From: draskovi@usc.edu (Zoran Draskovic)
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Subject: Torture
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:50:56 GMT
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                        TESTIMONY BY U.S. PHYSICIAN: 
                        DR MACNAMARA: "I WAS SHOCKED"

        "I was shocked and horrified by the savagery that muslim
and
mujahedin irregulars carried out on captured members of the Serb
militia in Bosnia-Herzegovina", wrote the American physician
Kenneth Macnamara in a letter sent to the Serbian national
defence council in Illinois. In that letter, forwarded to Tanjug
yesterday, dr. Macnamara adds that his horror was all the more
greater since western newsmen who were in that area did not
report of these facts.
        Dr. Kenneth Macnamara of Fairmont, California, went to
Sarajevo last august as a member of a group of the Irish Medical
Organization. For two weeks he worked in the Sarajevo "Kosevo"
hospital.
        Dr. Macnamara's letter with his testimony on the bestiality
of muslim forces, the consequences of which, as he says, he could
see on surviving members of the Serb militia and while performing
post mortems on victims' corpses, was sent to the State
Department.
        Stating that the situation in Sarajevo was particularly
difficult during his stay when the city was bombarded and
shelled, dr. Macnamara adds that the "violence and mangling
inflicted upon captured members of the Serb militia by muslim
forces was almost indescribable".
        In dr. Macnamara's words, he himself did not attend the
commission of the crimes. However, there is firm and irrefutable
medical evidence, he says, that injuries and mangling were
inflicted deliberately by muslim and mujahedin irregulars.
        Dr. Kenneth Macnamara then proceeds to give examples of the
bestiality committed by members of muslim forces. "Are you aware
of the fact that members of muslim forces and their allies, the
mujahedins from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, mangled the
genitals of captured Serb militiamen as a rule in a most savage
way", asks dr. Macnamara. "I was horrified and deeply shocked
when I found myself before that unnecessary, unjustified and
brutal act of violence".
        "In my l2-year long surgical carreer i haven't seen
anything
like this deliberate mangling of healthy young men", adds dr.
Macnamara. 
        He claims that during his work in the "Kosevo" hospital as
a member of a red cross medical team he was in charge of 29
patients, members of the Serb militia who had undergone
"ruthless, unmedical circumcision while in muslim prisons".
        "In my understanding, muslim forces and mujahedins
routinely
circumcised captured Serb soldiers, whereby the word
"circumcised" is in fact a euphemism for what the muslims did,"
says dr. Macnamara. In his statement, it was an "abhorrent and
absolutely uncivilized practice", which calls for condemnation
by the world community.
Dr. Macnamara warns that, despite the best possible medical
treatment and specialist care, many of the victims will be
sexually impotent and will suffer from incurable physical
consequences and mental traumas. "Some of the mangling I saw,
looks like a real butchery".
        Dr. Kenneth Macnamara states that he personally attended
post mortems on the corpses of five Serb soldiers, shot and
castrated. In those cases, describes dr. Macnamara, their
genitals were cut off and put in the victims' mouths. The
american doctor points to the case of an 18-year-old Serb,
treated by dr. Macnamara's medical team, who had been so brutally
circumcised that in the end his sexual organ had to be
amputated".
        "Until recently U.S. Media were silent on these cases,"
says
dr. Macnamara. He adds that it was only in a CBS news coverage
on 2 October that some of the numerous bestialities carried out
by muslim forces against Serbs were reported.
        Dr. Kenneth Macnamara works in a California Medical
Research
Centre. With four other members from the Irish medical team who
were with him in Sarajevo, he is now preparing an extensive
report on his work in the "Kosevo" hospital.("Politika", oct. 31)

                        BISHOP VASILIJE WARNS: 
        "THIRTY ORTHODOX TEMPLES RAZED TO THE GROUND"

        Reverend Vasilije, Bishop of the Zvornik-Tuzla eparchy,
informed the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church that 30
orthodox temples in his eparchy were razed to the ground, two of
them only recently completed and not yet consecrated.
        "Temples in the eparchy," reports Bishop Vasilije, "outside
combat areas were deliberately blown up and disappeared from the
face of the earth in the following localities: Pribojevici,
Krnici, Srebrenica (cathedral church and the graveyard chapel
built after World War Two), Derventa, Bosanski Luzani (both the
old and new church), Polje, Zboriste, Bosanski Sijekovac,
Lijesce, Visnak, Vrelo, Svilaj, Gnionica, Podgajevi, Kladanj,
Pozarnica, Jeginov Lug (not yet consecrated), Jasenica, Dubnica,
Bosanska Bijela, Cerik, Modrica, Gradacac, Krecane, Maglaj and
Kostres (the village church and the graveyard chapel not yet
consecrated)." Bishop Vasilije informs the Holy Synod that, in
addition to the said 30 churches that have been razed to the
ground, another 7 churches in his eparchy have been so damaged
that service in them is impossible, while in 13 churches service
is possible despite substantial damage. 14 parochial homes have
been levelled and 6 damaged, reports the Bishop of the Zvornik-
Tuzla Eparchy, adding that both orthodox temples in Tuzla have
been damaged, as well as the episcopal seat which was also looted
on two occasions, while the central church community building was
shelled.("Politika", oct 31)