Thursday, March 24, 2016

It is important these decisions are made. The world knows about Daesh. There is no doubt it is a genocidal regime.

There was some criticism that President Obama took a long time to make his announcement about the genocidal determination regarding Daesh. The determination has to hold up to intense scrutiny. There should not be omissions or errors. It is moments like this that matters above all complaining.

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader (click here)makes stunning remark at end of trial in The Hague, saying he was a ‘true friend to Muslims’

March 24, 2016
By Marlise Simons

The Hague — Radovan Karadzic, (click here) the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by a United Nations tribunal on Thursday for leading a campaign of terror against civilians in the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.
Mr. Karadzic, 70, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in lethal ethnic cleansing operations, the siege of Sarajevo and the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, in proceedings that were likened to the Nuremberg trials of former Nazi leaders.


6 April 1992: A Bosnian special-forces soldier returns fire he and civilians are shot at by Serbian snipers in Sarajevo

The trial here was the most important in the 23-year history of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and a defining test for the entire system of international justice, human rights advocates said.
“Twenty-one years after Karadzic was indicted, this verdict is a forceful manifestation of the international community’s implacable commitment to accountability,” the United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said in a statement....

27 June 1992: (click here) A man supports the head of a Bosnian woman badly injured by a Serbian mortar shelling in Sarajevo as she is transported to a hospital in the back of a car