The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Introduction
porated into the NATO-organized police force, there was real and irreversible
ethnic cleansing that extended beyond the Serbs to Roma and
other minorities— “the largest ethnic cleansing in the Balkans [in percentage
terms],” according to Jan Oberg. 46 Five years after the end of the
bombing war, the remnant Serb population was isolated, holed up in
protected compounds, and unable to work, go to school or travel without
armed protection. Kosovo was a criminal haven and the drug and
sex-trade capital of Europe. 47 The KLA, long linked to and aided by al
Qaeda, had contributed to an upheaval in Macedonia and still nourished
its aims of a Greater Albania. All of this has been treated in the
West by eye-aversion, along with occasional vague references to a success
story.
The point of mentioning these historical fabrications, myths, and
suppressions—and these do not exhaust the list by any means—is to
show how commonplace and easy it has been to institutionalize falsehoods
about the Serbian target group and demonized enemy. One
would have hoped that the media and mainstream intellectuals might
have learned from the repeated and sometimes embarrassing illustrations
of their gullibility and treat convenient claims of target villainy
with skepticism and subject the claims to careful scrutiny. This did not
happen in the case of the myths, fabrications and suppressions just discussed,
and, in our view, failed in the face of claims of a Srebrenica massacre.
In the chapters below we review some of the evidence put forward for
the claim of mass executions, but we also attempt to place the Srebrenica
events in a historical and political context, which we feel to be of great
importance, both in explaining what killing went on at Srebrenica, but
also in explaining the political stakes that underpin both the reasons for
the seemingly inexplicable 28th division abandonment of Srebrenica—
while leaving their women and children to the care of the Bosnian Serb
army!—and the very effective campaign to pin a mass murder and
“genocide” charge on the Serbs. The Tribunal, UN, and media have had
an important and not very creditable role in this campaign (see Chapters
6-9).
The issues involved here are in urgent need of review and debate. We
engage in such a review and initiate such a debate in this volume.
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