Wednesday 20 March 2019

Karadzic

Radovan Karadzic (remember him?), erstwhile leader of the Bosnian Serbs, has been sentenced to life in prison on appeal to his previous conviction for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. The sentence is an increase from the 40 years handed down at the original trial. Karadzic is now 73, so will spend the rest of his life behind bars. It's a pity that (thus far) only RT.com is the sole English-language news provider to carry that news. I'm not relaying their link, due to bias in their reporting. Referring to the Srebrenica massacre in quotation marks amounts to bias in my book.
Only NOS.nl has an unbiased report, but that channel reports in Dutch.

One of the worst war crimes that Karadzic was involved in was the massacre of 7,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. A supposed safe UN-enclave in Bosnian Serb territory, the male Moslim population was taken away, under the noses of and without resistance from (and with coerced assistance by) the Dutch UN forces. The Dutch were blamed for this. Maybe so. But it was the UN who were at fault for providing peashooters against tanks; and the Bosnian Serbs and their military commander Ratko Mladic who organised and perpetrated the killings.

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