The Loss of 8372 Muslims in 1995 in Srebrenica represents a profound silence

Speaking of Srebrenica massacre, is to say that I am ashamed of being French.

(because I do not agree with those such as President Sarkozy who have advocated the fast accession of Serbia to the European Union for purely geopolitical reasons).

In 1995 I was drowned in a terrible family problem and I had not followed international news.

In early endlessly hot summer 95, the little French that I was, didn’t know about the horror which was going to happen in July in “Safe Area” Srebrenica, so called by the UN.

In the days of 11 July until the end of month the Bosnian population was living hell of a systematic massacre perpetrated by the Serbs, the Scorpions unit, the Chetnicks and other enemies of the Bosnian Muslims.

My ignorance and my troubles were blocking my reception of information, I knew nothing of the genocide a few hundred miles of my very comfortable life.

The following months I heard of Srebrenica, Potocari, the columns of Muslim men who had fled the enclave of Srebrenica between July 12 and July 19, 1995.

Along that route of horror from Srebrenica to Tuzla, they were not assisted in any way [by the main Muslim forces].

No aid was provided.

On that part of the road, they were ambushed on several occasions.

There were fatalities and casualties there.

It happened: The forcible transfer of women and children from the Srebrenica enclave to Kladanj, 12 and July 13, 1995, and from 12 to 19 July 1995 about the capture, detention, summary execution by firing squads, burial and re-burial the corpses of thousands of men and boys by Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, aged 16 to 60 years.

Then I read and I immersed myself in the story of the second genocide of the 20th century.

Among the exhibits showing the most horrendous genocide in Srebrenica and more generally of the horrors committed during the Bosnian war, there is a movie showing a unit of Scorpions (Serbian militiamen particularly and violent fanatics) humiliating and slowly killing six young Muslims Bosnians, one of whom is older than sixteen.

This video has been discovered and posted to the ICTY.

(International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia).

in 2005 at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The film was shot ten years ago by a soldier who never imagined, of course, that his “work” to escape its control and would later evidence of the massacre.

The Scorpions were special units composed of soldiers particularly fanatical and violent, sent en foule in Croatia Bosnia-Herzegovina and later in Kosovo.

“The last walk”.

“Humiliation”.

“Execution”.

“released before to be killed”.

“carrying the dead and be tortured before murdered”.

During the broadcast of the video in June 1995,

ten years after the facts at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic

the latter denied having anything to do with these men.

Nobody is fooled: Scorpions directly dependent on the Serbian Ministry of Interior.

These soldiers were very loose, certainly, but also highly organized, and should not try to make us believe that killing is an isolated case.

Milosevic has always denied having intervened in Bosnia, and has been arguing that this conflict concerned only the Bosnian Serbs, and in any case the Serbs of Serbia.

But we now know that Serbia provided in this conflict material, weapons, officers and salaries.”

I kept the words of journalists like –

- Ron Haviv.

http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/portrait/haviv,

- Florence Hartman.

( Mrs. Hartmann wrote a book, Peace and Punishment (2007), in which she criticized the ICTY’s confidential agreement with Serbia to conceal material evidence of Serbia’s direct involvement in the genocide in Bosnia in 1992-95.

The concealment of that evidence resulted in Bosnia’s losing of its parallel case against Serbia in the International Court of Justice for reparations.

The ICTY has charged Mrs. Hartmann for revealing confidential information and for the contempt of the Tribunal.

Of course, European Courrier doesn’t want any of his contributors to write for the Courier from behind the bars.

So here is a material disseminated by her defense team to some international media outlets, including the text for which she was indicted.

If sentenced, she could spend 7 years in prison. (Read more)

- Christiane Amanpour http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/portrait/amanpour

- Eric Dachy http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/portrait/dachy

- Natasa Kandic http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/portrait/kandic.

- Hasan Nuhavonic.