Serbians

A source close to The Hague Tribunal told the Dnevni avaz paper that a large part of these documents refer to events in Srebrenica, which directly accuse the highest military and political leadership of Yugoslavia for crimes committed over civilians in Srebrenica.

- These documents include transcripts of conversations, including a conversation between Momcilo Perisic and Ratko Mladic. Croatian intelligence wiretapped the telephone call in Slavonia and these documents have been made available to The Hague Prosecution. This recording will reveal the truth of Yugoslavia’s responsibility for genocide committed in Srebrenica – a source told the Dnevni avaz paper.

These documents might be a powerful backbone for Bosnia-Herzegovina`s lawsuit against Serbia, if they are not protected by the court.

Prosecutors in the case had sought sentences totaling 150 years’ imprisonment. However, although the judge ruled that the men had helped round up civilians, he said it had not been proven that they were directly involved in the murders.

“This is a disgrace. While we are looking at mass graves all day long, verdicts like this are made. I’m very unsatisfied with the Bosnian courts,” Sabra Kolenovic, a member of the Mothers of Srebrenica group, told IWPR.

Defendants Zdravko Bozic, Zoran Zivanovic and Zeljko Zaric were released from detention immediately, despite the judge’s finding that they had helped to guard buses holding Bosniak men.

Several protected witness, known only by pseudonyms, said the defendants had guarded detained civilians in Srebrenica, and had also been guards of a column of around 30 buses that shipped the men out of the town of Bratunac.

...By the evening of July 11, some 25-30,000 were clamouring at the high wire gates of the Dutch compound, but the UN troops — who had been assured by Mladic that buses would be sent to ferry them to safety — would not let them in. The next day, the Serb troops waded into the pathetic, bedraggled throng of Bosnians, knives and bayonets drawn. Karadzic’s summary executions, which now extended to women and children, had begun.

One witness later described how a Serb soldier ordered a mother to stop her baby crying. When she failed, he grabbed the child, and, laughing, slit its throat….

Srebrenica genocide, 7/11/1995.

Look at his face. He is scared of justice. For those interested, here is a closeup (it looks as if he was crying): http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2008/09/radovan-karadzic-faces-two-separate.html