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Op maandag 20 juli 2009 19:29 schreef ErwinRommel het volgende:Joegoslavië-Tribunaal veroordeelt Milan Lukic tot levenslang
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DEN HAAG - Het Joegoslavië-Tribunaal in Den Haag heeft maandag de Bosnische Serviër Milan Lukic veroordeeld tot een levenslange gevangenisstraf.
Het VN-Hof achtte bewezen dat hij in 1992 eigenhandig 142 Bosnische moslims had vermoord in de Bosnische plaats Visegrad. Zijn neef Sredoje Lukic kreeg dertig jaar opgelegd.
Milan Lukic, leider van de Bosnisch-Servische militie Witte Adelaars, sloot op 14 juni 1992 59 moslims op in een woning in Visegrad. Hij had zelf een brandbare stof op de vloer aangebracht en zette de woning in brand.
Genadeloos
Daarna belette hij zijn slachtoffers te vluchten. Mensen die dat wel probeerden schoot hij genadeloos dood. Onder de slachtoffers waren kinderen, zelfs baby's.
Nog geen twee weken later deed Lukic hetzelfde met nog eens zeker zestig moslims, wederom in Visegrad.
''Hij gebruikte zijn geweer om mensen naar binnen te duwen en riep zijn mannen op zoveel mogelijk mensen in het huis op te sluiten'', aldus VN-rechter Patrick Robinson.
Sredoje Lukic
Anders dan bij het eerste incident was Sredoje hier niet aanwezig.
De rechtbank achtte niet bewezen dat Sredoje Lukic zelf mensen heeft vermoord, maar ''hij wist wat er met hen ging gebeuren'', aldus de rechter.
Volgens hem zijn de moorden uitgevoerd omdat de slachtoffers moslims waren. Beide mannen zijn dan ook schuldig bevonden aan uitroeiing.
Ongekende wreedheid
Het vonnis was doorspekt met woorden als 'ongekende wreedheid', 'gebrek aan respect voor menselijk leven' en 'gruwelijkheden'.
Milan Lukic hoorde het vonnis hoofdschuddend en duidelijk geagiteerd aan. Hij en Sredejo hebben altijd gezegd onschuldig te zijn. Hun advocaten hadden dan ook vrijspraak geëist.
Aanklacht
De VN-aanklagers hadden levenslang geëist voor beide verdachten. Als zij hun hele leven niet meer op vrije voeten komen, komt de straf gelet op de levensverwachting van de verdachten neer op slechts zes maanden cel per moord, zo redeneerden zij.
Zij noemden de gebeurtenissen van Visegrad een ''toppunt van gruwelijkheid zonder precedent''.
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Terecht!!!!!
Maar wat me weer erg opvalt is dat de Bosnische oorlogsmisdadigers zelf nooit tot levenslang veroordeeld zijn geweest. Het zijn altijd weer die van Servische komaf.
Als voorbeeld neem ik Naser Oric, die rondom Srebrenica flink heeft huisgehouden. Die heeft toch zeker 2000 doden op zijn geweten en heeft nota bene zijn eigen volk in de steek gelaten met de val van Srebrenica. En dat dan als Commandant zijnde van het 7de Bosnische Korps.
Vanwaar deze dwaling??
Ohhh ja een foto van deze schoft mag niet ontbreken:
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Reden waarom het vaker Serven zijn? Misschien omdat Serven vaker oorlogsmisdaden hebben begaan ?
Het geval van Oric is een beetje ingewikkeld maar er is een reden waarom er een groot ( !) verschil is met hem en laten we zeggen Lukic. Ik heb meegeholpen met het schrijven van een stukje op wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w(...)r_of_Serb_casualtiesMilitarized Serb Villages
Oric trial judgment makes it clear
that Serb villages were heavily militarized and used to attack Bosniak villages and the town of Srebrenica:
"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. Potočari 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.... 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 Je¸estica. In the early morning of the 7 January 1993, Orthodox Christmas day, Bosnian Muslims attacked Kravica, Je¸estica and ¦iljkovići. 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 ¦iljkovići. Moreover, there is evidence that besides the village guards, there was Serb and Bosnian Serb military presence in the area. " [9]
By January, Orić’s forces were in control of all villages on the left side of the Drina, from Voljavica to Zlijebac, and directly threatened Bratunac, ethnically cleansed Bosniak city that Oric wanted to free from Serb occupation; they also seized a considerable supply of arms and ammunition, including few tanks and other pieces of heavy weapons, and food.[citation needed]
[edit] Controversy regarding number of Serb casualties
It is agreed by all sides that Serbs suffered a number of casualties during military forays led by Naser Orić. The controversy over the nature and number of the casualties came to a head in 2005, the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.[10] According to Human Rights Watch, the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party "launched an aggressive campaign to prove that Muslims had committed crimes against thousands of Serbs in the area" which "was intended to diminish the significance of the July 1995 crime."[10] A press briefing by the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) dated 6 July 2005 noted that the number of Serb deaths in the region alleged by the Serbian authorities had increased from 1,400 to 3,500, a figure the OTP stated "[does] not reflect the reality."[11] The briefing cited previous accounts:
* The Republika Srpska's Commission for War Crimes gave the number of Serb victims in the municipalities of Bratunac, Srebrenica and Skelani as 995; 520 in Bratunac and 475 in Srebrenica.
* The Chronicle of Our Graves by Milivoje Ivanisevic, president of the Belgrade Center for Investigating Crimes Committed against the Serbs, estimates the number of people killed at around 1,200.
* For the Honorable Cross and Golden Freedom, a book published by the RS Ministry of Interior, referred to 641 Serb victims in the Bratunac-Srebrenica-Skelani region.
The accuracy of these numbers is challenged: the OTP noted that although Ivanisevic's book estimated that around 1200 Serbs were killed,
personal details were only available for 624 victims.[11] The validity of labeling some of the casualties as "victims" is also contested:[11] studies have found a significant majority of military casualties compared to civilian casualties.[12] This is in line with the nature of the conflict—Serb casualties died in raids by Bosniak forces on outlying villages used as military outposts for attacks on Srebrenica[13] (many of which had been ethnically cleansed of their Bosniak majority population in 1992).[14] For example the village of Kravica was attacked by Bosniak forces on Orthodox Christmas Day, 7 January 1993. Some Serb sources such as Ivanisevic allege that the village's 353 inhabitants were "virtually completely destroyed".[11] In fact, the VRS' own internal records state that 46 Serbs died in the Kravica attack: 35 soldiers and 11 civilians.[15] while the ICTY Prosecutor's Office's investigation of casualties on 7 and 8 January in Kravica and the surrounding villages found that 43 people were killed, of whom 13 were obviously civilians.[16] Nevertheless the event continues to be cited by Serb sources as the key example of heinous crimes committed by Bosniak forces around Srebrenica.[10] As for the destruction and casualties in the villages of Kravica, Siljkovići, Bjelovac, Fakovići and Sikirić, the judgment 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 those villages. In the case of the village of Bjelovac, Serbs even used the warplanes.[8]
The most up-to-date analysis of Serb casualties in the region comes from the Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center, a non-partisan institution with a multiethnic staff, whose data have been collected, processed, checked, compared and evaluated by international team of experts.[12][17][18] T
he RDC's extensive review of casualty data found that Serb casualties in the Bratunac municipality amounted to 119 civilians and 424 soldiers. It also established that although the 383 Serb victims buried in the Bratunac military cemetery are presented as casualties of ARBiH units from Srebrenica, 139 (more than one third of the total) had fought and died elsewhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[12]
Serb sources maintain that casualties and losses during the period prior to the creation of the safe area gave rise to Serb demands for revenge against the Bosniaks based in Srebrenica. The ARBiH raids are presented as a key motivating factor for the July 1995 genocide.[19] This view is echoed by international sources including the 2002 report commissioned by the Dutch government on events leading to the fall of Srebrenica (the NIOD report).[20] However these sources also cite misleading figures for the number of Serb casualties in the region. The NIOD report, for instance, repeats the erroneous claim that the raid on Kravica resulted in the total annihilation of its population. Many consider these efforts to explain the motivation behind the Srebrenica massacre are merely revisionist attempts to justify the genocide. To quote the report to the UN Secretary-General on the Fall of Srebrenica:[21]
Even though this accusation is often repeated by international sources, there is no credible evidence to support it… The Serbs repeatedly exaggerated the extent of the raids out of Srebrenica as a pretext for the prosecution of a central war aim: to create a geographically contiguous and ethnically pure territory along the Drina, while freeing their troops to fight in other parts of the country. The extent to which this pretext was accepted at face value by international actors and observers reflected the prism of 'moral equivalency' through which the conflict in Bosnia was viewed by too many for too long.
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Dit is wel heel wat anders dan systematische massaverkrachtingen van vrouwen ( sommigen die niet eens 14 jaar oud waren) en systematisch mensen executeren zoals in het geval van Milan Lukic.