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Before the alleged July 1995 massacre, falsely claiming 8,000 Muslim Bosniak deaths, Srebrenica-based Muslim forces carried out numerous attacks on nearby Serb villages.
Muslim Sarajevo officials withdrew their Srebrenica commanders, leaving thousands of soldiers leaderless.
When Bosnian Serb forces captured Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, civilians wanted to leave because of chaotic conditions.
Women and children were separated from men to locate perpetrators of raids on Serb villages and take revenge.
A small number alone were detained. Alleged Srebrenica victims reflected lies and half-truths based on what's known - reality omitted in official and major media accounts to this day.
The 8,000 number included the Red Cross estimate of 3,000 "witnesses" allegedly detained by Bosnian Serbs, along with another 5,000 the Red Cross said "fled Srebrenica," many to Central Bosnia.
They fled for safety and weren't killed. Years later, forensic teams discovered 2,361 bodies where heavy fighting occurred - including combatants on both sides, not massacred civilians.
Milosevic, Karadzic, and Mladic were falsely considered guilty by accusation.
Injustice against them was and remains typical of how imperial USA and its imperial partners blame victims for crimes committed against them.
Milosevic didn't survive the ordeal, perishing from willful medical neglect - posthumously exonerated when it was too late to matter.
Balkanized Yugoslavia is a shadow of its former self, its people exploited by punishing neoliberal harshness - victimized by the scourge of US imperialism.
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