The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Summary and Conclusions
uniquely responsible for a many-sided series of civil wars has encouraged
more hatred and violence throughout much of the former Yugoslavia,
and has certainly not provided a road to reconciliation. It has also been
the basis for a dangerous and mistakenly benevolent view of the NATO
“humanitarian intervention” in the Balkans, which was neither humanitarian
nor legal, has left the remnants in a state of dependency and
distress, and has provided the moral basis for further illegal and non-humanitarian
interventions. As we have stressed, the inflated and political
construction of the Srebrenica massacre has played an important role in
producing these unfortunate results.
Notes
1 See, e.g., “Facts About Srebrenica,” an eight-page synopsis of the ICTY’s accumulated
position on the relevant events, N.A. and N.D., International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, . Summaries and citations to critical
views are given in chapters 1-7 of this collection, above. Also see Diana Johnstone,
Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions (New York:
Monthly Review Press, 2002); Michael Mandel, How America Gets Away With
Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity (Ann Arbor,
MI: Pluto Press, 2004); John Laughland, Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
and the Corruption of International Justice (Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007);
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The Dismantling of Yugoslavia,”
Monthly Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, October, 2007, pp. 19-26, ;
Germinal Civikov, Srebrenica: The
Star Witness, Trans. John Laughland (Belgrade: NGO Srebrenica Historical Project,
2010); and Stephen Karganovic, Ed., Deconstruction of a Virtual Genocide: An
Intelligent Person’s Guide To Srebrenica (Belgrade: Srebrenica Historical Project,
2011).
2 See above, Edward S. Herman, “Preface.”
3 See David Rohde, “Evidence Indicates Bosnia Massacre,” Christian Science Monitor,
August 18, 1995.
4 For example, in June 2005, the Serb pro-NATO activist Natasa Kandic passed a
videotape to the Prosecution in the Milosevic trial at the ICTY, and this video
showed the execution of six Bosnian Muslim prisoners by Serb paramilitaries in
1995. For Kandic, for the Prosecution, as well as for the Western political and
media establishment, this video was taken as the “‘smoking gun’, for it is the final,
incontrovertible proof of Serbia’s part in the Srebrenica massacres in which more
than 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered.” (Tim Judah and
Daniel Sunter, “How video that put Serbia in dock was brought to light,” The Ob-
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