Thus, the day of the commemoration of the victims of a camp in Srebrenica, Vinko Pandurević, former general of the army of the RS and prisoner of The Hague, begins his confession. Entered for the first time in Srebrenica in 1995 with his forces.
As our interlocutor, who spent the entire war on the ground in the eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, testified, Serbian villages were constantly hit.
– The crimes in the villages of Kravica, Bjelovac, Zalazje, Ratkovići, Blichevo were particularly brutal … Most of them were killed at the beginning of the war, in May, June and July 1992 , as well as in November 1992 and spring 1993 in counter-offensive. Muslims when Srebrenica was declared a protected area. Naser Oric was the main criminal, followed by Zufo Tursunovic, known as a great criminal and prewar psychopath, the story of Pandurevic.
Our interlocutor explains that even the central Podrinje was multiethnic, but villages and hamlets were divided into Serbian and Muslim.
– Muslims almost all Serbian villages fired and people were deported. What happened in 1995 in Srebrenica can be seen as a reaction that followed among domestic workers who were more or less all the time in this area, where they were also killed the closest.
PALMA: There was no genocide in Srebrenica, Storm was the only genocide after the Second World War!
According to Pandurevic, from April to May 1993, when Srebrenica was declared a protected area, until July 1995, the Muslim forces of Naser Oric went out of the protected area, fell into Serbian villages and were burned, killed civilians and were stolen. , doing atrocities that I can not even imagine.
The youngest victim of Oric was four years old
The boy Slobodan Stojanovic (11 years old) near Srebrenica was found with six foci of the upper jaw and a broken cross-shaped abdomen and his arms were cut at the elbow. He returned to the village to pick up his dog, which he had forgotten when he and his family fled to Naser Oric's forces.
The youngest victim of Oric's crimes was Vladimir Gajic, who was only four years old, Novica Bogicevic 14 and among the victims there are many poor, like Riste Popovic (73), Vladimir Stojanovic (78), Mare Bozic (84)) …
The Serbs knelt with knives and axes, slaughtered for trees, crammed with wire, roasted on a spit, children were killed in the eyes of their mothers.
On the other hand, the Serbs were also accused of what they were doing and what they had not done. This was felt by Pandurevic in The Hague. From the beginning, the idea was to prove in every way that Serbs committed genocide against Muslims. For this purpose, false witnesses, altered statements, hidden videos were made.
Just such a clip is long hidden because it shows what has actually happened.
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– This is a recording of my conversation with the commander of the 28th Muslim Division in 1995, in the fight against Srebrenica. Knowing the state of the people of this division, because one of their captured officers told us that they slept, that they were generally scattered, that they were exhausted, without food and water, I invited the commander, Semsa Muminovic, to propose stopping the fighting.
Most Muslims were killed
– After July 11, 1995, there were some things that were war crimes, but not the way they were presented in the Hague convictions. A large number of members of the Muslim divisions, who tried to move from Potocari and Srebrenica to Tuzla and Kladanj, started the army unprepared for such a task. Of course, they have met a number of our ambitions, but have also suffered heavy losses in conflicts over the question of whether they should surrender or, after all, in Muslim territories – says Vinko Pandurevic for the Serbian Telegraph.
He points out that this is not one of those who claim that he did not spend anything in Srebrenica and that they were fabrications of Muslims or Muslims. ;West.
– A crime was committed against prisoners of war, but it was not a genocide or a planned response to all that the Muslims did to us. The Hague Tribunal could not prove that there was a plan that was finally recognized. I claim that this crime is neither the plan nor the idea of organs or military or state institutions, but an unfortunate episode of the combat activities of the army of the RS that caused a serious mistake in the army and the Serbian people. really happened.
Previously, I told him that everyone was laying down their weapons and that they would be transported safely wherever they wanted. He said let these people go with weapons, I refused. Before the pipe of my brigade and before my eyes, the passage I made was about 6,000 impenetrable soldiers of the 28th Division, who were domiciled in the municipality of Zvornik. All were saved alive – says Pandurevic.
THE UNCERTAIN WITNESS
A video of the interview, which the Hague prosecutor was hiding, one day mentioned a miserable witness during Pandurevic's trial in The Hague and the Tribunal was to publish it.
– My defense asked for a shot twice, they said that they did not have it. However, after the testimony of the witness, who at the trial told him that the prosecution published a video of my conversation with Muminovic, had no choice. When we released this tape in the courtroom, the Trial Chamber asked if it was a good translation. The official booth interpreters say, "Yes, that's all." It was the main argument that I was released for the joint criminal enterprise and genocidal intentions – says Pandurevic.
Commander of Unprofora: I would do as a young man
the British General Smith, who commanded Unprofrom, and himself told The Hague that in the case of Ratko Mladic, he would lead the military operation in Srebrenica in the same way. If the forces of the 28th Division immediately surrendered, as Mladic had offered them at the time, it would be quite different, says Vinko Pandurevic.
REACTIONS
Dragan Markovic Palma, Serbia Unique
The Hague and Belgrade courts tried those who committed war crimes in Srebrenica, but neither the Hague nor the Sarajevo, Zagreb or Pristina courts convicted criminals of hardest war.
Miodrag Linta, Association of the Serbian Region
No genocide took place in Srebrenica in 1995. It is a crime that, unfortunately, was on all sides
Cedomir Jovanovic, LDP
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I come here for years because of Bosnia, Bosniaks, my people, because of our children, because of the people
Bakir Izetbegović, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Srebrenica will forever remain a dark spot on the face of all who could, but did not prevent the genocide. Bosnians were also issued by the international community
Rexhep Tajip Erdogan, President of Turkey
The genocide was committed in Srebrenica and it was the most shameful act that took place under the eyes of Europe.
Biography
– In 1995, Vinko Pandurevic was commander of the Zvornik Brigade of the RS Army, which entered for the first time in Srebrenica
– A retired general and a doctor of sociology voluntarily surrendered, and on March 23, 2005, he was extradited to The Hague Tribunal
– He was in prison until April 2015, when he was released after serving three-quarters of his 13-year sentence.
– He was found guilty of aiding and abetting murder and persecution and violating the customs of war
Chronology
– The attack against Srebrenica began on July 6, 1995 and ended five days later with the entry of the VRS under the command of General Ratko Mladic in the city.
– The International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a verdict in 2007 to classify the Srebrenica massacre as genocide
– The part of the verdict establishing the genocide does not cover the state of Serbia
– The resolutions on Srebrenica confirmed by this judgment have been adopted by the parliaments of the EU, Canada, the United States and Australia
– Decision of the European Parliament of 2009, 11 July proclaimed Genocide Remembrance Day in Srebrenica
– Muslims have made offers with the number of casualties since the beginning, increasing year by year
– The Serbian Parliament adopted a 2010 declaration condemning the crime against the Bosnian population of Srebrenica in July 1995, but without mentioning the genocide
– For the events in Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic
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