Bosnian genocide

[Hurrem sultana]

Srebrenica genocide: worst massacre in Europe since the Nazis

Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Serb forces added small hilltown by the river Drina to Europe's litany of 20th century infamy


Guernica, Oradour, Katyn, Auschwitz are but a beginning in Europe's litany of 20th-century infamy. The list lengthened towards the century's end to include Srebrenica, a small hilltown by the river Drina on Bosnia's eastern border with Serbia.

On 13 July 1995, in one of the last acts of the 42-month Bosnia war, General Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Serb force, which for two years had besieged the enclave of 40,000 Muslims, attacked.

It was an easy, bold and brutal conquest that shamed the international community. A few hundred Dutch peacekeepers were stationed in Srebrenica, which had gained the status of a UN-protected "safe area". Mladic bet correctly that the international community was too lily-livered to carry out its pledge to protect the enclave.

It is what happened next that earned Srebrenica its grim place in history. Fearful of a commander who had earned a reputation as a vengeful psychopath, the males of Srebrenica fled to the hills and the forests, trying to make it to the safety of Tuzla. Over 10 days, almost 8,000 of them were rounded up and shot in an operation that required extraordinary levels of planning and logistics. It was the worst single crime of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. It was the worst massacre in Europe since the Nazi era.

Years of forensic work and exhumations followed. Many of the victims are now buried at a special site at Potocari, the camp where the Dutch peacekeepers were based.

The UN's war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia and the international court of justice have both established as a juridical fact that the massacre was an act of genocide, the gravest crime there is – and the hardest to prove.

In a landmark 2004 ruling, Theodor Meron, the American judge who presided over the tribunal in The Hague, said: "By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica ...They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity."

[brunette]

What is the point in this thread sweetie, to make people aware?

[Hurrem sultana]

the youngest victim found in Srebrenica massacre was only a baby-1 year old-Nezir Suljic!!!!


the oldest was Redzo Purdic 82 year old

[Hurrem sultana]

What is the point in this thread sweetie, to make people aware?

yes,it is important to talk about this

[Onur]

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I still cannot believe how come these 1000s of people stood still and waited for the Serbs to kill them all one by one for days. It was obvious why Mladic took over Srebrenica from pathetic UN soldiers. So, rather than waiting to die like a sheep, i don't understand why they didn't resist. Probably thats why Mladic choose these Bosnian weaklings to relieve his anger of Turks upon them and his so-called revenge for the events in 14th century;
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If Mladic would really be a hero as some Serbs claims so, then he would had deal with the real Turks, with us, not with the aged Bosnian peasants.

[Hurrem sultana]

this boy was only a baby!

[rhiannon]

this boy was only a baby!

Sickening.

Bastard sons of bitches

[Kanuni]

If Mladic would really be a hero as some Serbs claims so, then he would had deal with the real Turks, with us, not with the aged Bosnian peasants.

That is human nature!Killing the Bosnian Muslims as you say meant as kind of revenge toward Ottomans some kind of modern Crusade and they thought no one in Europe would care since they are firstly Muslims latter human beings.This kind of extreme viewpoint comes from the influence of their Orthodox Church,that is why secularization of institutions is very important for a modern society.

[Aramis]

yes,it is important to talk about this

Yes, we are able to notice the level of popularity Jews gained among others with this approach. From Holocaust to Lolocaust.

[brunette]

I have friends from Bosnia and Serbia I asked a Serbian friend of mine Vladimir what was it over and he said that the Turks and Albanians had driven alot of Serbians from Kosovo. He always told me that the Serbians had their houses bought from Albanians who got rich from the Turks and that they had just simply sold their houses and lands to Albanians. But my point is-why the whole Bosnian and Serbian conflict. I don't think it's just because Bosnians are Muslim and Serbians are Orthodox Christians, that would be too easy. There must be something more sinister behind the conflict between the two nations.