As a humanitarian organization, SANE condemns all crimes. Nevertheless, since the international press has not demonstrated ample objectivity during the civil war in Bosnia (1992-1995), this archive will present those articles that help construct a more complete truth, thereby leading to a better understanding of the conflict which is imperative for durable peace.

Making Peace with the Guilty, By Charles G. Boyd, © Foreign Affairs Journal, Sept/Oct 1995.
The difference between the factions in Bosnia is not morality, as the Bosnian Muslims and Western press insist, but power and opportunity. All have the same goal: to avoid living as a minority. All have committed crimes against other ethnic groups. Despite its claims of neutrality and preaching against military solutions, the United States has favored the Bosnian Muslims, keeping silent as they launched offensives from U.N.-guarded safe areas.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/index/issues/journals/facontents/9-10-95.html

Remembering my brother Steve Tesich, Oscar winning movie director, By Nadja Tesich, 1995.
Consider the following quote: "Genocide is a natural phenomenon, in harmony with the societal and mythologically divine nature. Genocide is not only permitted, it is recommended, even commanded by the word of the Almighty, whenever it is useful for the survival or the restoration of the kingdom of the chosen nation, or for the preservation or spreading of its one and only correct faith." Hitler? Pol Pot? Some local crackpot white supremacist? No, the author of this sentiment is Franjo Tudjman and the quote is from his book Wastelands of Historical Reality. He is the same Franjo Tudjman that the American media has embraced as a democratically elected president of the "freedom loving" state of Croatia. Let us consider another quote from another source: "There can be no peace or co-existence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith and institutions...The Islamic movement must and can take power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough, not only to destroy the non-Islamic power, but to build up a new Islamic one..." Ayatollah Khomeini? Some Hezbollah terrorist? Colonel Khadaffi? No, the author is Alija Izetbegovic and the quote is from his work Islamic Declaration, the same Alija Izetbegovic who is seen by the American media as a very model of a liberal democrat presiding over the liberal democracy of Muslim Bosnia.
http://www.srpska-mreza.com/tesich/consider.htm
Bosnian Muslim war crime suspects handed over, By Christopher Lockwood, © Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 6/14/1996.
Two Bosnian Muslims charged with war crimes by the UN tribunal were yesterday transferred from Sarajevo to The Hague for trial. Delic and Landzo, who will appear in court on Tuesday, are accused of sadistic atrocities against Bosnian Serbs in the Bosnian government prison camp at Celebici, southern Bosnia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002575848746865&rtmo=kL1JkCCp&atmo=
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Bosnia War crimes guard says followed orders, By Christine Lucassen, © Reuters, 07/28/98.
United Nations prosecutors charge that Esad Landzo was directly involved in the torture and murder of Serbs at the jointly operated Bosnian Moslem and Bosnian Croat Celebici camp in central Bosnia in 1992.
http://www.suc.org/politics/tribunal_watch/html/reuters072898.html

Senior official admits to secret U.N. report on Sarajevo massacre,
© Deutsche Presse-Agentur, June 6, 1996
For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994 massacre of Moslems at a Sarajevo market.
http://suc.suc.org/politics/papers/civil_war/960606.da.html

Horror of Ahmici slaughter haunts British colonel, By Caroline Davies, © Daily (Electronic) Telegraph, 1/15/2000.
It was on April 22, 1993, that Col. Bob Stewart led a British patrol into the village of Ahmici in the Lasva valley in Bosnia. As commander of the 1st Bn the Cheshire Regiment, the first British battalion to move into Bosnia, his job was to persuade the warring Croat and Muslim factions to stop fighting. "I was directed to Ahmici by some Muslim soldiers who told me that the Bosnian Croats had massacred women, children and babies down in the valley below"…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002575848746865&rtmo=aNRpaHaL&atmo=
tttttttd&pg=/et/00/1/15/wbos115.html

How ITN reported the massacre firsthand, ITN, 1/14/2000
Five Bosnian Croats have been jailed for up to 25 years each in one of the biggest War Crimes ever. A UN Court in The Hague found them guilty of one of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian War - the horrific murder of more than 100 Moslem men, women and children in the village of Ahmici.
http://www.itn.co.uk/World/world20000114/011408w.htm

UN court raises sentence for Bosnian Croat, © Reuters, published in Toronto Star, 3/24/2000.
The UN war crimes court raised the sentence of a former Bosnian Croat prison commander to seven years today saying his original term reflected neither his position of authority nor the gravity of his crimes.
http://www.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/updates/intlnews/200003250_CROATIA-WARC.html

Croatia turns over suspect to UN tribunal, By Snjezana Vukic,
© Associated Press, 3/22/2000
After delaying more than two years, Croatia handed over a prominent Bosnian Croat war crimes suspect to the UN tribunal yesterday to face charges for atrocities allegedly committed against Muslims during the Bosnian war.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/082/nation/Croatia_turns_over_suspect_to_
UN_tribunal+.shtml

Croatian General Is Given 45 Years For War Crimes, By Anne Swardson, © Washington Post Foreign Service, A11, 03/04/2000.
Tihomir Blaskic, a Croatian general accused of overseeing the killings of hundreds of civilians during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, was found guilty today by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague and sentenced to 45 years in prison – the toughest penalty handed down by the court in its 6 1/2-year history.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-03/04/074r-030400-idx.html

Torture In the Camps For Serbs In The Former Bosnia-Herzegovina, By Committee for the Collection of Data on Crimes Committed against Humanity and International Law, 3/15/1995
Serb victims of Croato-Muslim detention camps were examined. The data presented here must be interpreted very tentatively, as a rather small number of detainees have been examined by the above Team relative to the total number of detainees. The examined victims agreed to undergo examination on a voluntary basis, reported of their own free will on their discomfort and made observations which we have reported on. In our talks with them, we established that a large number of detainees did not wish to recall the period they had spent in the camps, nor to undergo medical examination. This applied in particular to raped women. Complying with the humane and ethical principles of our profession, we have not referred to such cases in our report. Thus, the report covers only 2 cases of women who have spent a while in detention camps (in Herzegovina) of which just one agreed to speak out about the rapes she had been subjected to.
http://suc.suc.org/~kosta/tar/izvestaji/rep-tortureforserbs.html

The Hague Tribunal: Bad Justice, Worse Politics, by Srdjan Trifkovic* [* An abbreviated version of this article was published in © The Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture in August 1996.], Keynote Speech at the S.B.A. Annual Scholarship Ball Union League Club, Chicago; June 7,1996.
This article seeks to provide evidence that the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is a misnomer: it has proven to be neither a "tribunal" – meaning a forum of impartial justice – nor is it concerned with "war crimes" – understood as gross violations of certain norms of war, regardless of the identity of culprits and victims. After the decline of higher cynicism in the name Human Progress we now witness the ascent of higher cynicism in the name of Human Rights. It is the New World Order's posthumous tribute to Felix Dzherzhinsky.
http://srpska-mreza.com/library/hague/st-hague.html

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