The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Introduction
chose or vetted key personnel, served as its police arm and main information
source, and expected and got responsive service from the organization.
14 The ICTY focused heavily on Srebrenica and provided
important and nominally independent corroboration of the massacre
narrative (see Chapters 5 and 6). The UN is less thoroughly responsive
to NATO-power demands, but it is responsive and in the Srebrenica
case it came through just as the United States and its main allies desired
(see Chapter 7).
These considerations suggest that at least a modicum of skepticism
should be applied to the claims regarding the Srebrenica massacre. But
no doubts have been expressed in the mainstream media of the West,
where there has been no debate, only the endless repetition of a quickly
established but unverified claim that serves specific political aims (see
Chapters 8 and 9). Even marginalized expressions of doubt have been
greeted with aggressive putdowns and smears by enforcers, unwilling to
debate on the evidence, but calling those questioning the established
narrative “revisionists” and “genocide deniers.” 15
This follows a long-standing pattern. Time after time the Western
media and mainstream intellectuals have fallen into line behind stories
and perspectives that served ongoing state policy, but which were either
false or biased by the selective use of evidence and/or a failure to provide
context. In the recent past we had the claim that Saddam Hussein
had mobilized his forces along the border of Saudi Arabia after his occupation
of Kuwait in August 1990 and was preparing to invade Saudi
Arabia. This claim, which was an important source of war hysteria leading
up to the January 1991 war, was false, but was never contested in
the dominant media. 16 The claim that Saddam Hussein’s forces had removed
several hundred babies from their incubators following his occupation
of Kuwait, based on testimony by the daughter of the Kuwait
ambassador to the United States (an affiliation undisclosed at the time),
was also false, but was disseminated without question by the mainstream
media. 17 It is notorious, and even acknowledged by some of its participants,
that the U.S. mainstream media passed along to the public without
challenge the false Bush administration pre-invasion/occupation
claims that Saddam Hussein held threatening quantities of weapons of
mass destruction. 18
The media’s critical capability disappears in the face of conflict with
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