On the plane, Holbrook from the outset began to pressure that we abandon or trade Gorazde. It struck me as rather strange at that time why Holbrooke had placed the emphasis of this conversation on "us" giving up Gorazde, the first hour of a 90 minute conversation. |
Part II "Speak" Aconvenientgenocide.com Political Expedience Demands Obedience From Legality, And Justice Should Follow the Mold of Evidence Provided A suggestion becomes a request, if not complied with. A request becomes a demand. A demand will become an order. If the order is not followed, the door will be shut close.
--- November 2003, US officials including Pierre Richard Prosper asked the ICTY chief prosecutor to postpone an indictment against 4 Serbian generals involved in war crimes in Kosovo. Prosper said: "We requested a delay, to maintain it sealed. We don't ask so much. When a Secretary of State, (Colin Powell) is saying something it is a message to be taken seriously&Everyone wants to revaluate our relationship, what we are obliged to do and what is a matter of courtesy." Del Ponte: "When your wishes are not accepted, they become orders. But one cannot give orders to judges in view of fact that such a decision is under their competence." Prosper: "No one says it is an order, but a request. You have to pay attention to what is said to you. Not doing so would impact on things. You depend on us for many things. We are not happy. We had an open doors policy. Now, you may have to knock!" Ambassador Sacirbey: The door is closed to you personally and to your career. There will be no invitation to Davos or next year's office Christmas party. You will not have an office, period. Since there's no election, but only selection, some believe that they have the absolute right to dictate performance. The criteria are not objective but rather subjective. Their measurements are not legality or justice but compliance, obedience. As a defense, we can only hope for the sense of professionalism, a commitment a bit of courage and willingness to be transparent, to speak up to the masters as well as down when duty and principle call. Obedience Contaminates, It is Not Passive Rather, It Becomes an Ever More Demanding Mistress
Ambassador Sacirbey: It is easy to lose perspective when you are called upon for that first seemingly innocent kiss with a lie. It is necessary for your career and pay. And, besides that, it is a thrill for someone stuck holding a pencil above his rather cold, wooden desk in a rather unimaginative office. It is a bit of flirtation, followed by seduction. Some are seeking for the seduction again. Some never really had until it they became involved in the Florence Hartmann: At Dayton, the big powers have rewarded those who, a couple of weeks earlier, systematically deported and killed the Muslim population of the enclave, allowing them to repopulate the area in order to modify its ethnic structure. Since then, they have never stopped supporting the genocide by refusing to try its main architects and in discouraging the ICTY to point to Milosevic's responsibility. Even if they did not succeed in keeping Milosevic immune for genocide in Srebrenica because of overwhelming independent sources of evidence, there was clearly advance knowledge and participation by Milosevic. However, what happened in 1995 and since then makes our leaders the accomplices of the worst killing in Paying Child Support for Milosevic's Baby
Sweeping Under the Carpet Their Affair With Milosevic
Ambassador Sacirbey: So Bosnians & Herzegovinians are made most to pay child support, and besides have to keep silent as not embarrass them about their seduction by and affair with Milosevic.
Sylvie Matton: Those who dare speak the truth and challenge their version of history may also have to pay the price.
In Hindsight, Non-Arrest and Srebrenica are "Inseparable" Del Ponte has warned the United Nations Security Council of the consequences if it does not pass a resolution stating that the Tribunal will not close its doors until Karadzic and Mladic are arrested and transferred to However, there appears to be a rush to close the doors: ---2004, in order to get the Tribunal to put an end to its work in short term, Ambassador Prosper promised to --- Del Ponte responds: "That is dangerous." How Could you Indict, "When We Have Not Provided Anything To You ---November 2004, when the ICTY Office of the Prosecutor was about to issue its last indictment in accord with UNSC Resolutions 1503 and 1534 putting an end to the ICTY investigative mandate on 31 December 2004, the US Government pressured Del Ponte not to bring charges against a Kosovo Albanian suspect, Haradinaj, who was looking for US support to become Prime Minister of Kosovo. A High Representative from the US Department of State told Del Ponte: "How could you collect enough evidence to indict him when we have not provided anything to you&" --- When All Else Fails, Falsify the Evidence Ambassador Sacirbey: Were these Serbian police, formerly part of Milosevic's enterprise, now recruited into someone else's secret war? In early 2003, I was in contact with the ICTY and Milosevic Prosecution team as a potential witness. After one rather lengthy interview with the team over the telephone, I was unexpectedly picked up by the While I was in solitary confinement, denied bail, the Milosevic Prosecution could not locate my whereabouts. When they located me, their request to interview me was not outright denied but stalled for months, despite the existence of a treaty obligation with the ICTY for the Once the Milosevic Prosecution was finally to be given access to interview me in Federal prison, the State Department insisted on being present during my testimony, despite a treaty obligation to the contrary and the protest of the Milosevic Prosecution team. Only after I was able to secure bail and after 16 months in "federal detention" the Milosevic Prosecution team, led by Sir. Geoffrey Nice, and I were able to continue exchanging notes. This was September 2004, and three days of interviews in Finding a Fall Guy for Srebrenica
Why bring this story into the article here? Simply, almost from the day that Srebrenica fell, we started to hear rather loud rumors that we, the BiH Government had made a deal for the betrayal of Srebrenica. But then, this was always the response to any massacre, from Out of caution, rather than suspicion, I asked President Izetbegovic regarding the rumors, and if he had entered into any secret deal to abandon Srebrenica. He replied absolutely no. Again, after I had initiated the campaign for the investigation at the United Nations of the betrayal of Srebrenica and Zepa, I met with immense resistance and hostility, within BiH and outside. Again I asked President Izetbegovic was there any truth to rumors that we, the Government of RBiH had betrayed or traded Srebrenica. President Izetbegovic's reply was: "No, but maybe I should have abandoned, when we were so much pressured to trade, (Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde). Perhaps those 8,000 murdered would be alive." Whatever the rights and wrongs of President Izetbegovic's strategy or ideology, he did not betray Srebrenica. Rather, those who actually did betray these safe zones, (as well as undermining NATO, the UN and international legality), needed immediately to reflect responsibility for this crime upon others. They would at least make them suspects, in something. To me it was always most telling why I was the one to be accused of making a deal, since I was not either in Some might say that they have done a good job of damaging my reputation. How many other BiH leaders, now, would want to take the risk and make demands for the truth and accountability? *** Part III, the Rest of It! |
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Ambassador Sacirbey: No one dared ask Ambassador Holbrooke the questions that Sylvie Matton asked. That is no one, who has the legal authority and responsibility in BiH. Sylvie Matton: Following is my email exchange with Mr. Holbrooke: -----Sylvie Matton: "Who gave you those instructions, "(to sacrifice Srebrenica, Gorazde, Zepa")?" -----Richard Holbrooke: " -----Sylvie Matton: "Were the initial instructions you opposed related only to the territories, or both to the territories and the population?" -----Richard Holbrooke: "Both." -----Sylvie Matton: "When did you receive the initial instructions and how did you oppose them?" -----Richard Holbrooke: "In my written instructions in August 1995." -----Sylvie Matton: "And who finally implemented them?" -----Richard Holbrook: "No One." Ambassador Sacirbey: Ambassador Holbrooke's answers are inconsistent. First, Srebrenica and Zepa were in fact sacrificed regardless of whether he received such instructions or when. "You Must Give Up Gorazde"
On the plane, Holbrook from the outset began to pressure that we abandon or trade Gorazde. It struck me as rather strange at that time why Holbrooke had placed the emphasis of this conversation on "us" giving up Gorazde, the first hour of a 90 minute conversation. Of course, it becomes more apparent if he was trying to deliver on his "deal," spoken or implicit to give Gorazde as well as Srebrenica and Zepa to Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic. There were pressures on If Holbrooke Rejected the "Instructions," Nonetheless, They. Including Carl Bildt, Have Done a Consistent Job of Implementing Them ... Have Resisted All Efforts to Reverse the Consequences of Such "Instructions."
It is evident that whatever the instructions may have been issued, the deal to abandon Srebrenica, Gorazde and Zepa was made in late May of 1995, as I wrote after my research in my book, "Srebrenica, an Announced Genocide." Follows is my exchange with Carl Bildt, on -----Sylvie Matton: When you were in -----Carl Bildt: "Of state building...As I was just saying, the bond between the economy... -----Sylvie Matton: "Were you talking about Republika Srpska?" -----Carl Bildt: "No, Republika Srpska had been dealt long before." -----Sylvie Matton: "When?" -----Carl Bildt: "End of May." -----Sylvie Matton: "Where?" -----Carl Bildt: "In Ambassador Sacirbey: We were also told in August and Most telling now, when it comes to the future of these territories, neither Ambassador Holbrooke nor the Euro-Atlantic powers have acted to restore Srebrenica or Zepa to the authority of their citizens. Rather, every effort to declare Srebrenica or Zepa "special districts" or outside of the political authority of Republika Srpska and in whose name the genocide was committed in 1995, has been met with an absolute no, even intimidation of the victims. It seems that the so called instructions of 1995 to "sacrifice" are still being followed; at least as such apply to Srebrenica and Zepa. Florence Hartmann: As written in my book, the big powers have effectively rewarded those who, a couple of weeks earlier, systematically deported and killed the Muslim population of Srebrenica, and allowed the repopulation of the area as to modify its ethnic structure. Concealing that Srebrenica, a UN protected area, has been abandoned to the Serb side in order to get their signature to the peace plan is a real possible motive for avoiding the arrest of Mladic and Karadzic. It is also a motive in concealing documents that, (as I again reveal in my book, "Peace & Punishment" : "Strikingly show the subordination of the Croatian and Bosnian Serbs, and their respective armed forces, to To Conceal Responsibility and Revise History
-----Sylvie Matton: "You answered that NO ONE finally implemented Holbrooke apparently does not respond. -----Sylvie Matton: "When and who decided among the Permanents, (The P-5 of the UN Security Council), that the population of Srebrenica would not be evacuated in UN vehicles, but that they would be transferred by Mladic"s forces? Hadn"t Milosevic given his word as for the faith of the population? And isn"t it because the tragedy did occur- a much more systematic, planned and organized extermination than any other scenario - that Gorazde would finally not be sacrificed? -----Richard Holbrooke: "To some extent, yes. Srebrenica finally woke everyone up." Ambassador Sacirbey: Ambassador Holbrooke was the State Department figure who took charge of General Wesley Clark once told me: "You should see when the 'principles,' (key advisers), meet with President Clinton on the Balkans. Dick, (Holbrooke) behaves as if he is the President and treats Bill Clinton like the underling." Cover Up
A Favorable Rewrite of History
"Taking orders from their governments, the MAT have shaped the understanding of the situation, and prevented the Tribunal from revealing the cowardice of the big powers during the war, as it, (the ICTY), had been initially established to mark their political impotence to stop the crimes by more appropriate means. "Americans and British hastened to provide this highly qualified staff, which enabled them to remotely control the prosecutorial strategies. Coming from the best intelligence services and remaining loyal to their governments, the military analysts were among the most competent staff at the ICTY, but became its blinkers. Throughout the years, they dissuaded all attempt to investigate the actual master minders of the ethnic cleansing, and propagated within the OTP the belief that Karadzic and Mladic acted on their own. "During ten years, the MAT has concealed the fact that all officers of the Bosnian Serb forces involved in the take-over of Srebrenica, had been detached from the headquarters of the Belgrade Army, and continued to be paid by The "The Even material received from third countries was screened by these powers. As I already have given one example, the materials examined beforehand by western intelligence agencies would reach the OTP altered or truncated. (See Part II of "Speak1") Ambassador Sacirbey: The effort to conceal blame or cast doubt upon others almost started from the day even before the last of the Srebrenica victims was being executed. As I already relayed in (Part II of "Speak!"), rumors were almost immediately spread that the RBiH Government was part of some deal. Preserving Gorazde, Lying to History Also telling was my meeting with Holbrooke in early August of 1995 in Obviously this was not true, but the demand even struck me unusual at that time. Nonetheless, I saw then what I thought was an opportunity to pull Gorazde off any future bargaining table, and this did occur by slightly supplementing Holbrooke's demand. I told the reporters: "Ambassador Holbrooke has asked me to tell you that the Immediately I felt contented that Gorazde had been saved. However, this demand from Holbrooke continued to raise my curiosity. Now, in hindsight and in the context of the overall deal with Milosevic to betray Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde, it is clear that this was an effort to cover up the tracks. The "instructions" that Ambassador Holbrooke speaks of in his video interview in 1995 during Fear of Being Exposed
Unfortunately such coming to terms with their sins, lack of will and mistakes requires courage from bureaucrats. They can preach in BiH but dare not speak in their own capitals. They have become complicit after the fact to the original betrayal and are active in the cover-up, whether they would like to recognize it or not. Many do not necessarily have personal knowledge, but the cover-up, the betrayal are becoming the Grand Canyon of their policy, unable to see above its rims as their river of influence only further imbeds the course. Coming to terms with this flawed policy will require political will. Such political will must be actively encouraged in "9/11" and the Shame of Srebrenica Too many examples of disparate agendas. Munir Albabic, then head of Bosnian intelligence, was our best ally within Bosnia in the hunt for Karadzic as he contributed locating him. After having just received some funds from the OTP to facilitate his work, the then High Representative in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, fired him accusing Alibabic of "destabilizing Bosnia" and "working for French intelligence and refusing to cooperate with British intelligence." So when the OTP found a way to locate Karadzic by itself, the big powers instead of acting for the arrest, took instead measures paralyzing the hunt. The deal between Del Ponte and Alibabic was secret but was leaked to Americans and British from within the ICTY. What Next?
Terrorism co-opting and abusing Islam"s name is an enemy of Muslims first. We, Muslims of BiH have to be partners in challenging those from within who co-opt Islam and changing through the political process of what is not just or progressive in our societies. "The Tail That Wags the Dog" The tail to this story, which wags the future of BiH, is the deals and/or sabotage regarding the non-arrest of indicted war criminals. This leads to the story of the betrayal of Srebrenica and Zepa, but it also calls for all, including the western powers, to come to terms with a new approach based on integrity and commitment to principles of justice and an open society. Write Comments to This Story, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, Write to the Appropriate Legal and Political Authorities Demanding an Investigation: Demand an investigation from: Your Representatives before the Parliament of BiH, the Presidency of BiH, the Court of BiH and the Prosecutor"s Office of BiH. Demand the same from the OHR, because there is no one else to hold them accountable and they ultimately must be responsible to your demands and the integrity of our history. For us living in It would be indeed shameful and a final declaration of capitulation if the only investigation is conducted in Below is attached a draft letter to the US Congress, for your review. What is critical is that each one of you, as individuals, joins the institutions in expressing your will as voters and citizens. Our History Sits in Prison to Promote Someone Else"s Future It is not good to have the future held hostage by history. It is worse to have our history imprisoned in a dungeon for someone else"s future. Without the integrity of our history, there is no future for BiH. Only the truth will set Part 1, Part 2 available on site www.Aconvenientgenocide.com |
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