Hartmann: Great powers have issued Srebrenica
Florence Hartmann in her book, based on thousands of documents, says that Srebrenica was a collateral damage of the Dayton negotiation process.
The former spokeswoman and adviser Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Florence Hartmann in Sarajevo presented his new book "The Blood of realpolitik: The scandal of Srebrenica", in which we talk about the diplomatic process leading up to the genocide in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian town.
They underlined the great role of the leaders of the United States, France and Great Britain in determining the fate, and therefore their responsibility to "the protected enclave of the UN" Srebrenica where the largest war crimes in the recent history of Europe.
"Instead of the great speeches and 'crocodile tears' which shed internationals each year when they come to Srebrenica, they should take responsibility for what happened in the town," she said in Sarajevo today Hartmann.
When asked if these representatives also need to put pressure on those who documented know the fate of thousands of victims, not only of the Srebrenica genocide, but also numerous other war crimes across BiH, Hartmann said that applying pressure and that he had given the results, but that it Europe should continue to work to make the victims were found.
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"But this summer I listened to BiH. Leaders, during a visit to Belgrade, and their hosts, mostly how to turn the page and move forward. You can not turn the page if it is not read, "she said Hartmann.
Usvojoj book Hartmann writes that Srebrenica was a collateral damage of the negotiation process in Dayton that the 1995 happening away from the public.
Demonstration of responsibility
Hartmann says in the book on the basis of, as he says, several thousands of documents to read after they opened many archives superpower.
"A lot of things I've read, a lot of very boring documents, but they are hiding at least one key phrase to create the entire image. It's like stacking blocks, and only later, when all agree, get a clear picture, "she said.
In the preface to the book, British journalist Ed Vuillamy, who was among the first in the world published news from Omarska and Trnopolje camps during the Bosnian war, says this work "shows that there was a much wider involvement in the events leading to the fall (Srebrenica) enclave ".
"Declassified dispatches, exclusive interviews and testimony before the Hague tribunal show that the governments of Great Britain, the US and France have accepted, and sometimes claimed, that Srebrenica and the two remaining UN-protected safe zone [Zepa, Gorazde] were 'unsustainable "long before General Ratko Mladic took the city, and were willing to defer to Srebrenica, the Serbs, as they strive to reach the folder that was acceptable to Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president, in exchange for peace," he wrote.
"The blood of realpolitik: The scandal of Srebrenica, the book is based on quotations of direct participants in the events, offers implacable and objective demonstration of the degree of responsibility of the great powers in the crime of genocide that was taking place before their eyes."
- 5 Nov, 2015
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