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Post by vinjak on Jan 6, 2011 16:33:45 GMT -5
6 January 2011 | 11:44 | Source: Tanjug BANJA LUKA -- The village of Kravice, in eastern Bosnia, held on Wednesday a memorial service to mark 18 years since the murder of 49 of its villagers. The Bosnian Muslim forces commanded by Naser Orić killed the Serbs on Orthodox Christmas morning, January 7, 1993. 80 more were injured and seven are still listed as missing. The attackers torched 688 Serb homes and over 200 other facilities. The massacre left 101 children without one or both parents. The memorial today was followed by a commemoration of some 3,400 Serbs who were killed in the eastern Bosnia region during the 1992-95 war. The ceremonies were attended by many local officials and organizations of war veterans and families of those killed, imprisoned or gone missing during the war. Kravica residents expressed grief for their lost loved ones and indignation over the fact that no one has been punished for the crime during the past 18 years. www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=01&dd=06&nav_id=71958
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Post by MiG on Jan 6, 2011 19:00:34 GMT -5
RIP to all victims. I hope it doesn't repeat itself, ever, in our end of the world.
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Post by zetra on Jan 7, 2011 5:41:13 GMT -5
The Kravica attack was the January 1993 attack on Serb positions in Kravica village by the Bosnian Army[1] followed by thousands of civilians from the Srebrenica enclave who were trying to find supplies.[2] The International Criminal Tribunal does not define this incident as a massacre, because of low number of Serb and Bosniak civilian casualties who died in the crossfire, mortar fire, or stepped on mines.
On 7 and 8 January 1993, Bosnian soldiers attacked Kravica village controlled by the Serbs. The Bosnian fighters were from a number of villages within Srebrenica enclave. At the time of the attack, there were relatively well-armed village guards and some Serb civilians in Kravica. Evidence shows that there was also Serb military presence in the area. The attack met with resistance. Serbs fired artillery on the legal Bosnian army attacking the defenders of Bosnia from houses and other buildings. Houses in the area were burning. Property was destroyed on a large scale. However, the evidence is unclear as to the number of houses that were wantonly destroyed by Bosniaks, as opposed to other causes.[1]
According to the Serbian newspaper "Glas javnosti", 49 civilians were killed.[3] However, the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Center claims that military victims highly outnumber the civilian ones based on the original documentation of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) entitled "Warpath of the Bratunac brigade". It puts the military casualties at 35 killed; the number of civilian victims of the attack is 11.[4]
In 1992, Bosnian Muslim villages around Srebrenica were under constant attacks by Serb forces. The Bosnian Institute in the UK has published a list of 296 villages destroyed by Serb forces around Srebrenica three years before the genocide and in the first three months of war (April - June 1992)[5]:
More than three years before the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, Bosnian Serb nationalists - with the logistical, moral and financial support of Serbia and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) - destroyed 296 predominantly Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) villages in the region around Srebrenica, forcibly uprooting some 70,000 Bosniaks from their homes and systematically massacring at least 3,166 Bosniaks (documented deaths) including many women, children and the elderly.
According to the Naser Oric trial judgement:[6]
"Between April 1992 and March 1993, Srebrenica town and the villages in the area held by Bosnian Muslims were constantly subjected to Serb military assaults, including artillery attacks, sniper fire, as well as occasional bombing from aircrafts. Each onslaught followed a similar pattern. Serb soldiers and paramilitaries surrounded a Bosnian Muslim village or hamlet, called upon the population to surrender their weapons, and then began with indiscriminate shelling and shooting. In most cases, they then entered the village or hamlet, expelled or killed the population, who offered no significant resistance, and destroyed their homes. During this period, Srebrenica was subjected to indiscriminate shelling from all directions on a daily basis. Potoèari in particular was a daily target for Serb artillery and infantry because it was a sensitive point in the defence line around Srebrenica. Other Bosnian Muslim settlements were routinely attacked as well. All this resulted in a great number of refugees and casualties."
Legal FindingsAs for the destruction in Kravica village the judgment in Naser Oriæ case states that the prosecution failed to present convincing evidence that the Bosnian forces were responsible for them, because the Serb forces used artillery in the fighting in the surrounding villages. For instance, in the case of the village of Bjelovac, Serbs even used the warplanes.[7]
The Judgment in the case of Prosecutor vs. Oric makes it clear that Serb village of Kravica was a military base from which Serbs launched deadly attacks on neighbouring Bosnian Muslim villages and town of Srebrenica itself. The Bosniak counter-attack on Kravica on the 7 January 1993 followed as a result of Serb blockade of humanitarian aid and constant attacks on nearby Bosnian Muslim villages. It was a response to earlier Serb attacks that occurred in December 1992. According to the Judgment:
"The fighting intensified in December 1992 and the beginning of January 1993, when Bosnian Muslims were attacked by Bosnian Serbs primarily from the direction of Kravica and Ježestica. In the early morning of the 7 January 1993, Orthodox Christmas day, Bosnian Muslims attacked Kravica, Ježestica and Šiljkoviæi. Convincing evidence suggests that the village guards were backed by the VRS [Bosnian Serb Army], and following the fighting in the summer of 1992, they received military support, including weapons and training. A considerable amount of weapons and ammunition was kept in Kravica and Šiljkoviæi. Moreover, there is evidence that besides the village guards, there was Serb and Bosnian Serb military presence in the area. The Trial Chamber is not satisfied that it can be attributed solely to Bosnian Muslims. The evidence is unclear as to the number of houses destroyed by Bosnian Muslims as opposed to those destroyed by Bosnian Serbs. In light of this uncertainty, the Trial Chamber concludes that the destruction of property in Kravica between 7 and 8 December 1992 does not fulfil the elements of wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages not justified by military necessity."Prosecutor vs. Oric, Trial Judgement
The Judgment also confirms that Bosniak refugees in the besieged enclave started dying from starvation caused by the Serb blockade of humanitarian aid. As a result, Bosniaks had to counter-attack Serb military bases around Srebrenica to obtain much needed food and other necessities for the survival:
"Between June 1992 and March 1993, Bosnian Muslims raided a number of villages and hamlets inhabited by Bosnian Serbs, or from which Bosnian Muslims had formerly been expelled. One of the purposes of these actions was to acquire food, weapons, ammunition and military equipment. Bosnian Serb forces controlling the access roads were not allowing international humanitarian aid – most importantly, food and medicine – to reach Srebrenica. As a consequence, there was a constant and serious shortage of food causing starvation to peak in the winter of 1992/1993. Numerous people died or were in an extremely emaciated state due to malnutrition.[8]"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravica_incident_(1993)
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Post by vinjak on Jan 7, 2011 16:50:58 GMT -5
Wikpedia huh ? as far as i am aware The Oric case was dismissed due to lack of evidence of command responsibility for the crimes .... crimes where commited but they did not find enough evidence for command responsibility.Ahh you snakes trying to rewrite actual rulings in order to hide your true crimes, i especially love the line where it reads Legal FindingsAs for the destruction in Kravica village the judgment in Naser Oriæ case states that the prosecution failed to present convincing evidence that the Bosnian forces were responsible for themwhat total bulls**t and clearly manipulated by you snakes the judjment in the Oric case found there was not enough evidence that Oric personally gave the orders for the Muslim bastards to Murder,loot,destroy property, so they could not prove there was command responsibilty. there was no mention that the prosecution failed to present convincing evidence that the "Bosnian Forces" etc oh and this line is brilliant, The Judgment in the case of Prosecutor vs. Oric makes it clear that Serb village of Kravica was a military base from which Serbs launched deadly attacks on neighbouring Bosnian Muslim villages and town of Srebrenica itself.How does the judgment that There was no proof of command responsibility make it clear that Kravica was a military base ? and then there is this, The Judgment also confirms that Bosniak refugees in the besieged enclave started dying from starvation caused by the Serb blockade of humanitarian aid. As a result, Bosniaks had to counter-attack Serb military bases around Srebrenica to obtain much needed food and other necessities for the survival:The judgment confirms no such thing, the charge was did Oric have personaly responsibility or did he have command responsibilty for the murder,looting and burning in the village of Kravica. and then what can you say to this, For instance, in the case of the village of Bjelovac, Serbs even used the warplanes.[7] so the headline you used for this piece of propaganda is disrespectful and a true indication of who and what you mutts are. lying Snakes.
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Post by terroreign on Jan 7, 2011 17:21:30 GMT -5
Naser Oric is a convicted muslim Serb war criminal, who resembles Pedja Mijatovic
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Post by toskaliku on Jan 8, 2011 15:04:56 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%A1egrad_massacreFor every Serbian dead, there were 100 Bosnian ones. To create any notion of equal suffering is like saying that the suffering between Germans and Eastern Europeans in WWII was equal.
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Post by terroreign on Jan 8, 2011 16:14:31 GMT -5
^Except in this instance it was Serbs killing Serbs, hardly a parallel.
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