The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao
The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao
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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