Army Officer Details Srebrenica Massacres

[VolcanoJen]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=1&u=/ap/war_crimes_srebrenica

This testimony occurred Monday afternoon; it's slightly past the 12-hour LBN deadline, but thought it might be of interest:

Excerpt:

Momir Nikolic, 48, testified against his former commander before the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as part of a plea agreement. He is the highest-ranking officer to speak from the army's perspective about the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

Prosecutors hope his account will help establish the chain of command to top military and civilian leaders accused of genocide. Among them is former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites), whose own war crimes trial was postponed again on Monday due to an undisclosed illness.

At least 7,500 Muslims were rounded up in July 1995 and taken in buses and trucks to execution sites near Srebrenica, an enclave in northeastern Bosnia the United Nations (news - web sites) had declared a safe area.

"I was told that my task in this operation would be to coordinate the forces that would be engaged in this operation of separation, temporary detention and, later, the killing of those men," Nikolic told the court trying Col. Vidoje Blagojevic, with whom he was initially indicted for genocide. Lt. Col. Dragan Jokic also was being tried for war crimes.

[No Passaran]

1. What else could you expect from those animals

I don't think anything else could be said about Srebrenica. People in Bosnia should never forget nor forgive this massacre.

Good thing Pres Clinton took Milosevic out or this kind of thing would have happened in Kosovo. And the Serbs call him a "child killer".

[noonwitch]

2. But the conservatives love Milosovich, because he was killing muslims

My great-grandma, on the other hand, who was born in what is now Slovenia, used to say "Serbs are pigs" and spit. She said they were always trying to take over what wasn't theirs to begin with and that was what WWI was all about. That is from the perspective of one who was happy to be part of the austro-hungarian empire.