"Bosnia pays respect to massacre victims" Associated Press July 10, 2014
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Hundreds of people turned out in Sarajevo’s main street Wednesday to pay respect to 175 victims of the Srebrenica massacre — Europe’s worst since World War II — as a truck carried their coffins to a final resting place.
The remains of the men and boys, found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis, will be buried Friday, the 19th anniversary of the massacre, next to 6,066 previously found victims.
As the coffins passed by, shielded by a canvas cloth, some tucked flowers in or caressed the canvas.
The eastern town of Srebrenica was a United Nations-protected area that was besieged by Serb forces throughout the 1992-95 war for Serb domination in Bosnia.
I suspect it is the exact opposite.
But UN troops offered no resistance when the Serbs overran the majority Muslim town on July 11, 1995, rounding up Srebrenica’s Muslims and killing over 8,000 men and boys. An international court later labeled the killings genocide.
I wonder how many Palestinians Israel has killed over the decades, as they continue the genocide to this very minute.
Workers are still excavating the victims’ bodies from hidden mass graves, and their job is made harder because those responsible often retrieved the bodies and relocated them to hide the crimes.
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So does the printed Boston Globe with two successive days of photographs:
"BOSNIA MASSACRE VICTIMS -- A Bosnian Muslim man searched Thursday for a relatives coffin among 175 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. A ceremony Friday will mark the 19th anniversary of the attack, in which Bosnian Serbs forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The remains of the 175 victims were found in about 60 mass graves near town (Boston Globe July 11 2014)."
"FRESH GRIEF IN BOSNIA -- In Srebrenica on Friday, three women wept near the coffin of a relative killed by Serb forces during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Many males in the besieged Muslim-majority town were massacred, despite having UN protection (Boston Globe July 12 2014)."
Actually, Dutch UN forces killed about 300 themselves.
What it took me a long time to get my head around was the fact that the Muslim angle had very little to do with the intervention. The whole thing boiled down to a recalcitrant Serbia failing to fall in line with the New World Order plans. The fact that it was a Muslim population also provided the Jewish media with an opportunity to show how impartial and fair they are. Never mind the insertion of Al-CIA-Duh militants that drove the Serbs back in 1995 and allowed the NATO powers to occupy the Balkans. Then came Kosovo.
Time to clear the court.
Related: Albanians Are Blessed
That leads us to Slovakia:
"Election in Slovenia boosts new party led by son of Olympian" Associated Press July 14, 2014
Sorry. I always get those confused.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — A party led by a political newcomer better known as the son of Slovenia’s famous Olympic medalist won the most votes Sunday in the second early election in three years, according to an exit poll.
The result meant potentially more uncertainty for a small eurozone nation struggling to pull out of an economic downturn.
Meaning the EU pooh-bahs didn't like the result.
Miro Cerar Party — named after its leader — won 36.9 percent of the ballot, while the opposition conservatives of former prime minister Janez Jansa were trailing with 19.2 percent, the poll released by Mediana agency said.
If confirmed, the result means Cerar will probably be the next prime minister but will have to form a coalition government with smaller parties. The 50-year-old law expert, son of Slovenia’s double Olympic medalist gymnast Miroslav Cerar, formed his party in June and it swiftly gained popularity because of his untainted public record.
Slovenian media described the result by Cerar as the best by a single party in Slovenia’s parliamentary history. Cerar said the success entailed ‘‘great responsibility.’’
‘‘The result is good,’’ he said. ‘‘It shows that people have chosen commitment to a different political culture that will not be divisive.’’
The poll showed the Pensioners Party with 9.7 percent, followed by the Social Democrats with 5.8 percent. A new leftist group, United Left, made it into Parliament with 7 percent. The party of outgoing Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek won 4.7 percent.
Sunday’s balloting was forced when Bratusek resigned in May after losing a power struggle within her own political party.
Cerar has ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the second-placed Slovene Democratic Party, whose leader Jansa was jailed last month for two years in a bribery case involving an arms deal.
Jansa has sought to portray himself as the victim of left-leaning political opponents.
His party questioned the legitimacy of Sunday’s vote.
If the Slovenians are happy with the results, so am I.
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