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01-23-2014, 08:54 PM
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Re: BBC Srebenica [mini-]Documentary- Loads of Footage
I actually served there in 2000 still looks the same as I remember. SFOR 7 mass grave site recovery team 3/3 ACR Brave Rifles |
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01-29-2014, 10:11 AM
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| Your Mothers Nightmare... Poster Rank:410 Male Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 2,856 Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Quoted: 1036 Post(s)
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Re: BBC Srebenica [mini-]Documentary- Loads of Footage
I served out there throughout the early - mid 1990's with my last tour being a 6 month stint directly after the signing of the Dayton Agreement as it switched from IFOR into SFOR. I love how those so far away seem to know so much about what "actually" happened, who was armed who was not, who was victim, who was the agressor. I was there I saw victims in Croats, Serbs and Bosniac. I also saw agression from all three but the biggest aggressors where without doubt the Serbs except for in a few southern BiH areas and in Croatia where it was by nature of the location Croation aggression and attrocities that numbed you to your core. I was involved in the observation or routes and the (mostly illegal) movement of military vehicles and troops by the Serbian forces as they swept through the Bosniac/Bosniak dominated territories and I witnessed the reason for the introduction of foreign muslim "muhja" forces many times over and documented the results of these actions. The Serbs had a free hand in the early years as they had almost unlimited military supplies coming in from Serbia and they also took over almost all the army barracks and the associated equipment/supplies. What is often refered to as the Mujahadeen was in fact the BiH Army which whilst predominately Muslim was manned by a (very) large percentage of Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats who did not want the country broken up along nationalistic ideals. They wanted to continue living the "free to choose" who they associated, married, had business partnerships etc with and the multicultured life they had lead under Tito. Tito was a hard man, but he gave the area a stability it had not known for hundreds of years, the war mongers could not wait to dive in and state ownership on a people who had all but forgotten the nationalistic horrors the area had suffered, who had in fact integrqated so well in some places many did not know the "natioanality" of those in the same towns and villages. I personally have no religion, I have never had any religious service carried out on me as a child or an adult so I really dont care what door a person walks into to praise his or her "god". All that I care about is the person I see standing in front of me and their past and present actions. I stand by all my actions during that time and by my testimonials that have been used towards the prosecution and continued search for those responsible. All the teams I worked with out there agreed it was a shame we where ordered to almost always shoot those comitting attrocities with nothing more than a camera. (note the word "almost" as some where so out of control even for that vile time, that they had to be stopped there and then) |
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01-29-2014, 10:22 AM
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Re: BBC Srebenica [mini-]Documentary- Loads of Footage
And sorry Hanze, but I didnt watch the video. I can watch little of the footage from that time i'm afraid. But thank you for posting, it needs to be kept alive, people need to realise tha nationalism is a dangerous game, every one has forgotten about the horrific results of it in Spain in the 1930's barely understand the true cost of the rising of it in the post WW1 Germany (whilst proclaiming they are all so greatly knowledgable - I'm sorry but having a relative that did or did not fight up the beaches on D-Day does not give you an automatic qualification in everything WW2 related. Now, the "Civil" wars in the Balkans are being brushed under the carpet as people try to pretend it never happened....especially Croatia who declare themselves a holday paradise...I for one would love to do "Holiday Tours" out there for a spell just to fill the brochures with a true picture of the countries recent past..... |