GOVERNMENT TROOPS ATTACK BOSNIAN SERB VILLAGE
Stephen Kinzer, 06-26-95, N.Y. Times News Service
THE BOSNIA CALCULATION: HOW MANY HAVE DIED?
George Kenney, The New York Times Magazine, April 23, 1995.
PRESIDENCY AND ARMY COMMAND SACRIFICED SREBRENICA
Slobodna Bosna, 07/14/96 (translation from Serbian)
"MISSING" ENCLAVE TROOPS FOUND
The Times, London, August 2nd, 1995.
WHAT'S IN A 'MASS GRAVE?
Linda Ryan, Living Marxism, Issue 88, March 1996.
Humanitarian Aid To Srebrenica
* Throughout the war, and during the winter of 1992/93 not one case of death
from starvation was registered on the Bosnian Moslem side in Bosnia.
* It is worth noting that after every delivery of humanitarian aid, the
Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica launched bigger offensive operations
during winter of 1992 and spring of 1993.
* There are many indications that the entire campaign about the need to
deliver "humanitarian" aid and open up corridors through Serbian
territory started in order to supply the Muslims with weapons,
logistics, and military equipment. Delivery of weapons was done by
air, and food, medicine, were mostly delivered by road.
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"Safe" Srebrenica was supposed to be demilitarised but this did not stop
Mr Oric's soldiers raiding nearby Serb villages. A recent raid,
occuring soon after the collapse of the heavy-weapons exclusion zone
around Sarajevo, plus the slow gathering of the West's reaction force,
gave General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander, the reasons he
needed for extracting the thorn of Srebrenica from the Bosnian Serbs'
eastern side. But Mr Oric escaped. (The Economist, 15-21 July 1995)
From the beginning of Srebrenica crises Bosnian Muslim propaganda used
the number of 120,000 civilians in the area. When Srebrenica fell only
40,000, including 10,000 solders, were found. Games with numbers played
well with Bosnian Muslims in the past. They played the same game around
Zepa, Gorazde, Bihac.
When going get tough use ham radio!
"One of the more notorious cases of fabricated data and unverified hearsay
masquerading as indisputable fact was the use of "ham radio operator reports"
as a basis for coverage. During a number of combat situations (e.g.,
Srebrenica, Gorazde, Bihac), lacking any other information, these sources
with their desperation pleas and messsages of impending doom were passed
along by the media essentially unchallenged, the medium itself adding a
note of utter emergency. In reality, these reports were largely
exaggerated (most often, entirely fabricated) accounts generated by the
Muslim Sarajevo government, as has been subsequently proven."
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