The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

The Numbers Game
Nova Kasaba was the site where Rohde discovered “a decomposing
human leg protruding from the freshly turned dirt”—proof-positive
that Albright’s charges, “based on spy-satellite photos,” were truthful.
Eventually, just 33 bodies were discovered at Nova Kasaba, at four
different sites, and no detailed information was issued about who they
were and the circumstances of death (i.e., whether or not there was evidence
of execution). As Nova Kasaba is an isolated hamlet in the mountains,
19 kilometers from Srebrenica, and accessible only by a
single-track, unpaved road, it is difficult to imagine that anyone would
have chosen it as a mass execution site—particularly as there was a
chronic shortage of gasoline. Many lorries and journeys would have
been required to transport 2,700 prisoners there. Such an exercise would
have been highly conspicuous and easily captured by aerial and satellite
photography since, despite the dry summer weather, the necessary levels
of traffic would have been likely to cause considerable and readily visible
damage to the road. There would also have been eyewitnesses. None
have ever materialized.
International journalism fails to report negative findings
In March 1996, the UK magazine Living Marxism reported: “Many
[international TV] crews did not even bother to search out the site
shown on the CIA satellite photograph because it had generally been
agreed in media circles that it was not a mass grave.” 52
This probably reflected the fact that some 30 international journalists
had visited the Srebrenica area soon after it fell. Only one (the aforementioned
David Rohde) published any kind of confirmation of mass
slaughter allegations; and one, Jacques Merlino of the French Antenne
2 station, broadcast a story acknowledging that he had found nothing.
Miroslav Deronjic, the civilian commissioner for the Srebrenica-Skelani
municipality, was reported by the Tanjug news agency in December
1995 as saying that on August 25, 1995, he received a group of 10
correspondents from the USA, Great Britain and Austria, led by Mike
Wallace, the anchor and co-editor of CBS - TV’s 60 Minutes programme.
They brought with them many photographs of alleged mass
graves of Muslim victims taken from an AWACS surveillance aircraft.
According to Deronjic:
They insisted that we should take them to the sites in the
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