Here's an article about some fine Christian activity in the Bosnia-Etc
sector. You'll notice that the victims are called Moslems but the
delusional and murderous folks are called Serbs, not Christians.
Everyone knows or should know that the hellish murders perpetrated in
the Bosnia-Etc arena are the natural outcome of delusional beliefs such
as Christianity. It is even more clear just how deluded and immoral
Christians are when they cannot bring themselves to tell or face the
truth about the various holocausts they have inspired.
It is rather stomache-turning to see allegedly neutral journalists sterilizing
their stories to ignore the unpleasant fact that it is a religious event that
is described, not a political one. We wouldn't want to offend the insane now
would we?
Sincerely,
FEATURE-Blood-red lake laps above mass execution site
SREBRENICA, Bosnia, May 4 (Reuters) - The deep red water of the reservoir laps
against its shores like blood, staining the sand-coloured stone of the dam
which holds it back.
Dyed by the residue from a nearby copper mine, the waters of this lake fit its
location in a gruesome way.
For down below, on the face of the dam wall, experts are slowly peeling away
another layer of the bloody history of the Bosnian war.
Sifting through stones and soil, they are looking for evidence of a mass
execution which took place here on July 14, 1995.
Hundreds of Moslem men are believed to have met their death here at the hands
of Serb gunmen, after being taken from the town of Srebrenica in eastern
Bosnia when it fell to the Serbs.
Investigators working for the International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia have come to collect evidence to present at trial against those
deemed responsible for this and other massacres.
If Bosnia's most wanted men, former Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former
leader Radovan Karadzic, ever come to trial, this evidence will be among that
brought against them.
ASSAULT ON A ``SAFE AREA''
Srebrenica had been declared a U.N. ``safe area'' in April 1993 and tens of
thousands of Moslems sought refuge there after fleeing Serb advances elsewhere
in eastern Bosnia.
On July 11, 1995, Serb forces overran the town and the Dutch United Nations
peacekeepers who were stationed there were unable to prevent the worst
massacre of the war.
Women and children were loaded on to buses and taken out of the town. Some
8,000 men are still missing and presumed dead.
The Brnice Dam lies about an hour's drive from the hilly mining town of
Srebrenica, at the top of a small valley just a few kilometres (miles) from
the Drina river border with Yugoslavia.
The dam is surrounded by rolling green hills and the ugly aluminium factory
which now lies derelict and abandoned lower down the valley is hidden from
view. Trees hang heavy with spring blossom and frogs croak insistently in
nearby ponds.
The dig at Brnice Dam is the first to be carried out this year relating to the
fall of Srebrenica, and several other sites will be exhumed during the summer.
In preparation work for the dig, investigators found some 1,500 spent shell
cases scattered over the dam.
Beside the gaping hole they have now dug stand several blue buckets used to
collect bones found in the grave. Skulls have been found, as well as shoes and
clothing.
AT LEAST ONE SURVIVOR
``They have found archaeological and forensic evidence that shows this is a
disturbed site. That raises the question of why somebody would be motivated to
disturb the site,'' said U.N. spokeswoman Kelly Moore at the dig.
``We have found some good solid evidence that we think is going to help not
only the investigation but also the prosecution of the case.''
Exhumations are conducted where the tribunal believes significant evidence can
be obtained in support of either existing or potential indictments. Such
evidence would be used to corroborate eyewitness testimony in court.
Moore would not say how the site was discovered, but it is believed there is
at least one survivor of the massacre at Brnice Dam.
In 1996 the prosecutor's office at the tribunal exhumed four mass graves
linked to massacres allegedly committed by the Bosnian Serb army following its
capture of Srebrenica.
Experts recovered 450 bodies from those graves, most of whom died from
multiple gunshot wounds. Some were found with their hands bound and a number
had been blindfolded prior to execution, the tribunal said.
The exhumation programme slowed down last year primarily because of a lack of
funding. However, after donations from five countries amounting to $3 million,
the programme for 1998 is extensive.
``The exhumations are projected to continue in northeast Bosnia throughout the
summer. We hope that there is still considerable evidence to be gathered to
assist the prosecutor's office,'' said U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Liam
MacDowell.
SERB VILLAGERS UNMOVED
Some 50 experts involved in the digs are not allowed to talk to reporters, but
the team includes archaeologists, anthropologists, pathologists and forensic
experts.
Experts in evidence collection from Britain's Scotland Yard and from the Dutch
police have also been made available to strengthen the team.
At Brnice Dam a digger is used to lift the soil and the experts watch as earth
falls from its bucket, picking out any bones or other bits of evidence they
see.
The grave looks to be some 70 to 100 square metres (yards) and the site is
speckled with bits of orange tape which mark the location of shell cases and
other pieces of evidence.
Though secluded at the top of the valley, the plateau on the dam wall where
the execution took place is only a few hundred metres (yards) from the nearest
village.
At the first house on the road as you drive away from the dam, a young woman
and her family claim to know nothing of what happened there on that July day,
and say they don't care anyway.
Hanging out carpets to dry on their garden fence, these Serb refugees who came
to the village in 1992 are unmoved by any mention of an execution, or by the
work going on at the dam.
As United Nations vehicles trundle up and down past their house the young
woman simply says: ``They're just doing a job. We don't care, we don't know
anything, we're not interested.''
EVIDENCE OF HELL REMAINS ALL AROUND
Back in Srebrenica the Serb refugees who now live there glare angrily at a
foreign car as it drives through the one-street town -- the only vehicle
moving in the place.
Young men play football outside a school were Moslems once camped and where
blood was found splattered on the walls after an alleged massacre. The
spotlights surrounding the pitch look at first glance like prison watchtowers.
All around evidence of the hell which visited this place three years ago
remains.
Burnt out windows gape darkly in blocks of flats whose walls are scorched and
scarred by shell holes.
Shops stand empty with fruit rotting in crates on the pavements. Wrecked cars
line the streets and bored kids burn rubbish on a piece of scrubby wasteland.
This scruffy, forlorn little town will forever be synonymous with tragedy. But
the experts sifting the soil at Brnice Dam are determined someone will account
for it. ^REUTERS@
21:32 05-03-98
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