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U.S. Media Coverage of Srebrenica
Troops Extend a Hand to Refugees Tainted by War,” Washington Post, February
18, 1997).
16 See the report submitted to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council
(A/48/177 - A/25835), Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes and Genocide
in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac, Skelani and Srebrenica)
Committed against the Serbian Population from April 1992 to April 1993, Yugoslav
State Commission for War Crimes and Genocide, April, 1993, p. 19,
. Also see Milivoje Ivanisevic, “The Book of
the Dead Serbs of Srebrenica and Birac Region, 1992-1995,” in Srebrenica July
1995—in search of truth, Zivka Novicic, Trans. (Belgrade: Hriš anska misao, 2nd.
Ed., 2010); and Joan Phillips, “Victims and Villains in Bosnia’s War,” Southern
Slav Journal, Spring-Summer, 1992.
17 John Pomfret, “Weapons, Cash and Chaos Lend Clout to Srebrenica’s Tough
Guy,” Washington Post, February 14, 1994.
18 N.A., “U.N. Report: Bosnian Serbs Massacred Srebrenica Muslims,” Washington
Post, August 12, 1995.
19 Michael Dobbs, “Srebrenica Massacre’s Uncertain Legacy,” Washington Post, July
7, 1996.
20 Stephen Engelberg et al., “Massacre In Bosnia,” New York Times, October 29,
1995.
21 Ibid.
22 At an awards dinner of the Overseas Press Club, Richard Holbrook lauded the
media for their “extraordinary and exemplary” coverage of the Kosovo war.
(Quoted in Norman Solomon, “Media Toeing the Line,” Atlanta Journal Constitution,
May 9, 1999.)
23 Jonathan Landay, “More Mass Graves Found at Srebrenica,” Christian Science
Monitor, January 19, 1996.
24 David Rohde, “The World Five Years Later,” New York Times, July 9, 2000.
25 See above, Edward S. Herman, Ch. 1, “Introduction,” n. 23. As I write there, the
claim of impartiality or indifference on the part of the United States and its allies
was then, and remains to this day, a falsification of the historical record.
26 For a good account, see Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade, Ch. 4, “The Making of Empires,”
pp. 165-200.
27 Woodward, Balkan Tragedy, p. 283.
28 Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade, pp. 45-47.
29 See Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The New York Times on the Yugoslavia
Tribunal: A Study in Total Propaganda Service,” ColdType, 2004,
.
30 According to the UN Secretary-General’s 1999 assessment: “Some surviving members
of the Srebrenica delegation have stated that President Izetbegovic also told
that he had learned that a NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina was
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