Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic Arrested

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M. Spector M. Spector's picture

Thanks for that link, NDPP!

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Mladić’s judges would make a real service to justice for mankind if they avoid the tautologies and absurdities above. To do this, they need to try and answer, calmly and without bias, a whole series of questions that have accumulated over the last 16 years:
- Why were the Muslim forces of Naser Orić allowed to use the demilitarized zone of Srebrenica, between 1992 and 1995 as a base for their murderous forays into the surrounding Serb villages, directly under the eyes of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion?
- Why did the ICTY release Naser Orić without investigating the well-documented - by a medical examiner - massacre of 3,250 Serbs in the vicinity of Srebrenica?
- What is the value of the testimony of key witness Dražen Erdemović, a Croatian mercenary, released in exchange for his damning testimony - unsupported by the facts - of mass executions of Muslim prisoners?
- Why did the United States, via the voice of Madeleine Albright, wait until August 10th 1995 to "reveal" the massacre of Srebrenica, even though they claimed to have taken satellite photographs of the crime in real time?
- Why have these images never been shown?
- What is link between the press conference on 10 August, which focused world attention on Srebrenica, and "Operation Storm", which was initiated in neighbouring Croatia on August 4, in which a similar number of Serbs, including women and children, were murdered or disappeared?

Catchfire Catchfire's picture

swallow, thank you for labouring to provide a feminist analysis to this thread. It's appreciated and insightful.

Catchfire Catchfire's picture

Yes, of course. Did swallow disavow that? I read swallow as asking where the lived experience of women is in these narratives of war provided by American generals et al. Surely a needful voice when women are often the first victims of such conflicts? I missed swallow's support of imperialist hegemony, and instead see a request for a fuller picture. Why does that threaten your presentation of the "facts"?

ETA. Sorry: "facts"  

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

Swallow attacks the veracity of the facts set out by Edward Herman by relying on a website devoted to shoring up the imperialist narrative of evil communist Serbs versus the poor, helpless Bosniaks.

Nothing insightful about that.

Catchfire Catchfire's picture

Yes, and you simplify your just condemnation of Western war crimes by ignoring the voices of women.

You know, Spector, I pine for the day when allowing some feminist thinking into your analysis makes it richer, rather than angrier.

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

Thank you for your insightful contributions to this thread.

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

What feminist analysis? It's a disagreement over the [b]facts[/b].

Any worthwhile feminist analysis would acknowledge that narratives of protection of women and children are today commonly used to manufacture consent for "humanitarian" wars to advance imperialist hegemony. They were used in Bosnia; they were used in Kosovo; they were used in Iraq (remember ripping babies out of incubators?); and they are used in Afghanistan. ETA: and of course, [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/29/diplomat-gaddafi-troops-viag...

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M. Spector wrote:

Thanks for that link, NDPP!

[excerpt:]

Mladić’s judges would make a real service to justice for mankind if they avoid the tautologies and absurdities above. To do this, they need to try and answer, calmly and without bias, a whole series of questions that have accumulated over the last 16 years:
- Why were the Muslim forces of Naser Orić allowed to use the demilitarized zone of Srebrenica, between 1992 and 1995 as a base for their murderous forays into the surrounding Serb villages, directly under the eyes of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion?
- Why did the ICTY release Naser Orić without investigating the well-documented - by a medical examiner - massacre of 3,250 Serbs in the vicinity of Srebrenica?
- What is the value of the testimony of key witness Dražen Erdemović, a Croatian mercenary, released in exchange for his damning testimony - unsupported by the facts - of mass executions of Muslim prisoners?
- Why did the United States, via the voice of Madeleine Albright, wait until August 10th 1995 to "reveal" the massacre of Srebrenica, even though they claimed to have taken satellite photographs of the crime in real time?
- Why have these images never been shown?
- What is link between the press conference on 10 August, which focused world attention on Srebrenica, and "Operation Storm", which was initiated in neighbouring Croatia on August 4, in which a similar number of Serbs, including women and children, were murdered or disappeared?

Looks like Ratko Mladic is going to suffer a quiet and mysterious death by 'natural' causes while in custody just like Slobodan Milosovich:

He knows too many 'wrong' things about the 'wrong' people.

I mean, after all, we already have on record claims by his lawyer that he is in ill health.

How convenient.

Don't you think?

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