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A court in Bosnia has convicted seven Serbs of genocide for rounding up and executing more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims in a single day during the Srebrenica massacre.
The Sarajevo court gave the men sentences ranging from 38 to 42 years for their participation in the murders — some of the 8,000 killings in the 1995 massacre for which Radovan Karadzic must answer in The Hague. Four other defendants were acquitted.
The civilians had been rounded up and kept in a warehouse before being slaughtered, the court was told. Those convicted include Milos Stupar, the commander of the Second Special Police Squad. One of the defendants was in the army of Republika Srpska, a Bosnian Serb entity created by Dr Karadzic, its first president. The court was told how Ratko Mladic, Dr Karadzic’s military general and the last high-profile war crimes suspect still at large, told the prisoners that nothing would happen to them. But after his departure armed men in civilian clothes escorted the prisoners to a farm hangar in a nearby village.
A witness named only as S1, who survived by hiding under a pile of bodies, told the court: “The hangar was totally full. Then we heard shooting. I closed my eyes waiting for them to kill me. All the men fell to the ground. I lay down as well. There was blood everywhere. While I was lying on the floor, I heard screams and people cried for help in panic.”
According to S1, the soldiers threw grenades at the dead prisoners after the shooting, which lasted for about an hour. He managed to escape after spending 24 hours among the bloodied corpses, together with another survivor, witness S2.
Witness S2 said: “It was a living hell. There were screams, cries for help. They were shooting for a while, and then took a break to go out and have a cigarette. Then they returned and started singling out and shooting the surviving prisoners.”
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The events at Srebrenica were a backlash against the rape and killing of Serbian women and children. They would have been spared had they surrendered the perpetrators. The islamification of the west was started by the Vance-Owen agreement. In 50 Years Karadzic will be seen as a new Charles Martell.
James, York, uk
Ulrich I dont agree at all with you in what you just said above. As for Albania and Kosovo I can assure you that those places are so small that make impossible for Al Qaeda militants to reside. Over 60% of the Al Qaeda terrorist captured, were residing and hiding in Germany, UK, France, and Spain...
ENDRI , Tirana,, Albania
He is in the Hague, however his and Milosevic's project of Republic of Srpska, created on the genocide, has remained. Just try to conceive that Hitler's party, police and conquered territories and ideology remained to exist after WWII under the auspices of the international community.
Rohas, Sarajevo, BiH
The Serbs have been sentenced, meanwhile Muslim mass murderers are let off with a one year sentence, such as Nasr Oric-- who was the Muslim warlord of Srebrenica, responsible for killing, raping and maiming thousands of Serbs-- Oric's crimes caused the Serb reaction!...
Arthur Carruthers, Scarsdale. NY, USA
this just goes to show the true nature of human beings. It would be wrong for'civilised' people to express disgust while they blindly accept the murder of Afghan and Iraqi civilians. Anyone is capable. 'for evil to triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing'. All men's atrocity is mine..
ju, Leicester, uk
Shamil khan, London Uk says,
"If this had been Muslims doing it to others we would have a world wide war against us just like what is happening now.."
Muslims did perpetrate many war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, who do you think brought in the Mujihadeen to help with the fighting? Pleeeease!
j, london, uk
Maybe the full extend of what they did will come to greater light and the international community will vow not to allow it again. But when it happens again nations will be hesistant to send troops or put effective political and military pressure to stop them for fear of harm to our soldiers.
Naleen Lal, Northern California,
Shamil Khan America helped stop the genocide of muslims in Bosnia. How many muslim countries help? They treat Bush like a king, named streets after Bill Clinton, and built a statue of him. Did you know America has thousands of Mosque and millions of muslims living here. Not everthing is as it seems
Tyler, Springfield, USA
Ulrich, I remember an Al-Qaeda operative being caught in a hotel down the street from me. This was in Frankfurt. They hide everywhere. How did the West create Bosnia? Seems to me, Europe, closed it's eyes to what was going on for quite some time. The UN was ineffective.
Bob, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Congratulations to the West for bending over and creating not one but TWO additional Mohammedan terror states in Europe, in addition to the extant Albania, we now have Bosnia and Kosovo as hiding places for Al Qaeda.
Ulrich Hoden, Cologne, Germany
Send him To Srebrenica and let the people decide what to do with him. Public hanging is the only thing he deserves.
Ana Rogic, Vancouver, canada
If this had been Muslims doing it to others we would have a world wide war against us just like what is happening now. This more than ever proves that a Muslim's life is considered less than others. Humanity must unite and equally condemn all atrocities...
Shamil Khan, London, UK
38 to 42 years for taking part in executing 1000 people is a joke they should also be executed that would be a fairer sentence
matt, lowestoft,