Bosnian Genocide: 20th Anniversary
July 11, 2015
Today marks the 1995 killing of over 8,000 men and boys over a three-day period, mostly Muslim, in and around the city of Srebrenica, located in Bosnia – Herzegovina.
Though declared a “safe area” and under protection of the U.N., the force of 400 Dutch soldiers could not prevent the town from being captured by the Bosnian Serb Army.
The worst mass murder since World War II, the ethnic cleansing campaign during the Bosnian War claimed over 100,000 victims.
In his remarks today, former president Bill Clinton said, "That awful act finally stirred all the members of NATO to support the military intervention that was clearly necessary.”
“Weeks after Srebrenica, NATO jets bombed Bosnian Serb positions for two weeks in Operation Deliberate Force. The Serbs quickly surrendered, and months later both sides signed an accord worked out in Dayton, Ohio, establishing a peace that has lasted since.” – AOL News
I remember at the time, that liberals and pacifists condemned Clinton for having committed U.S. forces to this war ending action, citing “war-crimes,” “atrocities,” and similar mantras.*
“Parties to massacre, and their allies, sometimes object to the killings being called genocide, and the United Nations was unable this week to muster the support in the Security Council to lend that term to the ethnic carnage in Srebrenica. … When it introduced a resolution, the Russian Federation, a permanent Security Council member and Serbian ally, vetoed it.” AOL News
* - "In relation to the late war, one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to answer was: "What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting to war?" I must say that I have never heard, from any Western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions” – George Orwell
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Today marks the 1995 killing of over 8,000 men and boys over a three-day period, mostly Muslim, in and around the city of Srebrenica, located in Bosnia – Herzegovina.
Though declared a “safe area” and under protection of the U.N., the force of 400 Dutch soldiers could not prevent the town from being captured by the Bosnian Serb Army.
The worst mass murder since World War II, the ethnic cleansing campaign during the Bosnian War claimed over 100,000 victims.
In his remarks today, former president Bill Clinton said, "That awful act finally stirred all the members of NATO to support the military intervention that was clearly necessary.”
“Weeks after Srebrenica, NATO jets bombed Bosnian Serb positions for two weeks in Operation Deliberate Force. The Serbs quickly surrendered, and months later both sides signed an accord worked out in Dayton, Ohio, establishing a peace that has lasted since.” – AOL News
I remember at the time, that liberals and pacifists condemned Clinton for having committed U.S. forces to this war ending action, citing “war-crimes,” “atrocities,” and similar mantras.*
“Parties to massacre, and their allies, sometimes object to the killings being called genocide, and the United Nations was unable this week to muster the support in the Security Council to lend that term to the ethnic carnage in Srebrenica. … When it introduced a resolution, the Russian Federation, a permanent Security Council member and Serbian ally, vetoed it.” AOL News
* - "In relation to the late war, one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to answer was: "What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting to war?" I must say that I have never heard, from any Western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions” – George Orwell
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