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Official accounts portrayed "a one-sided conflict between a Serbian 'fascist aggressor' and innocent victims, all unarmed civilians."
Unexplained was that Srebrenica was a Muslim military base, besides a refugee "safe area." Slobodan Milosevic, in fact, wanted Serb forces restrained from overrunning it. In addition:
-- before the July 1995 attack, Srebrebica-based Muslim forces "carried out murderous attacks on nearby Serb villages;"
-- Muslim Sarajevo officials withdrew their Srebrenica commanders, "leaving thousands of....soldiers (leaderless), without orders, and in total confusion when the foreseeable Serb attack occurred;"
-- when "Bosnian Serb forces captured (Srebrenica) on July 11, 1995," civilians wanted to leave because normality there didn't exist;
-- separating women and children from men was, in fact, done to find "the perpetrators of raids on Serb villages (to) take revenge;" and
-- yet only a small number "were detained at that point;" some, in fact, survived.
The alleged Srebrenica victim count reflected lies and half-truths based on what's known but omitted in official and major media accounts. The 8,000 number included the Red Cross estimate of 3,000 "witnesses," allegedly detained by Bosnian Serbs, as well as another 5,000 Red Cross accounts said "fled Srebrenica, some of whom reached Central Bosnia."
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