Dear Sir/Madam Herby,
we invite You to read attached document which condemns proposition of the Serbian President Tadic on Srebrenica. Please feel free to comment.
Bearing in mind that this petition shall be presented to the President next week please sign it and return to the sender as soon as possible.
My best regards,
Ana Milosevic
president
ing.ana.milosevic@gmail.com
European Development Centre
Italy
Tel. +393896812729

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT BORIS TADIĆ AND THE SERBIAN PARLIAMENT:
DO NOT GAMBLE WITH YOUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE!
NO TO THE SREBRENICA RESOLUTION

Dear Mr. President and honorable deputies,

As concerned American and European intellectuals and citizens, we
call on you to seriously reconsider the plan to adopt a parliamentary resolution
that would treat the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 as a paradigmatic event
of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in doing so to use language that could be
interpreted as Serbia’s acceptance of responsibility for “genocide.”

The execution of Moslem prisoners in July of 1995, after Bosnian Serb
forces took over Srebrenica, was a war crime, but it is by no means a
paradigmatic event. The informed public in Western countries knows that, at
that time, forces attributed to the Republic of Srpska executed in three days
approximately as many Moslems as Moslem forces, raiding surrounding
Serbian villages out of Srebrenica, had murdered during the preceding three
years. There is nothing to set one crime apart from the other, except that its
commission was more condensed in time. In a vicious civil war, in which all
sides commit crimes, all innocent victims are entitled to compassion but the
victims of one ethnic group should have no special moral claim to unique
recognition. Putting the suffering of one group on a pedestal necessarily
derogates from the right of the other group – in this case Serbian noncombatants
in the devastated villages surrounding the enclave of Srebrenica –
to an equal measure of sympathy.

More importantly, what really happened in Srebrenica in July of 1995
is an issue that is still not settled, or why it occurred, and who was behind it.
The accepted version of events, shaped mainly by war propaganda and
hyperbolic media reports, is becoming increasingly obsolete because it is being
vigorously questioned and reassessed by critical thinkers in the Western world.
Much reliable information on these events is still unavailable and needs to be
researched, but without it responsible conclusions on the nature and scope of
the Srebrenica massacre cannot be drawn. Both the event’s alleged scope and
its legal description as “genocide” are intensely in dispute. It would therefore
be very unwise for Serbia and its parliament to formally commit themselves to
a version of events that is thin on evidence but long on moral and political
implications that are extremely detrimental to Serbia and its people.

We are also troubled by the prospect of Serbia and its parliament might
accept the thesis that the massacre in Srebrenica, regrettable as it may be,
amounts to “genocide.” That would unpardonably diminish genuine genocide
as a phenomenon of the 20th century, of which the Holocaust of the Jewish
people and the mass extermination campaigns against Armenians, Kurds, and
the Roma are some outstanding examples.

We are concerned that the politicisation of human suffering and the
frivolous usage of the grave legal category of genocide greatly cheapens these
important concepts and constitutes an undeserved insult to innocent victims of
political violence everywhere in the world.

Not only would Serbia, by an act of its own parliament, put itself in the
same league with Nazi Germany if such a resolution were passed. It would also
sanctify at Serbia's extreme disadvantage a propaganda narrative whose key
components are factually unsupported. It would implicitly endorse the view
that the Republic of Srpska was built on genocide and thus endanger its further
existence and play into the hands of those pressuring for the centralisation of
Bosnia. Finally, it would expose Serbian taxpayers to the possibility of a multi
billion euro suit for damages which they are ill equipped at the present moment
to pay [and have no obligation to do so, for that matter].

For all these reasons, we appeal to you to refrain from passing the
projected Srebrenica resolution. If you feel it your duty to perform an act of
public compassion toward the victims of the Bosnian war, we recommend as
the only proper method that you pass a single resolution, written in ethnically
neutral language, encompassing all of the victims and honoring them equally.
Signed:

Prof. Edward Herman, academic, United States
Jurgen Elsaesser, author and journalist, Germany
Germinal Čivikov, author and journalist, the Netherlands
Alexander Dorin, author, Switzerland
Prof. Alexander Mezyaev, Russian Federation
Eckart Spoo, journalist and publicist, Germany
Diana Johnstone, political analyst and writer, United States and France
Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, philosopher and humanist, Belgium
Klaus von Raussendorff, ex-diplomat and publicist, Bonn/Germany
Klaus Hartmann, Chairman of the German Freethinkers Association,
Vice president of World Union of Freethinkers, Germany
Cathrin Schutz, journalist, political scientist, Author of "Der NATO-Krieg
gegen Jugoslawien. Hintergrunde, Nebenwirkungen und Folgen"
(Braumuller Verlag, Wien), Germany
Prof. Dr. Velko Valkanov, president, National Peace Council of Bulgaria,
Bulgaria
Nikola Zivkovic, author and political analyst, Germany
Dr. Patrick Barriot, political scientist, France
Michele Altamura, journalist and political commentator, Italy
Christopher Black, barrister, Canada
Jonathan Rooper, ex-political analyst for BBC, independent journalist,
Great Britain
Danilo Zolo, professor of Philosophy of International Law, Law
Department, University of Florence, Italy
Theodosios Kyriakidis, Director of the St. George Peristereota Research
Centre, Greece
Ing. Bernhard Frerichs, Nemacka
Dirk Frerichs, student elektronike u Nemackoj Darmstadt
Ing. Jan-Hendrik, Frerichs, Nemacka
Ing. Ina Frerichs, Arhitekta, Nemacka
Ing. Seidel Klaus, Russelsheim, Nemacka
Reiner Bingel, tehnicar, Taunusstein, Nemacka
Hodt Otti, med. sestra, Gro. Gerau, Nemacka
Ing. Dirksmeier Klaus, Berlin, Nemacka
Ing. Davide Braga, Italy
Ing. Marco Bellini, vice-president , European Development Centre,
independent think-tank, Italy
Lina Bertorello, Italy
Ing. Antonio Tassone, Belgium
Maria Melkova, free-lance translator, Russia
Andrey Migalin, artist, Russia


Additional remarks suggested by Professor Edward Herman: “(1) When
is the EU going to insist on an apology to Serbs from Croatia and the United
States and UN for Operations Flash and Storm, which involved the greatest
ethnic cleansing operations in the Balkan wars, and ones where, in contrast
with others, the victims have never been able to return?; (2) when will the EU
and NATO apologize to the Kosovo Serbs for the greatest "proportionate"
ethnic cleansing of the Yugoslav wars carried out under NATO auspices after
June 10, 1999? (and to the Roma for their ethnic victimization in the same
period?); (3) when will the EU and United States apologize for introducing Al
Qaeda into Bosnia and Europe to fight (and behead) Serbs, as described in
detail in "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al Qaida, and the Rise of Global Jihad," by
John R. Schindler, Professor at the U.S. National War College and former
National Security Council specialist in Bosnia?”

Additional remarks suggested by Prof. Daniel Salvatore Schieffer:
“Io firmo certo questo appello, in nome della giustizia per tutti popoli della
Bosnia-Herzegovina, e quindi anche dei Serbi, che hanno certo diritto allo
stesso trattamento morale et legale degli altri. Questo principio fa parte
dell'articolo numero 1 della carta dellle Nazioni Unite dei diritti dell'uomo.”

Additional remarks suggested by Prof. Alex Mezyaev:
"Та форма и методы, которые использованы МТБЮ и Международным
судом ООН для признания геноцида в Сребренице в июле 1995 года лишь
подчёркивают отсутствие реальных доказательств вины сербских
военных и сербских властей. В этих условиях принятие резолюции
означает выступление на стороне антисербских сил. "

Additional remarks suggested by barrister Christopher Black:
“It is necessary to include a demand for an admission by all Nato countries that
they committed war crimes against the people of Serbia in the massive aerial
bombardment of the spring of 1999 in which all rules of war were broken
and that the final agreement to cease that bombardment by allowing Nato
forces to occupy Kosovo was forced on the Serbian government under threat
of the mass murder of the the people of Belgrade by American B52's which
threat was made to president Milosevic and others by Mssrs. Athisaari and
Chernomyrdin as agents of the USA; a threat in which they promised to kill
500,000 people in Belgrade and flatten the city unless the terms they
presented were accepted. Srebrinica, even if the Nato propaganda were true
(which I do not accept) pales in comparison against such terror.”

Additional remarks suggested by Professor Velko Valkanov:
“Решително не мога да се съглася, че това, което стана в Сребреница,
може да бъде квалифицирано като геноцид. Това бе трагичен епизод от
една гражданска война, която враждебни на сръбския народ сили
разпалиха. Заставам твърдо зад един протест срещу евентуалното
признаване на някакъв геноцид в Сребреница.”

kao ni da trazim izvinjenje od prvog Hrvata kojeg sretnem zbog Jasenovca, NDH, Mesica...

Надам се да Тадић никада неће прихватити ову резолуцију.