Re: War crimes!
Cinema Face said:
Maybe Clinton should be charged with war crimes for what he did in Bosnia. What exactly was that war about again? Ethnic cleansing turned out to be a hoax.
This kind of thinking reminds me of the right-wingers in present day Germany who say Hitler never killed 6 million Jews, or those that deny the "Killing-Fields" of Cambodia ever existed.......
Here's a story on what's going on in Serbia now:
Bosnian Serbs admit scale of Srebrenica massacre for first time
2 hours, 28 minutes ago
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) - Bosnian Serb authorities admitted for the first time that Serb forces slaughtered more than 7,000 Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
"I am confirming that the number (of victims) is higher than 7,000. I cannot reveal the exact figures. It is up to the government to do it," an official from a special investigative commission told AFP Thursday on condition of anonymity.
In June the Bosnian Serb government admitted for the first time that Serb forces had committed the massacre and tried to cover up the crime, but it avoided giving a definite figure on the number of victims.
The commission included the figure of more than 7,000 victims -- a number which conforms to most independent assessments -- in a report it presented to the Bosnian Serb government on Thursday.
"I think that the commission made the most objective and the most correct list of those killed in Srebrenica," commission member Djordje Stojakovic told AFP, without revealing the figures.
"We had more than 30 sources of information but the list is not final. I'm not sure that there will be a final list ever."
Srebrenica is the first episode in the bloody break-up of former Yugoslavia that the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague (news - web sites) has ruled constituted genocide.
Bosnian Serb forces overran the enclave, which was supposed to be under UN protection, in July 1995.
Women and children were allowed to flee the enclave in eastern Bosnia, but Muslim men and boys were rounded up and the International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that more than 7,000 of them were subsequently killed.
In 2002, the Bosnian Serb government issued a report which minimized the number of victims, triggering outrage among survivors and the international community.
Most Bosnian Serbs deny that the massacre took place and continue to regard their political leader during the country's 1992-95 war, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, as heroes.
Both men have been indicted by the UN tribunal at The Hague for war crimes and genocide for their alleged roles in the Srebrenica massacre, but remain at large somewhere in the former Yugoslavia.
The genocide is also the basis of key charges laid against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites), who has been on trial at The Hague for more than two years.
Massacre survivors said it was about time the Serbs admitted the scale of the slaughter, but warned that more information was needed on the whereabouts of the culprits and the locations of hidden mass graves.
"Considering the scale of the crime, it is a success that after nine years the number of victims is being confirmed," the head of the Srebrenica mothers association, Munira Subasic, told AFP.
"But we also want to find out from the report who the perpetrators are. Who were those who took away our kids? We would also like to know where they were buried."
So far more than 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from mass graves near the town. Some 1,327, identified by DNA anlaysis, have been buried at a Srebrenica memorial site but another 5,000 remains are yet to be identified.
Post-war Bosnia consists of two semi-independent entities -- the Serb-run Republika Srpska, which includes Srebrenica, and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
Bosnia's war claimed some 200,000 lives and more than two million people, over half the country's population, were forced to flee their homes.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041014/ts_afp/warcrimes_bosnia_srebrenica
