Posted on 09/29/2003 10:45:57 PM PDT by DTA
I will re-iterate something I have said many times in this thread and others.
I understood, with the Croatian and Slovenian declarations of sovereignty, that a bloodbath would ensue.
Additionally, I submit to you, that it is not fully the fault of the Serbs.
All of the groups that comprised the former Yugoslavia have hated, and hate each other right up to the present, and it was only the presence of the old Soviet Union that prevented them from starting their killing spree as soon as WW2 was over.
It is just a continuation of age-old hatreds.
All parties are responsible, and any party that denies their part is simply lying.
You and others may be correct in defending the Serbs in some instances, but if you are denying any culpability for what has happened since 1991, you are not only lying to me, but you are lying to yourself.
That is all I am saying and that is all I have said.
"About 15,000 Bosnian Muslim fighters had attempted to escape from Srebrenica overnight and were shelled as they fled through the mountains."
15,000 fighters it says! Is that true or are they adding thousands at whim like they (reporters) seem to do regarding Bosnia.
Why doesn't anyone find it strange that 15,000 Muslim fighters who had been receiving arms from Iran in the UN safe zone for years - this came out in the Dutch report, right? - whine about 600 lightly armed UN officers not fighting for them?
Where's the interviews and testimony from all these fighters - including Naser Oric? When exactly did they leave, where were the skirmishes along the way and who did they see hurt or killed in the nightly fights? Where's a list of the several thousands of fighters who got out? Are they included as being "missing men" from Srebrenica?
That's a tough question. I suppose it could be a combination of both Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims that shot up the warehouse, or it could be one side or the other. It could also be a lunatic from either faction that was loaded up with too much plumb brandy and had too much extra amunition, or it could be the location of a very nasty slaughter. It all depends on who held the area and when and for how long.
I was in Vukovar in 1995 and that warehouse looks like every single building in Vukovar regardless of it was a Croat house, Catholic church, Serb house or Orthodox church.
A building riddled with bullet holes in the former Yugoslavia tells me nothing.
If it was a slaughter and the time was taken to remove the bodies, why not burn down the warehouse? Haven't any of those people seen "Pretty Village Pretty Flame"?
I guess it's the garage area where allegedly 1,000 Muslims were crammed before they were shot, so the story goes. But could 1,000 men fit? Why would the gunfire be concentrated around the doorway off to the side of this, and become much, much more dilute around the garage area if that's where the target was?
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