A brutal clip reminding us of the events in Sarajevo

[ed_]

 

Polish soldier of the rank of major is performing at 1:30.

More info: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/70f6943856ee7cc653a1950c0bf986fc

 

Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, a former UN observer says that members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, held him in detention for 18 days in 1995.

Hague Prosecution witness Janusz Kalbarczyk, a former United Nations military observer, recalled having heard “airplanes shelling the Pale area” on May 26, 1995, adding he was captured by VRS members a short time later.

“Ten minutes later three military policemen arrived by car at our command post in the vicinity of Pale. They ordered us to put our hands up and told us we were arrested. They then threatened us by saying they would shoot us if NATO conducted new air strikes,” Kalbarczyk said.

(...)

Radovan Karadzic, former President of Republika Srpska and Supreme Commander of its armed forces, is charged with taking part in a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of capturing UN peacekeepers and forcing NATO to restrain from conducting air strikes on military and strategic targets held by Bosnian Serbs.

Karadzic is on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war, as well as the capture of more than two hundred UN staff in the period from May 26 to June 19, 1995.

 

More info: https://balkaninsight.com/2011/02/01/karadzic-trial-hostages-as-human-shields/

 

.....................

 

On the picture there is an old tenement house with numerous traces of bullets, similarly there are also numerous blocks of flats from the Yugoslavian times.

 

 

 

Photos from 2019.

 

 

 

@Stryder, you must remember that.  You have been there. Tell us more if you want.

 

 

[wolverine70]

I went to Sarajevo and Dubrovnik in 1988 before the war started. What occurred there is comparable to the worst atrocities committed by the Nazis. To their eternal shame the West did absolutely nothing to stop the crimes against humanity until it was far too late.

I would like to say that something like this will never happen again but then places like Rwanda, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria demonstrate how much our Governments have failed.