{"id":1462,"date":"2020-05-06T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/?page_id=1462"},"modified":"2020-06-14T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:34:15","slug":"the-times-editorial-monday-6-june-2011-memory-against-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/the-times-editorial-monday-6-june-2011-memory-against-forgetting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times, editorial, Monday 6 June 2011 – “Memory Against Forgetting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine years have passed since the editorial linked to below was published, a full decade after the end of the final act of the Balkan Conflicts of the 1990s. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The main thrust of the editorial is to damn ‘the malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts’. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Has this attitude stood the test of time? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Since it was written, we have learned that many of the ‘facts’ – such as the 6,400 ‘identifications’ made by the International Commission for Missing Persons (later increased in to 6,800) – were mere allegations, without hard supporting evidence. \u00a0Laws passed in Croatia and Bosnia empowered the ICMP to reject any subpoena forcing it to hand over raw forensic and DNA evidence for independent assessment. \u00a0To this day, no one outside the ICMP has ever had access to this evidence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And, one by one, many of the other claims in this editorial have withered under close scrutiny. \u00a0On his deathbed Alija Izetbegovic admitted to Bernard Kouchner and US Diplomat Richard Holbrooke – much to their surprise – that there had been no\u00a0death camps in Bosnia. \u00a0Two secret UN reports, which have never been published, concluded that it was the Bosnian Muslims, not the Bosnian Serbs, who had caused two of the infamous atrocities in Sarajevo. \u00a0Those who have read the first\u00a0Republika Serpska report on Srebrenica will have seen that it is a conscientious and painstaking assessment. \u00a0Paddy Ashdown, a hugely autocratic UN High Commissioner for Bosnia, rejected it because he didn’t like the conclusions. \u00a0He then used his powers to\u00a0dismiss many senior members of the Rpublika Serpska\u00a0administration and put the re-draft under the control \u00a0of a Bosnian Muslim. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

The full text of The Times editorial is here: \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nine years have passed since the editorial linked to below was published, a full decade after the end of the final act of the Balkan Conflicts of the 1990s. \u00a0 The main thrust of the editorial is to damn ‘the malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts’. \u00a0 Has this … <\/p>\n

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