{"id":493,"date":"2004-02-18T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-18T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T11:20:20","slug":"telling-the-truth-now-a-crime-in-bosnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/18\/telling-the-truth-now-a-crime-in-bosnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the truth now a crime in Bosnia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French General Philippe Morillon, whose intervention saved the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from defeat in 1993 and helped establish it as a &#8220;safe area&#8221; for civilians (and the 28th Infantry Division of the Bosnian [Muslim] Army), made a fatal error last week. He let the truth slip out in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3481619.stm\">his testimony<\/a> against Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague Inquisition. Now the association of former Srebrenica residents plans to sue him for being an &#8220;accessory to genocide&#8221;, reported a Croatian daily.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Zagreb daily &#8220;Vecernji List&#8221; (<i>The Evening Paper<\/i>) carried a story of Sunday, 2\/15, about how the Srebrenica associations plan to sue Morillon &#8220;for his role in the suffering of Srebrenica.&#8221;<br \/>\nReporter Dejan Jazvic wrote that the &#8220;statements of the former UNPROFOR commander caused an avalanche of reactions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, especially his claim that the genocide [sic] against the Bosniaks of Srebrenica in 1995 was a reaction to the crimes the Bosnian Army troops committed two years earlier against the Srebrenica Serbs.&#8221;<br \/>\nFormer Bosnian Muslim mayor of Srebrenica, Sefket Hafizovic, told the paper: &#8220;We have documents that clearly show the French general justifying himself to Milosevic for certain events in Srebrenica, and informs him that he prevented American intervention there in March 1993.&#8221;<br \/>\nPreventing the intervention that would have benefited the Bosnian Muslim war effort is, by implication, criminal.<br \/>\nMorillon is finding out now what many of his colleagues in UNPROFOR learned the hard way during the conflict: saying anything the Muslims dislike will get one branded a war criminal. Even &#8211; or especially &#8211; if it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French General Philippe Morillon, whose intervention saved the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from defeat in 1993 and helped establish it as a &#8220;safe area&#8221; for civilians (and the 28th Infantry Division of the Bosnian [Muslim] Army), made a fatal error last week. He let the truth slip out in his testimony against Slobodan Milosevic at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}