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news.yahoo.com/funeral-held-86-muslims-killed-171046488.html
PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86 Muslims who were slain by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities of the country's 1992-95 war.
Relatives of the victims, religious leaders and others gathered at a soccer stadium near the eastern town of Prijedor, standing solemnly behind lines of coffins draped with green cloths.
The victims ranged in age from 19 to 61. They were among some 200 Bosnian Muslims and Croats from Prijedor who were massacred in August 1992 on a cliff on Mt. Vlasic known as Koricanske Stijene.
The victims were shot and killed by the edge of the cliff, their bodies falling into the abyss. The Serbs later threw bombs onto the bodies, which made identifying the victims difficult.
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced several ex-Bosnian Serb policemen for separating civilians from a convoy of people being deported from Prijedor and killing them.
Armin Suljanovic buried some of his brother's remains Saturday alongside bone fragments that were previously identified and laid to rest. Suljanovic said his wife's brothers and father were also being buried after the joint service.
"My relatives and I have been suffering for the past 27 years. It is a painful destiny to have, but now, at least, we'll know where they are buried, we'll have a place to visit to say a prayer for them," he said.
More than 3,000 Bosnian Muslims and other non-Serbs were killed in Prijedor during the war. Many were taken to prison camps where they were beaten, starved and tortured.
Bosnian Serbs have been accused of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the war, expelling non-Serbs from the territories they controlled during the war such as Prijedor.
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
And do not think it cannot happen again. This is Western civilization we are dealing with. Prepare:
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news.yahoo.com/srebrenica-massacre-survivors-want-handkes-150740665.html
SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre called on Friday for Austrian author Peter Handke's Nobel Prize for Literature to be revoked, saying it was "shameful" to recognize a man who has denied the killings happened.
Their anger echoed criticism of Thursday's decision in many Balkan countries over Handke's open support for late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who led his country during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.
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Handke spoke at Milosevic's funeral in 2006 after the Serbian leader died while in detention awaiting trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for his role in the wars.
The Austrian also voiced support for Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, both of whom were convicted of genocide for the killing of more then 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the United Nations protected enclave of Srebrenica.
Though much of the reaction to the prize was negative in the Balkans, it won some applause in Serbia.
"The news that you have won the Nobel Prize for Literature has confirmed that virtue and water always find their way and that the struggle for freedom and the right to choice ... is not in vain," Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin, an ally of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, said in a message to Handke.
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An online petition launched by an Albanian citizen called for Handke to be stripped of his Nobel prize and had been signed by 30,000 people in less than 24 hours.
"Never thought would feel like vomiting because of a @nobelprize but shamelessness is becoming the normal part of the world we live in," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Twitter.
Also:
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/dutch-supreme-court-reduces-responsibility-for-srebrenica-massacre---
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
On 8 July 2015, Russia, at the request of the Republika Srpska and Serbia, vetoed a UN resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre as genocide. Serbia called the resolution "anti-Serb", while European and U.S. governments affirmed that the crimes were genocide.[30][31] On 9 July 2015, both the European Parliament (EP) and the U.S. Congress adopted resolutions reaffirming the description of the crime as genocide.[32][33]
(Where have we seen this behaviour before?)
Indeed:
a culture of denial of the Srebrenica genocide in Serbian society, taking many forms and present in particular in political discourse, the media, the law and the educational system.[341]
The scepticism ranges from challenging the judicial recognition of the killings as an act of genocide to the denial of a massacre having taken place.
And for completeness:
The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center office in Israel, Efraim Zuroff, also disagrees that Serb forces had genocidal intent. He explained: "As far as I know, what happened [in Srebrenica] does not [fit] the description or the definition of genocide. I think the decision to call it genocide was made for political reasons. Obviously a tragedy occurred, innocent people lost their lives and their memory should be preserved." Zuroff also called attempts to equate Srebrenica to the Holocaust "horrible" and "absurd"
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news.yahoo.com/bosnian-serb-ex-soldier-jailed-145936953.html
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court jailed a former Bosnian Serb soldier for 20 years on Wednesday for setting ablaze 57 Muslim Bosniaks, of whom 26 including a two-day-old baby died, near the eastern town of Visegrad early in Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Radomir Susnjar, 64, known as Lalco, was also found guilty of robbery and illegal detention of civilians, the court said.
The group of Muslim Bosniaks had been seized after an attack on the village of Koritnik and locked in a house that was set ablaze with an accelerant and explosives while Susnjar and other Bosnian Serb Army members shot at it to prevent anyone fleeing.
"The attack resulted in the killing of 25 civilians and a two-day-old baby whose remains were never found," the court said in a statement.
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Bosnian Serbs Milan and Sredoje Lukic were sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2012 to life and 27 years in prison respectively for the same crimes.
Bosnian Serb forces, helped by the now-defunct Serb-dominated Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and Serbian paramilitaries, committed atrocities against Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the conflict as part of their
bid to create exclusively Serb territories.
It doesn't matter how many years they are imprisoned for. So long as Serbia exists, they will feel that it was all worth it, and that they won their war. This is why eliminating Serbia is necessary. They (and the whole watching world) must be shown that they did not win, that the territories they stole for themselves will be returned to their victims. (The same applies to Israel and all other intended ethnostates.)
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www.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-indicts-convicted-war-criminal-154202698.htmlSARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes prosecutor on Friday indicted Milan Lukic, the Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader given a life sentence by a U.N. war crimes tribunal, for taking part in the kidnapping and killing of 20 people during the Bosnian war.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague convicted Lukic in 2009 of war crimes committed during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and his life sentence was upheld by an appeals court in 2012.
The Bosnian prosecutor issued the indictment for a crime that wasn't covered by the ICTY case after interrogating Lukic in Estonia, where he is serving his life sentence.
Lukic, 52, led a paramilitary group called the White Eagles or Avengers who seized, tortured and executed 20 people, mainly Muslims, from a train passing through Bosnia en route to the Montenegrin port of Bar from Serbia, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The indictment now goes to Bosnia's state court for confirmation. It was not clear what would happen if the charges were confirmed since Lukic has been jailed for life by the ICTY.
"The court will decide. The court first needs to confirm the indictment," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said.
Convicts sentenced to life by the ICTY can request to be released after serving 30 years.
According to the prosecutor's statement, Lukic's group stopped the train, seized the victims, took them to a school in eastern Bosnia where they were beaten, tortured and robbed, and then took them to a place where Lukic took part in their murder.
"The defendant is accused of personally taking part in planning and ... kidnapping of civilians and their murder on the bank of the Drina River on Feb. 27, 1993," the prosecutor's office said, adding that Lukic had been charged with war crimes against the civilian population.
The victims were thrown into the Drina River. The remains of only four people have been found until now, it said.
Lukic is most notorious for barricading 70 Muslim men, women and children in a house in the eastern town of Visegrad in 1992 before setting it on fire, in what became known as the Pionirska Street massacre. He shot at people trying to escape.
Fifteen members of Lukic's group were arrested in Bosnia and Serbia in 2014 and all are being tried at courts in Sarajevo and Belgrade.
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www.yahoo.com/news/bosnia-indicts-serb-army-general-151420003.htmlSARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Tuesday indicted a Bosnian Serb former army general for taking part in the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, an atrocity described as genocide by two international courts.
Milomir Savcic, 60, is accused of commanding the Bosnian Serb Army headquarters 65 Protection Motorised Regiment, which included a military police battalion, to capture, kill and bury adult Muslim Bosniaks from the U.N.-protected eastern enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic attacked Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, separated men from women and children, and killed about 8,000 Muslims, who were then buried in mass graves.
The Srebrenica massacre is regarded as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
Savcic consciously helped Mladic and colonel Ljubisa Beara, as well as other commanders of the Drina Corps and Zvornik Brigade, which executed the massacre, to destroy the Muslim men as an ethnic group in the area, the prosecutor said in a statement.
Both Mladic and Beara were jailed for life over the Srebrenica genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
"Savcic is accused of planning, commanding and supervising the activities ... during the capture and detention of several hundred Bosniak men at several locations in the Nova Kasaba area, and their illegal arrest, torture and murder," the statement said.
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For the record:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon#Opposition_to_the_NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
Ariel Sharon criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 as an act of "brutal interventionism".[79] Sharon said both Serbia and Kosovo have been victims of violence. He said prior to the current Yugoslav campaign against Kosovo Albanians, Serbians were the targets of attacks in the Kosovo province. "Israel has a clear policy. We are against aggressive actions. We are against hurting innocent people. I hope that the sides will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible." During the crisis, Elyakim Haetzni said the Serbs should be the first to receive Israeli aid. "There are our traditional friends," he told Israel Radio."[80] It was suggested that Sharon may have supported the Yugoslav position because of the Serbian population's history of saving Jews during the holocaust.[81] On Sharon's death, Serbian minister Aleksandar Vulin stated: The Serbian people will remember Sharon for opposing the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia and advocating respect for sovereignty of other nations and a policy of not interfering with their internal affairs.[82]
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That's him feeling kinship toward his fellow Turanian untermensch
Rightists say the Yugoslav Wars were a "gay op".