Death squad sentences: A turning point for Serbia?
Four Serb paramilitaries who were filmed shooting dead six young Bosnian Muslims have been jailed by Serbia's war crimes court.The leader of the Scorpions unit and an accomplice were given 20 years, while the other two received 13 and five years.The trial was the first in Serbia to deal with the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995. It was also the biggest war crimes trial to date of Serbs by Serbs. What is your reaction to the sentences? How significant are they? Can Serbia, and Bosnia, now move on? Send us your comments.
Published: Tuesday, 10 April
Here is a link to the debate that followed--very interesting the comments are, as Yoda would say....
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6012&&&edition=2&ttl=20070412001532
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Before there was Iraq II (its own little piece of history), there were the conflicts in the countries of the "ex-Yugoslavia." Now Kosovo is exploding again, and it seems as if all the media and the pundits can do is rehash the old stories while new bodies pile up. Here is a place where we will attempt to give you a sense of the bigger picture.
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