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Mehmedalija Beganovic's Sister.

Who is responsible for the Srebrenica massacre?
These killings were perpetrated by units of the army of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić, supported by a paramilitary team from Serbia, the Scorpions, in a town declared a “safe zone” by the United Nations (UN).

Twenty years ago, the Serbian forces commanded by General Mladić seized the town of Srebrenica and executed in cold blood some eight thousand men and teenagers whose very survival hampered the project of ethnic cleansing of the territories of late Yugoslavia, which started in 1991 in Croatia and whose implementation continued, from 1992, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two international judicial bodies – the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice – have since qualified this massacre as genocide. Along with Rwanda, Srebrenica symbolizes one of the most painful chapters in the history of Western diplomacy at the end of the last century.
The Serbian leaders of the time and the forces under their command are the culprits of this barbarism. But beyond this primary responsibility, there is that of the international community. The failure of the United Nations in Srebrenica is obviously that of the States within the Security Council, in the first rank of which France, the United Kingdom and the United States were all involved in the settlement of the conflict. The thing is heard. However, the three great powers have declined all responsibility, conceding only that they have made mistakes. Those of having considered neither the hypothesis of the capture of Srebrenica nor that of the mass graves and not given themselves the means to avert the return of the genocide to Europe.
For the first time in history, the United Nations Security Council authorized using force to protect the populations promised to abuse in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including through NATO planes.

Description

Mehmedalija Beganovic's Sister.

Who is responsible for the Srebrenica massacre?
These killings were perpetrated by units of the army of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić, supported by a paramilitary team from Serbia, the Scorpions, in a town declared a “safe zone” by the United Nations (UN).

Twenty years ago, the Serbian forces commanded by General Mladić seized the town of Srebrenica and executed in cold blood some eight thousand men and teenagers whose very survival hampered the project of ethnic cleansing of the territories of late Yugoslavia, which started in 1991 in Croatia and whose implementation continued, from 1992, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two international judicial bodies – the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice – have since qualified this massacre as genocide. Along with Rwanda, Srebrenica symbolizes one of the most painful chapters in the history of Western diplomacy at the end of the last century.
The Serbian leaders of the time and the forces under their command are the culprits of this barbarism. But beyond this primary responsibility, there is that of the international community. The failure of the United Nations in Srebrenica is obviously that of the States within the Security Council, in the first rank of which France, the United Kingdom and the United States were all involved in the settlement of the conflict. The thing is heard. However, the three great powers have declined all responsibility, conceding only that they have made mistakes. Those of having considered neither the hypothesis of the capture of Srebrenica nor that of the mass graves and not given themselves the means to avert the return of the genocide to Europe.
For the first time in history, the United Nations Security Council authorized using force to protect the populations promised to abuse in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including through NATO planes.