NationStates Jolt Archive


A sad anniversary. Don't forget the bold bits.

Syniks
11-07-2005, 23:58
Monday, July 11, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006945)

Ten years ago today, Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic entered the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica, then being defended by Dutch peacekeepers. General Mladic made three demands: that the townsmen surrender their weapons; that all males between the ages of 12 and 77 be separated out for "questioning"; and that the rest of the population be expelled to Muslim areas. Within two days, 23,000 women and children had been deported. Another 5,000 Muslim men and boys who had taken refuge on a nearby Dutch base were also delivered to the Mladic forces.

As we now know, most of the people surrendered by the Dutch to the Serbs were slaughtered, as were more than 2,000 others, bringing the estimated tally of the Srebrenica massacre to 7,200. Yet the scale of the atrocity alone is not why we remember it. We remember because the men of Srebrenica were betrayed by their ostensible protectors, and that carries some lessons for today. ...

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Yeah: Never give up your guns (especially if you are in the minority), the Government is NOT (necessairly) here to help you, and the UN won't/can't either..

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Strange though, how the Mladic Serbs execute unarmed Muslims, yet the worlds MurderMayrters blow up unarmed Americans & Brits.
Ashmoria
12-07-2005, 00:05
it was a bad bad day.

im not sure it was predictable (by the dutch) that the serbs were going to murder everyone. its easier to judge in hindsight than at the time.