Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 07/17/2005 - 00:49.
Roger Lippman of Balkan Witness sends the following commentary:
You write:
Herman's secondary argument (more explicit if no more honest) is that the bodies said to be those of the Srebrenica victims have been unearthed from several mass graves around eastern Bosnia rather than a single giant mass grave at Srebrenica. A look at the ICMP website would tell Herman this was due to Serb commanders ordering bodies exhumed and reburied at scattered sites to hide evidence of the crime. Maybe this hasn't been conclusively proven, but it shows Herman's bad faith that he doesn't even mention it.
It's worse than this. First, the massacre took place in a widely dispersed area. Victims have been found buried most of the way to Sarajevo as well as all over the Srebrenica area. And the reburial in secondary graves has been conclusively proven. As the RS [Serb Republic] Commission Report and the ICMP note, excavation and reburial led to what is known as commingling of remains; the bones are mixed up, and parts of the same body are often found in two or even three different grave sites. The fact that parts of individual bodies are sometimes found in multiple mass graves is, by itself, convincing evidence of reburial. The RS Srebrenica Commission Report of 2004 states that RS investigators visited 29 secondary and tertiary mass graves. (Preliminary report, p. 23) Furthermore, some of the perpetrators themselves have described moving the evidence to secondary graves. (See confession of Momir Nikolic, section 13.) Also see David Rohde on spy planes spotting heavy equipment in Sept, and graves dug up in 1996 - Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica p 342-3.
Roger also directs us to the Deniers of Serbia's War Crimes page on his website which includes a shameful litany of other genocide-apologists on the supposed "left."
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
"Its worse than this."
Roger Lippman of Balkan Witness sends the following commentary:
Roger also directs us to the Deniers of Serbia's War Crimes page on his website which includes a shameful litany of other genocide-apologists on the supposed "left."