The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

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photographs so that they could assess for themselves the truth
of the Muslim allegations. Without hesitation, in other words
immediately, although I had not seen the photographs, I agreed
to take them personally to every place in which they were interested.
They showed me photographs in the region of Hrncici,
K[oljevic] Polje and [Nova] Kasaba, and asked to be taken to
these places. I got into the car with Wallace and immediately
took the whole group to these locations. I spent 44 hours with
them driving around the area, and allowed them to see for
themselves...after the investigation, Mike Wallace personally
thanked me and expressed his belief that the allegations were
completely unfounded, and that the entire international public
had been manipulated. 53
It is worth noting that their apparent finding of nothing to confirm
the claims of mass killings was never reported to the U.S. or British
publics, and seems to have been disappeared by them and others supposedly
interested in the massacre claims.
Journalists who visited the warehouse in Kravica, where U.S. Human
Rights Envoy John Shattuck suggested that two thousand Bosnian Muslim
men had been executed, could find no evidence to support the allegation.
Dutch television journalist Rolf Hartzuiker went there in
February 1996, a week after Shattuck, and concluded: “It is a complete
fake. The story about the warehouse is really bullshit. It was shot at from
the road, with a heavy machine gun. The wall around the entrance is full
of bullet holes, as is part of the inside wall behind the entrance. The
rest of the room is more or less undamaged. Inside never have exploded
grenades or rockets, as was claimed by Shattuck and others.” 54
Again, these negative findings also seem to have been expunged from
the record and discourse on the massacres.
Little appetite for investigation despite repeated proof of false
claims
Scrutiny of media coverage of the Srebrenica massacre over many
years suggests that, once made, the massacre claims were treated as established
fact by politicians and journalists. There is no indication of any
“rational skepticism.” This is surprising on two counts. First, natural
justice demands that indictments for appalling crimes should be made
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