Serbs finally have war crimes shoved in their faces

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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - The Serb paramilitaries prodded the six skinny young Bosnian Muslims — their hands tied behind their backs — through the tall green grass, and then shot them one by one. The bodies slumped to the ground. Gruesome video of the July 1995 killings near Srebrenica was shown this week in Serbia, forcing Serb leaders to finally acknowledge their country's role in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

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The pictures mark the first time most Serbs have seen such images and could change the way the nation thinks of the slaughter in Bosnia, where Serb troops overran the enclave and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys after separating them from women. Several hundred Dutch troops sent by the U.N. as peacekeepers did little more than look on.

It could also help authorities in extraditing the alleged masterminds of the Srebrenica massacre — wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic — to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, which has indicted them for genocide and crimes against humanity.

The shocking TV images prompted Serbian officials to acknowledge publicly that war crimes were committed by Serbs during the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s.

"Everything burst — the whole bubble of hiding evidence and denying crimes — within the 10 minutes it took to broadcast the video," said Natasa Kandic, a human rights activist from the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Fund.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_eu/bosnia_execution_video

This will be useful the next time someone says that Clinton was just as bad as Bush. No, Clinton was really freeing people who were being slaughtered wholesale, unlike the Shia.

[jayfish]

1. I Was Especially Amused...

by all the deniers right here on DU. I'm sure they will be along any minute.

Jay