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The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

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<strong>The</strong> Numbers Game<br />

and George Soros‘ Open Society Foundation, had several times previously<br />

been instrumental in providing timely support for the official line<br />

when it was coming under question—for example, she was the source<br />

of the “freezer truck” allegations which had it that the Serbs had disposed<br />

of thousands of massacred Kosovo Albanians by removing them<br />

to gravesites in Serbia in refrigerated trucks. 104<br />

Even if authentic, the introduction of this video, by the ICTY prosecution,<br />

but with the cooperation of the judges, without authentication,<br />

notice to the defense, or relevance to the ongoing witness’<br />

testimony, is compelling evidence of the political basis and corruption<br />

of the Milosevic trial. And the extent to which the mainstream media<br />

played this up, and allowed this presumed killing of six prisoners, to be<br />

used to support the 8,000 execution narrative, is strong evidence of their<br />

supportive role in this travesty of justice. 105<br />

Concluding Note<br />

In its August 2001 decision in the trial of the Bosnian Serb General<br />

Radislav Krstic, the ICTY’s Judge Almiro Rodrigues announced to the<br />

court that the “crime of genocide was committed in <strong>Srebrenica</strong>,” and on<br />

this most grave charge, pronounced Krstic criminally responsible, given<br />

his role as a commander in the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps. 106<br />

Although the Krstic Judgment was recognized by astute critics to be a<br />

radical re-definition of the concept of genocide, 107 this genocide-finding<br />

was endorsed six years later by the International Court of Justice. 108<br />

A number of Bosnian Serbs are now and soon will be serving lengthy<br />

prison terms, some even life-sentences, following their <strong>Srebrenica</strong>-related<br />

convictions at the ICTY.<br />

<strong>The</strong> drumbeat of “8,000 men and boys” massacred at <strong>Srebrenica</strong> may<br />

never have ceased, but independent researchers from many different<br />

backgrounds and parts of the world have cast doubts on the evidence<br />

put forward by the ICTY’s prosecutors, and accepted by its judges and<br />

Western media. Much of that evidence was shaky and problematic from<br />

the beginning, and its shakiness has become increasingly clear as time<br />

has elapsed..<br />

Those who look without prejudice at the available data on <strong>Srebrenica</strong><br />

will conclude that the orthodox version of what happened, and notably<br />

the claim of 8,000 executions, is extremely hard to reconcile with the<br />

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