Dear Sir/Madam Herby, we invite You to read attached document which condemns proposition of the Serbian President Tadic on Srebrenica. Please feel free to comment.
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Bearing in mind that this petition shall be presented to the President next week please sign it and return to the sender as soon as possible.
My best regards,
Ana Milosevic
president
European Development Centre
Italy
Tel. +393896812729
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APPEAL TO PRESIDENT BORIS TADIĆ AND THE SERBIAN PARLIAMENT: DO NOT GAMBLE WITH YOUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE! NO TO THE SREBRENICA RESOLUTION.
Dear Mr. President and honorable deputies,
As concerned American and European Union intellectuals, we call on you to seriously reconsider the plan to adopt a parliamentary resolution that would treat the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 as a paradigmatic event of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in doing so to use language that could be interpreted as Serbia’s acceptance of responsibility for “genocide.”
The execution of Moslem prisoners in July of 1995, after Bosnian Serb forces took over Srebrenica, was a war crime, but it is by no means a paradigmatic event. The informed public in Western countries knows that, at that time, Serbian forces executed in three days approximately as many Moslems as Moslem forces, raiding surrounding Serbian villages out of Srebrenica, had murdered during the preceding three years. There is nothing to set one crime apart from the other, except that its commission was more condensed in time. In a vicious civil war, in which all sides commit crimes, all innocent victims are entitled to compassion but the victims of one ethnic group should have no special moral claim to unique recognition. Putting the suffering of one group on a pedestal necessarily derogates from the right of the other group – in this case Serbian non-combatants in the devastated villages surrounding the enclave of Srebrenica – to an equal measure of sympathy.
More importantly, the issue is still not settled what really happened in Srebrenica in July of 1995, why, and who was behind it. The accepted version of events, shaped mainly by war propaganda and hyperbolic media reports, is becoming increasingly obsolete because it is being vigorously questioned and reassessed by critical thinkers in the Western world. Much reliable information on these events is still unavailable and needs to be researched, but without it responsible conclusions on the nature and scope of the Srebrenica massacre cannot be drawn. Both the event’s alleged scope and its legal description as “genocide” are intensely in dispute. It would therefore be very unwise for Serbia and its parliament to formally commit themselves to a version of events that is thin on evidence but long on moral and political implications that are extremely detrimental to Serbia and its people.
We are also troubled by the prospect of Serbia and its parliament might accept the thesis that the massacre in Srebrenica, regrettable as it may be, amounts to “genocide.” That would unpardonably diminish genuine genocide as a phenomenon of the 20th century, of which the Holocaust of the Jewish people and the mass extermination campaigns against Armenians, Kurds, and the Roma are some outstanding examples.
We are concerned that the politicisation of human suffering and the frivolous usage of the grave legal category of genocide greatly cheapens these important concepts and constitutes an undeserved insult to innocent victims of political violence everywhere in the world.
Not only would Serbia, by an act of its own parliament, put itself in the same league with Nazi Germany if such a resolution were passed. It would also sanctify at Serbia’s extreme disadvantage a propaganda narrative whose key components are factually unsupported. It would implicitly endorse the view that the Republic of Srpska was built on genocide and thus endanger its further existence and play into the hands of those pressuring for the centralisation of Bosnia. Finally, it would expose Serbian taxpayers to the possibility of a multi billion euro suit for damages which they are ill equipped at the present moment to pay [and have no obligation to do so, for that matter].
For all these reasons, we appeal to you to refrain from passing the projected Srebrenica resolution. If you feel it your duty to perform an act of public compassion toward the victims of the Bosnian war, we recommend as the only proper method that you pass a single resolution, written in ethnically neutral language, encompassing all of the victims and honoring them equally.
Signed:
Addendum. Professor Edward Herman suggests the inclusion of the following points for the consideration of the Serbian authorities in formulating their resolution: “(1) When is the EU going to insist on an apology to Serbs from Croatia and the United States and UN for Operations Flash and Storm, which involved the greatest ethnic cleansing operations in the Balkan wars, and ones where, in contrast with others, the victims have never been able to return?; (2) when will the EU and NATO apologize to the Kosovo Serbs for the greatest „proportionate“ ethnic cleansing of the Yugoslav wars carried out under NATO auspices after June 10, 1999? (and to the Roma for their ethnic victimization in the same period?); (3) when will the EU and United States apologize for introducing Al Qaeda into Bosnia and Europe to fight (and behead) Serbs, as described in detail in „Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al Qaida, and the Rise of Global Jihad,“ by John R. Schindler, Professor at the U.S. National War College and former National Security Council specialist in Bosnia?”
Recipients are invited to sign on to this addendum also if they wish to do so.
Signed:
1) Ana Milosevic, President of the European Development Centre, Italy
Petition for the Serbian President BorisTadic – please sign and return (PDF)
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РАТКО МЛАДИЋ СПАСАВА МУСЛИМАНСКЕ ИЗБЕГЛИЦЕ ИЗ ЖЕПЕ!
This is preposterous!
The next step to be expected from this petition’s authors and signatories will probably be a motion to declare all the Nuremberg Trials’ verdicts void…
Peticija je generalno O.K., medjutim ne svidja mi se rec na samom pocetku: „Mi Americki i Evropski Intelektualci…“
Kao da su u Srebrnici i oko nje ginuli sve sami intelektualci,a ne obican narod,uglavnom seljaci.
Mnogo bre prepotentno nspisano,al’ opet je bolje ta peticija nego bas nista.
Sto se tice gornjeg komentara Nikole i on bre mnogo preteruje.Kakve sad ima veze Nirmberg sa Srebrnicom?!
U Srebrnici (i oko nje) je prvo ginuo Srpski narod,a njih ocigledno Zapad ignorise.Sve ostalo je naislo posle toga.Koliko je zaista tamo stradalo muslimana i to je veliko znak pitanja.Muslimanski zlocinci na celu sa Oricem su se izvukli tako da je najverovatnije stradala muslimanska sitna buranija.
Nikola bi mozda mogao samo da poredi Nirmberg sa Hagom,a ni tu tome nije mesto jer u Hagu uglavnom stradaju Srbi na pravdi Boga dok su u Nirmbergu su bili nacististicki zlocinci i njihovi pobednici/sudije.
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