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...basic details of the massacre all well-known in the wider world, and have recently been reprised in great detail during the ongoing trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague. On July 11, 1995, Serb forces overran the small eastern Bosnian town, which they had kept under siege for more than three years. Less than a week later, over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims taken prisoner, many just teenage boys, were dead, their bodies dumped in deep forests surrounding the enclave. Even today, some two thirds of the victims remain unaccounted for, buried in mass graves...
...truth that many Serbs continue to avoid is that Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and other Bosnian Serb warlords could have never have accomplished their ethnic cleansing campaigns, the brutal siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre, without troops and equipment from Serbia. Thousands of Serbian police and military officers, thinly disguised as "volunteers", were put on Mladic's disposal by former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, and they were more than willing executioners...
Zainab Salbi was a terrified teenager in Baghdad during the war between Iran and Iraq. Bombs routinely fell around her house. Years later, as a 23-year-old student at George Mason University in Virginia, she read a TIME article about the systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers, and it moved her to action. "I grew up in a war, so I was drawn to suffering," she says. Within six months, having raised $2,000 with the help of a local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women...
...these, 40 civilians were shot or clubbed to death and dumped in a ditch not far from Haradinaj's home village, in a region nominally under his control. In another case, following a Roma wedding party, several women were raped and four men shot to death. Though Serbian authorities have long accused Haradinaj of war crimes and demanded he be removed from office, no evidence linking him to these crimes has ever been made public. A Serb war-crimes court last month brought charges against Anton Lekaj, a close associate of Haradinaj's, in the Roma wedding case...
...created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled to that city more than a dozen times to help focus world attention on Serbian atrocities. To lift morale, she even directed a production there of Waiting for Godot. The exhausted locals would probably have preferred Cats, but her heart was in the right place...