tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post18019433296556558..comments2024-02-16T22:14:46.997-05:00Comments on Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: From Sarajevo: Listening to the President of Bosnia HerzegovinaDeborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-77960179602439745812009-01-06T00:53:00.000-05:002009-01-06T00:53:00.000-05:00The Dutch Bn didn't protect Muslims. That's becaus...The Dutch Bn didn't protect Muslims. That's because they had all they could do to protect themselves from Muslims. One Dutch soldier was killed by a Muslim dropping a hand grenade into his vehicle. The press at the time was full of photos of the evacuation. The evacuation of women and children was also filmed and aired on TV. I watched on satellite. An anonymous witness allegedly says Serb soldier slit Muslim baby's throat in Srebrenica. Sure, sure. Anonymous witnesses also testified that Jews in 1475 kidnapped, tortured and murdered a Christian boy in Trento (Italy), and mixed his blood with the Pesach matzoth. --Contrary to stated policy, Dr Lipstadt's blog prints anonymous material.J P Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16923688266188717513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-65816247171630373472007-07-11T13:20:00.000-04:002007-07-11T13:20:00.000-04:00ETA: Of course, the responsiblity for committing g...ETA: Of course, the responsiblity for committing genocide lies squarely on the shoulders of the Command of the VRS.<BR/><BR/>It is perhaps a rather obvious point; but one that should be made.<BR/><BR/>BTW: If you get the chance, would you be able to summerize the presentations and papers given at the conference; I'm hoping that at least a few of them will be published online.Shainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04254890410995215990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-87027166569389958882007-07-11T12:00:00.000-04:002007-07-11T12:00:00.000-04:00I think the entire issue of bystanders is an inter...I think the entire issue of bystanders is an interesting one. Forgive my ignorance, but have you written in articles or published any materials regarding the bystander phenomenon?<BR/><BR/>With regards to Srebrenica, Dutchbat are very much emblematic of the bystander issue; however, I also think that it was as much a failure of the entire premise of the peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and the international system. And the issue of the Safe Areas which were created under the understandable and laudatory aim of preventing mass deaths to civilians in the enclaves; but there was no real will on the part of the international community to defend them. This isn't to lessen the guilt of the Dutchbat commanders; just to point out that Dutchbat was one part (albeit an essential part) of the international community that failed the people in Srebrenica.<BR/><BR/>Side note: One of the best representations of the bystander phenonom I've seen has been the "Ghosts of Rwanda" by Frontline PBS which shows how the bureaucracy of the US government became a bystander to genocide.Shainahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04254890410995215990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-91237419516215112442007-07-11T00:25:00.000-04:002007-07-11T00:25:00.000-04:00Deborah,Survivors of Bosniaks killed in Srebrenica...Deborah,<BR/><BR/>Survivors of Bosniaks killed in Srebrenica are suing the Dutch government and the United Nations for damages, on the grounds that UN peacekeepers failed to adequately protect the population.<BR/><BR/>You can read about it in Der Speiegel:<BR/><BR/>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,486755,00.html<BR/><BR/>Quote from Der Spiegel's eyewitness accounts:<BR/><BR/>"...The Serbs began to 'march girls and young women away from the group of refugees. They were raped.' ....A Dutch soldier stood by and watched as the women were raped, even listening to music on his Walkman.... A Serb, says Subasic, 'told the mother to make the child stop crying. But when the baby continued to cry, he took it from the mother and slit its throat. Then he laughed. A Dutch soldier also witnessed the murder of the baby, she says, and yet he "didn't react at all"..."acadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09481124804569902861noreply@blogger.com