| SREBRENICA, JULY 1995 / Part III |
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— IN SEARCH OF TRUTH —
Milivoje Ivanišević (Continuation)
Moslem Victims
Having in mind the purpose of the Memorial Center – mezarje Potocari it would be sensible to have a larger number of buried persons. The reputation of the Memorial Center in the world depends on that, of course among the Moslems. It is not disputable that the Moslem soldiers had casualties during the war. In this case the only question is the number of those who ended their lives breaking the Serbian defending lines and in mutual conflicts, and the number of those killed by a firing squad. The question is the number of the killed in July 1995 and the number of those who lost their lives. The most disputable question is that the Tribunal has never launched an investigation against those who killed people by a firing squad. Who engaged those soldiers, on what conditions and who gave them protection, even in the USA?[54] Those who did that had influence over the Tribunal. Their arrest and testimonies at the Tribunal would disclose those who ordered the actions. Protecting the perpetrators, the organizer was in fact protecting himself. It is clear evidence that whoever ordered that could not be from the Serb Republic. There are indications that the engaged soldiers were misled and did not trust judiciary who would bring the captured Moslems to justice. It is hard to believe a presupposition that they carried out the action spontaneously and on their own initiative. In that case they would be the only ones to be blamed and fully responsible and the Tribunal would not have any reasons to hesitate and bring charges against them.
After all, even against Drazen Erdemovic, among others one of the direct perpetrators, nothing was don until Belgrade handed him over to the Tribunal. He is the best example that all of them were protected. When the Yugoslav authorities got to know the crime of Drazen Erdemovic, they wanted to prosecute his case but he fled to the Tribunal in fear of the trial and of surely being punished. Not accidentally. His request, not accidentally as well, was joined by the diplomats of the western (NATO) countries. [55] They wanted to have their human rights and freely expressed will respected. In the Tribunal, he was not excused from a long punishment but became the main support of the prosecution office and a witness at all the trials concerned even for Srebrenica. The mystery about who has been hiding behind the initiator and the one to place an order of the perpetrated killings by firing squad the Serbian side has not succeeded to clear out for more than ten years.
It seems that it took a long time to find where and when the Serbian enormous crime had happened, which would alert the world public and put the NATO on the move. In April 1993, the American tried to use the case of Srebrenica but the attempt failed. According to a statement given by Alija Izetbegovic himself, who was one of the participants in the negotiations, he could not accept Clinton’s proposal to let the Serbs into Srebrenica and sacrifice the lives of 5000 people in the town.[56] Then, on several occasions, there were efforts to use Sarajevo for the same purpose, but it did not work either. Even a worse choice were Cerska, Gorazde, Zepa, Bihac…However, the idea to make the Serbs perpetrators of an enormous crime against the Moslems in BH had to be brought to light. The place was finally found, those responsible had already been chosen, the number of the victims, at least approximately, was known as well, only the evidence is missing. |
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