Letter to the Editor of Washingtn Times RE: "Never again, again" - By James Morrison, Embassy Raw , July 31, 2006, http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/embassy.htm As a child of a survivor of the WWII Nazi Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac, I feel obligated to protest the Ambasador Bisera Turkovic's statement that the killing of Muslims in Srebrenica signifies "the worst massacres of the 20th century". It has been in the interest of the Bosnian Muslim government as well as the US and NATO countries to insist on the story about alleged 8,000 summarily executed Muslims in Srebrenica in order to accuse the Serbs of "genocide". In his article "The Real Story Behind Srebrenica" published in The Globe and Mail on July 2005, Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, the first commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Sarajevo says that the, "Evidence given at The Hague war crimes tribunal casts serious doubt on the figure of "up to" 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred. That figure includes "up to" 5,000 who have been classified as missing. More than 2,000 bodies have been recovered in and around Srebrenica, and they include victims of the three years of intense fighting in the area. The math just doesn't support the scale of 8,000 killed." Instead of being demilitarized, Srebrenica became a "Safe Heaven" for armed Muslims. >From 1992 to January 1993, Bosnian Serb citizens in Srebrenica area were at the mercy of Muslim forces. The convicted war criminal and commander of Muslim forces Naser Oric and his armed units in the municipalities of Bratunac, Srebrenica and Skelani, burnt and otherwise destroyed and plundered a minimum of fifty predominantly Serb villages and hamlets. Thousands of Serbs were killed or were forced to leave the area. History check up might help the understanding of the Srebrenica phenomenon. According to the case study "Ethnic Conflicts in Civil War in Bosnia" (http://lpc.50g.com/srebnica.html , Alija Izetbegovic, the former President of Bosnia and Hercegovina and father of Ambassador Bisera Turkovic, is the person who connects the present and the World War II. He joined the organization "Young Muslims" in Sarajevo on March 5, 1943, and was engaged as a member of the organization in recruiting young Muslims for "SS Handzar Division" in collaboration with Hitler's intelligence service (ABWER and GESTAPO). Even prior to becoming president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic was a close confidante of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. As President Izetbegovic recirculated his 1970 Islamic Declaration and openly espoused his view that "there can be no peace or coexistence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith." In 1990, while in power, Alija Izetbegovic promoted his daughter Dr. Bisera Turkovic to the highest posts in the government. Like father, like daughter. Instead on working on reconciliation among all three peoples of Bosnia, Ambassador Turkovic uses her ambassadorial post in Washington to lobby on behalf of Muslim extremists. In his statement to the House on June 17, 2005, congressmen from Arizona, Mr. Franks (http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/cr061705.htm) protests the State Department's recommendation and granting agreement on questionable Bosnian Ambassador appointment. The congressional record states, "Bisera Turkovic has been one of the founders of the radical Islamist Muslim SDA Party in Bosnia, a party that has had, since its foundation, strong links with al Qaeda, numerous other terrorist organizations, and even the intelligence mechanisms of Iran. Soon after the beginning of the Bosnian civil war in 1992, Dr. Turkovic was accredited as Bosnian ambassador to Zagreb. It was this post, coordinating with others, that was constantly used by the SDA and their leadership to provide Bosnian passports, visas, humanitarian worker status, and logistical support to radical Islamist mujahideen coming into Bosnia to fight their own jihad there. Individuals such as Anwar Sha'ban, the spiritual leader of al Qaeda in Bosnia and the cousin of Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Madani, who was killed fighting soldiers in Sarajevo, and even Osama bin Laden himself entered Bosnia through Zagreb." All sides have committed atrocities during the bloody war in Bosnia. It is time to heal the wounds. Ambassador Turkovic shows incapable of fulfilling the task. Boba Borojevic
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