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Friday, July 6, 2012

[mukto-mona] পালাবার পথ নেই ঘসেটি বেগমের !!!!!!



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পালাবার পথ নেই ঘসেটি বেগমের। বাংলার মাটিতে খুনীদের বিচার হবেই ইনশাল্লাহ: সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র আওয়ামী লীগ
নিউইয়র্ক, ৬ জুলাই (বিডিএনএন২৪) :বহু ত্যাগ তিতিক্ষা, সংগ্রাম-আন্দোলন, লক্ষ লক্ষ স্বাধীনতাপ্রিয় বীর বাঙালীর আত্মত্যাগ আর দুই লক্ষাধিক মা-বোনের ইজ্জতের বিনিময়ে অর্জিত লাল-সবুজ পতাকার গর্বিত বাংলাদেশ আজ দ্রুত গতিতে উন্নয়নশীল দেশের কাতারে শামিল হতে চলেছে। গত ৫ জুলাই বৃহষ্পতিবার নিউইয়র্কে এক জনাকীর্ন সাংবাদকি সম্মেলনে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র আওয়ামী লীগ নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, বঙ্গবন্ধু কন্যা জননেত্রী শেখ হাসিনা সরকারের 'ভিশন ২০২১' বাস্তবায়নের মধ্য দিয়ে অচিরেই বাংলাদেশ দক্ষিণ এশিয়ার মধ্যে ইমার্জিং টাইগার ও বিশ্বের অন্যতম মধ্যম আয়ের দেশে পরিণত হবে বলে আমাদের দৃঢ় বিশ্বাস। জাতিসংঘের মিলেনিয়াম ডেভেলপমেন্ট গোল বাস্তবায়নে বাংলাদেশ একটি আলোচিত নাম। খাদ্যে স্বয়ংসম্পূর্ণতা অর্জন, বার্ষিক মাথাপিছু আয় বৃদ্ধি জিডিপির প্রবৃদ্ধি, শিশু ও মাতৃমৃত্যু হার হ্রাস, গড় আয়ু ও পুষ্টিমান বৃদ্ধি, দারিদ্রতার হার হ্রাস, মানুষের কর্ম সংস্থান ও আয়বৃদ্ধি, কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংকের রেকর্ড পরিমান রিজার্ভ, বৈদেশিক কর্মসংস্থান ও রপ্তানী আয় থেকে কেন্দ্রীয় ব্যাংকে উল্লেখ্যযোগ্য রেমিটেন্স জমা হওয়া, শিক্ষা, স্বাস্থ্য, খাদ্য, কৃষি, পররাষ্ট্র, স্বরাষ্ট্র, তথ্যপ্রযুক্তি ও যোগাযোগ ব্যবস্থায় ব্যাপক উন্নয়ন বাংলাদেশ ও বাঙালী জাতিকে আজ বিশ্বে একটা মর্যাদার আসনে অধিষ্ঠিত করেছে। ঠিক সেই মুহুর্তে দেশী বিদেশী কিছু চক্রান্তকারী ও স্বার্থন্বেষী মহল বাঙালী জাতিকে থামিয়ে দেয়ার জন্য চতুর্দিক থেকে উঠে পড়ে লেগেছে।
সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, বাংলাদেশের মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধের সরাসরি বিরোধীতাকারী একটি পরাশক্তির মদদ ও পরিচালনায় দূর্নীতিতে আকন্ঠ নিমর্জ্জিত (সাম্প্রতিক ওয়াল স্ট্রীট জার্নাল ও বিশ্বখ্যাত ফোরবস ম্যাগজিনে প্রকাশিত) ওয়ার্ল্ড ব্যাংক কর্তৃক প্রতিশ্রুত পদ্মা সেতু প্রকল্পের বরাদ্ধ ১.২ বিলিয়ন ডলার বাতিলের সিদ্ধান্ত তারই একটি জ্বলন্ত প্রমাণ। সুনির্দিষ্ট অভিযোগ ও প্রমাণাদি ছাড়া বাংলাদেশ সরকারের মন্ত্রী ও উর্দ্ধতন কর্মকর্তাদের বিরদ্ধে অভিযোগ এনে তা তদন্তের ফলাফল প্রাপ্তির আগেই একক সিদ্ধান্তে ওয়ার্ল্ড ব্যাংকের বিদায়ী প্রেসিডেন্ট জোয়েলিক পদ্মা সেতু প্রকল্পের কপালে কলংকের তীলক একে দিতে চাচ্ছে।
সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, যে জাতি মহাপরাক্রমশালী পরাশক্তির রক্তচক্ষুকে উপেক্ষা করে বুকের রক্ত দিয়ে দেশ স্বাধীন করে, আজ আবার বিশ্বের মন্দা অর্থনীতিতে টিকে থেকে ৬% এর উপরে জিডিপি অর্জনে সক্ষম হয়েছে, প্রয়োজনে নিজেদের অর্থে এবং কারও অন্যায় ও অনৈতিক চাপের কাছে মাথা নত না করে পদ্মা সেতু প্রকল্প বাস্তবায়ন করবে।
সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, বর্তমান বাংলাদেশের মহাজোট সরকার তাদের দো নির্বাচনী ওয়াদা ও জনগনের ম্যান্ডেট বাস্তবায়নে '৭১ এর নরঘাতক, যুদ্ধাপরাধী ও মানবতাবিরোধীদের বিচারের জন্যে বিশেষ ট্রাইবুনাল গঠন করে বিচারের কাজ চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে। শীর্র্ষ যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের রক্ষার জন্যে খালেদা জিয়ার নেতৃত্বে বিএনপি জামাত ও স্বাধীনতা বিরোধী শক্তি একজোট হয়ে আন্দোলন-সংগ্রামের নামে দেশে বিদেশে অরাজকতা সৃষ্টি ও গভীর ষড়যন্ত্রে লিপ্ত থেকে মিলিয়ন মিলিয়ন ডলার চুক্তির ভিত্তিতে ওয়াশিংটনে লবিষ্ট নিয়োগ করে সরকার উৎখাত ও বিচারাধীন যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের রক্ষায় অপচেষ্টা চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে। বীর বাঙালী মুক্তিযোদ্ধা, মুক্তিযোদ্ধার সন্তানেরা ও স্বাধীনতার স্বপক্ষের শক্তি ঐক্যবদ্ধভাবে সকল ষড়যন্ত্র প্রতিহত করবে ইনশাল্লাহ।
সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, বাঙালী জাতির প্রত্যাশিত মহান স্বাধীনতা প্রাপ্তির মাত্র সাড়ে তিন বছরের মাথায় অসর্তকতার সুযোগে স্বাধীনতা বিরোধী শক্তি তথাকথিত মুক্তিযোদ্ধা মেজর জিয়ার পরিকল্পনা ও ইঙ্গিতে জাতির পিতা বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবকে স্বপরিবারে হত্যা করে। জেল খানায় আটক চার জাতীয় নেতাকে হত্যা করে বাঙালীর স্বাধীনতার স্বাদ কেড়ে নিয়ে আবার বাংলাদেশকে পাকিস্তানী ভাবধারায় ফিরিয়ে নিয়ে স্বাধীনতার প্রতিশোধ নেয়। পরবর্তীতে খালেদা জিয়া সেই কুখ্যাত খুনী ফারুক, রশিদ ও ডালিমদের তার স্বামী জিয়াউর রহমানের পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণ করে তাদের পুরস্কৃত করে এবং যুদ্ধাপরাধী, রাজাকার আলবদরদের নিয়ে ষড়যন্ত্রের ও প্রহসনের নির্বাচনের নামে ক্ষমতার মসনদে বসে একে একে মুক্তিযোদ্ধা ও আওয়ামী লীগ নেতাদের হত্যার হোলি খেলায় লিপ্ত হয়। শুরু হয় শাহ এ এম এস কিবরীয়া, আহসান উল্লাহ মাষ্টার, মমতাজ উদ্দিন, মঞ্জরুল ইমামসহ একুশে আগষ্টের গ্রেনেড হামলার মাধ্যমে জননেত্রী শেখ হাসিনাসহ আওয়ামী লীগের সকল কেন্দ্রীয় নেতাদের হত্যার ঘৃন্য পরিকল্পনাকারীদের আজ বাংলার মাটিতে এই সকল হত্যাকান্ডের বিচার শুরু হয়েছে। খালেদা জিয়া আজ ভীত সন্ত্রস্থ। পালাবার পথ নেই ঘসেটি বেগমের। বাংলার মাটিতে খুনীদের বিচার হবেই ইনশাল্লাহ।
সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে নেতৃবৃন্দ বলেন, বাংলাদেশ ও বাঙালী জাতির বিরুদ্ধে এই ষড়যন্ত্র নতুন নয়। বঙ্গবন্ধুকন্য জননেত্রী শেখ হাসিনার নেতৃত্বে ও মহাজোট সরকারের ঐক্যবদ্ধ প্রচেষ্ঠায় বাংলাদেশ এবার এগিয়ে যাবে। আপনারা সমাজের বিবেক, আলোর পথ প্রদর্শক, সত্য উচ্চারনের সাহসী যোদ্ধা। সরকারের যে কোন অনিয়ম দূনীর্তি প্রমাণ সাপেক্ষে তুলে ধরে ন্যায়সঙ্গত সমালোচনা করুন। ভালো কাজের প্রশংসা ও তোষামোদকারীদের বিরুদ্ধে স্বোচ্ছার হউন। আপনাদের লেখনিতে ও বস্তুনিষ্ট সংবাদ প্রকাশের মধ্য দিয়ে বাংলাদেশের সকল গ্লানী ও অপবাদ মুছে ফেলে আসুন আমরা বীর বাঙালী জাতির সৌর্য্যবির্য্যের গৌরব গাথা বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবের সোনার বাংলা গড়ে তুলি। কোটি কোটি বাঙালীর হাত হোক কর্মের হাতিয়ার, ধুয়ে মুছে নিপাত যাক সকল ষড়যন্ত্রকারী ও স্বাধীনতা বিরোধী শক্তি।
 



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[mukto-mona] Comments I made Re: When is a Genocide not a genocide in FP



             International Criminal Courts are not faring very well for a variety of reasons. Recently in Den Hague Dr. Radovan Karadzic was let off  of one count of genocide.  We should follow that news closely in order to deepen our understanding of Bangladesh genocide of 1971.  Please read the following comments after Michael Dobbs article briefly reporting the Karadzic ruling. My posts are made in the name of 'bougheyfm'.
 
                                             Farida Majid (Boughey)


http://dobbs.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/28/when_is_a_genocide_not_a_genocide


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jpmaher
jpmaher22 pts
On his visit to Lazarevo Dobbs remarks that it is mere Serb propaganda that Islamic Bosnia was out to restore Islam with a new Ottoman state in the Balkans. Izetbegovic used the war book of Hezbollah, was in Teheran on more than one occasion, by way of Vienna and Istanbul, in preparation for the renewal of jihad. Izetbegovic wrote in Islamic Declararion:  "There can be no coexistence between Islamic social institutions and non-Islamic institutions and must take over as soon as the faithful are numerically strong enough. Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of non-Islamic ideology in its territory.  Therefore, there can be no secularism, and the state should be an expression and support of the moral concepts of the Islamic religion..."
alexp1
Michael Dobbs with limited education,reminds me of a thief,who got caught,denying it.Genocide is a term used to denote the wanton killing of innocent ,unarmed,women,children,old people,who CANT DEFEND THEMSELVES.The UNARMED is the key issue.Thats what the turkees did,going house to house removing firearms.It is a planned annihilation.
bougheyfm
 alexp1   UNARMED is not a sufficient criteria for 'innocence'.  I used to describe victims of genocide as "innocent, unarmed women children and men" but, as I learned more about "laws of war," I no longer use that language.  An unarmed 9-yr old boy can act as an informant, and even for a mere whistle from his lips he can be killed by the enemy force -- and that killing will not count as a "war crime."  Nowadays I talk of the victims of genocide in a war of aggression as "non-threatening, and non-combative civilians."
                   "Planned annihilation" of a group of people by another group requires a racial/ ethnic hatred to spark off the planning part of it.  The bedrock of all racism is an imagined "justification" for the cruel, inhuman actions of the annihilators.  The justification is accompanied by a certain amount of fantasized, sentimentalized self-description of being the 'injured party' and possessing the racial purity (blonde-haired, blue-eyed yoemen folkdancing innocently at village Bierfests -- according to Nazi propaganda of 1938, for instance).
 
                   Just scroll down and read 'AndyWilcoxson'  responses describing the Serbs as the 'injured party', and why all War Crimes Tribunals in the world should be criticized for being politically motivated.
AndyWilcoxson
 bougheyfm  alexp1 Are you suggesting that politically motivated war crimes prosecutions are OK, or that double standards have a place in international justice?
Gosteljski
Are you blind, man?
 
As you know, the crimes of genocide cannot be outdated; they are liable to persecution forever.
If the International Court of Justice (or ICTY) considers that the killing of prisoners of war can be regarded as a crime of genocide, then what about thousands of German POW killed by Allied Forces without trial during the Second World War?
 
The Headquarter of the 328th US Army Infantry Regiment, issued an order on December 21, 1944:
"No SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight."
 
KonstantineLa
This article really opened my eyes up<a href="http://sideeffectsadderall.org/">.</a>
bougheyfm
  AndyWilcoxson conteds that  "they did it also, why blame us only" is a valid criticism of the ICTY or any other war crimes tribunal.  I do not think so. This exactly where the usefulness of the definition of Genocide kicks in.
<< Genocide is defined as mass killing or other acts with "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ethnical, racial or religious group." In other words, it is not enough to murder a large number of people. In order to be convicted of genocide, you must also be shown to have "genocidal intent." >>
 
             Without the "genocidal intent" the ethnic conflict-generated crimes such as destruction of churches and other atrocities can be counted and tried as municipal crimes.  Then there is the context of violating "laws of war" which opens up legal considerations of victimizing unarmed, non-threatening and non-combatant civilians.
 
               Most of 20th century warfare, no matter what the larger politico-economic ambitions or maneuverings had been, broke out on the surface as ethnic conflicts.  While we cannot make the world safe from all future wars, we can, at the very least, palliate the wounds suffered by the victims of conflicts that caused genocide and crimes against humanity by bringing the perpetrators to justice.  War Crimes Tribunals have the means to throw in view the real contours of human suffering against the nebulous claims of racial superiority, ethnic purity, or religious obligations.
AndyWilcoxson
 bougheyfm 
What evidence do you have of Serbian genocidal intent? It seems to me that all of the belligerents carried out ethnic cleansing campaigns for the purpose of securing political control over the territories they sought to control by removing the civilian population of the opposing side through acts designed to engender fear and intimidation.
 
What evidence do you have that Serb forces who engaged in ethnic cleansing were uniquely motivated by an "intent to destroy in whole or in part a national ethnical racial or religious group as such", but that Croatian, Muslim, and Albanian forces who engaged in exactly the same practice did so for different reasons than the Serbs did?
 
If you're going to make the allegation that only the Serbs had genocidal intent, then I think you're obliged to explain the basis for that claim.
JTS_pinky
The Chamber's oral ruling was delivered pursuant to Rule 98 bis of the Tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence which provides that at the close of the Prosecutor's case, the Trial Chamber shall, by oral decision, and after hearing the oral submissions of the parties, enter a judgement of acquittal on any count if there is no evidence capable of supporting a conviction.

The Chamber found that whilst the evidence it had heard indicates that the circumstances in which the Bosnian Muslims and/or Bosnian Croats in the Municipalities were forcibly transferred or displaced from their homes were attended by conditions of great hardship and suffering, and that some of those displaced may have suffered serious bodily or mental harm during this process, this evidence does not rise to the level which could sustain a conclusion that the serious bodily or mental harm suffered by those forcibly transferred in the Municipalities was attended by such circumstances as to lead to the death of the whole or part of the displaced population for the purposes of the actus reus for genocide.
This represents a 180-degree U-turn from the Trial Chamber's decision eight years ago over Slobodan Milosevic. On 16 June 2004, in 'Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic: Decision on Motion for Judgement of Acquittal', the Trial Chamber refused to acquit Milosevic on the same grounds, and ruled:
246. On the basis of the inference that may be drawn from this evidence, a Trial Chamber could be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that there existed a joint criminal enterprise, which included members of the Bosnian Serb leadership, whose aim and intention was to destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim population, and that genocide was in fact committed in Brcko, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Srebrenica, Bijeljina, Kljuc and Bosanski Novi. The genocidal intent of the Bosnian Serb leadership can be inferred from all the evidence, including the evidence set out in paragraphs 238 -245. The scale and pattern of the attacks, their intensity, the substantial number of Muslims killed in the seven municipalities, the detention of Muslims, their brutal treatment in detention centres and elsewhere, and the targeting of persons essential to the survival of the Muslims as a group are all factors that point to genocide.
247. Having examined the evidence, the Trial Chamber finds no evidence of genocide in Kotor Varos.

323. With respect to the Amici Curiae submissions concerning genocide, the Trial Chamber, except for its holding in paragraph 324, DISMISSES the Motion and holds that there is sufficient evidence that
(1) there existed a joint criminal enterprise, which included members of the Bosnian Serb leadership, the aim and intention of which was to destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslims as a group, and that its participants committed genocide in Brcko, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Srebrenica, Bijeljina, Kljuc and Bosanski Novi;
(2) the Accused [Slobodan Milosevic] was a participant in that joint criminal enterprise, Judge Kwon dissenting ;
(3) the Accused was a participant in a joint criminal enterprise, which included members of the Bosnian Serb leadership, to commit other crimes than genocide and it was reasonably foreseeable to him that, as a consequence of the commission of those crimes, genocide of a part of the Bosnian Muslims as a group would be committed by other participants in the joint criminal enterprise, and it was committed;
(4) the Accused aided and abetted or was complicit in the commission of the crime of genocide in that he had knowledge of the joint criminal enterprise, and that he gave its participants substantial assistance, being aware that its aim and intention was the destruction of a part of the Bosnian Muslims as group;
(5) the Accused was a superior to certain persons whom he knew or had reason to know were about to commit or had committed genocide of a part of the Bosnian Muslims as a group, and he failed to take the necessary measures to prevent the commission of genocide, or punish the perpetrators thereof.
 
324. The Trial Chamber finds no evidence that genocide was committed in Kotor Varos.
The contradiction between the Trial Chamber's rulings over Milosevic in 2004 and Karadzic in 2012 indicates that it is not operating on the basis of consistent legal principles, and suggests a change of policy. A full analysis of the reasons behind this shift will have to await the Tribunal's publication of the text of its decision.
 
 
The list of failures, retreats, betrayals and unethical compromises has only grown over the years: the failure even to indict most of the principal members of the Joint Criminal Enterprise from Serbia and Montenegro – Veljko Kadijevic, Blagoje Adzic, Momir Bulatovic, Borisav Jovic, Branko Kostic and others; the failure to indict anyone at all for the destruction of the Croatian town of Vukovar; the indictment of only six officials in total from Serbia and Montenegro for war-crimes in Bosnia, and the conviction to date of only one of them; the sentencing of Republika Srpska vice-president Biljana Plavsic to only eleven years in prison, without making her testify, and her release after serving only seven years, despite her withdrawal of her acknowledgement of guilt; the censoring of the minutes of the Supreme Defence Council, preventing their use by Bosnia in its case against Serbia at the International Court of Justice; the prosecution of the ICTY's own former chief prosecutor's spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann, for having the temerity to reveal its dubious underhand dealings.
jpmaher
 JTS_pinky
 Vukovar. I was there twice in April 1994. The Orthodox church of St Nicholas had been dynamited in situ by Croatian gunmen befire 18 NOV 1991. The building was  too dangerous to enter. The bombs were laid by Croatian "defenders", who were not Vukovar citizens, but  a rabble from the nazi heartland of Herzegovina. The pastor told me that Catholic priests participated, packing heat... A thousand Serbs, including children, were ritualistically slaughtered.  BTW I am by descent, citizebship and upbringing Irish  America Catholic.-- Croatian president Tudjman on 19 NOV 1991 proclaimed Vukovar "Croatia's Stalingrad". Croats were the Germans in this re-run.@
AndyWilcoxson
The thing to remember about the ICTY's findings is that they're guided by political concerns, and not by an objective evaluation of the evidence. Convicting Karadzic of genocide in "the municipalities" would have set a politically sensitive precedent and I would surmise that that's why they didn't do it.
 
What the Serbs did in "the municipalities" is the same as what the Croats, Muslims, and Kosovo-Albanians did to the Serbs in the territories that they controlled. Serbian places of worship were destroyed, their homes were torched, people were killed and beaten, and Serbs fled from those areas in terror.
 
If the Tribunal had found that the Bosnian-Serbs were guilty of genocide in "the municipalities", then it would have been extremely difficult to explain why Croats, Muslims, and Kosovo-Albanians weren't prosecuted and convicted of genocide when they did the same kinds of things to Serbs in Kosovo south of the Ibar river, in the Krajina in Croatia, and in the FBiH in Bosnia.
 
The whole point of convicting Serb officials of "genocide" is to stigmatize them and justify the military aggression of the NATO governments who not only bombed the Serbs, but who also provide most of the finance for the Tribunal's operations. Convicting our Muslim, Croat, and Kosovo-Albanian allies of genocide would undermine the propaganda value of convicting Serbian officials.
 
The Srebrenica massacre is the one and only incident of large-scale organized killing to happen anywhere in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, and so setting a precedent with regard to it isn't as problematic, which is why I think they've opted to attach the "genocide" label to it and not to other instances of ethnic cleansing.
 
However, the problem they have with Srebrenica is that the massacre obviously wasn't motivated by genocidal intent, as evidenced by the fact that the massacre victims were almost all soldiers and military aged men. The identity of the massacre victims strongly suggests that the group targeted for destruction was the 28th Infantry Division of the ABiH, and not the Bosnian-Muslim ethnic group as such.
Bosniansurvivor
 AndyWilcoxson Mr WilCockSun with his bullshit again.
bougheyfm
 Bosniansurvivor  AndyWilcoxson   I smell the bs.  It is the same argument against the trial of War Criminals going on elsewhere in the world -- "they did it also, why blame us only".  The following is totally unacceptable and downright spiteful:
"Convicting our Muslim, Croat, and Kosovo-Albanian allies of genocide would undermine the propaganda value of convicting Serbian officials."
AndyWilcoxson
 bougheyfm  Bosniansurvivor Bosniansurvivor  
 
Would you care to tell me what happened to almost two-thirds of Croatia's Serbian population, what happened to almost 90% of the Serbian population in the BiH Federation, or what happened to almost the entire Serbian population of Kosovo south of the Ibar river? Hundreds of Serbian churches were destroyed, thousands of Serbian houses were torched, scores of Serbs were murdered, and hundreds of thousands of Serbs were forced out of their homes. Serbia has more refugees in it than any other country in Europe. To argue that ethnic cleansing is only genocidal when it's done by Serbs, but not when it's done to Serbs is hypocrisy.
 
You might not like it, but "they did it also, why blame us only" is a valid criticism of the ICTY or any other war crimes tribunal. If a war crimes tribunal exaggerates the crimes committed by one party to the conflict and ignores or downplays crimes committed by the other factions, then that war crimes trubunal is biased. If there isn't neutrality in the dispensing of justice, then justice isn't being done by the Tribunal.
 
Also, whether you like it or not, the ICTY's findings have political ramifications. Singling the Serbs out as the only faction guilty of genocide benefits the NATO governments who provide most of the finance for the ICTY's operations. Singling out the Serbs for condemnation provides political justification for the fact that NATO bombed the Serbs and nobody else.
 
If the ICTY were to find that Albanians, Croats, and Muslims were guilty of genocide too then it wouldn't be as useful to it's NATO benefactors.
 
Don't you think it's interesting that nobody from NATO was prosecuted by the Tribunal for bombing Radio-Television Serbia and killing 16 people in Belgrade, yet Gen. Milosevic was prosecuted and convicted for firing on RTV Sarajevo on 28 June 1995 when only one person was killed. How is it that attacking a TV station in Sarajevo and killing one person is a war crime, but attacking a TV station and killing 16 people in Belgrade isn't?
 
The purpose of the ICTY is to create propaganda for NATO. If it became a political liability to NATO it would cease to exist.AndyWilcoxson

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@michaeldobbs Killing of able-bodied POW cannot be labeled as genocide; and without killing women and children you can't annihilate genus
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