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Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2020, 11:56 pm
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OLD CONTENT
news.yahoo.com/funeral-held-86-muslims-killed-171046488.html
[quote]PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand
people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86
Muslims who were slain by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities
of the country's 1992-95 war.
Relatives of the victims, religious leaders and others gathered
at a soccer stadium near the eastern town of Prijedor, standing
solemnly behind lines of coffins draped with green cloths.
The victims ranged in age from 19 to 61. They were among some
200 Bosnian Muslims and Croats from Prijedor who were massacred
in August 1992 on a cliff on Mt. Vlasic known as Koricanske
Stijene.
The victims were shot and killed by the edge of the cliff, their
bodies falling into the abyss. The Serbs later threw bombs onto
the bodies, which made identifying the victims difficult.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
sentenced several ex-Bosnian Serb policemen for separating
civilians from a convoy of people being deported from Prijedor
and killing them.
Armin Suljanovic buried some of his brother's remains Saturday
alongside bone fragments that were previously identified and
laid to rest. Suljanovic said his wife's brothers and father
were also being buried after the joint service.
"My relatives and I have been suffering for the past 27 years.
It is a painful destiny to have, but now, at least, we'll know
where they are buried, we'll have a place to visit to say a
prayer for them," he said.
More than 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and other non-Serbs were killed
in Prijedor during the war. Many were taken to prison camps
where they were beaten, starved and tortured.
Bosnian Serbs have been accused of carrying out a campaign of
ethnic cleansing during the war, expelling non-Serbs from the
territories they controlled during the war such as
Prijedor.[/quote]
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-G12LKXRw
And do not think it cannot happen again. This is Western
civilization we are dealing with. Prepare:
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news.yahoo.com/srebrenica-massacre-survivors-want-handkes-150740
665.html
[quote]SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Survivors of the 1995
Srebrenica massacre called on Friday for Austrian author Peter
Handke's Nobel Prize for Literature to be revoked, saying it was
"shameful" to recognize a man who has denied the killings
happened.
Their anger echoed criticism of Thursday's decision in many
Balkan countries over Handke's open support for late Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic, who led his country during the
Balkan Wars of the 1990s.
...
Handke spoke at Milosevic's funeral in 2006 after the Serbian
leader died while in detention awaiting trial at the U.N. war
crimes tribunal in The Hague for his role in the wars.
The Austrian also voiced support for Bosnian Serb leaders
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both of whom were convicted
of genocide for the killing of more then 8,000 Muslim men and
boys in the United Nations protected enclave of Srebrenica.
Though much of the reaction to the prize was negative in the
Balkans, it won some applause in Serbia.
"The news that you have won the Nobel Prize for Literature has
confirmed that virtue and water always find their way and that
the struggle for freedom and the right to choice ... is not in
vain," Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin, an ally of
Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, said in a message to Handke.
...
An online petition launched by an Albanian citizen called for
Handke to be stripped of his Nobel prize and had been signed by
30,000 people in less than 24 hours.
"Never thought would feel like vomiting because of a @nobelprize
but shamelessness is becoming the normal part of the world we
live in," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on
Twitter.[/quote]
Also:
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/dutch-supreme-court-reduce
s-responsibility-for-srebrenica-massacre
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
[quote]On 8 July 2015, Russia, at the request of the Republika
Srpska and Serbia, vetoed a UN resolution condemning the
Srebrenica massacre as genocide. Serbia called the resolution
"anti-Serb", while European and U.S. governments affirmed that
the crimes were genocide.[30][31] On 9 July 2015, both the
European Parliament (EP) and the U.S. Congress adopted
resolutions reaffirming the description of the crime as
genocide.[32][33][/quote]
(Where have we seen this behaviour before?)
Indeed:
[quote]a culture of denial of the Srebrenica genocide in Serbian
society, taking many forms and present in particular in
political discourse, the media, the law and the educational
system.[341]
The scepticism ranges from challenging the judicial recognition
of the killings as an act of genocide to the denial of a
massacre having taken place.[/quote]
And for completeness:
[quote]The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in
Israel, Efraim Zuroff, also disagrees that Serb forces had
genocidal intent. He explained: "As far as I know, what happened
[in Srebrenica] does not [fit] the description or the definition
of genocide. I think the decision to call it genocide was made
for political reasons. Obviously a tragedy occurred, innocent
people lost their lives and their memory should be preserved."
Zuroff also called attempts to equate Srebrenica to the
Holocaust "horrible" and "absurd"[/quote]
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news.yahoo.com/bosnian-serb-ex-soldier-jailed-145936953.html
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court jailed a former Bosnian
Serb soldier for 20 years on Wednesday for setting ablaze 57
Muslim Bosniaks, of whom 26 including a two-day-old baby died,
near the eastern town of Visegrad early in Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Radomir Susnjar, 64, known as Lalco, was also found guilty of
robbery and illegal detention of civilians, the court said.
The group of Muslim Bosniaks had been seized after an attack on
the village of Koritnik and locked in a house that was set
ablaze with an accelerant and explosives while Susnjar and other
Bosnian Serb Army members shot at it to prevent anyone fleeing.
"The attack resulted in the killing of 25 civilians and a
two-day-old baby whose remains were never found," the court said
in a statement.
...
Bosnian Serbs Milan and Sredoje Lukic were sentenced by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
in 2012 to life and 27 years in prison respectively for the same
crimes.
Bosnian Serb forces, helped by the now-defunct Serb-dominated
Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and Serbian paramilitaries,
committed atrocities against Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in
the conflict as part of their bid to create exclusively Serb
territories.
It doesn't matter how many years they are imprisoned for. So
long as Serbia exists, they will feel that it was all worth it,
and that they won their war. This is why eliminating Serbia is
necessary. They (and the whole watching world) must be shown
that they did not win, that the territories they stole for
themselves will be returned to their victims. (The same applies
to Israel and all other intended ethnostates.)
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www.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-indicts-convicted-war-criminal-1542026
98.html
[quote]SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes prosecutor on
Friday indicted Milan Lukic, the Bosnian Serb paramilitary
leader given a life sentence by a U.N. war crimes tribunal, for
taking part in the kidnapping and killing of 20 people during
the Bosnian war.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) in The Hague convicted Lukic in 2009 of war crimes
committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and his
life sentence was upheld by an appeals court in 2012.
The Bosnian prosecutor issued the indictment for a crime that
wasn't covered by the ICTY case after interrogating Lukic in
Estonia, where he is serving his life sentence.
Lukic, 52, led a paramilitary group called the White Eagles or
Avengers who seized, tortured and executed 20 people, mainly
Muslims, from a train passing through Bosnia en route to the
Montenegrin port of Bar from Serbia, the prosecutor's office
said in a statement.
The indictment now goes to Bosnia's state court for
confirmation. It was not clear what would happen if the charges
were confirmed since Lukic has been jailed for life by the ICTY.
"The court will decide. The court first needs to confirm the
indictment," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said.
Convicts sentenced to life by the ICTY can request to be
released after serving 30 years.
According to the prosecutor's statement, Lukic's group stopped
the train, seized the victims, took them to a school in eastern
Bosnia where they were beaten, tortured and robbed, and then
took them to a place where Lukic took part in their murder.
"The defendant is accused of personally taking part in planning
and ... kidnapping of civilians and their murder on the bank of
the Drina River on Feb. 27, 1993," the prosecutor's office said,
adding that Lukic had been charged with war crimes against the
civilian population.
The victims were thrown into the Drina River. The remains of
only four people have been found until now, it said.
Lukic is most notorious for barricading 70 Muslim men, women and
children in a house in the eastern town of Visegrad in 1992
before setting it on fire, in what became known as the Pionirska
Street massacre. He shot at people trying to escape.
Fifteen members of Lukic's group were arrested in Bosnia and
Serbia in 2014 and all are being tried at courts in Sarajevo and
Belgrade.[/quote]
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www.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-indicts-serb-army-general-151420003.ht
ml
[quote]SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on
Tuesday indicted a Bosnian Serb former army general for taking
part in the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in
Srebrenica, an atrocity described as genocide by two
international courts.
Milomir Savcic, 60, is accused of commanding the Bosnian Serb
Army headquarters 65 Protection Motorised Regiment, which
included a military police battalion, to capture, kill and bury
adult Muslim Bosniaks from the U.N.-protected eastern enclave of
Srebrenica in July 1995.
Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic attacked
Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, separated men from women and
children, and killed about 8,000 Muslims, who were then buried
in mass graves.
The Srebrenica massacre is regarded as Europe's worst atrocity
since World War Two.
Savcic consciously helped Mladic and colonel Ljubisa Beara, as
well as other commanders of the Drina Corps and Zvornik Brigade,
which executed the massacre, to destroy the Muslim men as an
ethnic group in the area, the prosecutor said in a statement.
Both Mladic and Beara were jailed for life over the Srebrenica
genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY).
"Savcic is accused of planning, commanding and supervising the
activities ... during the capture and detention of several
hundred Bosniak men at several locations in the Nova Kasaba
area, and their illegal arrest, torture and murder," the
statement said.[/quote]
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For the record:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon#Opposition_to_the_NATO_bombin
g_of_Yugoslavia
[quote]Ariel Sharon criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in
1999 as an act of "brutal interventionism".[79] Sharon said both
Serbia and Kosovo have been victims of violence. He said prior
to the current Yugoslav campaign against Kosovo Albanians,
Serbians were the targets of attacks in the Kosovo province.
"Israel has a clear policy. We are against aggressive actions.
We are against hurting innocent people. I hope that the sides
will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible."
During the crisis, Elyakim Haetzni said the Serbs should be the
first to receive Israeli aid. "There are our traditional
friends," he told Israel Radio."[80] It was suggested that
Sharon may have supported the Yugoslav position because of the
Serbian population's history of saving Jews during the
holocaust.[81] On Sharon's death, Serbian minister Aleksandar
Vulin stated: The Serbian people will remember Sharon for
opposing the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against the former
Yugoslavia and advocating respect for sovereignty of other
nations and a policy of not interfering with their internal
affairs.[82][/quote]
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That's him feeling kinship toward his fellow Turanian
untermensch
Rightists say the Yugoslav Wars were a "gay op".
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 5, 2020, 12:04 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Someone remembers when the US was the good guy (Clinton
admininstration):
www.yahoo.com/news/kosovo-president-rejects-eu-mediator-15085489
0.html
[quote]PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said
on Tuesday he would not take part in talks on normalising ties
with Serbia led by an European Union special mediator, calling
instead for an increased U.S. role in the dialogue.
...
Normalisation is among key conditions the EU has set for
admitting Kosovo as a member state, and by Russia, a traditional
ally of Serbia, to lift its veto on Kosovo joining the United
Nations.
...
Thaci said only the United States, which brokered Bosnia's peace
accord 25 years ago and led NATO's 1999 air strikes that halted
Serbia's brutal counter-insurgency campaign in Kosovo, could
really advance dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.[/quote]
That was one time when the US had a president who behaved like
an American and not like a Westerner.
---
www.people-press.org/2018/07/11/obama-tops-publics-list-of-best-
president-in-their-lifetime-followed-by-clinton-reagan/
[quote]More than four-in-ten (44%) say Obama is the best or
second best president of their lifetimes, compared with about a
third who mention Bill Clinton (33%) or Ronald Reagan
(32%).[/quote]
Clinton was much better than Obama. Clinton bombed Serbia.
When are we going to get back to this kind of lefthawk foreign
policy?
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This is why Chetniks should never be shown any pity:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyLW3F6W44
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news.yahoo.com/kosovo-president-9-ex-fighters-140505204.html
[quote]PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and
nine other former separatist fighters were indicted Wednesday on
a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes charges,
including murder, by an international prosecutor probing their
actions against ethnic Serbs and others during and after
Kosovo’s 1998-99 independence war with Serbia.
...
A statement from the prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist
Chambers said Thaci and the nine others “are criminally
responsible for nearly 100 murders” involving hundreds of Serb
and Roma victims, as well as Kosovo Albanian political
opponents.
...
Thaci was a commander of the so-called Kosovo Liberation army,
or KLA, that fought for independence from Serbia. The war left
more than 10,000 dead — most of them ethnic Albanians — and
1,641 are still unaccounted for. It ended after a 78-day NATO
air campaign against Serbian troops.
...
The indicted group includes Kadri Veseli, former parliament
speaker and leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo.
Veseli said the indictment is politically motivated.
...
“Crimes in Kosovo were committed by Serbs, not Albanians,” he
said, calling it an attempt to rewrite history.
...
Kosovo politicians resisted and resented the scrutiny of the war
crimes court, repeatedly noting that Serb troops committed
massacres and other atrocities during the war that went
unpunished.[/quote]
This is why it was a mistake to leave Serbia undestroyed.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 4, 2020, 2:16 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/srebrenica-film-skewers-un-failure-162616945.html
[quote]The film is a searing indictment of the impotence of the
Dutch peacekeepers, who had waited in vain for promised NATO air
support, and found themselves powerless to defend the camp
against Mladic's army.
...
The Dutch peacekeepers "had a mission to protect people even
with weapons and they didn't fire a single shot," Zbanic told
journalists.[/quote]
Have we learned our lesson yet? If so, when do we starting
dropping WMDs on Serbia? Because so long as we don't, it proves
we have learned nothing.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: guest5 Date: September 5, 2020, 2:17 pm
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Serbia, Kosovo normalize economic ties, gesture to Israel
[quote]The announcement provided Trump with a diplomatic win
ahead of the November presidential election and furthers his
administration's push to improve Israel's international
standing.[/quote]
HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/serbia-kosovo-normalize-economic-ties-gesture-israel-n1239372
You just cannot make this **** up if you wanted to....
People should really be asking themselves by now why rightists
are so concerned with "improving Israel's international
standing"? What does that have anything to do with America? How
does that benefit America? Trump is clearly NOT AN AMERICAN
PRESIDENT!!! FFS!
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 17, 2020, 11:24 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/bosnian-serbs-honor-ex-official-113218196.html
[quote]SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb
authorities on Wednesday held an official commemoration for a
top former wartime leader, despite his war crimes conviction by
a U.N. court.
The Bosnian Serb president, prime minister and other officials
attended the event in the northern city of Banja Luka, the seat
of the Serb-run part of Bosnia called Republika Srpska.
The gathering illustrates the continued Bosnian Serb denial of
their wartime leaders’ role in the atrocities committed against
non-Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
Momcilo Krajisnik, who was parliamentary speaker during the
conflict, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the U.N. war
crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for persecuting and
expelling non-Serbs.
Krajisnik died early on Tuesday in Banja Luka at the age of 75
after contracting the new coronavirus.
A leading Bosnian Serb official, Milorad Dodik, who is the
member of Bosnia's multi-ethnic presidency, praised Krajsnik's
“historic role” in establishing the Serb entity in Bosnia,
according to Bosnian Serb broadcaster RTRS.
“Republika Srpska must not shy away from its founders, and one
of them is Momcilo Krajisnik,” Dodik said, suggesting that a
street should be named after him, the report said.
Krajisnik was released from a British prison in 2013 after
serving two-thirds of the sentence. He was a close aide to
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of
genocide by the Hague tribunal.
Bosnian Serb forces took control of large swaths of Bosnian
territory, expelling Bosniaks, who are mostly Muslims, and
Croats from their homes and brutally killing thousands.[/quote]
How much longer must we wait before we invade?
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 27, 2020, 11:28 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-detains-two-serb-ex-105649551.html
[quote]SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian police on Tuesday detained
two Serb ex-soldiers accused of taking part in the murder of at
least 78 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) civilians early in the Bosnian
war of the 1990s, the state prosecution said in a statement.
A quarter of a century after the U.S.-sponsored Dayton peace
accords ended the war among Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks
in which about 100,000 people were killed, many war criminals
are still at large in the ethnically divided country.
Unčanin Boško, 51, and Despot Dragan, 56, are accused of
violating the provisions of the Geneva conventions on the
protection of civilians during wartime and of crimes against
humanity, the prosecutor's office said.
They were detained in the northwestern city of Banja Luka.
The two former Bosnian Serb army soldiers are suspected of
driving the Bosniak civilians out of a school in the western
village of Velagici in which they were detained, lining them up
and, firing from automatic rifles with other soldiers, killing
at least 78, the statement said.[/quote]
And how many have yet to be caught? Do you think it is realistic
to catch them all one by one? And even if you do catch them all,
so what? Serbia will continue to exist, in other words they will
have succeeded in doing what they set out to do, even though
they were caught decades afterwards.
Only by making them watch Serbia be wiped off the map can they
be denied their satisfaction.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 26, 2020, 11:16 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/kosovo-wont-let-serb-officials-191710672.html
[quote]PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s foreign minister said on
Wednesday that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would not be
allowed to visit the country until he apologized for “genocide”
against Kosovo's population.
Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla also posted on Twitter that no entry
permission would be granted for Serb officials until Serbians
are held accountable for “genocide” in an international court.
“I repeat once again the only and permanent response to all
future demands from Vucic and others: there is no permission for
you to visit Kosovo if you do not apologize for the genocide
committed on our people and until responsible persons of this
genocide are held accountable,” she said.
...
Haradinaj-Stublla reacted following Vucic' presence at the
inauguration of a hospital in Belgrade where a mass grave of 744
ethnic Albanians killed in 1999 has been found.
Several mass graves with the bodies of Kosovo Albanians killed
by Serb troops during the 1998-99 war have been discovered in
various parts of Serbia. Moving victims from Kosovo to Serbia
was part of a coverup operation by Serbian authorities at the
time to try to hide evidence of war crimes.
Last week the European Union’s mission to ensure the rule of law
in Kosovo said human remains that appear to be a mass grave of
ethnic Albanians from Kosovo have been found in a disused coal
mine in Kizevak in southern Serbia.
...
Although several of its top military officers have been
sentenced by a UN court for war crimes during the 1998-99 war,
Serbia has never admitted committing atrocities in its former
province.[/quote]
And they will continue this behaviour until we bomb them again.
Bombing is the only language Serbs understand.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: Dazhbog Date: January 4, 2021, 6:33 pm
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Chetniks gonna be Chetniks:
HTML https://balkaninsight.com/2020/04/21/bosnia-shifts-vulnerable-migrants-and-refugees-to-new-temporary-camp/
[quote]Representatives of Serbs who returned to Bosnia’s
Federation entity after fleeing during the war strongly opposed
the construction of the camp near Lipa, a village where post-war
Serb returnees live, because they claimed that the mainly Muslim
migrants and refugees could be a threat to them.[/quote]
Let's hope they really are a threat!
[quote]They argued that the construction of a migrant centre in
near Lipa was a message to Serbs that they are not welcome in
Bosnia’s Bosniak- and Croat-dominated Federation entity.[/quote]
Again, I hope they are right and I hope the non-Serb Bosnian
authorities will eventually start confiscating all Serb property
in Bosnia (including and especially in the "Republika Srpska")
in order to redistribute it to refugees in need of shelter after
the previous Serb owners were deported to concentration camps.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 22, 2021, 10:54 pm
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Merely allowing others to do Ahimsa is punishable under False
Leftism:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/bosnian-muslim-ex-commander-jailed-135429803.html
[quote]SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes court on Friday
jailed Bosnian Muslim wartime commander Sakib Mahmuljin for 10
years for failing to prevent or punish atrocities against Serb
prisoners by foreign Islamists who fought in the 1990s conflict.
Hundreds of Islamist fighters, or "mujahideen", came from North
Africa and the Middle East to help the mainly Muslim Bosnian
government forces fight separatist Orthodox Serbs and Catholic
Croats during the war, in which 100,000 people died.
Mahmuljin, 68, was convicted in a five-year-long trial of
failing to prevent or punish killings and inhumane treatment of
Serb prisoners of war, some of whom were wounded or ill, and
some Serb civilians, the Sarajevo court said.
In its verdict, the court said it determined that foreign
Islamists murdered 53 Serb prisoners of war from July to October
1995, towards the end of the war. During this period, they
tortured some prisoners and decapitated one of them, it
said.[/quote]
But who initiated violence?
[quote]The war erupted when Bosnian Serbs, rejecting the
proclamation of independence of Bosnia from Serbian-led federal
Yugoslavia, attacked cities and villages across the country in a
bid to carve out territory for an exclusive Serb state.[/quote]
If Bosnia were True Left, the mujahideen would receive awards,
while Mahmuljin would be asked why he did not actively
participate in the Ahimsa himself.
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Re: Remembering the Yugoslav Wars
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 5, 2021, 3:10 am
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The problems continue because Bosnia continues to lack the
stomach to wage total war on Serbs:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/international-official-bosnian-serbs-seek-005847700.html
[quote]UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top international official in
Bosnia warned Tuesday that ethnic Serb leaders are making a
concerted effort to split the country, or failing that to roll
back many reforms achieved during the last 25 years, and he
called for “a decisive stand” to stop any division.
Valentin Inzko told the U.N. Security Council the challenge to
Bosnia’s once multiethnic society comprising Serbs, Muslims and
Croats is being led by the Bosnian Serbs’ top politician,
Milorad Dodik, who is the Serb member of the country’s
three-member presidency.
He said the Serbs' campaign “could have political and security
implications not only for the country, but also the region, and
the rest of Europe.”
In what he said is likely his last briefing to the council after
12 years as the international community's “high representative”
in Bosnia, Inzko strongly criticized what he called “the
destructive long-term policy” of authorities in the Serb region,
known as Republika Srpska.
The region's National Assembly adopted a measure in March that
leaves open the option “for the so-called `peaceful dissolution’
of the country,” Inzko said. In April, leaders of Republika
Srpska’s governing coalition parties met and Dodik announced the
formation of negotiating teams, making clear the region
“reserves the right to finally decide on its future status.”
The Bosnia war — the worst carnage in Europe since World War II
— was fueled by the Bosnian Serbs’ 1992 declaration of their own
state within Bosnia, and their separatist ambitions remain
strong.
Bosnia remains torn by divisions stemming from the 1992-95 war
among Serbs, Croats and Muslims during the breakup of
Yugoslavia. A U.S.-brokered peace deal signed in 1995 in Dayton,
Ohio, divided Bosnia into a federation composed of two
autonomous regions — Republika Srpska for Bosnian Serbs and one
for Muslims and Croats.
...
Inzko warned that even if a breakup is prevented, the Serbs' aim
is “a perpetually dysfunctional” country. That is already
happening “in the near-paralysis of the highest institutions ...
including the presidency, the Council of Ministers and the
Parliamentary Assembly,” he said.[/quote]
As should be boringly obvious by now:
[quote]The divisions within Bosnia also reflect a mounting
conflict between [s]the West[/s] [Atlanticism] and Russia over
the future of the Balkans. While [s]the West[/s] [Atlanticism]
wishes to see the still-volatile region reform and eventually
join the EU and NATO, Russia has used its historic ties with
Serbs to undermine this idea.[/quote]
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