Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Serbian Cook-Out

Sometimes I wonder if the Globe is monitoring me!

I mean, I just
post a piece and the very next day:

"Bosnian Serbs convicted of killings" by Associated Press | July 21, 2009

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A United Nations war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins yesterday for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

Yugoslav war crimes tribunal judge Patrick Robinson said burning at least 119 Muslims to death in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad “exemplified the worst acts of inhumanity that one person may inflict on others.’’

Robinson said Milan Lukic was the ringleader in both incidents, helping herd victims into the houses, setting the fires and shooting those who fled the flames.

Another war crime: Afghan Massacre - The Convoy of Death

When you taking that one up, UN?

Witnesses “vividly remembered the terrible screams of the people in the house,’’ Robinson said, adding that Milan Lukic used the butt of his rifle to herd people into the house, saying, “Come on, let’s get as many people inside as possible.’’

So what happens if you drop white phosphorous on people?

The victims ranged from 2 days old to 75. Milan Lukic shook his head but looked unmoved as Robinson pronounced sentence. Sredoje Lukic leaned back in his chair, his face blank. Robinson, a veteran judge at the tribunal that has prosecuted Balkan war crimes for 15 years, sounded stunned by the atrocities.

“In the all-too-long, sad, and wretched history of man’s inhumanity to man, the Pionirska street and Bikavac fires must rank high,’’ he said.

Oh, man! MILLIONS have been MURDERED in AFRICA, IRAQ, VIETNAM, etc, etc, and the puke U.N. judge is engaging in this hyperbole? Who can take the ICC seriously now?

Prosecutors seeking to clear the court’s docket had asked for the case to be handed to a Bosnian court because the cousins were relatively low-ranking suspects. But tribunal judges refused, saying the allegations were so serious they should be handled in The Hague....

So when to Bliar and Bush stand trial, 'eh?

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