pure and simple. they basically took overcome muntimun over communities and starved the men and raped the women. muslims didn t have anyone to protect them so the serbia people would drive them, round them up and push them in a ditch. in one camp they practiced a game every night and the idea was to call the bosnia muslim prisoners out and tell them to turn their back and the serb guard would see if he could chop them in half with an ax. they were completely dehumanized by another human being. you go how does this happen? the fighting in bosnia was
released from constraints of working with the soviet union. we saw countries establish independence and they impacted on you can slov ya. decided we ll take back territory that was ours thousands of years ago and redefine the lines between bosnia, serbia but what happens is everyone starts seeing the lines drawn differently. you had the muslims, you had the serbs which were orthodox. years and years of cultural divides and penalty up anger were unleashing. and the serb dictator talked about serb ethnic pride for years which deepened the
the dayton accords stopped the warring elements. it did not include people who were war criminals to take off your uniform, give yourself up, you need to be arrested. none of that took place. you had a guy like general kristic that atrocities wiped the slate clean and he s a credible commanding general that committed genocide. so the muslims kept asking themselves where is the justice? what we recognized and what they were insiassistant on was couldn t have peace without justice. and so the justice meant identifying the perpetrators of the war crimes so they could be turned over to the criminal tribun tribunal. it s a location of a lot of international justice agencies associated with the united nations. the icty, the international
within 30 seconds he s heading off to a classified air field. he s handed over to a comptive authority from the hague. they identified him; confirmed it was him before he got on the plane to fly to court in the in thor netherlands. when it was successful, i was extremely happy. it was quiet, seamless almost like magic. suddenly, he s taken, he s shown as in detention and they say how did they do that? hey, we talked to him 15 minutes before this. he was fine. how did they go get him? the plane carrying general kristic arrived in the southern netherlands on saturday. he s believed to have led soldiers to massacre thousands of muslims. this was the biggest deal so far because he was the highest-ranking individual who had been personally indicted for
divisions. it was a concern that because the muslims were the majority in bosnia, there would be a muslim nation in the middle of what was formal formally uk slov ya. the bosnia government claimed the majority voted for independence. when bosnia claimed ind independence in 1992, the bosnia muslims weren t trained or equipped and the serbs had the weapons and the serbs who struck. the united states did not get involved because this is a civil war happening in bosnia. at the time, the united states felt that the europeans ought to play a role. why does the united states have to deal with this?