{"id":1848,"date":"2020-11-11T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/?page_id=1848"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T09:46:18","slug":"srebrenica-collection-july-1995","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/srebrenica-collection-july-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Srebrenica collection July 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">\u201cGlobe and Mail\u201d Canada, July 12, 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The refugees in Srebrenica, most of them Muslim women and children who fled into Srebrenica ahead of a massive and brutal wave of Bosnian Serb<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in eastern Bosnia in the spring of 1993, have been desperate to leave the town ever since they arrived. Instead, they have been forced to remain by the local Muslim warlord, Naser Oric, who drove around town in a Mercedes while the refugees sustained on meagre UN handouts and were, occasionally, sold water by Srebrenica residents during the brutally-hot summers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Mr. Oric and the Bosnian government knew that if the majority of refugees were allowed to be trucked across Serb-held territory to Tuzla or some other viable sanctuary, both the UN protection and any hope of holding on to the remote and surrounded enclave would be lost. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Srebrenica residents treated the refugees atrociously. When the refugees elected a representative to present their demands to Oric, the representative was murdered within hours&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"justify\"><em><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">As seen so many times before in Bosnia&#8217;s civil war, the Bosnian Muslim-led government had no scruples and did not hesitate to exploit the refugees\u2019 misery in order to gain<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cInternational support\u201d. At the same time the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201ccourtesy \u201c with which the BMA treated UN troops &#8211; the very same troops that were feeding the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201csafe area \u201c for almost three years &#8211; could be seen here:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Electronic Telegraph Tuesday 11 July 1995 World News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230; Dutch UN peacekeepers formed a barrier of personnel carriers between advancing Serb tanks and Muslim soldiers defending the town. One of the personnel carriers rolled off the road as it manoeuvred after Muslim forces opened up on it with a grenade and small arms. When another carrier tried to pull it back on to the road, a Muslim soldier of the Bosnian army fired an anti-tank rocket at it, but missed&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">NY Times News Service<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Chris Hedges, 1995<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;The captured observation posts came under tank fire, and a peacekeeper was shot dead the 67th to be killed in the conflict by Bosnian government forces as the Dutch troops retreated from the advancing Bosnian Serb forces&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">What was going on among the BMA defenders inside the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201csafe area \u201c? Please read from the articles published in the Western press : <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">New York Times, July 23, 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">by Alan Cowell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Dutch accounts, by soldiers, officers and the Defence Minister, were unanimous in asserting that the Bosnian Muslim soldiers who had been under siege in Srebrenica for three years abandoned the town around two days before it fell. Before the defenders left the town, General Couzy said, Dutch soldiers saw:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cin two locations there was fighting between those who wanted to stay and those who wanted to go.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Many Dutch soldiers said they had been upset and troubled by the sight of soldiers seeming to abandon their wives and children to the advancing Serbs. \u201c&#8230; How many of BMA soldiers actually have died from the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cfriendly fire\u201d will remain a secret , but the victims are certainly submitted by the Bosnian Muslim led government as<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cmissing civilians killed by the Serbian aggressors\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">The BSA did not use thousands of troops as was suggested by the PR companies hired by the Bosnian Muslim-led government. As a matter of fact it was published that: <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Times, 14 July 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Muslim soldiers &#8216;failed to defend town from Serbs&#8217; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">By Michael Evans, Defence Correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;The Muslim defenders of Srebrenica put up only a brief fight against the Serbs, and their commanders left the night before the Serb tanks entered the town, according to Western intelligence sources yesterday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The abandonment of Srebrenica to a relatively small Serb advancing force caused surprise in the West, especially after the largely Muslim government army had demonstrated considerable infantry skills in recent attacks. There were reports that up to 1,500 Serbs were involved in the assault on Srebrenica, but intelligence sources estimated the main attack was carried out by a force of about 200, with five tanks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt was a pretty low-level operation, but for some reason which we can&#8217;t understand the BiH (government) soldiers didn&#8217;t put up much of a fight, \u201c one source said&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">However, the advance into the town was seen by intelligence assessors as an opportunist move.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI don&#8217;t think the Serbs had predicted the timing of this operation,\u201d one source said. The apparent decision by the Muslims to abandon the town provided the Serbs with a sudden opportunity to occupy Srebrenica, bypassing the Dutch on the road a mile south of the town. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The intelligence source said:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThe BiH just melted away from Srebrenica and the senior officers left the night before.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The source said the Muslim defenders were<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cadequately armed \u201c for street-fighting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">Having (deliberately?) lost the Srebrenica enclave, the Bosnian Muslim-led government started to play a pre-arranged PR campaign with the innocent refugees from Srebrenica:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Daily Telegraph, July 15, 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Muslims manipulate refugees&#8217; agony<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Bosnian government deliberately increased the suffering of the Muslim refugees fleeing Srebrenica to put pressure on the international community, according to the documents made available to the Daily Telegraph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The papers include instructions to the United Nations from the government of Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo that the refugees must be taken in their thousands to a single location rather than being spread around the numerous available centres. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The resulting television pictures and media reports of chaos among aid workers overwhelmed when the refugees arrived at the UN base in Tuzla were intended to bring about a decisive international response&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Once again victims of the civil war were paying the price for the unspeakable crimes that their own &#8211; Bosnian Muslim &#8211; representatives were orchestrating. As so many times before, killing their own people (bomb massacres in Sarajevo), increasing the suffering of the innocent refugees&#8230; nothing was ruled out by Alija Izetbegovic and his Islamic followers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">Then, in order to put more pressure on the UN, Security Council and the International Community, they [The Bosnian Muslim Government] came out with \u201cthe victims story\u201c. The amounts of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cmassacred\u201c BMA soldiers was going from 1,000 up to 15,000. Without considering the astonishing fact that in the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cdemilitarized safe area \u201cthere were several brigades of BMA troops&#8221;, let&#8217;s read the following:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Reuters May 29, 1996<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"> &#8230;The six investigators are searching for evidence to convict Bosnian Serbs involved in the massacre of at least 3,000 unarmed Muslim men from Srebrenica, a U.N. declared<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201csafe area\u201d overrun by the Serbs last July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">After two hours of digging with shovels, picks, rakes and hoes, investigators allowed reporters to approach the site, where at least four corpses were found&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">\u201cFour corpses\u201d constitutes \u201cMass graves\u201d and the \u201cproof of mass killings\u201d!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"justify\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Times, August 02, 1995 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"> \u201cMissing enclave troops found \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">by Michael Evans and Michael Kallenbach<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;Thousands of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cmissing\u201d Bosnian Muslim soldiers from Srebrenica who have been at the centre of reports of possible mass executions by the Serbs, are believed to be safe to the Northeast of Tuzla&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">For the first time yesterday, however, the Red Cross in Geneva said it heard from sources in Bosnia that up to 2,000 Bosnian Government troops were in the area north of Tuzla. They had made their way from Srebrenica<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cwithout their families being informed \u201c, a spokesman said, adding that it had not been possible to verify the reports because the Bosnian Government refused to allow the Red Cross into the area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Although the Red Cross refused to speculate why the Bosnian Government was keeping secret the presence of the Srebrenica troops near Tuzla, it probably is doing so for military reasons&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" align=\"justify\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">New York Times, July 17, 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">by Chris Hedges<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Some 3,000 &#8211; 4,000 Bosnian Muslims who were considered by United Nations officials to be missing after the fall of the Srebrenica enclave have made their way through enemy lines to Bosnian Government territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The BMA troops were ordered to attack the northern flanks of the BSA positions and not to surrender to the enemy. It is more logical to expect that the BSA troops fought back against BMA attacks rather than welcoming BMA soldiers with flowers. It is rather ridiculous to expect one army to be<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cgreeting \u201c the enemy firing on them with smiles and welcoming words&#8230;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Reuters, January 30, 1996<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Melvudin Mandzic, 22, released by the Bosnian Serbs on Sunday, told Reuters how he had fled the capture of the U.N.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201csafe area&#8221; of Srebrenica, where thousands of his comrades are believed to have been killed in ambushes and massacres then buried in mass graves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Mandzic&#8217;s epic escape took him through the wooded hills of Northeast Bosnia, across Serbia where he was captured and sent back to a Bosnian Serb jail, and then finally to freedom in Sarajevo on Sunday. Pale, smoking heavily, Mandzic recalled how commanders of the Muslim-led Bosnian government army on July 11 ordered their 13,000 heavily-outgunned fighters in the area to try to break through Serb forces closing in on Srebrenica&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">On several occasions UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali tried to reveal the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201ccharade\u201d performed by the Bosnian Muslim-led government to the UN Security Council. On May 30, 1995, the Secretary general writes (U.N. document S\/1995\/444) that there never was an enforcement concept behind the \u201csafe areas&#8221; six towns surrounded by Serb-held territory.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">The Security Council did not require the Bosnian Government to withdraw its forces from the areas but muttered about how improper it would be to carry out attacks against them or from them. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">On page 18 there is this passage by the Secretary General:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">\u201cIn recent months, government forces have considerably increased their military activity in and around most safe areas, and many of them, including Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Bihac, have been incorporated into the broader military campaign of the government\u2019s side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"> \u201cThe headquarters and logistics installations of the Fifth Corps of the government army are located in the town of Bihac and those of the second Corps in the town of Tuzla. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"> \u201cThe government also maintains a substantial number of troops in Srebrenica (in this case a violation of a demilitarization agreement), Gorazde and Zepa, while Sarajevo is the location of the General Command of the government army and other military installations. There is also an ammunition factory in Gorazde. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">\u201cThe Bosnian Serb forces\u2019 reaction to offensives launched by the government army from safe areas have generally been to respond against military targets within those areas, often at a disproportionate level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">The Secretary General heavily criticized some media reports: <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Calling Bosnia Crisis Overrated, U.N. Chief Focuses on Africa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">By Barbara Crossette<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"> \u201cThere is a kind of dialectical relation between the attention of a great power and the power of the media,\u201d he said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt creates a distortion in our work. What I am trying to do, without great success, is to correct this distortion.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">Finally there were independent witnesses like UN Dutch troops. This is what they said about<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cmass killings \u201c:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">BBC Ceefax, 23 July 1995 23:59 BST<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">NO EVIDENCE OF MASS KILLINGS: DUTCH UN. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Dutch UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica when the enclave fell to Bosnian Serb troops, have said they saw the summary execution of ten Bosnian Muslims. But Dutch commander Lt-Col Ton Karremans said he and his men had seen no evidence to corroborate reports from fleeing refugees of mass killings by Bosnian Serb troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Die Welt, 25.7.1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">By Helmut Hetzel<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230; Neither Struik nor other Dutch soldiers who were stationed in Srebrenica want to publicly confirm what minister of development-aid, Jan Pronk and later the minister of defence, Joris Voorhoeve, claimed: That genocide happened in Srebrenica&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">The personal representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was appointed to investigate what happened in Srebrenica and this is what he said:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">The Electronic Telegraph Monday 24 July 1995<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Serb Atrocities In Srebrenica Are Unproved<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">By Tim Butcher in Tuzla<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">After five days of interviews the United Nations chief investigator into alleged human rights abuses during the fall of Srebrenica has not found any first-hand witnesses of atrocities&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;.The lack of clear evidence facing Hubert Wieland, personal representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, proved the near-impossibility of establishing what happened when the Serbs overran the Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cOf course the whole ejection of a civilian population is an enormous abuse of human rights, \u201c Mr Wieland said yesterday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cBut we have not found anyone who saw with their own eyes an atrocity taking place. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;Mr Wieland travelled to Tuzla, the Bosnian city where almost all of the Srebrenica refugees were taken, with a team of investigators to gather evidence of human rights abuses&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">He said his team had spoken to scores of Muslims at the main refugee camp at Tuzla airfield and at other collective centres but no first-hand witnesses had been found&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><i class=\"\">There is only one fact proven during the last two years after the Srebrenica story: the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cmassacre&#8221; in Srebrenica was just another master-piece of the PR campaign waged by the Bosnian Muslim-led government of Alija Izetbegovic. They didn&#8217;t care about the sufferings of their people, death or destruction. For these Islamic fanatics no price was too high to achieve their goal: the creation of an Islamic Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Bosnian Serbs and Croats realized Izetbegoivc&#8217;s intentions and they fought against it. It is about time for the International Community to accept the reality. There will be no peace until the Bosnian Muslims who are responsible for igniting the brutal Bosnian civil war will stand in front of the Hague War Crimes Tribunal. It is time to get Alija Izetbegovic, Ejup Ganic, Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, Omer Behmen, Haris Silajdzic to stand and face the historical judgment. Their blind fanaticism has created an enormous disaster for the Bosnian Muslim people as well as for the Bosnian Serbs and Croats. It is time they paid the price for their religious fundamentalism. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGlobe and Mail\u201d Canada, July 12, 1995 The refugees in Srebrenica, most of them Muslim women and children who fled into Srebrenica ahead of a massive and brutal wave of Bosnian Serb\u00a0 \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in eastern Bosnia in the spring of 1993, have been desperate to leave the town ever since they arrived. 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