Word: srebrenica
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...March 31, Serbia apologized for its role in the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. While the measure expressed sympathy for the victims of Europe's worst atrocity since 1945, it stopped short of using the word genocide. Serbia, which has applied for E.U. membership, must capture General Ratko Mladic, leader of the Bosnian Serb forces that committed the massacre, and send him to a war-crimes tribunal before its application will be considered...
Feelings still run deep. Last week, a retired Marine general told the Senate Armed Services Committee that one reason the Dutch military was unable to defend 7,000 innocent Bosnian Muslims from a Serb massacre in Srebrenica in 1995 was that the Netherlands' openly gay troops weakened their military's combat resolve. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the panel, declared John Sheehan's claim "totally wrong." And, on Thursday, Gates and Mullen scolded Army Lieut. General Benjamin Mixon for publicly opposing the potential lifting of the ban in a recent letter to the independent Stars and Stripes...
...under the tacit protection of key politicians. The Netherlands is particularly keen to see the arrest of Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on genocide charges for his alleged role in the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Serbia handed over former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Hague last year, and Tadic has said he is committed to meeting Serbia's international obligations. But Mladic and Hadzic remain on the run and most Serbs reject the idea of handing them over to the ICTY...
...Relatives of the victims, who took an exhausting 30-hour bus trip from Bosnia to watch the trial, booed from behind the glass in the courtroom and cried, "Politics!" when it was adjourned on Monday. "It's a catastrophe," says Munira Subasic, the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica organization. She lost 22 members of her family, including her 14-year-old son Nermin, whose body was never found. "That criminal didn't even have guts to look us in the eyes," she adds, referring to Karadzic. "This is nothing but a circus." (Read " 'Not Guilty' Plea Entered for Karadzic...
...Karadzic's requests was for a re-examination of DNA samples and autopsy results from every body excavated from the mass graves in Srebrenica in an attempt to prove that the number of victims was grossly exaggerated and that many of the victims were not even Bosnian Muslims. "Everything in relation to Srebrenica that has been presented so far is erroneous ... Everything is contentious and everything needs to be established fact by fact," Karadzic said at the pretrial hearing in July. (Read "Karadzic Called to Reckoning...