Massacre Was Anti-Serb Plot, Milosevic Argues
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic said mercenaries directed by Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Muslim leaders and French spies orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a plot to bring world wrath on the Serbs. “They agreed to have this crime committed--to abandon Srebrenica and to carry out this slaughter,” he charged.
Milosevic is on trial at The Hague on genocide charges; one count involves Srebrenica, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II. More than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were slain after Serbian forces overran a U.N. “safe area” in the Bosnian town.
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