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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
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by George Pumphrey
06.02.2010
The debate around President Boris Tadic's resolution on Srebrenica has again focused the spotlight on this Bosnian town in the Drina Valley. Inspired by the ad hoc tribunal set up in The Hague to punish (Serb) war crimes during the Bosnian Civil War, the resolution is causing dissention about whether Serbia should plead mea culpa and beg forgiveness for the crime supposedly committed nearly fifteen years ago.
There are many aspects to this debate. Whereas Rasim Ljajic, Serbia's Labor Minister and President of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, says that he believes it is "important that the resolution on Srebrenica is adopted for moral and political reason(s), " other parties insist that there be a resolution condemning also the war crimes committed against Serbs.
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
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By Edward Herman
We have all heard about “genocide denial” and “holocaust denial” as very bad happenings that have focused attention, indignation, and concern to the point of laws passed to criminalize such behavior in Austria, Belgium, France, and elsewhere. But very little attention has been paid to genocide inflation, where killings are wildly exaggerated and claims of genocide are made based on hearsay, rumor, knowing lies, and otherwise problematic “information.” No indignation has been expressed even over its more egregious illustrations, and no laws have been proposed or passed to punish its practitioners. This is because the focus on denial has been useful to powerful groups and countries in the West, whereas the critics and victims of genocide inflation have been weak and with no political or media leverage. It will be shown below, however, that this pattern not only fails to protect anybody’s human rights, but instead allows the powerful to kill and violate human rights more easily.Genocide Denial
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 February 2010 )
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 |
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By Edward Herman
"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.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 31 January 2010 )
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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1. The lists of the buried victims of July 1995 contain a large number of persons registered in the voting lists in the commune of Srebrenica for the following elections in 1996. We have their names, but at present we shall give just u numerical review. Out of the number of persons mentioned for the first burial of the alleged victims of July 1995, 271 persons can be found in the voting lists for 1996, for the second burial 85, the third 31, the fourth 140, the fifth 252 and for the sixth burial 135. That amounts to 914 persons or 37% out of the total number of buried persons. It is logical to suppose that they are the persons who died of natural causes in the period between July 1995 and July 2006 when it was the last burial, and not the victims of Srebrenica killed after the Serbs came back to the town. If they had not been alive, the organizer of the elections, OSCE, had more than a year to take them out of Srebrenica voting lists. Hat was not done. There are indications that the same happened in the communes of Bratunac, then in Vlasenica and Zvornik.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 January 2010 )
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Friday, 10 April 2009 |
THE HIDDEN TRUTH
Truth is one and in opposition to it there are many things that in various forms fight to suppress it. Therefore, the truth remains often solitary, and it is in any way "slow" and unobtrusive. It is surrounded by a cloud of semi-truths and non-truths, attractive and noisome, which often have the support of "free", "independent", "objective" intellectuals and media, that are less media than "advocates". The semi-truth is also created by suppressing or neglecting the real truth or by creating lies. In case of Srebrenica, both methods are at work.
Exactly half a century after the beginning of World War II, the Serbs were again attacked with one of Hitler's methods. According to the system, the whole of the surrounding community is aroused against the Serbs. The terrain for such a state of affairs had been prepared decades earlier, with a secret hope that they could also this time execute a pogrom over the Serbs similar to that of 1941. "The crusade of Muslims against the Serbian villages was in a way an all-people's movement. After the soldiers, the conquered villages would be assaulted by the second and third echelons, by their relatives, neighbors and friends, the so-called civilians: women, children, old people, with all sorts of weapons and instruments..."If this could not be achieved as desired, the second plan was to be activated.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 April 2009 )
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD SERBS
OF SREBRENICA
AND BIRAČ REGION
1992-1995
 This book of the dead gathers Serbs
from Srebrenica and Birač region who were killed during the war 1992-1995. New martyrs - 3,287 of them
- rest under new crosses in their ancestral land. Many of the exiled families could
not move away
their homes and farmsteads, instead they carried with them the newly made
coffins with their dead relatives. The same hand took away their lives, so it is appropriate
that they should rest in peace in the same cemetery. Their graves are
the terrible monument of the great
historic tragedy and a lasting warning to our descendants. They are the victims presented to the altar of our Homeland, our Orthodox Christian Faith and
our Freedom. Their heads have been
laid in the foundations of the Republic of Srpska.
Oh Lord, take these Martyr Souls into
Thou Heavenly Kingdom!
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 April 2009 )
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