The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

UN Report on Srebrenica—A Distorted Picture of Events
Muslim agents against their own people. 5 Also well after Srebrenica,
Operation Storm, by far the single largest ethnic cleansing campaign of
the Balkan wars, was carried out jointly by the U.S.-trained armies of
Croatia and Bosnia against the Serb inhabitants of the Krajina region
(see below), making it clear not only that not all “deliberate and systematic
attempt[s] to terrorize, expel or murder” would be countered by
NATO, but that in certain cases they would be aided and abetted by
NATO.
Thus, in reality, NATO’s use of “punishing force against the Bosnian
Serbs,” as the New York Times described the operation, 6 was undertaken
to show both the Bosnian Serbs and the rest of the world that NATO
had taken sides in these wars, and to compel the surrender of the Serbs
of Bosnia as well as Croatia—not only a far cry from the humanitarian
motive trumpeted by the UN report, but in fact its negation. Although
U.S. and NATO-bloc planners had used humanitarian rhetoric in early
1999 when launching their 78-day war against the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and in support of rebel Kosovo Albanian forces, and though
this war violated both the UN Charter and international law, causing yet
another massive humanitarian crisis in the region, 7 it was for the sake of
legitimating more wars like it that the political project behind The Fall
of Srebrenica must be understood.
Because this UN report was published more than four years after the
events of July 1995, it could have benefited from a range of articles and
books by well-placed individuals inside and outside the UN who had
challenged the official view that portrayed the Bosnian Muslims and
Croats as innocent victims, and Serbs as aggressors in a region they have
inhabited since the seventh century. The writings of UN Commanders
General Philippe Morillon of France, General Lewis MacKenzie of
Canada, and General Sir Michael Rose of Great Britain, offer far more
knowledgeable and balanced accounts of the actions of the warring sides
than the author of The Fall of Srebrenica. In a war where brutality by
all sides is well documented elsewhere, the UN report misses few opportunities
to downplay abuses by Bosnian Croats and Muslims, or to
endorse highly inflated reports of abuses by Bosnian Serbs.
The list of those interviewed for the UN report 8 includes Bianca Jagger,
a former rock star wife turned celebrity activist, but does not include
Deputy NATO Commander U.S. General Charles Boyd, whose role as
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