things that make me off my breakfast in the news today are plentiful. at the top of the list - which is looooooong - is this one.
Srebrenica massacre list compiledannounced on the second day of rama6aan, no less. it's been ten years since this anti-bosnian/anti-muslim pogrom, and the bodies are still being identified and reburied and their killers remain IN POWER. as the latter article says,The Bosnian Serb government has drawn up a list of 19,473 Serb soldiers who operated in the region of Srebrenica at the time of the massacre there in 1995.
The secret list, compiled since 2003, includes almost 900 people still thought to be working for the Bosnian Serb government, army or police. [emphasis mine -ed.]
It will be forwarded to the state prosecutor's office for review.
More than 7,000 Muslim men and boys died when Bosnian Serb troops overran the UN-protected enclave in 1995.
[snip]
Authorities have pledged to investigate the roles of the 892 people who are still understood to be holding official positions in the autonomous Bosnian Serb republic.
The list is also supposed to provide Bosnian prosecutors with a fuller picture of how the crimes were perpetrated.
The head of the Bosnian Serb army at the time, Ratko Mladic, and his civilian counterpart, Radovan Karadzic, have been charged with genocide over Srebrenica. But they remain fugitives thought to be hiding in Bosnia or neighbouring Serbia and Montenegro.
The massacre in eastern Bosnia is considered the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II. [emph. mine -ed.]
DNA samples are being used to put names to the remains of as many as possible of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims killed and dumped in mass graves by the Serbs 10 years ago this month.i can't go into the other things, it's too much for one emily.[snip]
One of the scientists leading the task is Dr Eva Klonowski, a forensic anthropologist born in Poland who later took political refuge in Iceland. Her name has just been added to the list on a joint application called 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005.
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I doubt this report will do much to get those quilty out of power.
I lived in Bratunac and Srebrenica for years. It always "irked" me seeing those "well-off" with the poverty and scars of war all around.
These well-off individuals were the ones who either stole positions, money and even houses.
Insane!
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