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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (177929)	9/5/2001 9:22:26 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Try Solhzenitzen: Gulag I, II. have someone read it to you," Will the numbers add up to 100 million, Adolf?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (177929)	9/10/2001 9:58:23 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

This story does not tell how barbaric all sides of this war was. * Monday September 10 9:36 AM ET Hague Warcrimes Court Hears of Babies Burned Alive By Abigail Levene THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Tales of murder, torture and babies burned alive echoed through the courtrooms of the Hague tribunal Monday as seven men went on trial in three separate cases for atrocities in the 1992-5 Bosnian war. Prosecutors opened cases against five Bosnian Serbs and two Croats as the arrival of extra judges sharply increased the tribunal's capacity, allowing it to start three trials on the same day for the first time. All the defendants plead not guilty to charges including crimes against humanity. Judges heard how Bosnian Serb Mitar Vasiljevic, a waiter, became a paramilitary who systematically murdered Muslims in and around the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad in 1992-94. Vasiljevic, 47, denies killing scores of Muslim civilians. In a June 1992 incident, prosecutors said he and others of the ''White Eagles'' paramilitary unit locked 65 women, children and old men into a room in a Visegrad house and set it alight. ``There was a small baby among them. She had yet to see her third day on this earth,'' said prosecutor Dermot Groome. Some tried to jump out of the windows, but another paramilitary stood outside shooting at them while Vasiljevic shone a light on the victims, prosecutors said. Screams were heard for two hours after the fire began. All but six of those locked in were killed. Among the victims were young children and babies, and 46 members of one family. ``Mitar Vasiljevic is not the most infamous among the tribunal's indictees. He is no powerful politician accused of the grand plans behind the carnage in Bosnia. He is a simple waiter,'' Groome told Courtroom II. ``But he is one who by his own hands committed an act that is perhaps one of the single most horrific and egregious affronts to humanity in the war -- to the most innocent of victims.'' ``CUTTING EDGE'' OF ETHNIC CLEANSING Bosnian Croats Mladen Naletilic and Vinko Martinovic, nicknamed ``Tuta'' and ``Stela,'' sat stony-faced as prosecutors in Court I accused them of being leading perpetrators of the brutal ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims in 1993, in the Mostar area of southern Herzegovina coveted by Croatian nationalists. ``Convicts' Battalion'' founder and commander Naletilic, 54, and his subordinate Martinovic, who headed a sub-unit, allegedly expelled Bosnian Muslims from their homes, arrested and tortured Muslim men and used them as human shields. ``Both led by example -- by committing atrocities by their own hand,'' prosecutor Kenneth Scott said. ``Mladen Naletilic, 'Tuta', was at the cutting edge of ethnic cleansing. ``He presided over the expulsion of Bosnian Muslims from their homes and villages. He presided over the burning of their homes and the destruction of their mosques. He commanded and set the example of the beating of Muslim men taken prisoner.'' ``Tuta'' threatened prisoners by putting pistols in their mouths, Scott said. ``He told them: 'Lie down and kiss the Croatian ground.''' The two used Muslim prisoners for forced labor and took them as human shields to deter their enemies from attacking them -- resulting in many deaths -- and encouraged subordinates to do the same, the court heard. SURVIVORS On one occasion, Martinovic, 37, ordered the selection of four Muslim detainees as human shields. One fainted from fear and another was chosen in his place. They were told that if they survived they would be released. ``Miraculously they did survive and escaped...Some will be witnesses here,'' said Scott, adding that another 15 were used as human shields on the same day and 10 of them were killed. Scott said Muslim prisoners were even forced to loot fellow Muslims' homes on behalf of Bosnian Croat forces. Naletilic -- who like Martinovic was born in Bosnia but later took Croatian nationality -- had close links with officials in Croatia, Scott said. He visited the defense minister in Croatia and the minister went to Naletilic's headquarters. Bosnian Serbs Blagoje Simic, Milan Simic, Miroslav Tadic and Simo Zaric were in Courtroom III, accused of planning and waging a campaign against Bosnian Croats, Muslims and other non-Serbs in the Bosanski Samac area of northern Bosnia, in spring 1992. dailynews.yahoo.com * * *