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| Serbia cleared in genocide, to a point |
| 2007-02-27 |
| The U.N.'s highest court cleared Serbia Monday of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody war. But it said the country's former government should have stopped the 1995 slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and ordered Serb leaders to hand over the alleged architect of the massacre. Wasn't really "genocide," y'see, just a whole lot of dead people. All of a certain persuasion, but that don't make it genocide, nope, nope ... The case marked the first time a state had been taken to court over allegations of genocide, outlawed in a U.N. convention in 1948 after the Nazi Holocaust, although individuals have been convicted in genocide cases linked to massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda. In a 171-page ruling, the International Court of Justice said the massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces at the U.N.-protected Srebrenica enclave was an act of genocide. But the fault lay with somebody else. We're not sure whom. Can we blame Slobo? He's dead after all, it'd be more convenient ... But the 15-judge panel rejected Bosnia's claim that the Serbian state was responsible for the killing, saying it did not have effective control over the Bosnian Serb forces it had helped arm and finance. Instead, the judges ruled that Serbia stood by and allowed the massacre to happen. Serbia, "could, and should, have acted to prevent the genocide, but did not," the court's president, Rosalyn Higgins, told reporters. The ruling sparked outrage in Bosnia, which filed the case, and among dozens of war survivors who gathered outside the gates of the International Court of Justice. "Shame on the people who reached such a verdict. How can they say not guilty of genocide when there are photos, video footage," Zinaida Mujic of the Mothers of Srebrenica association said in Sarajevo. The Srebrenica massacre was the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II and the bloodiest episode in the violent breakup of Yugoslavia into six independent states, including Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. The fighting started in Slovenia in 1991, spread to Croatia in 1992 and Bosnia the same year leaving at least 200,000 dead. In the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, Muslims, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs fought each other. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 I think Frontline did a report on the event with actual video of the Dutch soldiers wondering whether to protect the "safe zone" or hand the muslims over. The Dutch CO called UN hierarchy and he was told not to raise arms in effect turning the muslims over. Now, whether the muslims congregated in the "safe zone" had committed crimes I cannot say. I can say the UN lured unarmed people into a "safe zone" and then turned them over to their enemies for execution. Whether its 2, 2000 or 10000, the UN bears the scare of hardly an isolated incident which is yet another brick in what should be its burial vault. Judging combatants is hard. Judging the UN's role in this event is not. |
| Posted by: Lanny Ddub 2007-02-27 09:06 |
| #6 The Serbs were considerably less anti-Semitic than most during the Nazi era. Maybe it's true they weren't nearly as genocidal against the Muslims in the 1990's as has been claimed. Being that it's the UN talking, the answer can't be that killing a bunch of fighting age Muslim males was justifiable and not genocide. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-02-27 07:41 |
| #5 So, who do we believe? Muslims & UN---both groups have such a sterling record. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-02-27 06:09 |
| #4 The U.N.'s highest court cleared Serbia Monday of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody war. But it said the country's former government should have stopped the 1995 slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and ordered Serb leaders to hand over the alleged architect of the massacre. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the UN's highest court refused to say something bad about a UN member government that isn't Israel or the U.S. The UN is a trade association for The "official" story about Srebrenica, sold to the world by Bosnian Muslims, was that the Serbs out of the clear blue sky attacked the "UN safe haven city" of Srebrenica and massacred 8000 men and boys." Only, the actual body count was about 2500. "Only" 2500. I suppose that makes it OK, then, so long as you aren't one of the 2500. Oh, well, that's life in a UN-protected safe city, I guess. I come away from all this with two firm conclusions: 1. People in the Balkans sure seem to spend a lot of time killing each other off. 2. I doubt the Austrians and Hungarians are up for it, but a Hapsburg Empire restoration might not be such a bad idea after all. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-02-27 06:06 |
| #3 I can't recall her husband's name, but Amanpour was married to a senior Clinton' mouthpiece. It is a fact that Muslims thrive where they have minority status. On the other hand, when Muslim states have non-Muslim minorities, mistreatment, murder, discrimination, coerced exile, etc, all follow. Google "serbianna" and you will discover that Muslims are 100% to blame for problems in the Balkans and Caucasus and Palestine and Dearbornistan and Nigeria and Ivory Coast, and...everywhere. They are born trouble makers. |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-02-27 04:14 |
| #2 He is telling Amanpour is Muslim. It is true she was born in Iran but her father seemd close to Shah's regime so he could haave been quite cold to Islam. I notice however that her father kept his name as Muhammad at a time many people close to the Shah changed their names to Aryan names. She married a non-Muslim (that deserves death penalty under Shariah) and her son is called Darius not Muhammad, Abdallah or similar Arabic name as favoured by Muslmims. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-02-27 03:46 |
| #1 One possible reason for the UN to downplay the genocide angle, is that they now know it was probably a lie. To quote Mary Mostert at Banner of Liberty The "official" story about Srebrenica, sold to the world by Bosnian Muslims, was that the Serbs out of the clear blue sky attacked the "UN safe haven city" of Srebrenica and massacred 8000 men and boys." Only, the actual body count was about 2500. A reported 3000 of the 8000 massacred Bosnian Muslims have since voted in Bosnian elections. I've been researching and writing about this for 10 years. It seems that the "unarmed" men in Srebrenica had actually been plundering, raiding and killing Serbs in nearby villages for years prior to the supposed "Srebrenica massacre" of 1995. In fact, by 1995, more than 100 Serb villages were destroyed and about 2000 Serbian civilians were killed. Since Americans were getting nearly all of this story at the time from CNN, and their reporter in Bosnia was Christiane Amanpour, a Muslim, they never heard that part of the story. Before I knew she was a Muslim, I got curious as to why CNN never ONCE interviewed a Serb during the Bosnia war that I started researching. In 1996 I wrote an article titled "Ethnic Cleansing under NATO's Watchful Eye in Bosnia -- Where are the missing 150,000 Serbs?" So, who do we believe? |
| Posted by: Bunyip 2007-02-27 03:15 |