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Serbian Press Agency SRNA, Bijeljina
August 26, 2008
HERMAN: NO PROOF 8.000 RESIDENTS OF SREBRENICA WERE KILLED
BELGRADE - The head of the Srebrenica Research Group, retired US professor
Edward Herman, has said that credible proof for the claim that Serbs killed
seven to eight thousand Muslims in Srebrenica does not exist.
"On July 27, 1995 the Hague tribunal accused the Bosnian Serb leadership
of genocide for political reasons. This was only three days after the chief
investigator for Bosnia, Herbert Wiland (sp?), advised that based on local
first-hand information he had not found a single person able to testify
about executions," said Herman.
Herman assessed for Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti that US policy was a threat
to the people in protected zones because it failed to demilitarize the
enclaves. He adds that on the basis of thorough research the massacre
version is questionable.
He assessed that "it is absurd that genocide occurred in Srebrenica" when
"all women and children were transported by bus to safety, and the Hague
tribunal itself recognized that an unknown number of missing may have been
killed in combat".
Herman added that "Bosnian Muslim troops had orders to act provocatively and
instead of defending Srebrenica, strong Muslim troops ordered 5.500 men to
leave town".
"The merciless focusing on Srebrenica finally forced an episode of ethnic
cleansing that was assisted by America, which occurred the following month
in Croatia against the Serbs," said Herman.
Herman said that the Serbs may have killed more people than the Croats and
Muslims but that neither the Croats and Muslims were far behind.
He said that Radovan Karadzic is no different than the others who took part
in the war, and that he considers him considerably less guilty for massive
killing than Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Tony Blair.
Herman is a retired economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania in
the US.
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