Sunday, May 10, 2009

MONUMENT TO 1600 SARAJEVO CHILDREN KILLED BY SERBIAN TERRORISTS

PHOTO: Bosnian girls lay flowers at a newly inaugurated memorial to children of Sarajevo, Saturday, May 9, 2009. The memorial is dedicated to the children of Sarajevo who were killed by the Bosnian Serb troops during the 43-months siege of Bosnia's capital during which more than 12,000 people, including more than 1,600 children, were killed.

Several thousand residents in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo have turned out to the unveiling of a commemoration monument for children. During the three-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, Serb terrorists under the command of Gen. Stanislav Galic and Dragomir Milosevic killed almost 1600 children in Sarajevo. Most of Sarajevo children were killed by snipers fired from the mountains surrounding the city.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted two Serb generals of numerous crimes against humanity, including on terror charges, in their conduct of the siege. Serb Gen. Stanislav Galic and Gen. Dragomir Milosevic were found guilty on terrorist charges and sentenced to life imprisonment and 33 years imprisonment, respectively.

The monument consists of a glass unfinished sand castle in the shape of a pyramid. It symbolises the play of children being cut short by death. The pyramid has partially been made from the spent cartridges that were found in the city after the war.

The Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the self-proclaimed Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army (later to become the Army of Serbia and Montenegro) besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 5, 1992 to February 29, 1996 during the Bosnian War.

PHOTO: Bosnian children throw flowers into the Miljacka river from a bridge where the first civilian victim of Sarajevo's 1992-1995 siege was killed April 6, 2009. The Bosnian capital marks each April 6 as the anniversary date of the beginning of its devastating siege.
After Bosnia and Herzegovina had declared independence from Yugoslavia the Serbs - whose strategic goal was to create a new Serbian State of Republika Srpska (RS) that would include the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina - encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 18,000 stationed in the surrounding hills, from which they assaulted the city with weapons that included artillery, mortars, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, heavy machine-guns, multiple rocket launchers, rocket-launched aircraft bombs, and sniper rifles. From May 2, 1992, the Serbs blockaded the city.

The Bosnian government defence forces were poorly equipped and unable to break the siege. More than 12,000 civilians were killed during the Sarajevo siege. The three-and-a-half year war claimed at least 100,000 lives, and 2.2 million people were forced to flee.


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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

GEORGE BUSH WANTS SREBRENICA GENOCIDE FUGITIVES ARRESTED AND PUNISHED

Did you know?

In January 2008, President George W. Bush signed the U.S. Genocide Accountability Act to help the U.S. Law Enforcements deal with Srebrenica genocide fugitives hiding in the United States.

The new legislation filled a critical gap in the law by permitting the U.S. government to prosecute people in the United States who are believed to have committed genocide abroad.

"By passing the Genocide Accountability Act of 2007, Congress has struck a major blow against the impunity that sustains perpetrators of ghastly crimes. From now on, those who have violated the basic code of humanity will know they cannot find sanctuary here," said Diane Orentlicher, currently Special Counsel to the Open Society Institute and professor at American University's Washington College of Law.

Learn more by reading the full article at this link...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

BUSH'S KOSOVO WATCH NOT STOLEN, NOT MISSING

STOLEN WATCH STORY 'LUDICROUS' SAYS BUSH; SERBIAN PROPAGANDA AT WORK AGAIN

PHOTO: President Bush shows off his watch in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, where he announced that Ed Gillespie will be the new counselor to the president. Gillespie, a Republican strategist and former head of the national party, is replacing Dan Bartlett as White House counselor. Earlier this week, the president's watch disappeared while being greeted by a crowd in Albania. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

WASHINGTON - President Bush wants the story of his vanishing watch to disappear. Video coverage of Bush's wild stop in Albania over the weekend showed that Bush's watch seemed to disappear from his wrist as he greeted the locals. That led Albanian and U.S. media — and buzzing Web sites — to raise questions about whether the watch had been swiped.

The White House said the watch was not stolen, and that Bush instead had put it in his pocket.

Just to prove the point, Bush showed he was wearing a watch in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photographers captured the moment. "I have never seen such a ludicrous story," Bush said of the media's coverage. "Unbelievable."

Later, spokesman Tony Snow confirmed, "That is, in fact, the watch he was wearing in Albania."

The bit of mystery happened near the end of Bush's eight-day trip to Europe.

He was met by a rapturous crowd of people in Fushe Kruje, 15 miles north of Tirana, in Albania. People grabbed him by the arms and wrists, and even ruffled his hair. Bush was clearly delighted by the attention. He was the first U.S. president to visit the country.

PHOTO: US President George W. Bush (C) blows kiss to Albanians from his SUV as he departs a cultural event in Tirana. Bush, making the first visit to Albania by a US leader, insisted it was time to press ahead with independence for Kosovo, despite the strenuous objections of Russia.
(AFP/Jim Watson)

/ Originally published at Yahoo News! Wed Jun 13, 2:22 PM ET /

Bush's message also published at major media outlets:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jun13/0,4670,BushapossWatch,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281914,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6706581,00.html