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Fifteen years since the Srebrenica massacre
Sir
It has been 15 years since 8000 Bosnian men and boys were executed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
These killings are considered to be the worst atrocities in Europe since the days of World War 2 and continue to cause pain and suffering in the region as family members are routinely notified that their husbands’ and sons’ remains have been discovered among the more than 450 major mass graves across Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Srebrenica murders happened in remote eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina near the border with Serbia (Yugoslavia) during the final months of the 1992-1995 war.
Srebrenica had been declared a United Nations safe area, but was the target of thousands of artillery and tank shells and had been suffering from nearly four years of sparse supplies of food and medicine.
A United Nations military unit from the Netherlands was stationed in the surrounded enclave, home to thousands of Bosnians who were trapped and under attack. In late July 1995, as the Serb army overran and captured the surviving residents of Srebrenica, the Dutch UN detachment handed over thousands of Bosnian shell-shocked and war weary citizens of the disputed territory, who were quickly sent to various points in buses in and near Srebrenica. Nearly all the 8000 Bosnian men and boys were tortured, beaten, threatened and then executed.
Two of the main perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacres are former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadic and Ratko Mladic. The former is currently in a United Nations jail in The Hague, awaiting trial on numerous counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide relating to his personal and legal responsibility in these killings. Mladic, a former general in the Bosnian Serb army, has also been indicted with Karadic for the Srebrenica murders and remains at large.
The European Community has made Serbia’s co-operation on war crimes, including Mladic’s arrest and delivery to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a mandatory action in order for the European community to look favourably on Serbia’s bid for EU membership, which will bring economic and other advantages to the troubled Eastern European nation which sponsored ethnic based killing and genocide in the neighbouring Balkan states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada
It has been 15 years since 8000 Bosnian men and boys were executed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
These killings are considered to be the worst atrocities in Europe since the days of World War 2 and continue to cause pain and suffering in the region as family members are routinely notified that their husbands’ and sons’ remains have been discovered among the more than 450 major mass graves across Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Srebrenica murders happened in remote eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina near the border with Serbia (Yugoslavia) during the final months of the 1992-1995 war.
Srebrenica had been declared a United Nations safe area, but was the target of thousands of artillery and tank shells and had been suffering from nearly four years of sparse supplies of food and medicine.
A United Nations military unit from the Netherlands was stationed in the surrounded enclave, home to thousands of Bosnians who were trapped and under attack. In late July 1995, as the Serb army overran and captured the surviving residents of Srebrenica, the Dutch UN detachment handed over thousands of Bosnian shell-shocked and war weary citizens of the disputed territory, who were quickly sent to various points in buses in and near Srebrenica. Nearly all the 8000 Bosnian men and boys were tortured, beaten, threatened and then executed.
Two of the main perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacres are former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadic and Ratko Mladic. The former is currently in a United Nations jail in The Hague, awaiting trial on numerous counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide relating to his personal and legal responsibility in these killings. Mladic, a former general in the Bosnian Serb army, has also been indicted with Karadic for the Srebrenica murders and remains at large.
The European Community has made Serbia’s co-operation on war crimes, including Mladic’s arrest and delivery to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a mandatory action in order for the European community to look favourably on Serbia’s bid for EU membership, which will bring economic and other advantages to the troubled Eastern European nation which sponsored ethnic based killing and genocide in the neighbouring Balkan states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada
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