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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:39:19 -0500
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- From: "Velibor M. Marenovic" <VMARENOVIC@MACALSTR.EDU>
- Subject: Real thing....
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- I hope all of you "warried" will recognize that Orthodoxy and genocide have
- nothing in common. Serbian Info Ministry reported today that 60,000 Muslim
- refugees have been taken care of (not with machine gun) by individual families
- (mini kamps) in Republic of Serbia.
-
- Article included from Serbian net.
-
- Velibor
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- > Subject: UNBIASED REPORT: Ashdown on Serb-run detention camps
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- >
- > From: clarinews@clarinet.com (NATELA SJEKLOCHA)
- > Subject: British opposition leader ends tour of detention camps
- > Date: 11 Aug 92 17:05:07 GMT
- >
- > BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- A British opposition party
- > leader Tuesday ended a private inquiry into alleged human rights
- > violations at Serb-run detention camps, saying that he found poor
- > conditions but NO evidence of systematic torture and killing at the
- > locations he visited.
- >
- > Paddy Ashdown, a member of Parliament and head of the Liberal
- > Democratic Party, returned to Belgrade after inspecting two camps where
- > Muslim Slavs and other non-Serbs are being held by Serbian forces
- > fighting to rip a self-declared Serbian state out of newly independent
- > Bosnia-Hercegovina.
- >
- > "Broadly, I believe that GENEVA CONVENTION IS BEING UPHELD, and from
- > what I can tell, it is being followed to the absolute limits that it is
- > POSSIBLE to do," Ashdown said late Monday after visiting the Manjaca
- > detention center, near the Serbian stronghold of Banja Luka, where some
- > 3,500 Muslim Slavs are currently held.
- >
- > "The conditions have visibly improved in comparison to Omarska,"
- > said Ashdown refering to another nearby detention center, where a large
- > number of emaciated Muslim Slav prisoners of war were recently found.
- > But, Ashdown said that many Geneva Convention articles cannot be
- > upheld at Manjaca because of the SEVERE LACK OF FOOD AND MEDICINE across
- > all of war-torn Bosnia-Hercegovina.
- >
- > "If we want those camps to be operated to standards that we would
- > recognize, we have to see what we can provide," he said.
- >
- > On Sunday, Ashdown visited the Kula prison behind Serbian lines
- > outside the capital, Sarajevo.
- >
- > Ashdown contended that his visit and the outrage in the West over
- > reports of widespread abuses at Serb-run detention centers would
- > increase pressure on Serbian leaders to abolish an estimated 500 prison
- > camps run by undisciplined paramilitary units not under their control.
- >
- > During the one-hour tour of Manjaca, Ashdown spoke with a number of
- > prisoners, although always in the presence of their guards.
- >
- > Many were emaciated, apparently from a lack of food, their faces
- > pale, their eyes dull.
- >
- > They are housed in three barn-like structures, about 500 to each.
- > They said they are fed twice daily and are allowed to take showers every
- > 15 days.
- >
- > Ashdown said he did not believe the commander of the camp was
- > competent enough to be running the facility.
- >
- > "Lieutenant Colonel Bozidar Popovic looks like a front-line solder
- > given a job he does not understand, in my view, and almost certainly
- > Russian-trained," said Ashdown. "Probably yesterday, somebody thrust
- > the Geneva Convention into his hands."
- >
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