www.b92.net Seselj: Srebrenica genocide "lies" 29 May 2008 | 13:38 | Source: Beta
THE HAGUE -- Vojislav Seselj has labeled as "lies" allegations that the Bosnian Serb army (VRS) committed genocide against Muslims in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995. During cross-examination of witness Andras Riedlmayer during his trial at the Hague Tribunal, the SRS leader said that it was a "lie" that 8,000 Muslim men and boys had been killed in Srebrenica, because "2,500 bodies were exhumed, of which 1,000 had been shot, while the others had been killed in battle." "That's a widely accepted lie spread by certain courts and Tribunal prosecutors that has been accepted by the Western media. That lie has served as the basis for the International Court of Justice's scandalous verdict declaring it genocide. That's a lie because 8,000 men were not shot, and even if they had been, it wouldn't have been genocide because all the victims were men and prisoners-of-war. Around 1,000 of them were shot," said Seselj. Prosecutor Darryl Mandis objected to the defendant's line of questioning, claiming that the genocide in Srebrenica had been confirmed by the Tribunal's verdict in the case of a former RS general, Radislav Krstic, and pointing out that that had not been the subject of Riedlmayer's testimony which had focused on the plethora of destroyed mosques during the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Krstic was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the Hague for complicity in the genocide of the Srebrenica Muslims. The International Court of Justice ruled that the RS Army had committed genocide in Srebrenica last year, citing Serbia as responsible for not having prevented the massacre, while also punishing the perpetrators.
