The Scars
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Radislav Krstic (top)
Ratko Mladic (middle) Radovan Karadzic (bottom) |
The InjusticeThe sudden lost of 8,000 Muslims, loved by family and friends, affected the Bosnian community greatly. The were only left with the memories and the suffering.
Finally when the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) decided to rule the genocide for what it was, a genocide. The ICTY had found and tried Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav leader, and his two chiefs in Bosnia, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic. "Of the three Bosnian Serbs so far tried for genocide by the ICTY, two have been acquitted; the third, Radislav Krstic, the general accused of orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre, has had his genocide conviction overturned on appeal."(1) Mr. Krstic had been given a sentences of 45 years in prison but in later trails got his sentences reduced due to "no evidence that Mr. Krstic ordered the killings or directly participated in them."(2) It had taken five years for charges to be made on any general who participated in the genocide. This women then speaks up about the injustice not just brought upon her departed loved one. "As both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times reported, a group of women in Srebrenica, watching the delivery of the verdict on television, had nothing but contempt for the court's decision. One woman spat at the TV screen and another shouted, "For 10,000 of our sons, only 46 years! His people have ripped my son from my arms."(2) |
Created by Viky Villanueva