dire: usciamo dal fatto privato,
dall'"impressione sconvolgente", dallo shock di essere stati ed essere
tuttora testimoni del crimine e di non trovare mezzi, o un uditorio
adeguato, per comunicare l'esperienza traumatica - del tipo di quelle
che bisogna comunicare subito, per una esigenza direi compulsiva, per
non diventare pazzi -, e trasformiamo l'esperienza personale ed
individuale (viaggio, incontro, rabbia, adozione o amore, girovagare o
fare teatro, insomma: il "vissuto") in azione collettiva, dunque in
azione politica. Se vogliamo non solo "testimoniare", ma finalmente
rendere giustizia - che sia "per la Serbia", per Milosevic, ma meglio
ancora: per la Jugoslavia.

Le "Tablas" sono delle placide pozze d'acqua risorgiva, che affiora
nei pressi di Daimiel, nella Mancha, vicino Toledo. Frutto di un
fenomeno carsico, esse sono immerse nel verde come grandi pupille,
specchi d'acqua che nascondono le sorgenti del rio Guadiana. Lo
scrittore era a Daimiel due o tre anni fa: secondo le locandine
turistiche, per le Tablas non c'era alcun collegamento regolare via
bus o treno, perciò Handke prese una vettura privata. L'autista era
stranamente ritroso, come se la destinazione - le Tablas - fosse
insufficiente.
Quando arrivarono sul posto, le Tablas erano solo dei fantasmi: il
conducente spiegò che erano scomparse da secoli, a causa degli
interventi operati dall'uomo, per portare l'acqua sui terreni
agricoli: rimanevano solo delle zone più scure nel verde, chiazze di
umido in un terreno altrimenti asciutto che pareva la steppa. La gente
del luogo si era opposta ad una ricostruzione artificiale delle Tablas
di una volta; ed in effetti, tutto questo veniva spiegato, in fondo in
fondo, nel depliant dell'agenzia del turismo.

<<"Mi hanno tolto qualcosa - disse il guidatore - e non solo a me: a
noi." Ed involontariamente, sorpreso dalla mia stessa domanda, gli
chiesi allora della Jugoslavia... L'uomo di Daimiel si disse
"informato". Ma il suo essere informato, laggiù lontano, era diverso
da quello dei vicini... diverso anche da quello del suo connazionale
di Bruxelles, quello che, con l'eterna smorfia sul viso, aveva avuto a
che fare con la Guerra Umanitaria della NATO contro la Jugoslavia, con
commandos di bombe e missili, e da allora aveva continuato a portare e
portava tuttora quella smorfia nelle sue ripetute azioni umanitarie in
giro per il mondo. La risposta del mio interlocutore me la tengo per
me. Quella domanda magari non gliel'avrei posta, se non avessi intuito
in anticipo la risposta.>>

Handke interviene sulla questione jugoslava con ricorrenza carsica:
episodicamente, quando qualcosa del suo lavoro e delle sue riflessioni
riesce peraltro a filtrare dallo schermo dei mass-media e di un
sistema-mercato culturale sostanzialmente totalitario, privo di
generosità, privo di libertà. Ecco: il lavoro di Handke, il suo
girovagare, a ben vedere non è "tra le nuvole", non è in una qualche
intellettualistica "torre d'avorio", ma proprio al contrario,
simmetricamente: è sotterraneo, è speleologico. Le sue scoperte di
"testimone di passaggio" sono come le risorgive del Carso. Il fiume
però, quello che la nostra rabbia vorrebbe veder non solo affiorare,
ma straripare, quello rimane inesorabilmente sottoterra.

Mi si lasci aggiungere qualcosa ancora, che Handke non dice.

Dentro. La sensazione, per chi entra nel Grande Tribunale, è quella di
una dimensione surreale. Vi si svolge qualcosa che dovrebbe entrare
nella Storia, ma in una maniera tanto recitata e falsa, e nel
disinteresse totale non solo del mondo attorno, ma anche, e
sostanziale, degli addetti ai lavori, indifferenti, che resta un senso
grande di disagio. Gli argomenti affrontati nelle aule dovrebbero
essere sconvolgenti, avendo segnato il destino di circa 23 milioni di
persone: eppure il giovane borsista sorosiano che, seduto davanti alla
vetrata in quasi perfetta solitudine, segue l'udienza, sbadiglia.

Fuori. L'Olanda non ha alcun rapporto con quello che succede nel
"tribunale". L'Olanda vede o sente il "tribunale" in TV, come tutti:
se, come, e quando la TV ne da notizia. L'Olanda è un paese nuvoloso
come i cieli di Vermeer van Delft (dei quali Handke infatti parla), ma
la vita sociale sembra vivace. Ma che vita è? Per qualsiasi viandante
(ma Handke non ne parla) l'Olanda è innanzitutto il paese dei
traffici, in senso stretto ed in senso lato. È la prima cosa che si
nota! I porti, le navi, i treni, i tram, le autostrade, gli aerei e le
biciclette. I traffici: ad esempio, lo sfruttamento della
prostituzione (siete mai stati ad Amsterdam?); la compravendita di
preziosi e di droghe (leggere e pesanti), il consumo dissennato delle
merci nei grandi magazzini (ad esempio nell'area pedonale centro
dell'Aia); il riciclaggio di denaro nei grandi casino' e nei
grandissimi hotel. Quel lusso ostentato, proprio al lido dell'Aia:
proprio a Scheveningen, proprio su quelle dune del Mare del Nord su
cui hanno appoggiato il castelletto in cui ora è rinchiuso, con altri,
Milosevic - tra un boschetto, le casette basse dei ricchi, e la
spiaggia. Quel castelletto che 60 anni fa era usato dai nazisti per
rinchiudere i resistenti.
Fuori da quella prigione è l'Occidente corrotto come le puttane,
viziato come i drogati, opportunista come i giornalisti ed ipocrita
come i ricchi - l'Occidente al suo massimo stadio di cinismo. Ecco
perchè l'edificio del "tribunale" è lì, e non altrove.


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Cipro: 60 cadaveri grecociprioti in 'Ministero' Nicosia nord

NICOSIA - I resti di almeno 60 greco-ciprioti, uccisi durante
l'invasione militare turca di Cipro dell'estate 1974, sono stati
rinvenuti, chiusi in contenitori e in ambiente refrigerato, negli
scantinati di un edificio della parte Nord della capitale Nicosia,
ancora sotto occupazione turca, che ospita la sede del cosiddetto
'Ministero degli esteri' della Repubblica turca di Cipro del Nord
(Rtcn, riconosciuta solo da Ankara, e non dalla comunità internazionale).

La macabra vicenda è stata rivelata dallo stesso leader turco-cipriota
Mehmet Alì Talat in un'intervita al quotidiano greco-cipriota
'Politis' ed ha provocato profonda emozione nella comunità
greco-cipriota dell'isola. Ci si interroga ora perchè e come sia stato
possibile che per oltre 30 anni i resti di una sessantina di loro
compatrioti siano stati 'nascosti' dalla autorità della Rtcn.

(Fonte: www.contropiano.org, 8 luglio 2005)

Details zum "Skorpion" Video

[Ancora in merito al video presentato come "prova inconfutabile del
massacro di 8000 innocenti a Srebrenica": alcune dettagliate analisi
dall'ottimo quotidiano tedesco Junge Welt e da altri siti di
controinformazione...]

Medien und Krieg - Das 'Massaker von Srebrenica'
Details zum "Skorpion" Video unter:

http://www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/index-srebrenica-0005.html

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Junge Welt, 08.06.2005

Jürgen Elsässer

Das Video der »Skorpione«

Ein Filmdokument über ein Massaker an wehrlosen Gefangenen erschüttert
Serbien.
Die Behauptung, die Einheit habe der Regierung in Belgrad
unterstanden, ist unbewiesen

Am Mittwoch letzter Woche zeigte der Anklagevertreter den
Filmausschnitt im Haager Prozeß gegen den früheren jugoslawischen
Präsidenten Slobodan Milosevic, noch am gleichen Tag strahlten ihn
serbische Fernsehstationen aus - und in der Zwischenzeit ist er zum
Topthema der Westmedien avanciert. Zu sehen ist ein grausames
Massaker, im Sommer 1995 von Angehörigen einer serbischen
Sondereinheit mit dem Namen »Skorpione« begangen. Sechs
bosnisch-muslimische Soldaten - vermutlich bei der Einnahme von
Srebrenica am 11. Juli 1995 in Gefangenschaft geraten - liegen
gefesselt und mit dem Gesicht nach unten auf einem Lastwagen. Eine
Wache kickt einem gegen den Kopf. Später werden die armen Teufel von
der Pritsche geholt und, einer nach dem anderen, von hinten in den
Kopf geschossen. Nachdem die ersten vier tot sind, nimmt man den
letzten beiden die Fesseln ab und befiehlt ihnen, die Leichen
fortzuschleppen. Schließlich werden auch sie exekutiert. Serbiens
Premier Vojislav Kostunica sprach von einem »brutalen, gnadenlosen und
beschämenden Verbrechen«, und die Tageszeitung Politika kommentierte:
»Kein Produkt aus Hollywood, sondern leider der nackte, brutale und
bestialische Mord, den einige Serben an Leuten aus Srebrenica begangen
haben, weil sie keine Serben waren.« Umgehend wurden vier Angehörige
der mittlerweile aufgelösten Eliteeinheit verhaftet, darunter ihr
Kommandeur Slobodan Medic.

Smoking guns

So verabscheuungswürdig diese Taten und diese Täter sind, so wenig
sollten sie für politische Propaganda benutzt werden. Ausdruck dieser
Propaganda ist etwa der Kommentar des Londoner Observer vom Sonntag:
»Das Band ist das rauchende Gewehr (the smoking gun), denn es ist der
letzte unbestreitbare Beweis für die Verwicklung Serbiens in die
Srebrenica-Massaker, bei denen mehr als 7 500 bosnische Männer und
Jungen ermordet wurden.«

Der Film beweist den scheußlichen Mord an sechs Menschen - nicht an
über 7 500. Würden die westlichen Angaben stimmen, müßte es eigentlich
auch darüber Bilddokumente geben, denn das fragliche Gebiet rund um
Srebrenica wurde damals rund um die Uhr von US-Satelliten überwacht.
Tatsächlich zeigte die damalige US-Botschafterin bei den Vereinten
Nationen, Madeleine Albright, kurz nach der Einnahme der UN-Schutzzone
Aufnahmen, auf denen zusammengetriebene Gefangene und später
planiertes Erdreich zu sehen waren. Seltsamerweise gibt es aber keine
Satellitenaufnahmen von den Massenerschießungen, obwohl diese, sofern
sie stattgefunden haben, stundenlang gedauert haben müssen.

Milosevic und die Skorpione

Für Milosevic ist entscheidend, ob er die These entkräften kann, die
»Skorpione« seien Teil der serbischen Sonderpolizei (MUP) gewesen oder
hätten immerhin Befehle aus Belgrad bekommen. Die Uniformen auf dem
Video sprechen nicht unbedingt dafür, sie sind bunt zusammengewürfelt,
manche haben serbische Hoheitszeichen, andere nicht. Andererseits
waren einige der Killer auf dem Video auch im Kosovo 1999 wieder aktiv
- als Präsident führte Milosevic damals das Kommando. Nun verweist
seine Verteidigung darauf, daß die »Skorpione« 1999 nicht als
geschlossene Einheit zum Einsatz kamen, sondern sich lediglich
einzelne ihrer Veteranen bei Kriegsbeginn wieder hatten aktivieren
lassen. Von ihren Verbrechen in Bosnien habe man nichts gewußt.

Die stärkste Unterstützung für Milosevic findet sich in der Aussage
von Milan Milanovic. Der war Vizeverteidigungsminister der
Krajina-Republik gewesen, die die serbische Minderheit in Kroatien
zwischen 1991 und 1995 gebildet hatte. In dieser Funktion habe er
selbst die Sondereinheit der »Skorpione« im Mai 1992 aufgestellt, und
diese hätten später auch in Bosnien dem Krajina-Kommando unterstanden.
Erst 1994 seien sie schließlich der MUP-Polizei eingegliedert worden,
aber nicht der jugoslawisch-serbischen mit Hauptquartier in Belgrad,
sondern der bosnisch-serbischen mit Hauptquartier in Pale. Stimmt die
Aussage, gibt es keine Verbindung zwischen Milosevic und den
»Skorpionen«. Und warum sollte sie nicht stimmen: Milanovic machte die
Angaben am 14. Oktober 2003 vor dem Haager Gericht - und zwar als
Zeuge der Anklage. Hätte es mehr Belastendes gegeben, hätte er es wohl
gesagt.

In der kommenden Woche schließlich wird der Chef der niederländischen
UN-Truppen, General Thom Karremans, in Den Haag aussagen. Dessen
Report über antiserbische Übergriffe rund um Srebrenica dürfte nicht
das mediale Interesse finden wie der jetzt präsentierte Horrorfilm.

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http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-16/007.php

16.06.2005

Ausland
Anneliese Fikentscher / Andreas Neumann

»Bilder lügen nicht«, sagt man

Über einige Widersprüchlichkeiten im Video, das die Exekution von
sechs Moslems durch die serbische Sondereinheit »Skorpione« zeigt

Am Mittwoch, dem 1. Juni 2005, wurde im Rahmen des Prozesses gegen den
ehemaligen Präsidenten der Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien, Slobodan
Milosevic, am UN-Tribunal in Den Haag ein Video vorgeführt, das einen
Zusammenhang zwischen dem Angeklagten und dem sogenannten
Srebrenica-Massaker beweisen soll. »Mordbefehl aus Belgrad«, ist der
diesbezügliche Artikel im aktuellen Spiegel bezeichnenderweise
überschrieben.

Gehen wir der Frage nach, wo sich die im Film gezeigten Ereignisse
zugetragen haben sollen. Im Standard vom 4. Juni lesen wir: in
Srebrenica. So verbreitet es auch das Schweizer Fernsehen am 3. Juni
in der Sendung »10 vor 10«. Bei DPA erfahren wir am 3. Juni: nahe
Trnovo. Das schreibt am 4. Juni auch die taz. Im St. Galler Tagblatt
vom 4. Juni erfahren wir, wo Trnovo liegt, nämlich nahe des
ostbosnischen Städtchens Srebrenica. Das hätten wir auch angenommen.
Denn die dargestellten Szenen sollen ja etwas mit Srebrenica zu tun
haben. Bei tagesschau.de lesen wir am 7. Juni, daß Trnovo östlich von
Sarajevo liegt. Auch diese Angabe kommt uns plausibel vor. Denn
schließlich liegt auch Srebrenica östlich von Sarajevo. Und wir können
wiederum annehmen, daß Trnovo in der Nähe von Srebrenica gelegen ist.

Aber dann lesen wir: »Laut [Serbiens Innenminister Dragan] Jocic trug
sich die aufgezeichnete Erschießung der sechs Einwohner der
ostbosnischen Moslem-Enklave Srebrenica am 16. oder 17. Juli 1995
unweit des Dorfes Trnovo am Berg Jahorina zu.« Mit dieser Angabe
können wir den Ort Trnovo endlich lokalisieren. Das Bergmassiv
Jahorina liegt 20 bis 30 Kilometer südlich von Sarajevo. Hier haben im
Februar 1984 die olympischen Winterspiele stattgefunden. Und dort
finden wir tatsächlich Trnovo. Der Ort ist nach Angabe serbischer
Zeitungen etwa 160 Kilometer von Srebrenica entfernt. Wenn das Video
ein Beweis für das sogenannte Massaker von Srebrenica ist – fand dann
dieses Massaker gar nicht in Srebrenica statt?


Juni, Juli oder November

Kommen wir nun zur Frage, wann sich die dargestellten Ereignisse
zugetragen haben sollen. In der Sendung »10 vor 10« des Schweizer
Fernsehens SF1 haben wir am 3. Juni erfahren: am 11. Juli 1995, also
am Tag, an dem die bosnisch-serbischen Truppen in das Gebiet von
Srebrenica einmarschiert sind. »Laut [Serbiens Innenminister Dragan]
Jocic trug sich die aufgezeichnete Erschießung der sechs Einwohner der
ostbosnischen Moslem-Enklave Srebrenica am 16. oder 17. Juli 1995 ...
zu.« Das schreibt Der Standard am 4. Juni. Und dem schließt sich am 6.
Juni in etwa auch die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung an.

Der Stern dagegen kommt zu einem ganz anderen Ergebnis: »Die Opfer
wurden in der Stadt [Srebrenica] und in den umliegenden Dörfern
zusammengetrieben und anschließend erschossen... Azmir, Zivilist und
unbewaffnet, soll, so hat seine Mutter erfahren, noch vier Monate in
einem serbischen Lager verbracht haben, ehe er vor der laufenden
Kamera der Henker nahe Trnovo erschossen wurde.« Das ›Massaker von
Srebrenica‹ hat gar nicht – so müssen wir daraus schließen – wie
behauptet im Juli 1995, sondern erst im November 1995 stattgefunden.
Die Gedenkfeiern zum zehnten Jahrestag müssen also nicht nur in die
Gegend von Sarajevo verlagert, sondern auch um einige Monate
verschoben werden – folgern wir.

Die willkürlichen Zeitangaben erfolgen vor dem Hintergrund, daß das
Video selbst ausgerechnet bei den Massakerszenen keine Datumszeile
hat. In allen vorhergehenden Sequenzen sind die Stationen der
Sondereinheit »Skorpione« penibel mit einem mitlaufenden Datum
versehen worden – die letzte so ausgewiesene Sequenz wurde demnach am
25. Juni 1995 gedreht. Doch die Einnahme von Srebrenica durch
serbische Truppen fand erst am 10. Juli 1995 statt. Das Video beweist
nicht, ob die Erschießungen in den 15 Tagen zuvor oder später stattfanden.

* Mehr zum Thema unter: www.arbeiterfotografie.com

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http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/06-16/005.php

16.06.2005

Ausland
Anna Gutenberg / Jürgen Elsässer

Milosevic muß schweigen

»Spinne« und »Skorpione« – westliche Geheimdienste und Srebrenica.
Haager Richter verhindern Aufdeckung unliebsamer Fakten

Eklat in Den Haag: Am gestrigen Mittwoch wollte der ehemalige
jugoslawische Staatschef Slobodan Milosevic die Schlußbefragung seines
Zeugen Obrad Stevanovic nutzen, um unterdrückte Fakten über das
sogenannte Massaker von Srebrenica zu präsentieren. Doch der leitende
Richter Patrick Robinson unterbrach den Angeklagten mehrfach, beendete
das Kreuzverhör vorzeitig und verlor sogar die sprichwörtliche
angelsächsische Coolness. »Sie mißbrauchen das Gericht! Sie beleidigen
uns!«, schrie Robinson Milosevic an. Noch nie zuvor seit Prozeßbeginn
im Frühjahr 2002 hat ein Richter seine Voreingenommenheit so
offensichtlich zum Ausdruck gebracht.


Der Serbe wird frech

Was war geschehen? Milosevic wird wegen der Ereignisse nach der
Einnahme von Srebrenica im Juli 1995 des Völkermordes beschuldigt. In
dem ostbosnischen Städtchen seien über 7 000 wehrlose Muslime von
serbischen Einheiten massakriert worden, behauptet die Anklageschrift.
Schon die Ankündigung Milosevics, dieses Dogma vom Völkermord in
Srebrenica beweiskräftig in Frage stellen zu wollen, brachte den
beisitzenden Richter Ian Bonomy gestern in Harnisch. Ob der Serbe
»denn bestreiten wolle, daß es in Srebrenica ein Massaker gegeben«,
brauste er auf. »Keineswegs«, erwiderte Milosevic. Es gehe jedoch
darum, endlich der Wahrheit über die Abläufe näher zu kommen. Zum
einen glaube er nicht, daß die offizielle Todeszahl haltbar sei, zum
anderen gebe es ernsthafte Gründe anzunehmen, daß ausländische
Geheimdienste mitgemischt hatten, so Milosevic. Dazu wollte der
Angeklagte eine Aussage des französischen Blauhelm-Generals Philippe
Morillon zitieren. Doch dazu kam es nicht.

Mit allen Mitteln soll offenbar erreicht werden, daß zum zehnten
Jahrestag der Ereignisse in Srebrenica – am 10. Juli ist der Jahrestag
des Falls der Stadt – ausschließlich über die serbische Schuld
diskutiert wird. Dazu war ein Videofilm recht nützlich, der im Gericht
zu Monatsanfang ausgestrahlt und danach in den internationalen Medien
breit diskutiert wurde. Er zeigt eine serbische Polizeisondereinheit,
die »Skorpione«, bei der kaltblütigen Exekution von sechs wehrlosen
muslimischen Gefangenen. Obwohl die Authentizität des Streifens auch
von Milosevic nicht bestritten wird, ist der vielbehauptete
Zusammenhang der Bluttat mit der Eroberung von Srebrenica alles andere
als bewiesen. Vor allem aber ist strittig, ob diese Einheit ihre
Befehle aus Belgrad bekam. Nach Aussage des Gründers der Einheit,
eines gewissen Milan Milanovic, unterstanden die Skorpione nicht den
jugoslawischen Behörden, sondern jenen der abtrünnigen
Serbenrepubliken in der Krajina und in Bosnien. Dies sagte Milanovic
vor dem Haager Gericht am 14. Oktober 2003 aus – und zwar als Zeuge
der Anklage. Nachdenklich macht auch, was ein weiterer Gewährsmann der
Anklage am 2. April 2003 aussagte, der geschützte (anonyme) Zeuge
B-071: Er sah die »Skorpione« während des bosnischen Bürgerkrieges in
NATO-Tarnuniformen.


Die »Spinne« sticht

Während in diesem Fall noch reichlich unklar ist, wer die giftigen
Insekten zum Töten schickte, verdichten sich in einem anderen die
Indizien – und genau deswegen mußte Milosevic gestern am Sprechen
gehindert werden. »Die Spinne« ist der Name einer zweiten serbischen
Sondereinheit, die im Sommer 1995 grausige Massaker an mehreren
hundert moslemischen Zivilisten verübte – im Unterschied zu den
»Skorpionen« sogar in unmittelbarer Nähe von Srebrenica, nämlich auf
einer Farm im Dörfchen Pilica. Einer der deswegen in Den Haag
Verurteilten, Drazen Erdemovic, gab bei seiner Vernehmung an, daß ihm
und den anderen Soldaten ein Befehl der obersten Armeeführung bekannt
gemacht worden sei, wonach »unter keinen Umständen« Zivilisten
angegriffen werden dürften. Doch von ihren unmittelbaren Vorgesetzten
hätten sie andere Order bekommen. Zu diesen Vorgesetzten gehörten
unter anderem die »Spinne«-Mitglieder Jugoslav Petrusic und Milorad
Pelemis. Petrusic hat neben der jugoslawischen auch die französische
Staatsbürgerschaft und ist wohl ein Mann des französischen
Geheimdienstes. Fakt ist jedenfalls, daß er 1997 einen Trupp von 180
serbischen Söldnern nach Zaire führte, wo sie sich auf der Seite des
von Frankreich gestützten Diktators Mobutu schlugen. Aufhorchen läßt
auch, daß die FAZ am 7. Dezember 1999 schrieb, daß Angehörige der
Spinne »mit der Sonderpolizei des montenegrinischen
Republikspräsidenten Djukanovic zusammenarbeiteten«. Der war zu dem
Zeitpunkt vom Westen schon zum Gegenspieler Milosevics aufgebaut
worden. Ende November 1999 wurden »Dominik Yugo« – so der Spitzname
von Petrusic – und vier weitere »Spinne«-Kombattanten von den
jugoslawischen Behörden unter dem Vorwurf verhaftet, ein Attentat auf
Milosevic vorbereitet zu haben.

Eine Vernehmung Petrusic wurde damals gefilmt und auf
Pressekonferenzen gezeigt. An einer Stelle hält er Dokumente des
französischen Innenministeriums in die Kamera. »Von denen« erhalte er
kein Geld, beteuert Petrusic. Er werde bezahlt, indem er gute Jobs als
Leibwächter angeboten bekomme, »zum Beispiel für die Prinzessin von
Katar«.

Ob man dieses Video auch einmal in Den Haag zu sehen bekommen wird?

--- In yugoslaviainfo @ yahoogroups.com, Predrag Tosic wrote:

[ An excellent and timely piece by American university professor and
author Edward Herman.

An excerpt: "[...] Croatian authorities were also delighted with the
claims of a Srebrenica massacre, as this deflected attention from their
prior devastating ethnic cleansing of Serbs and Bosnian Muslims in
Western Bosnia (almost entirely ignored by the Western media), [6] and it
provided a cover for their already planned removal of several hundred
thousand Serbs from the Krajina area in Croatia. This massive ethnic
cleansing operation was carried out with U.S. approval and logistical
support within a month of the Srebrenica events, and it may well have
involved the killing of more Serb civilians than Bosnian Muslim
civilians
killed in the Srebrenica area in July: most of the Bosnian Muslim victims
were fighters, not civilians, as the Bosnian Serbs bused the Srebrenica
women and children to safety; the Croatians made no such provision and
many women, children and old people were slaughtered in Krajina. [7] The
ruthlessness of the Croats was impressive: "UN troops watched horrified
as Croat soldiers dragged the bodies of dead Serbs along the road
outside
the UN compound and then pumped them full of rounds from the AK-47s. They
then crushed the bullet-ridden bodies under the tracks of a tank." [8]
But
this was hardly noticed in the wake of the indignation and propaganda
generated around Srebrenica with the aid of the mainstream media, whose
co-belligerency role in the Balkan wars was already well-entrenched. [9]"

P. T. ]



http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=8244

ZMAG (USA)

The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre*

by Edward S. Herman; July 07, 2005


"Srebrenica" has become the symbol of evil, and specifically Serb evil. It
is commonly described as "a horror without parallel in the history of
Europe
since the Second World War" in which there was a cold-blooded
execution "of
at least 8,000 Muslim men and boys." [1] The events in question took place
in or near the Bosnian town of Srebrenica between July 10 and 19, 1995, as
the Bosnian Serb army (BSA) occupied that town and fought with and killed
many Bosnian Muslims, unknown numbers dying in the fighting and by
executions. There is no question but that there were executions, and that
many Bosnian Muslim men died during the evacuation of Srebrenica and its
aftermath. But even though only rarely discussed there is a major issue of
how many were executed, as numerous bodies found in local grave sites were
victims of fighting, and many Bosnian Muslim men who fled Srebrenica
reached
Bosnian Muslim territory safely. Some bodies were also those of the many
Serbs killed in the forays by the Bosnian Muslims out of Srebrenica
in the
years before July 1995.

The Srebrenica massacre has played a special role in the politics of
Western treatment of the restructuring of the former-Yugoslavia and in
Western interventionism more broadly, and it is receiving renewed
attention
and memorialization at its tenth anniversary in July 2005. It is
regularly
cited as proof of Serb evil and genocidal intent and helped justify a
focus
on punishing the Serbs and Milosevic and NATO's 1999 war on Serbia. It has
also provided important moral support for the further Western wars of
vengeance, power projection, and "liberation," having shown that there is
evil that the West can and must deal with forcibly.

However, there are three matters that should have raised serious questions
about the massacre at the time and since, but didn't and haven't. One was
that the massacre was extremely convenient to the political needs of the
Clinton administration, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Croats (see Section 1
below). A second was that there had been (and were after Srebrenica) a
series of claimed Serb atrocities, that were regularly brought forth at
strategic moments when forcible intervention by the United States and NATO
bloc was in the offing but needed some solid public relations support, but
which were later shown to be fraudulent (Section 2). A third is that the
evidence for a massacre, certainly of one in which 8,000 men and boys
were
executed, has always been problematic, to say the least (Sections 3
and 4).

1. Political Convenience

The events of Srebrenica and claims of a major massacre were extremely
helpful to the Clinton administration, the Bosnian Muslim leadership, and
Croatian authorities. Clinton was under political pressure in 1995
both from
the media and from Bob Dole to take more forceful action in favor of the
Bosnian Muslims, [2] and his administration was eager to find a
justification for more aggressive policies. Clinton officials rushed
to the
Srebrenica scene to confirm and publicize the claims of a massacre,
just as
William Walker did later at Racak in January 1999. Walker's immediate
report to Madeleine Albright caused her to exult that "spring has come
early
this year." [3] Srebrenica allowed the "fall to come early" for the
Clinton
administration in the summer of 1995.

Bosnian Muslim leaders had been struggling for several years to persuade
the NATO powers to intervene more forcibly on their behalf, and there is
strong evidence that they were prepared not only to lie but also to
sacrifice their own citizens and soldiers to serve the end of inducing
intervention (matters discussed further in Section 2). Bosnian Muslim
officials have claimed that their leader, Alija Izetbegovic, told them
that
Clinton had advised him that U.S. intervention would only occur if the
Serbs
killed at least 5,000 at Srebrenica. [4] The abandonment of
Srebrenica by
a military force much larger than that of the attackers, and a
retreat that
made that larger force vulnerable and caused it to suffer heavy casualties
in fighting and vengeance executions, helped produce numbers that
would meet
the Clinton criterion, by hook or by crook. There is other evidence that
the retreat from Srebrenica was not based on any military necessity
but was
strategic, with the personnel losses incurred considered a necessary
sacrifice for a larger purpose. [5]

Croatian authorities were also delighted with the claims of a Srebrenica
massacre, as this deflected attention from their prior devastating ethnic
cleansing of Serbs and Bosnian Muslims in Western Bosnia (almost entirely
ignored by the Western media), [6] and it provided a cover for their
already planned removal of several hundred thousand Serbs from the
Krajina
area in Croatia. This massive ethnic cleansing operation was carried out
with U.S. approval and logistical support within a month of the Srebrenica
events, and it may well have involved the killing of more Serb civilians
than Bosnian Muslim civilians killed in the Srebrenica area in July:
most of
the Bosnian Muslim victims were fighters, not civilians, as the Bosnian
Serbs bused the Srebrenica women and children to safety; the Croatians
made
no such provision and many women, children and old people were slaughtered
in Krajina. [7] The ruthlessness of the Croats was impressive: "UN troops
watched horrified as Croat soldiers dragged the bodies of dead Serbs
along
the road outside the UN compound and then pumped them full of rounds from
the AK-47s. They then crushed the bullet-ridden bodies under the
tracks of a
tank." [8] But this was hardly noticed in the wake of the indignation and
propaganda generated around Srebrenica with the aid of the mainstream
media, whose co-belligerency role in the Balkan wars was already
well-entrenched. [9]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and UN also had
an important role to play in the consolidation of the standard Srebrenica
massacre narrative. From its inception the ICTY served as an arm of
the NATO
powers, who created it, funded it, served as its police arm and main
information source, and expected and got responsive service from the
organization. [10] The ICTY focused intensively on Srebrenica and provided
important and nominally independent corroboration of the massacre claims
along with citable "judicial" claims of planned "genocide." The UN is
less
thoroughly integrated into NATO-power demands, but it is highly responsive
and in the Srebrenica case it came through just as the United States
and its
main allies desired. [11]

This political interest in the Srebrenica massacre hardly proves that the
establishment narrative is wrong. It does, however, suggest the need for
caution and an awareness of the possibility of falsification and inflated
claims. That awareness has been entirely absent from mainstream
treatment of
Srebrenica.

2. The Serial Lying Before and After Srebrenica

At each stage in the dismantlement of Yugoslavia, its ethnic cleansing,
and before and during the NATO war over the Kosovo province of Serbia in
1999, propaganda lies played a very important role in forwarding conflict
and anti-Serb actions. There were lies of omission and lies that directly
conveyed false impressions and information. An important form of lie of
omission was the regular presentation of Serb misbehavior as unique
to the
Serbs, not also characteristic of the behavior of the Muslims and
Croatians or of the conflict overall. In case after case the media would
report on Serb attacks and atrocities, having neglected to report the
prior
assaults on Serbs in those same towns and making the Serb behavior
seem like
unprovoked acts of aggression and barbarity.

This was evident from the very start of the serious fighting in 1991 in
the republic of Croatia. In their treatment of the Eastern Croatian
city of
Vukovar, for example, the media (and ICTY) focused exclusively on the
federal Yugoslav army's capture of the town in the fall of 1991,
completely
ignoring the prior spring and summer's slaughter by Croatian National
Guard
troops and paramilitaries of hundreds of ethnic Serbs who had lived
in the
Vukovar area. According to Raymond K. Kent, "a substantial Serb
population in the major Slavonian city of Vukovar disappeared without
having
fled, leaving traces of torture in the old Austrian the spring catacombs
under the city along with evidence of murder and rape. The Western media,
whose demonization of the Serbs was well underway, chose to overlook these
events." [12] This selective and misleading focus was standard media and
ICTY practice.

Lies of omission were also clear in the attention given Bosnian Serb
prison camps like Omarska, which the media focused on intensively and with
indignation, when in fact the Muslims and Croats had very similar prison
camps-at Celebici, Tarcin, Livno, Bradina, Odzak, and in the Zetra
camp in
Sarajevo, among other sites-[13] with roughly comparable numbers,
facilities, and certainly no worse treatment of prisoners; [14] but in
contrast with the Serbs, the Muslims and Croats hired competent PR
firms and
refused permission to inspect their facilities-and the already
well-developed structure of bias made the media little interested in
any but
Serb camps.

Wild allegations of Auschwitz-like conditions in Serb "concentration
camps" were spread by "journalists of attachment" who lapped up propaganda
handouts by Muslim and Croat officials and PR hirlings. Roy Gutman,
who won
a Pulitzer prize jointly with John Burns for Bosnia reporting in 1993,
depended heavily on Croat and Muslim officials and witnesses with suspect
credentials and implausible claims, and he was a major source of
inflated,
one-sided, and false "concentration camp" propaganda. [15] John Burns'
Pulitzer award was based on an extended interview with Boris Herak, a
captured Bosnian Serb supplied to him and a Soros-funded film-maker by the
Bosnian Muslims. Several years later Herak admitted that his extremely
implausible confession had been coerced and that he had been forced to
memorize many pages of lies. Two of his alleged victims also turned up
alive
in later years. In reporting on Herak, John Burns and the New York Times
(and the Soros-funded film) suppressed the credibility-damaging fact that
Herak had also accused former UNPROFOR commandant, Canadian General Lewis
Mackenzie, of having raped young Muslim women at a Serb-run bordello. [16]
These scandalous awards are symptomatic of the media bias that was
already
overwhelming in 1992 and 1993.

In a recent development of interest, on a visit to the dying Alija
Izetbegovic, Bernard Kouchner asked him about the Bosnian Serb
concentration
camps, whereupon Izetbegovic, surprisingly, admitted that these claims had
been inflated with the aim of getting NATO to bomb the Serbs. [17] This
important confession has not been mentioned in the U.S. or British
mainstream media.

One of the most important propaganda lies of the 1990s featured the
Serb-run Trnopolje camp, visited by Britain's ITN reporters in August
1992.
These reporters photographed the resident Fikret Alic, showing him
emaciated and seemingly inside a concentration camp fence. In fact,
Fikret
Alic was in a transit camp, was a sick man (and was sick with tuberculosis
long before reaching the camp), was not in any way representative of
others
in the camp, and was soon able to move to Sweden. Furthermore, the
fence was
around the photographers, not the man photographed. [18] But this hugely
dishonest photo was featured everywhere in the West as proving a
Serb-organized Auschwitz, was denounced by NATO high officials, and helped
provide the moral basis for the creation of the ICTY and its clear
focus on
Serb evil.

In the case of the siege of Sarajevo, as with conflict around many "safe
haven" towns, the Bosnian Muslim government engaged in a steady program of
provoking the Serbs, blaming them for the ensuing response, lying about
casualties, and trying-usually successfully-to place the blame on the
Serbs. As Tim Fenton has said, "Massacre allegations by the Bosnian
Muslims
followed any reported conflict as night followed day: most notoriously
Muslim Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic claimed the UN was responsible
for the
deaths of 70,000 in Bihac in early 1995, when in fact there had barely
been
any fighting and casualties were small." [19]

A remarkable feature of the Bosnian Muslim struggle to demonize the
Serbs, in order to get NATO to come to Bosnian Muslim aid with bombs, was
their willingness to kill their own people. This was most notable in the
case of the ruthless bombing of Sarajevo civilians in three massacres: in
1992 (the "Breadline Massacre"), 1994 (the Markale "Market Massacre")
and a
"Second Market Massacre" in 1995. In the standard narrative the Serbs
were
responsible for these massacres, and it is admittedly not easy to believe
that the Muslim leadership would kill their own for political advantage
even if the evidence points strongly in that direction. But these
massacres
were all extremely well timed to influence imminent NATO and UN
decisions to
intervene more forcibly on behalf of the Bosnian Muslims. More important,
numerous UN officials and senior Western military officials have claimed
that the evidence is strong in all three cases that the actions were
planned
and executed by Bosnian Muslims. [20] U.S. Army officer John E. Sray, who
was on the scene in Bosnia during these and other massacres and was
head of
the U.S. intelligence section in Sarajevo, even suggested that the
incidents, and probable Bosnian Muslim official connivance in these
atrocities, "deserve a thorough scrutiny by the International War Crimes
Tribunal." [21] Needless to say no such scrutiny was forthcoming. In
short,
this view of the three massacres is not conspiracy theory, it is a
conclusion based on serious and substantial evidence, but not even
debated
in the party-line dominated accounts of recent Balkan history. [22]

Both before and after Srebrenica lying about numbers killed was also
standard practice, helpful in sustaining the dominant narrative. For
Bosnia,
in December 1992 the Bosnian Muslim government claimed 128,444 deaths of
their forces and people, a number which grew to 200,000 by June 1993,
rising
to 250,000 in 1994. [23] These figures were swallowed without a qualm by
Western politicians, media, and intellectual war-campaigners (e.g., David
Rieff), with Clinton himself using the 250,000 figure in a speech in
November 1995. Former State Department official George Kenney has long
questioned these figures and marveled at media gullibility in accepting
these claims without the least interest in verification. His own estimate
ran between 25,000 and 60,000. [24] More recently, a study sponsored
by the
Norwegian government estimated the Bosnian war dead as 80,000, and one
sponsored by the Hague Tribunal itself came up with a figure of 102,000
dead. [25] Neither of these studies has been reported on in the U.S.
media,
which had regularly offered its readers/listeners the inflated numbers.

A similar inflation process took place during the 78-day NATO bombing war
in 1999, with high U.S. officials at various moments claiming 100,000,
250,000 and 500,000 Serb killings of Kosovo Albanians, along with the
lavish use of the word "genocide" to describe Serb actions in Kosovo. [26]
This figure gradually shrank to 11,000, and has remained there despite the
fact that only some 4,000 bodies were found in one of the most intense
forensic searches in history, and with unknown numbers of those bodies
combatants, Serbs, and civilian victims of U.S. bombing. But the
11,000
must be valid because the NATO governments and ICTY say it is, and Michael
Ignatieff assured readers of the New York Times that "whether those 11,334
bodies will be found depends on whether the Serb military and the police
removed them." [27]

This record of systematic disinformation certainly does not disprove the
truth of the standard narrative on the Srebrenica massacre. It does,
however, suggest the need for a close look at the claims, which have
proved
so convenient, a close look that the mainstream has steadily refused to
provide.

3. The Problematic Massacre Claims

By the time of the Srebrenica events of July 1995 the stage had been well
set for making massacre claims effective. The serial lying had been
largely
unchallenged in the mainstream, the demonization process and
good-versus-evil dichotomy had been well established, the ICTY and UN
leadership were closely following the agenda of the United States and its
NATO allies, and the media were on board as co-belligerents.

In this environment, context-stripping was easy. One element of context
was the fact that the "safe area" concept was a fraud, as the safe areas
were supposed to have been disarmed, but weren't, and with UN connivance.
[28] They were therefore used by the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and
other
safe havens as launching pads for attacks on nearby Serb villages. In the
three years prior to the massacre well over a thousand Serb civilians were
killed by Muslim forces in scores of devastated nearby villages; [29] and
well before July 1995 the Srebrenica Muslim commander Nasir Oric proudly
showed Western reporters videos of some of his beheaded Serb victims and
bragged about his killings. [30] Testifying before the Tribunal on
February
12, 2004, UN military commander in Bosnia in 1992 and 1993, General
Philippe Morillon, stated his conviction that the attack on Srebrenica
was a
"direct reaction" to the massacres of Serbs by Nasir Oric and his
forces in
1992 and 1993, massacres with which Morillon was closely familiar. [31]
Morillon's testimony was of no interest to the Western media, and when the
ICTY finally got around to indicting Nasir Oric on March 28, 2003, very
possibly to create the image of judicial balance, he was charged with
killing only seven Serbs who were tortured and beaten to death after
capture, and with the "wanton destruction" of nearby villages. Although he
openly bragged to Western reporters of slaughtering Serb civilians,
the ICTY
reportedly "found no evidence that there were civilian casualties in the
attacks on Serb villages in his theater of operations." [32]

When the Bosnian Serbs captured Srebrenica in July 1995, it was reported
that the 28th regiment of the Bosnian Muslim Army (BMA), comprising
several
thousand men, had just fled the town. [33] The media failed to ask how
such
a large force could have been present in a disarmed "safe area."
Having also
succeeded in ignoring the prior abuses emanating from the safe area, this
allowed them to follow a quickly established party line of a planned
"genocide" and inexplicable brutality rather than the vengeance which the
media allow as semi-exoneration of violence by "worthy" victims (e.g.,
Kosovo Albanians driving out and killing Serbs and Roma after the NATO
takeover of Kosovo).

A second element of context was the possible political basis for the
surrender of Srebrenica by a force in a good defensive position,
outnumbering the attacking BSA by a 6-1 or 8-1 ratio, but retreating in
advance of the assault, their leaders having been withdrawn previously by
order of the Bosnian Muslim leadership. [34] This left the population
unprotected, and made the BMA cadres vulnerable as they retreated in
disarray toward Bosnian Muslim lines. Could this have been another
self-sacrificing maneuver by the leadership to produce victims, perhaps
designed to help meet the Clinton 5,000 target and induce more
forcible NATO
intervention? These questions never arose in the mainstream media.

The Srebrenica events had a number of features that made it possible to
claim 8,000 "men and boys" executed. One was the confusion and uncertainty
about the fate of the fleeing Bosnian Muslim forces, some reaching Tuzla
safely, some killed in the fighting, and some captured. The 8,000
figure was
first provided by the Red Cross, based on their crude estimate that
the BSA
had captured 3,000 men and that 5,000 were reported "missing." [35] It is
well established that thousands of those "missing" had reached Tuzla or
were killed in the fighting, [36] but in an amazing transformation
displaying the eagerness to find the Bosnian Serbs evil and the Muslims
victims, the "reaching safety/killed-in-action" basis of being
missing was
ignored and the missing were taken as executed! This misleading
conclusion
was helped along by the Red Cross's reference to the 5,000 as having
"simply disappeared," and its failure to correct this politically biased
usage and claim despite its own recognition that "several thousand"
refugees
had reached Central Bosnia. [37]

It was also helped along by the Bosnian Muslim leadership's refusal to
disclose the names and numbers of those reaching safety, [38] but
there was
a remarkable readiness in the Western establishment not only to ignore
those
reaching safety, but also to disregard deaths in fighting and to take dead
bodies as proving executions. The will to believe here was limitless:
reporter David Rohde saw a bone sticking up in a grave site near
Srebrenica,
which he just knew by instinct was a remnant of an execution and serious
evidence of a "massacre." [39] It was standard media practice to move
from
an asserted and unproven claim of thousands missing, or a report of the
uncovering of bodies in a grave site, to the conclusion that the claim of
8,000 executed was thereby demonstrated. [40]

With 8,000 executed and thousands killed in the fighting there should have
been huge grave sites and satellite evidence of both executions, burials,
and any body removals. But the body searches in the Srebrenica
vicinity were
painfully disappointing, with only some two thousand bodies found in
searches through 1999, including bodies killed in action and possibly Serb
bodies, some pre-dating July 1995. The sparseness of these findings led to
claims of body removal and reburial, but this was singularly
unconvincing as
the Bosnian Serbs were under intense military pressure after July
1995. This
was the period when NATO was bombing Serb positions and Croat/Muslim
armies
were driving towards Banja Luka. The BSA was on the defensive and was
extremely short of equipment and resources, including gasoline. To have
mounted an operation of the magnitude required to exhume, transport and
rebury thousands of corpses would have been far beyond the BSA's
capacity at
that time. Furthermore, in carrying out such a program they could hardly
hope to escape observation from OSCE personnel, local civilians, and
satellite observations.

On August 10, 1995, Madeleine Albright showed some satellite photos at a
closed session of the Security Council, as part of a denunciation of the
Bosnian Serbs, including one photo showing people--allegedly Bosnian
Muslims
near Srebrenica--assembled in a stadium, and one allegedly taken shortly
thereafter showing a nearby field with "disturbed" soil. These photos have
never been publicly released, but even if they are genuine they don't
prove
either executions or burials. Furthermore, although the ICTY speaks of
"an organized and comprehensive effort" to hide bodies, and David Rohde
claimed a "huge Serb effort to hide bodies," [41] neither Albright nor
anyone else has ever shown a satellite photo of people actually being
executed, buried, or dug up for reburial, or of trucks conveying thousands
of bodies elsewhere. This evidence blank occurred despite Albright's
warning
the Serbs that "We will be watching," and with satellites at that time
making at least eight passes per day and geostationary drones able to
hover
and take finely detailed pictures in position over Bosnia during the
summer
of 1995. [42] The mainstream media have found this failure to confirm
of no
interest.

There have been a great many bodies gathered at Tuzla, some 7,500 or more,
many in poor condition or parts only, their collection and handling
incompatible with professional forensic standards, their provenance
unclear
and link to the July 1995 events in Srebrenica unproven and often
unlikely,
[43] and the manner of their death usually uncertain. Interestingly,
although the Serbs were regularly accused of trying to hide bodies, there
has never been any suggestion that the Bosnian Muslims, long in charge of
the body search, might shift bodies around and otherwise manipulate
evidence, despite their substantial record of dissembling. A systematic
attempt to use DNA to trace connections to Srebrenica is underway, but
entails many problems, apart from that of the integrity of the material
studied and process of investigation, and will not resolve the question of
differentiating executions from deaths in combat. There are also lists of
missing, but these lists are badly flawed, with duplications, individuals
listed who had died before July 1995, who fled to avoid BSA service,
or who
registered to vote in 1997, and they include individuals who died in
battle
or reached safety or were captured and assumed a new existence elsewhere.
[44]

The 8,000 figure is also incompatible with the basic arithmetic of
Srebrenica numbers before and after July 1995. Displaced persons from
Srebrenica-that is, massacre survivors-- registered with the World Health
Organization and Bosnian government in early August 1995, totalled 35,632.
Muslim men who reached Muslim lines "without their families being
informed"
totaled at least 2,000, and some 2,000 were killed in the fighting. That
gives us 37,632 survivors plus the 2,000 combat deaths, which would
require
the prewar population of Srebrenica to have been 47,000 if 8,000 were
executed, whereas the population before July was more like 37-40,000
(Tribunal judge Patricia Wald gave 37,000 as her estimate). The numbers
don't add up. [45]

There were witnesses to killings at Srebrenica, or those who claimed to be
witnesses. There were not many of these, and some had a political axe to
grind or were otherwise not credible, [46] but several were believable and
were probably telling of real and ugly events. But we are talking here of
evidence of hundreds of executions, not 8,000 or anything close to
it. The
only direct participant witness claim that ran to a thousand was that of
Drazen Erdemovic, an ethnic Croat associated with a mercenary group of
killers whose members were paid 12 kilos of gold for their Bosnian service
(according to Erdemovic himself) and ended up working in the Congo on
behalf of French intelligence. His testimony was accepted despite its
vagueness and inconsistencies, lack of corroboration, and his
suffering from
mental problems sufficient to disqualify him from trial--but not from
testifying before the Tribunal, free of cross-examination. within two
weeks
of this disqualification from trial. This and other witness evidence
suffered from serious abuse of the plea-bargaining process whereby
witnesses could receive mitigating sentences if they cooperated
sufficiently
with the prosecution. [47]

It is also noteworthy how many relatively impartial observers in or near
Srebrenica in July 1995 didn't see any evidence of massacres,
including the
members of the Dutch forces present in the "safe area" and people like
Henry
Wieland, the chief UN investigator into alleged human rights abuses, who
could find no eyewitnesses to atrocities after five days of interviewing
among the 20,000 Srebrenica survivors gathered at the Tuzla airport
refugee
camp. [48]

4. Anomalies

One anomaly connected with Srebrenica has been the stability of the
figure of Bosnian Muslim victims-8,000 in July 1995 and 8,000 today,
despite the crudity of the initial estimate, the evidence that many or
most
of the 5,000 "missing" reached Bosnian Muslim territory or were killed in
the fighting, and the clear failure to produce supportive physical
evidence
despite a massive effort. In other cases, like the 9/11 fatality estimate,
and even the Bosnian killings and Kosovo bombing war estimates, the
original
figures were radically scaled down as evidence of body counts made the
earlier inflated numbers unsustainable. [49] But because of its key
political role for the United States, Bosnian Muslims and Croats, and an
almost religious ardour of belief in this claim, Sebrenica has been immune
to evidence. From the beginning until today the number has been taken
as a
given, a higher truth, the questioning of which would show a lack of faith
and very likely "apologetics" for the demon.

Another anomaly also showing the sacred, untouchable, and politicized
character of the massacre in Western ideology has been the ready
designation
of the killings as a case of "genocide." The Tribunal played an important
role here, with hard-to-match gullibility, unrestrained
psychologizing, and
incompetent legal reasoning, which the judges have applied to Serb-related
cases only. On gullibility, one Tribunal judge accepted as fact the
witness
claim that Serb soldiers had forced an old Muslim man to eat the liver of
his grandson; [50] and the judges repeatedly stated as an established fact
that 7-8,000 Muslim men had been executed, while simultaneously
acknowledging that the evidence only "suggested" that "a majority" of the
7-8,000 missing had not been killed in combat, which yields a number
substantially lower than 7-8,000. [51]

The Tribunal dealt with the awkward problem of the genocide-intent Serbs
bussing Bosnian Muslim women and children to safety by arguing that
they did
this for public relations reasons, but as Michael Mandel points out,
failing
to do some criminal act despite your desire is called "not committing a
crime." [52] The Tribunal never asked why the genocidal Serbs failed to
surround the town before its capture to prevent thousands of males from
escaping to safety, or why the Bosnian Muslim soldiers were willing to
leave
their women and children as well as many wounded comrades to the
mercies of
the Serbs; [53] and they failed to confront the fact that 10,000 mainly
Muslim residents of Zvornik sought refugee from the civil war in Serbia
itself, as prosecution witness Borislav Jovic testified. [54]

Among the other idiocies in the Tribunal judges' argument, it was genocide
if you killed many males in a group in order to reduce the future
population
of that group, thereby making it unviable in that area. Of course, you
might
want to kill them to prevent their killing you in the future, but the
court
knows Serb psychology better-that couldn't be the sole reason, there must
have been a more sinister aim. The Tribunal reasoning holds forth the
possibility that with only a little prosecution-friendly judicial
psychologizing any case of killing enemy soldiers can be designated
genocide.

There is also the problem of definition of the group. Were the Serbs
trying to eliminate all the Muslims in Bosnia, or Muslims globally? Or
just
in Srebrenica? The judges suggested that pushing them out of the
Srebrenica
area was itself genocide, and they essentially equated genocide with
ethnic
cleansing. [55] It is notable that the ICTY has never called the Croat
ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Krajina Serbs "genocide" although in that
case
many women and children were killed and the ethnic cleansing applied to a
larger area and larger victim population than in Srebrenica. [56] (On
August 10, 1995, Madeleine Albright cried out to the Security Council that
"as many as 13,000 men, women and children were driven from their
homes" in
Srebrenica.) [57] Perhaps the ICTY had accepted Richard Holbrooke's
comic
designation of Krajina as a case of "involuntary expulsions." [58] The
bias is blatant; the politicization of a purported judicial
enterprise is
extreme.

Media treatment of the Srebrenica and Krajina cases followed the same
pattern and illustrates well how the media make some victims worthy and
others unworthy in accord with a political agenda. With the Serbs their
government's target, and their government actively aiding the massive
Croat
ethnic cleansing program in Krajina, the media gave huge and indignant
treatment to the first, with invidious language, calls for action, and
little context. With Krajina, attention was slight and passing,
indignation
was absent, detailed reporting on the condition of the victims was
minimal,
descriptive language was neutral, and there was context offered that made
the events understandable. The contrast is so gross as to be droll: the
attack on Srebrenica "chilling," "murderous," "savagery," "cold-blooded
killing," "genocidal," "aggression,"and of course "ethnic cleansing."
With
Krajina, the media used no such strong language-even ethnic cleansing was
too much for them. The Croat assault was merely a big "upheaval" that is
"softening up the enemy," "a lightning offensive," explained away as a
"response to Srebrenica" and a result of Serb leaders "overplaying their
hand." The Washington Post even cited U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter
Galbraith saying the "the Serb exodus was not 'ethnic cleansing'."
[59] The
paper does not allow a challenge to that judgment. In fact, however, the
Croat operations in Krajina left Croatia as the most ethnically
purified of
all the former components of the former Yugoslavia, although the NATO
occupation of Kosovo has allowed an Albanian ethnic cleansing that is
rivalling that of Croatia in ethnic purification.

Another anomaly in the Srebrenica case is the insistence on bringing all
the criminals (Serb) to trial and getting the willing executioners
(Serb) to
admit guilt as necessary for justice and essential for reconciliation. A
problem is that justice cannot be one-sided or it ceases to be
justice, and
shows its true face as vengeance and a cover for other political ends.
Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia was by no means one-sided, and deaths by
nationality were not far off from population proportionality; [60] the
Serbs
claim and have documented thousands of deaths at the hands of the
Bosnian
Muslims and their imported Mujahedin cadres, and by the Croatians, and
they
have their own group examining and trying to identify bodies at an
estimated
73 mass graves. [61] This victimization has hardly been noticed by the
Western media or ICTY-the distinguished Yugoslav forensic expert Dr. Zoran
Stankovic observed back in 1996 that "the fact that his team had
previously
identified the bodies of 1,000 Bosnian Serbs in the [Srebrenica]
region had
not interested prosecutor Richard Goldstone." [62] Instead, there is a
steady refrain about the Serbs tendency to whine, whereas Bosnian Muslim
complaints are taken as those of true victims and are never designated
whining.

Rather than producing reconciliation the steady focus on Srebrenica
victims and killers makes for more intense hatred and nationalism, just as
the Kosovo war and its violence exacerbated hatred and tensions there and
showed that Clinton's claimed objective of a tolerant multi-ethnic Kosovo
was a fraud. In Kosovo, this one-sided propaganda and NATO control has
unleashed serious and unremitting anti-Serb-along with anti-Roma,
anti-Turk,
anti-dissident-Albanian-- violence, helped along by the willingness of the
NATO authorities to look the other way as their allies-the purported
victims-take their revenge and pursue their long-standing aim of ethnic
purification. [63] In Bosnia and Serbia the Serbs have been under steady
attack, humiliated, and their leaders and military personnel punished,
while the criminals among the Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and NATO powers
(e.g., Clinton, Blair, Albright, Holbrooke) suffer no penalties [64]
and may
even be portrayed as dispensers of justice (Clinton et al.).
.
It is clear that the objectives of the retribution-pushers are not
justice and reconciliation-they are to unify and strengthen the
position of
the Bosnian Muslims, to crush the Republica Srpska, and possibly even
eliminate it as an independent entity in Bosnia, to keep Serbia
disorganized, weak and dependent on the West, and to continue to put the
U.S. and NATO attack and dismantlement of Yugoslavia in a favorable light.
The last objective requires diverting attention from the Clinton/Bosnian
Muslim role in giving Al Qaeda a foothold in the Balkans, Izetbegovic's
close alliance with Osama bin Laden, his Islamic Declaration declaring
hostility to a multi-ethnic state, [65] the importation of 4,000
Mujahaden
to fight a holy war in Bosnia, with active Clinton administration aid, and
the KLA-Al Qaeda connection.

These aspects of the siding with the Bosnian Muslims have always been
awkward for the war propagandists, and they became more so after 9/11-the
U.S. 9/11 Commission Report claims that two of the 19 hijackers, Nawaf al
Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, and a "mastermind" of the attack, Khalid
Sheikh
Mohammed, "fought" in Bosnia, and that bin Laden had "service" offices in
Zagreb and Sarajevo. [66] Despite the huge focus on 9/11 and Al Qaeda
these
links have not been featured in the mainstream media and have not
influenced
Bosnian proconsul Paddy Ashdown, who attended Izetbegovic's funeral and
continues to push Bosnian Muslim interests. The Serbs, of course, were
complaining about the brutality (and beheadings) of the Mujahaden in
1993,
but the media and ICTY were not interested then and remain uninterested.
Let's just talk about Srebrenica, the Bosnian Muslims as unique
victims, and
Clinton's and the West's generous if belated service to those victimized
underdogs.

But didn't the Bosnian Serbs "confess" that they had murdered 8,000
civilians? This has been the take of the Western media, but again
demonstrating their subservience to their leaders' political agenda. The
Bosnian Serbs actually did put out a report on Srebrenica in September
2002,
[67] but this report was rejected by Paddy Ashdown for failing to come up
with the proper conclusions. He therefore forced a further report by
firing
a stream of Republica Srpska politicians and analysts, threatening the RS
government, and eventually extracting a report prepared by people who
would
come to the officially approved conclusions. [68] This report, issued on
June 11, 2004, was then greeted in the Western media as a meaningful
validation of the official line-the refrain was, the Bosnian Serbs "admit"
the massacre, which should finally settle any questions. Amusingly, even
this coerced and imposed report didn't come near acknowledging 8,000
executions (it speaks of "several thousand" executions). What this episode
"proves" is that the Western campaign to make the defeated Serbia
grovel is
not yet terminated, and the media's continuing gullibility and propaganda
service.

Conclusion

The "Srebrenica massacre" is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge
from the Balkan wars. Other claims and outright lies have played
their role
in the Balkan conflicts, but while some have retained a modest place
in the
propaganda repertoire despite challenge (Racak, the Markale massacre, the
Serb refusal to negotiate at Rambouillet, 250,000 Bosnian dead, the
aim of a
Greater Serbia as the driving force in the Balkan wars), [69] the
Srebrenica
massacre reigns supreme for symbolic power. It is the symbol of Serb evil
and Bosnian Muslim victimhood, and the justice of the Western
dismantling of
Yugoslavia and intervention there at many levels, including a bombing war
and colonial occupations of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

But the link of this propaganda triumph to truth and justice is
non-existent. The disconnection with truth is epitomized by the fact that
the original estimate of 8,000, including 5,000 "missing"--who had left
Srebrenica for Bosnian Muslim lines-was maintained even after it had been
quickly established that several thousand had reached those lines and that
several thousand more had perished in battle. This nice round number lives
on today in the face of a failure to find the executed bodies and
despite
the absence of a single satellite photo showing executions, bodies,
digging, or trucks transporting bodies for reburial. The media have
carefully refrained from asking questions on this point, despite
Albright's
August 1995 promise that "We will be watching."

That Albright statement, and the photos she did display at the time,
helped divert attention from the ongoing "Krajina massacre" of Serbs in
Croatian Krajina, an ethnic cleansing process of great brutality and
wider
scope than that at Srebrenica, in which there was less real fighting
than at
Srebrenica, mainly attacks on and the killing and removal of defenseless
civilians. At Srebrenica the Bosnian Serbs moved women and children to
safety, and there is no evidence of any of them being murdered; [70]
whereas in Krajina there was no such separation and an estimated 368 women
and children were killed, along with many too old and infirm to flee. [71]
One measure of the propaganda success of the "Srebrenica massacre" is
that
the possibility that the intense focus on the Srebrenica massacre was
serving as a cover for the immediately following "Krajina massacre,"
supported by the United States, was outside the orbit of thought of the
media. For the media, Srebrenica helped bring about Krajina, and the Serbs
had it coming. [72]

The media have played an important role in making the Srebrenica massacre
a propaganda triumph. As noted earlier, the media had become a
co-belligerent by 1991, and all standards of objectivity disappeared in
their subservience to the pro-Bosnian Muslim and anti-Serb agenda.
Describing the reporting of Christine Amanpour and others on a battle
around
Gorazde, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Sray wrote back in October 1995
that these news reports "were devoid of any semblance of truth," that
Americans were suffering from "a cornucopia of disinformation," that
"America has not been so pathetically deceived" since the Vietnam War, and
that popular perceptions of Bosnia "have been forged by a prolific
propaganda machine..[that has] managed to manipulate illusions to further
Muslim goals." [73]

That propaganda machine also conquered the liberals and much of the left
in the United States, who swallowed the dominant narrative of the evil
Serbs seeking hegemony, employing uniquely brutal and genocidal
strategies,
and upsetting a previous multi-cultural haven in Bosnia-run by Osama bin
Laden's friend and ally Alija Izetbegovic, and with rectification brought
belatedly by Clinton, Holbrooke and Albright working closely with Iran,
Turkey and Saudi Arabia! The liberal/left war coalition needed to
find the
Serbs demons in order to justify imperial warfare, and they did so by
accepting and internalizing a set of lies and myths that make up the
dominant narrative. [74] This liberal/"cruise missile left" (CML)
combo was
important in helping develop the "humanitarian intervention" rationale for
attacking Serbia on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army, and in fact
preparing the ground for Bush's eventual basing of his own wars on the
quest
for "liberation." [75] The Srebrenica massacre helped make the
liberals and
CML true believers in the crusade in the Balkans and gave moral backup to
their servicing the expanding imperial role of their country and its
allies.

Former UN official Cedric Thornberry, writing in 1996, noted that
"prominently in parts of the international liberal media" the position is
"that the Serbs were the only villains," and back at UN headquarters
in the
spring of 1993 he was warned: "Take cover-the fix is on." [76] The
fix was
on, even if only tacit and built-in to the government-media-Tribunal
relationship. It helped make the Srebrenica massacre the symbol of evil
and, with the help of Tribunal "justice," and support of liberals
and CML,
provided a cover for the U.S.-NATO attack on and dismantling of
Yugoslavia, colonial occupations in Bosnia and Kosovo, and
justification for
"humanitarian intervention" more broadly. What more could be asked of a
propaganda system?

Notes:

*This paper is partly drawn from and cites chapters in a forthcoming book
on the Srebrenica massacre, Srebrenica: The Politics of War Crimes,
written
by George Bogdanich, Tim Fenton, Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman,
Michael
Mandel, Jonathan Rooper, and George Szamuely. This book is referred to in
the notes below as Politics of War Crimes. The author and his colleagues
are indebted to Diana Johnstone, David Peterson, Vera Vratusa-Zunjic,
Milan
Bulajic, Milivoje Ivanisevic, Konstantin Kilibarda, and George
Pumphrey for
advice. Johnstone's Fools Crusade is a fine basic statement of an
alternative perspective on the Balkan Wars; George Pumphrey's "Srebrenica:
Three Years Later, And Still Searching," is a classic critique of the
establishment Srebrenica massacre narrative and repeatedly hit the target
with facts and analyses still not rebutted.

1. "Bosnia: 2 Officials Dismissed for Obstructing Srebrenica Inquiry," AP
Report, New York Times, April 17, 2004; Marlise Simons, "Bosnian Serb
Leader
Taken Before War Crimes Tribunal," New York Times, April 8, 2000; UN, The
Fall of Srebrenica (A/54/549), Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to
General Assembly resolution 53/35, November 15, 1999, par. 506
(http://www.un.org/News/ossg/srebrenica.pdf )

2. See Ivo Pukanic, "US Role In Storm: Thrilled With Operation Flash,
President Clinton Gave the Go Ahead to Operation Storm," Nacional
(Zagreb),
May 24, 2005.

3. Barton Gellman, "The Path to Crisis: How the United States and Its
Allies Went to War," Washington Post, April 18, 1999

4. "Some surviving members of the Srebrenica delegation have stated that
President Izetbegovic also told that he had learned that a NATO
intervention
in Bosnia and Herzegovina was possible, but could occur only if the Serbs
were to break into Srebrenica, killing at least 5,000 of its people.
President Izetbegovic has flatly denied making such a statement." The Fall
of Srebrenica (A/54/549), Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to
General Assembly resolution 53/35, November 15, 1999, par. 115,
(http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports/UNsrebrenicareport.htm)
The UN report does not mention that there were nine others present
at that
meeting, and that one of them, Hakija Meholijic, former Srebrenica
chief of
police, has stated that eight of them (all those living) "can confirm" the
Clinton suggestion. (Dani, June 22, 1998:
http://cdsp.neu.edu/info/students/marko/dani/dani2.html)

5. Politics of War Crimes, Bogdanich, chapter 2, "Prelude to Capture,"
and Fenton, chapter 3, "Military Context." See also Tim Ripley, Operation
Deliberate Force (Center for Defence and Security Studies: 1999), p. 145.

6. In his Balkan Odyssey, Lord David Owen stated that "By acquiescing in
the Croatian government's seizure of Western Slavonia, the Contact
Group had
in effect given the green light to the Bosnian Serbs to attack Srebrenica
and Zepa" (pp. 199-200). Owen was mistaken; the Contact Group was serving
one side only, and the media's failure to report on and criticize the
approved aggression made it possible to present the takeover of Srebrenica
as a unique and unprovoked evil.

7. Veritas estimated that 1,205 civilians were killed in Operation Storm,
including 358 women and 10 children. In the graves around Srebrenica
through
1999, among the 1,895 bodies only one was identified as female. See
"Croatian Serb Exodus Commemorated," Agence France Press, Aug. 4, 2004;
also, Veritas at www.veritas.org.yu.

8. Ripley, Operation Deliberate Force, p. 192. See also footnotes 56 and
70.

9. The co-belligerency role was described by Peter Brock in "Dateline
Yugoslavia: The Partisan Press," Foreign Policy, Winter 1993-94. A
forthcoming book by Brock, on Media Cleansing: UNcovering Yugoslavia's
Civil
Wars, shows this partisanship in greater and effective detail. In his
autobiography, U. S. Secretary of State James Baker says that he
instructed
his press secretary, Margaret Tutweiler to help Bosnian Foreign Minister
Haris Silajdzic utilize the Western media to further the Bosnian Muslim
cause, noting that he "had her talk to her contacts at the four television
networks, the Washington Post and the New York Times." James A. Baker, The
Politics of Diplomacy (Putnam: 1995), pp. 643-4.

10. As NATO PR spokesman Jamie Shea stated on May 16, 1999, when asked
about NATO's vulnerability to Tribunal charges, he was not worried. The
prosecutor, he said, will start her investigation "because we will
allow her
to." Further, "NATO countries are those that have provided the
finance," and
on the need to build a second chamber "so that prosecutions can be speeded
up...we and the Tribunal are all one on this, we want to see war criminals
brought to justice." http://www.nato.int/kosovo/press/p990516b.htm
See Michael Mandel, How America Gets Away With Murder (London: Pluto,
2004), chaps. 4-5; Edward Herman, "The Milosevic Trial, Part 1," Z
Magazine,
April 2002.

11. See Politics of War Crimes, chap. 7, Bogdanich, "UN Report on
Srebrenica-A distorted Picture of Events."

12. Raymond K. Kent, "Contextualizing Hate: The Hague Tribunal, the
Clinton Administration and the Serbs," Dialogue (Paris), v. 5, no. 20,
December, 1996 (as posted to the Emperor's Clothes website,
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/kent.htm)

13. Carl Savitch, "Celebici,"
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml.

14. It would be hard to surpass the savagery of the Bosnian Muslims at
the Celebici camp, described in ibid. See also, Diana Johnstone, Fools'
Crusade (Pluto: 2002), pp. 71-72.

15. See the two works by Peter Brock, note 9 above; also Johnstone, Fools'
Crusade, pp. 70-83.

16. For details and citations see Brock's article and book (note 9 above).

17. Bernard Kouchner, Les Guerriers de la Paix (Paris: Grasset, 2004),
pp. 372-4.

18. Johnstone, Fools' Crusade, pp, 72-73; Thomas Deichmann,
"Misinformation: TV Coverage of a Bosnian Camp," Covert Action Quarterly,
Fall, 1998, pp. 52-55.

19. In a private communication dated November 21, 2003.

20. For a good summary of the case that these were "Self-Inflicted
Atrocities," with further references, see the Senate Staff Report of
January
16, 1997, on "Clinton Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia
Into
Militant Islamic Base,"
http://www.senate.gov/%7erpc/releases/1997/iran.htm#top. See also Cees
Wiebes, Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 1992 - 1995, London: Lit
Verlag,
2003, pp. 68-69:
http://213.222.3.5/srebrenica/toc/p6_c02_s004_b01.html ).

21. John E. Sray, "Selling the Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware,"
Foreign Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, October, 1995,
<http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/bosnia2.htm>.

22. For exceptions to this rule, Leonard Doyle, "Muslims 'slaughter their
own people.'" The Independent, Aug. 22, 1992; Hugh Manners, "Serbs 'Not
Guilty' of Massacre," The Sunday Times [London], Oct. 1, 1995. David
Binder
was unable to get his own paper, the New York Times, to publish
analyses of
possible Muslim involvement in Sarajevo massacres; he had to publish these
elsewhere. See David Binder, "The Balkan Tragedy: Anatomy of a Massacre,"
Foreign Policy, No. 97, Winter, 1994-1995; David Binder, "Bosnia's
Bombers,"
The Nation, October 2, 1995

23. For a good summary, Srdja Trifkovic, "Une spectaculaire revision de
chiffres," Balkan Infos (B.I.), February 2005.

24. George Kenney, "The Bosnian Calculation," New York Times Magazine,
April 23, 1995.

25. See Trifkovic, supra note 23; also,
http://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2004/12/death-tolls-part-3.html.

26. See Edward Herman and David Peterson, "The NATO-Media Lie Machine:
'Genocide' in Kosovo," Z Magazine, May 2000:
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/hermanmay2000.htm

27. Michael Ignatieff, "Counting Bodies in Kosovo," New York Times,
November 21, 1999.

28. Politics of War Crimes, Bogdanovich, chap. 2, "Prelude to Capture."

29. Detailed evidence was presented to the UN on "War Crimes and Crimes
of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac Skelani, and
Srebrenica)
Committed Against the Serbian Population from April 1982 to April
1993," by
the Yugoslav Ambassador to the UN; see also Joan Phillips, "Victims and
Villains in Bosnia's War," Southern Slav Journal, Spring-Summer 1992.

30. Bill Schiller, "Muslims' hero vows he'll fight to the last man,"
Toronto Star, January 31, 1994; John Pomfret, "Weapons, Cash and Chaos
Lend
Clout to Srebrenica's Tough Guy," Washington Post, February 16, 1994.

31. Carl Savich, "Srebrenica and Naser Oric: An Analysis of General
Philippe Morillon's Testimony at the ICTY," http:/www.serbianna.co.

32. "No Evidence of Civilian Casualties in Operations By Bosnian
Commander," BBC Monitoring International Reports, April 11, 2003; for a
review of Oric's operations and a critical analysis of the ICTY decision,
Carl Savitch, "Srebrenica: The Untold Story,"
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/o51.html.

33. Politics of War Crimes, chaps 2-3. The UN estimated that there had
been 3-4,000 Bosnian Muslim soldiers in Srebrenica just before its fall.

34. Ibid.

35. Politics of War Crimes, chap. 2.

36. "Conflict in the Balkans, 8000 Muslims Missing," AP, New York Times,
Sept. 15, 1995.

37. One Red Cross official told a German interviewer that the Muslims
who reached safety "cannot be removed from the list of
missing..because we
have not received their names," quoted in Pumphrey, "Srebrenica: Three
Years
Later, And Still Searching." See also, "Former Yugoslavia: Srebrenica:
help
for families still awaiting news," International Committee of the Red
Cross,
September 13, 1995
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/7609D560283849CFC1256B6600595006

38. Ibid.

39. Johnstone, Fools' Crusade, p. 76.

40. This jump from a few bodies to 8,000 was recently illustrated in the
treatment by Tim Judah and Daniel Sunter in the London Observer of the
video
of six killings of Bosnian Muslims, given heavy publicity in June 2005-it
is the "smoking gun, the final, incontrovertible proof of Serbia's part in
the Srebrenica massacres in which more than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and
boys were murdered." ("How the video that put Serbia in dock was
brought to
light," June 5).
.
41. ICTY, Amended Joinder Indictment, May 27, 2002, Par. 51:
http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/nik-ai020527c.htm.; David Rohde,
"The World Five Years Later: The Battle of Srebrenica Is Now Over The
Truth," New York Times, July 9, 2000.

42. Steven Lee Meyers, "Making Sure War Crimes Aren't Forgotten," New York
Times, September 22, 1997. In fact, one U.S. official acknowledged in
late
July 1995 that "satellites have produced nothing." Paul Quinn-Judge,
"Reports of Atrocities Unconfirmed So Far: U.S. Aerial Surveillance
Reveals
Little," Boston Globe, July 27, 1995.

43. The web site of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the
Former Yugoslavia acknowledges that the bodies "have been exhumed from
various gravesites in northeast HiH," not just in the Srebrenica region;
quoted in a 2003 Statement by ICMP Chief of Staff Concerning Persons
Reported Missing from Srebrenica in July 1995, Gordon Bacon.

44. Politics of War Crimes, Rooper, chap. 4, "The Numbers Game."

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.; also, Politics of War Crimes, Szamuely, chap. 5, "Witness
Evidence."

47. Szamuely, "Witness Evidence."

48. Tim Butcher, "Serb Atrocities in Srebrenica are Unproven," The Daily
Telegraph, July 24, 1995.

49. Politics of War Crimes, Rooper, chap. 4, "The Numbers Game."

50. This claim appears in the November 1995 indictments of Radovan
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic; it was recounted by the French policeman,
Jean-Rene Ruez, and first surfaced at the ICTY in early July, 1996,
during a
seven-day publicity-stunt-type hearing into the charges against
Karadzic and
Mladic. As Associated Press reported Ruez's liver-eating testimony at the
time (Jennifer Chao, July 3, 1996):

"Amid the feverish mass murder was throat-gagging sadism. Ruez cited an
incident where a soldier forced a man to cut open his grandson's
stomach and
eat part of his liver. "He took the old man and put a knife in his
hand ...
and cut open the stomach of the little boy and then with the tip of his
knife took out an organ from the inside of the child's stomach and he
forced
the man to eat that part,' Ruez told the court."

51. Politics of War Crimes, Mandel, chap. 6, "The ICTY Calls It
'Genocide'."

52. Ibid.

53. Chris Hedges, "Bosnian Troops Cite Gassing At Zepa," New York Times,
July 27, 1995.

54. Jovic testified in the Milosevic trial on November 18,
2003-www.slobodan-milosevic.org- November 18, 2003.

55. Politics of War Crimes, Mandel, chap. 6; also, Michael Mandel, How
America Gets Away With Murder (Pluto: 2004), pp. 157-8.

56. Carlos Martins Branco, a former UN military observer in Bosnia,
contended that it was in Krajina rather than Srebrenica that one can
identify a pre-meditated genocidal process "when the Croatian army
implemented the mass murder of all Serbians found there. In this instance,
the media maintained an absolute silence, despite the fact that this
genocide occurred over a three month period. The objective of
Srebrenica was
ethnic cleansing and not genocide, unlike what happened in Krajina, in
which, although there was not military action, the Croatian army decimated
villages." "Was Srebrenica A Hoax? Eye-Witness Account of a Former UN
Military Observer in Bosnia,"
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BRA403A.html

57. Madeleine Albright, again before the Security Council (The Situation
in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/PV.3564), UN Security
Council,
August 10, 1995, 5.30 p.m., pp. 6-7):

58. Richard Holbrooke, on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Transcript #5300,
August 24, 1995.

59. "U.N. Report: Bosnian Serbs Massacred Srebrenica Muslims," Washington
Post, Aug. 12, 1995; John Pomfret, "Investigators Begin Exhuming Group of
Mass Graves in Bosnia," Washington Post, July 8, 1996. Biggest
"upheaval" is
in "Softening Up The Enemy," Newsweek, Aug. 21, 1995.

60. See the evidence drawn from the Norwegian study of Bosnia casualties
in: http://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2004/12/death-tolls-part-3.html.

61. Slavisa Sabijic, "The Trade in Bodies in Bosnia-Herzegovina":
http://www.serbianna.com/press/010.html; Joan Phillips, "Victims and
Villains in Bosnia's War," Southern Slav Journal, Spring-Summer 1992.

62. "Yugoslav Forensic Expert Says No Proof About Srebrenica Mass Grave,"
BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, July 15, 1996.

63. Kosta Christitch, "Les veritable raisons d'une faillite," B.I., March
2005. As Diana Johnstone has said, "by endorsing every accusation against
Serbs, and ignoring crimes against Serbs, the United States and its NATO
allies have given carte blanche to violence against them. Ethnic Albanian
children are growing up in the belief that nobody really blames them for
hunting down elderly 'Skrinje' (the ethnic slur for Serbs) and beating
them
to death." "The OSCE Report: Things Told and Things Seen," ZNet
Commentary,
Dec. 26, 1999.

64. There have been a modest number of exceptions, mainly Muslim and Croat
small fry, usually indicted at a time when the imbalance appeared
exceptionally gross and some PR offset was needed. None of the leaders of
Croatia or Bosnia were indicted, although it was alleged that indictments
were near soon after Tudjman's and Izetbegovic's deaths, although the long
delays were never explained. No leader or anybody else in NATO was ever
indicted. For a good discussion of the deep bias, Mandel, How America Gets
Away With Murder, Part II.

65. In his 1970 Islamic Declaration, never repudiated by him, Izetbegovic
said: "There is neither peace nor coexistence between the 'Islamic
religion'
and non-Islamic social and political institutions. Having the right to
govern
its own world, Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of
putting a
foreign ideology into practice on its territory." Quoted in Johnstone,
Fools' Crusade, p. 58.

66. The 9/11 Commission Report, Final Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Official Government Edition, pp.
58, 146-147, 155, 238-239.

67. Documentation Centre of Republic of Srpska, Report About Case
Srebrenica (The First Part), (Banja Luka, Sept. 2002).

68. Gregory Copley, "US Official Implicated With Bosnian High
Representative Ashdown in Attempting to Force Fabricated Report on
Srebrenica," Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, September 8, 2003:
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ssi09082003.htm; Nebojsa Malic,
"Srebrenica Revisited: Reports, Confessions and the Elusive Truth,"
Antiwar.com, June 24, 2004:
http://antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=2865

69. On the fallacies of the claims regarding Racak, Rambouillet and the
Serb drive for a Greater Serbia as a reality and causal force, see
Johnstone, Fools' Crusade, and Mandel, How America Gets Away with Murder.

70. Only one body found around Srebrenica in the graves explored through
1999 was identified as female.

71. See note 7 above. Tim Ripley says that "Thousands of people, those too
old or infirm to flee,.remained behind. UN patrols soon found
hundreds had
been murdered by Croat soldiers and civilians. Almost every home had been
looted." (p. 192).

72. Serb refugees in Srebrenica in 1997 are explained as "coming from
neighborhoods elsewhere that Croat and Muslim armies emptied in
retaliation
for the Srebrenica atrocities and other such killings." Dana Priest, "U.S.
Troops Extend a Hand To Refugees Tainted by War," Washington Post,
Feb. 18,
1997.

73. Sray, "Selling the Bosnian Myth."

74. For an account and critique of these humanitarian interventionists,
see Edward Herman and David Peterson, "Morality's Avenging Angels: The New
Humanitarian Crusaders," in David Chandler, ed., Rethinking Human Rights
(Palgrave: 2002). For a more extensive dismantling of their arguments, see
Johnstone's Fools' Crusade and Mandel's How America Gets Away With Murder.

75. On the meaning and application of "cruise missile left" (my phrase),
see my "The Cruise Missile Left: Aligning with Power," Z Magazine,
November,
2002; and "The Cruise Missile Left (part 5): Samantha Power And The
Genocide
Gambit," ZNet Commentaries, May 17, 2004.

76. Cedric Thornberry, "Saving the War Crimes Tribunal; Bosnia
Herzegovina," Foreign Policy, September 1996.

--- End forwarded message ---

Londra. Ancora una volta i morti sono nostri ma la guerra è la vostra.

Comunicato del Comitato per il ritiro dei militari italiani dall'Iraq

Gli attentati che hanno sconvolto Londra - come quelli dell'11 marzo a
Madrid - hanno colpito la popolazione civile della capitale inglese
mentre in Gran Bretagna era in corso il vertice delle otto principali
potenze del mondo. Colpire i civili è indubbiamente un atto
terroristico, ma a nessuno ormai può sfuggire come queste operazioni
vengano concepite dai loro ideatori, esecutori e interlocutori nel sud
del mondo, come un'azione di guerra simmetrica a quelle messe in atto
dalle potenze occidentali in Iraq, Afganistan, Palestina. In questo
senso vogliamo esprimere la nostra solidarietà con tutti i
civili vittime di questa guerra.
Con questi attentati la guerra sta entrando drammaticamente nella vita
quotidiana e nelle case delle popolazioni di quegli Stati che
partecipano alla guerra preventiva, all'occupazione e all'oppressione
di altri popoli e paesi. Dopo gli attentati dell'11 marzo, a Madrid la
gente scese in piazza con uno striscione coraggioso e di grande
chiarezza: "Nostri sono i morti, vostra è la guerra". Quella parola
d'ordine è stata la lapide di un governo reazionario e filo USA come
quello Aznar che aveva voluto essere parte a tutti i costi della
coalizione politico-militare che aveva invaso illegalmente e
ingiustamente l'Iraq in contrasto con la maggioranza della popolazione
spagnola.
E' tempo che anche il governo Berlusconi sia costretto a prendere la
decisione dovuta. La maggioranza sociale del nostro paese vuole che le
truppe italiane in Iraq vengano ritirate e che l'Italia venga
sottratta alla guerra e alle sue conseguenze. Il governo - al
contrario - continua a far finta di niente ed a gestire il
coinvolgimento dell'Italia nella guerra e nell'occupazione di Iraq e
Afganistan come normale amministrazione. Fino ad oggi ha potuto
contare sulla riluttanza della gran parte dell'opposizione ad
ingaggiare una seria battaglia per il ritiro delle truppe.
Gli attentati di Londra dimostrano al governo e al centro-sinistra che
non c'è più molto tempo per prendere la decisione giusta: ritirare le
truppe dall'Iraq e mettere fine alla complicità dell'Italia con la
guerra. Le conseguenze delle loro scelte oggi sono drammatiche solo
per i cittadini iracheni, domani potrebbero diventarle anche per
quelli italiani. I morti sarebbero ancora una volta i nostri ma la
responsabilità della guerra sarebbe tutta loro.

(per contatti: cpiano@ tiscali.it)


MADRID, LONDRA...L'ALIBI DEL TERRORISMO ISLAMICO NON E' PIU' CONVINCENTE

Editoriale Radio Citta Aperta del 07 Luglio 2005
http://www.radiocittaperta.it

A Londra nella mattinata di oggi abbiamo visto ripetersi lo scenario
raccapricciante che avevamo visto l'11 marzo dello scorso anno a
Madrid. Lì erano stati colpiti i treni, a Londra una serie di bombe
sincronizzate sono esplose sulla metropolitana e su alcuni autobus
della capitale inglese seminando, con un attentato "diffuso", decine
di morti e feriti tra la popolazione civile. Il cuore di uno degli
otto paesi più potenti della terra riuniti nel loro vertice annuale in
Gran Bretagna, è stato così oggetto di una devastante incursione
terroristica.
Una operazione di tale portata - come quella dell'11 marzo a Madrid -
non si improvvisa nè può essere messa in piedi da una rete
terroristica che non sia fortemente centralizzata e organizzata nè
priva di una visione politica e mediatica estremamente sofisticata.
Viene colpita la società più che gli uomini o i simboli del potere
proprio perchè il terrore moderno fonda la sua efficacia sulla
pervasività sociale dei suoi effetti. E' una scala di valutazioni e
operazioni completamente diversa da quella con cui eravamo abituati a
fare i conti anche noi in Italia, che pure con le bombe sui treni,
nelle stazioni o nelle piazze abbiamo dovuto condividere le pagine
peggiori della nostra storia recente. Si spara nel mucchio ma con
obiettivi mirati. Si colpisce scientificamente a casaccio - tra i
pendolari madrileni o londinesi - ma si colpisce dentro un calendario
politico ben preciso: dalla vigilia delle elezioni in Spagna
all'apertura di un conflittuale vertice del G8 a Londra.
Di fronte a questo le reazioni delle potenze riunite al G8 di
Gleneagles non nascondono una voglia di vendetta che è del tutto
speculare alla rivelazione della loro vulnerabilità politica,
mediatica, sociale.
E' ormai evidente che il cosiddetto "terrorismo islamico" è un
paravento del tutto inadeguato e screditato per spiegare tutto questo
e per indicare il nemico "all'ira dei giusti".
I governi delle otto potenze riunite in Scozia sanno ormai benissimo
di aver scatenato e essere pienamente coinvolti in una guerra di cui
hanno completamente sottovalutato le conseguenze. Hanno occupato
spietatamente l'Afganistan e l'Iraq convinti di poter usare la
sindrome islamica per gestire una operazione coloniale tradizionale,
ma stanno verificando come la asimmetria della guerra preventiva
(paesi potenti contro paesi deboli) sta trovando sulla sua strada un
competitore globale che conosce le regole della guerra moderna ed è
disposto ad utilizzarle senza scrupoli. Nelle cucciolate dei rampolli
allevati dalle petromonarchie, che hanno studiato nei migliori
colleges americani ed europei, che hanno imparato a conoscere usi,
consumi e incubi delle società occidentali, che maneggiano con
maestria i mass media e le nuove tecnologie, è cresciuto un polo
competitivo contro Stati Uniti e le potenze loro alleate.
Non possiamo più nasconderci come gli attentati dell'11 settembre,
quelli dell'11 marzo e quelli di oggi a Londra, vengano vissuti
diversamente nei vari quadranti del mondo. Provocano terrore, odio e
costernazione nei nostri paesi ma possono provocare sensazioni di
onnipotenza in altre aree che del nostro mondo hanno visto anche le
responsabilità nel mattatoio palestinese, di Falluja, della complicità
con regimi e monarchie corrotte e feroci.
Lo schema di lettura della realtà internazionale del terzo millennio
da parte di Bush, Blair, Chirac, Berlusconi, appare ormai del tutto
inadeguata e rischia di travolgere nel dramma l'umanità. Prima li
costringiamo ad esserne consapevoli, meglio sarà per tutti; a
cominciare dal ritiro delle truppe e dalla cessazione dell'occupazione
dell'Iraq.


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--- In yugoslaviainfo @yahoogroups.com, "Darkita" wrote:

Zvonimir Trajković [Zvonimir Traykovitch] in the authorized text:

I was evacuating civilians from Srebrenitsa



Srebrenitsa, lies and media games

Karagitch's war consultant truly on Srebrenitsa



"OGLEDALO"

Belgrade, June 22, 2005





§ What was really happening in Srebrenitsa?

§ Why has been just now, after ten years, shown the short movie
on the liquidation of six Muslims?

§ Will this media euphoria, in which the highest level
statesmen have been included themselves, lead to a national catharsis,
or it is only the fulfillment of the obligations of our Government
marionettes, which they accepted before October 5, 2000?

§ How much will cost us that political exhibitionism of our
politicians and who will pay for that?



The operation Srebrenitsa was leading and planned in the form of the
horseshoe, intentionally leaving open space for the Muslim army and
civilians to be able to move towards Tuzla. It is the distance of 36
Km and the landscape is such that every man with an average condition
can it pass walking. Such a manner of the operation performance was
conducted in order to minimize the number of victims since Muslims
brought therein serious military forces. If they had been hermetically
closed, then there would have been violent fighting in which the army
of the RS would have had also serious losses, which was the reason to
accept the horseshoe plan.



All this can be seen on the American map of the withdraw of the Muslim
army by noting that there was not any ambush at Snagovo but the main
part of the Muslim army had planned to infiltrate into Zvornik and to
create a new city problem to the army of RS. The clashes at Nova
Kasaba in the Konyevitch Field occurred due to the Muslim blockade of
the magisterial road Belgrade – Zvornik -Vlasenitsa –Han Pyesak –
Sarayevo, i.e. Pale.

According to the data of the army of RS there were killed between 600
and 700 Muslim fighters in that operation, who were trying at some
places to break the horseshoe ring in order to join some of their
dislocated parts of units. The main Muslim force, as well as a part of
civilians went to Tuzla across free mountain trails.



In Srebrenitsa and in Zhepa, in which Muslims were staying almost for
three years, there were between 6.5 - 7 thousands of Muslim soldiers
that were, under the protection of the UN forces, permanently going
out from the protected enclave by attacking the neighboring Serb
villages. With such strategy of the permanent aggressions in the
vicinity of Srebrenitsa there were destroyed 128 Serb villages and
killed 2400 Serb civilians. In order to tie the significant part of
the Serb military for the defense against the continuous Muslim
attacks, so that that part of the Serb army could not be transferred
to the Sarayevo front to enforce the siege of Sarayevo. Besides, as
suggested by Croatian - Occidental strategists it was necessary to
disconnect the Republic of Srpska from the frontier with Serbia in
order to ease its later destruction. Therefore, there were created by
the UN the protected enclaves along Drina such as Srebrenitsa, Zhepa,
and Gorazhde. Moreover, the sever propaganda about thousands of killed
was aimed at keeping the tension of the world community and to push
into the full oblivion Muslim atrocities in Bratunats, Kravitsa,
Skelani and in other burned out Serb villages around Srebrenitsa, in
which were destroyed only Serb civilians.





On the territory of East Bosnia there were fighting's against the
Muslim forces taking place all three years and all their perished
soldiers as well as the Muslims civilians were burying in that bent space.

Often also, in mass graves, which are now opening as alleged genocide
victims. Several months after the fall of Srebrenitsa our pathologists
led by General Stankovitch and together with Occidental pathologists
found in all mass graves 1,284 carcasses that had to be identified by
the DNK and other well known methods. Those investigations were
lasting up to the mid of 1997 and just then the West ordered to halt
the investigations because they considered that that number was fairly
approximate final number of victims. Moreover, after five years of the
intensified search by KFOR and Hague investigators on the territory of
Srebrenitsa there were not found more than 1,700 carcasses in all mass
graves altogether.



After the bombing of Serbia 1999 Srebrenitsa has been again actualized
and new mass graves have been appearing, but now occidental experts
under the protection of the Hague Tribunal have been the exclusive
investigators. Those investigations have not been yet ended, even new
graves are appearing so that there are about 3,000 alleged carcasses.
Nothing will surprise me if the number grows and reaches 12 - 15
thousands. They will perhaps take care not to exceed the overall
number of all civil population from that region.



I was the consultant of Radovan Karagitch during the execution of the
operation Srebrenitsa and I was with him. Immediately after the end of
the military operation I was sent in Srebrenitsa in order to ensure
buses and lorries for the transport of Muslim civilians, up to the
Tuzla region. Nothing was indicating any such massacre neither the UN
soldiers, who were there present during the whole operation
performance, were pointing out to something like that. They did not
give then any declaration or comment that would point out that the
massacre happened. Only later under the instructions from their
headquarters they were beginning to declare that there were killings
of civilians and mass executions, and all in the concatenation of the
media propaganda dictated from lobistic and other world centers of power.



Besides, this photo shows clearly grown up men, and not only women and
children. Srebrenitsa has literally two streets since it is a little
mining settlement in which about 35,000 civilians and soldiers of
Naser Oric were crowding. It is evident on the photo that nobody was
wailing or crying that would be logical if 1/4 of the total number of
the inhabitants were killed, which is claimed today.



A question raises how is that possible that during such alleged
massacre, none of the commandants of Muslim forces under the command
of Naser Oric did not suffer any damage, but they withdrew safely to
Tuzla.



During the first elections after the Dayton Agreement due to Muslim
incautiousness and wish to gain as strong as possible vote score there
appeared at the voting places throughout Bosnia several thousands of
those "massacred" in Srebrenitsa and Zhepa. Later all of them were
getting urgently new documents with other names in other to exploit
further freely this farce on Srebrenitsa.



A particular role in that region there had also the French Legion of
Strangers because General Morillon was the commandant of the UN forces
for the protected zones for the long period. He was tolerating, out of
the agreement on the protected zones, thousands of armed Muslims so
that he was regularly arming them through humanitary convoys. Our
state has about that several video recordings in which was established
beyond dispute with cameras at the place that there was delivering in
lorries with the humanitary aid the arms and munitions to Srebrenitsa
Muslims. Besides, we have a rich video documentation of the massacre
of Serbs in the villages around Srebrenitsa, but it is not convenient
to this marionette Government to show them to the public. Then our and
world community could get another insight in the events in Srebrenitsa
and why it was necessary to neutralize that "Free zone".



Zhepa has been lost in an unbelievable manner from this constructed
Srebrenitsa story because there were imprisoned 1,500 soldiers with a
reach arsenal of arms. All of them were safely transferred across
Drina in Serbia, later in Bosnia, without losing a hair from the head.
Before they were returned to Bosnia, numerous "humanitary expeditions"
were visiting those imprisoned soldiers, among whom there was Ms
Ogata, in order to confirm that fair treatment of the prisoners. That
is why Zhepa is nowhere mentioned because it could be a strong proof
how our army was behaving during that clash. It is to notice that the
operations of Srebrenitsa and Zhepa were carrying out simultaneously
under the command of the same commandants against whom there is the
claim that they were leading the massacre in Srebrenitsa, but perhaps
because Muslims from Zhepa were more likeable to them and therefore
they transferred them safely into Serbia without killing anybody.



Why the video recording made 10 years ago is shown just now



The video recording of the execution of six Muslims, which is turning
around on all media these days, and which was lanced by Soros B92, who
could be else, is only a part of the organized campaign before the
important negotiations on Kosovo.



It does not concern any facing with the truth because that crime does
not have any connection with Srebrenitsa. It was committed in the
vicinity of Trnovo near Sarayevo, i.e. 170 km far from Srebrenitsa.
Linking that crime with Srebrenitsa is aimed at refreshing the myth
about the suffer of Srebrenitsa Muslims before the denotation of the
decade of the event at which our President Taditch should appear with
the apology. It is the continuation of the propaganda war, which is
aimed at representing the Serbs as the genocidal nation to the world.
Against such nation, all is justifiable including the bombing of 1999.
Such a nation does not deserve to retain Kosovo in its state, so that
the hands will be tied to our "statesmen" as the representatives of
the genocidal people in any international negotiations. RS Srpska is
in that case the genocidal creation that should be destroyed as such
and a tutor should be imposed on the Serbs. That is why everything has
been being done in order to force the Serbs "to face" with their
"truth" in order the West to stay pure and moral. For this purpose,
all available means are used, such as diverse "non-government"
organizations and foundations, our venal intellectuals and world
propaganda machinery.



For this purpose of driving into "truth", Peddy Ashdown has nimbly
included himself. He split up angrily the report of the independent
commission of RS about the crimes in Srebrenitsa and under the menace
of the replacement he ordered to president Chavitch and to other
leaders of RS that there were killed 8,000 Muslims and that he
expected such a report from them. Also, in order to drown RS into the
united Bosnia this English democrat kicked out "democratically" 73
legally elected RS statesmen from their leading positions because they
dared to think with their heads and to defend the rules of the Dayton
agreement.



Many are working on building an image about the Serbs, starting with
the known to us the International Crisis Group (ICG) up to the office
of David Barnow, which is often mentioned as the source of
"information" about massacre of 6,000 later 8,000 Muslim civilians in
Srebrenitsa. That office is well paid Muslim lobistic center in the
United States, which created and which has conducted the campaign
about Srebrenitsa, as earlier lies about thousands raped Muslim women,
concentration camps for Muslims…





Irresponsibility of politicians and of the actual Government



Our tragedy is not Srebrenitsa, nor even other Serb scaffolds. Our
problem is the existing marionette government that does not try to
fight for the truth, to defend national dignity and Serb interests.
Our tragedy is the fact that our state politics is in the hands of
Natasha Kanditch and other band of foreign hirelings, because our
President apologizes under the order from West without caring possible
consequences for the state and nation.



Miloshevitch was hiding the truth in order not to irritate the West by
trying to "buy" for himself couple years more of the presidential
mandate, and now he is in Hague. Will he at least now present the full
truth will depend on the availability to him of all the documentation
we have, or he will finally accepted a negotiation with the tribunal
in order to smooth the punishment, so as many other have done so far.



For Serbian people it would be ideal if the whole truth could be
presented. We Serbs, just for the sake of the truth, we are obliged to
respond sharply against the lies and constructions for it is the only
way for the nation to escape the real catharsis. It is crime to kill
one man, and not to speak about cold killing of six fellows. However,
such crimes are acts of ill-minded individuals who have the name and
the family name and who should be doubtless charged juridical. In
these civil - religious clashes in our spaces there were various awful
crimes on all sides, there we should not create epopees from some of
them, and we should not forget others as that they had not happened.



In these civil - religious clashes, the Serbs have been ethnically
cleansed from Slovenia, Croatia, from a part of Bosnia and from Kosovo
and Metohiya, but only we are accused for ethnic purification. Others
were starting the wars, but they accuse only us for the war

and the disintegration of Yugoslavia. See

the map and you will see clearly that the

Great Croatia has been created, but they

accuse us for the creation of the Great Serbia. Until when those lies
and falsification of facts will continue. When will

our state leadership submit under the nose of the West all those very
clearly evident and provable facts. When will they say to the United
States and EC that Shiptars can get that degree of the autonomy that
the same West gave to the Serbs in Croatia, i.e. RSK. I hope that
soon, if not this then a new leadership will do this.




Zvonimir Traykovitch
www.trajkovic.co.yu



Translated by

Lyubomir T.
Gruyitch


lyubomir_gruyitch@...



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