Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

If the Prosecution witness cites in his report data from a 1992-1994 Sarajevo population census – meaning at the height of the war –, and if I prove that there was no such census nor was such ever published, you can imagine what sort of report it was. And I proved in court that this census does not exist, says professor Stevo Pasalic.

BIJELJINA, April 18 /SRNA/ – Professor Stevo Pasalic stressed that the Tribunal was upset by his expert testimony that at the beginning of the war two million people departed from 109 BiH Municipalities, of whom fully 830,000 were Serbs, and that this document, which the Tribunal took as valid, could have represented a turning-point; however, the judgement will show whether this court considers facts or something else.

In his testimony at the trial of onetime Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic, Pasalic disproved the Prosecution’s evidence, “because they worked at a distance using unacceptable methodology.”

According to Pasalic, the Prosecution’s evidence is not valid and rests on shaky legs, especially when it comes to civilian and military casualties. He says that on the basis of the criteria used by the Tribunal experts, one gets a warped historical picture and misleading statistics.

BOSNIA AND KOSOVO MESS--HOW IT ALL STARTED & U.S. CONNIVANCE & DIPLOMATIC INCOMPETENCE IN BOSNIA (National Catholic Register, June 13, 1999)

By Robert R. Reilly

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM           

In a recent WALL STREET JOURNAL article (5/6/99), Lady Margaret Thatcher reprises the rationale for NATO’s war against Yugoslavia in a way that is worth examining because it is shared by so many. She draws an exact parallel between "Milosevic’s Serbia" and the "madness of Nazism," and insists that an appeasement policy failed in both instances. Lady Thatcher has been joined in invoking Hitler’s name by many NATO leaders, including President Bill Clinton. They have used it to explain the morality and purpose of the current military campaign. Such statements evoke Winston Churchill’s pronouncements about Nazism and the insatiable ideology that drove its onslaught. Is this what existed in nascent form in Yugoslavia eight years ago, and is this what has come to fruition in the brutal ethnic cleansing in Kosovo?

The use of Nazism to explain events in the Balkans is a visceral response to the horrible atrocities there. But selectively concentrating on atrocities can incapacitate the kind of thinking needed to discern the underlying political reasons that gave rise to them in the first place. This article is not meant to exculpate Serb authorities for their barbaric acts, but to examine the political conditions behind the conflicts and the Western role in igniting them.  Also, the military means employed by NATO must be used to further political ends. If we mistake the political origins of the problems in the Balkans, we can bomb forever and miss the real target.

For the Honourable Cross and the Golden Freedom

Editor
Milenko Avramović

Memorial Room of Milići,  1992-1995 Serb Victims

Milići is the central commune of the Birač region, in the eastern part of Republika Srpska, covering an area of 285 km2. At the time of the 1991 census, its population numbered about 16,000.

Before the last Homeland War, with its developed economy, centered around the Boksit Company, the Milići commune was the moving force and locomotive of the entire region’s development. That is why it was a thorn in the side of those bent on destroying Yugoslavia, who initiated the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

When the first fighting broke out, the Serbian people of the Milići commune, under the leadership of the Territorial Defense Headquarters, formed the Mine Company and the detachments of Milići, Vukšić Polje, Dubnica, Derventa, Podgora, Lukavica and Bijelo Polje. These units controlled and defended the commune boundaries. A battalion from the 210th Hill Brigade of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) was manned with mobilized soldiers from the Milići commune. With the establishment of the First Birač Brigade, the defense of the Serbian people from the Birač region was rounded out. Then came the need for the formation of the Vlasenica-Milići Brigade, out of which the First Milići Light Infantry Brigade was subsequently created.

Interview: Edin Garaplija
Seve practiced by Shooting Civilians in Sarajevo

interview by Ante SULJAK

Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia, September 12, 2000

Following orders of the AID director, Kemal Ademovic, Edin Garaplija, an agent of the Bosniak intelligence service [AID], arrested Nedzad Herenda, one of the most active members of Seve [seva means lark], a notorious paramilitary unit, with the goal of getting a confession about the activities of the unit from him. By the way, Seve were acting under the auspices of the top Bosniak political leadership.

SD: Several days after the arrest, Herenda was found alive. Did he managed to escape?

GARAPLIJA: At one moment Herenda managed to get away. The agents who were guarding him were overworked and tired. You see, Herenda had been watched for a month. Then after the arrest he was processed for three days, meaning that we were getting his statement. That was according to the law that was in force at the time. At one point Herenda used the agent's lack of attention and tried to get his weapon. He attacked the agent, they pushed each other and the gun held by the agent fired. The bullet hit Herenda in the leg.

THE HAGUE | 07.02.2013.

Edin Garaplija, defence witness of Radovan Karadzic

    Former Bosnian secret service agent Edin Garaplija testified about the ‘shocking’ information he learned in the course of Operation Eagle, as he interrogated Nedzad Herenda, former member of the paramilitary unit called the Larks. In the interrogation, Herenda purportedly admitted that he had personally killed a UN French member in 1995 – ‘so that the UN would blame Serbs for it’, and that the Larks unit was responsible for an attempt on Sefer Halilovic’s life in 1993

Former member of the Bosnian secret police, Edin Garaplija testified under a subpoena at the trial of Radovan Karadzic. Garaplija repeated the publicly known facts about his role in the operation codenamed Eagle. The operation, carried out in 1996, was meant to uncover the secrets of the Larks unit. The operation and indeed the very existence of the Larks unit, which was part the Bosnian State Security Service, was secret and just a small number of persons in the leadership knew about it, Garaplija said. According to the witness, one of them was minister Alija Delimustafic who established the unit.

Garaplija said that in June 1996, Kemal Ademovic, head of the Agency for Investigation and Documentation, ordered him to investigate the activities of a paramilitary unit known as the Larks. Nedzad Herenda was a member of that unit. Garaplija was involved in the surveillance of Herenda, his arrest and finally his interrogation. Garaplija learnt ‘shocking information that harmed the Bosnian defense’. According to the witness, Herenda’s interrogation lasted 72 hours. Garaplija and his colleagues focused mostly on two ‘particularly shocking’ incidents. The targets in those incidents were a member of the UN peace-keeping force and the first BH Army commander.

 

(Counterpunch)

Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States.

Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities.  Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration.

The Bible of the campaign is Samantha Power’s book, “A Problem from Hell” .  Ms. Power’s thesis is that the U.S. Government, while well-intentioned, like all of us, is too slow to intervene to “stop genocide”.  It is a suggestion that the U.S. government embraces, even to taking on Ms. Power as White House advisor.

Why has the U.S. Government so eagerly endorsed the crusade against “genocide”?

The reason is clear.  Since the Holocaust has become the most omnipresent historical reference in Western societies, the concept of “genocide” is widely and easily accepted as the greatest evil to afflict the planet. It is felt to be worse than war.