From a military prespective, Srebrencia was a legitimate military target. As the post above notes, the so-called UN "safe-haven" was militarized and acted as the base for Muslim war lord Nasir Oric to launch punitive raids on the surrounding Serb villages.

Oric, indicted by the Hague Tribunal, even video taped his killing sprees - massacres of primarily Serb civilians.

When a Serb probe tested the defenses of Srebrenica one evening, they found the Muslim units had vanished - fled into the night and left the entire area open. The town and surrounding area were used by the Sarajevo Muslim regime brilliantly to highlight Muslim plight and victimhood for the press. But when Oric was orderd to flee, it created propaganda results for them beyond their wildest expectations.

Many of the Muslim killed were soldiers - many on the infamous hill where they were surroudned by Serb forces and slaughted primarily by mortar fire.

Also, many of the Serb forces came from the surrounding town of Bratunac, which suffered most from Oric's attacks.

The Serbs simply practiced the U.S. military doctrine of using "overwhelming force to destroy your enemy". They eliminated the the threat to their homes and towns in the area.

The infamous "Highway of Death" in Kuwait witnessed a similar application of this doctrine. I believe thousands of trucks, cars, and buses were destroyed by U.S. aircraft in a one-day period, killing likely thousands of Iraqi soldiers, men, women and children, who were fleeing Kuwait. U.S. commanders viewed it as a legitimate target - an enemy fleeing - to completely eradicate them. And that included their families and civilian staff who were travelling in the column back to their homes in Iraq.

However, I believe both are still war crimes which should be punished. The Serbs, Nasir Oric and the US massacre in Kuwait. Funny how you can find very little information anaywhere about the "Highway of Death". It has been completely suppressed by the U.S. military. By any definition, it was a massacre and a war crime.

I refuse to be duped by the press and the outcry over "Srebrebinca" and to be spoon-fed the received wisdom as to what happened there.

Almost all accounts choose to ignore the context, exaggerate the losses and manipulate the conclusions.