From: na0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nenad Antonic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: State Dept. confirms 3,000 Muslims massacred in Serbian camps
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:34:44 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	After so many massacres of innocent Serbs by bloodthirsty
`Green Berets' in Bosnia, reported by impartial Serbian media, and
kindly translated by Mr. Zoran Draskovic, let me just mention this
biased report by UPI of even more biased US State Department
assessment. Those people at State Department must have been totally
ignorant, because from the articles translated from Borba, Politika, etc.
it is clear that such concentration camps were operated only by
Croatian Ustashas.
	I  suggest you to read the text below just to see how lucky are
those who read only Vecernje novosti, Politika ekspres and Borba, and
who do not have to be upset by lies like those below.
	Continue with good work, Mr. Draskovic, and hopefully even
those ignorants at CIA and US State Department will finally understand 
that, in fact, Moslem-Slav forces under Izetbegovi\'c's command keep
Sarajevo under the siege, while Serb fighters are trying to break the siege 
and bring food and medical supplies to the starving population.

	Regards

			Nenad Antoni\'c.
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	LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Serbian nationalists systematically massacred
about 3,000 Muslims in two Bosnian detention camps, secretly cremating
and disposing of the bodies in a rendering plant, the Los Angeles Times
reported Sunday.
	The newspaper said the State Department now deems credible eyewitness
reports of the mass killings last May, according to senior U.S.
officials.
	``This could have been happening in other places too,'' one State
Department official said, although he doubted that such killings were
taking place today ``given the exposure that has taken place since
August.''
	The State Department reports, obtained by American diplomats,
generally confirm and amplify eyewitness accounts of the killings
published last August in New York Newsday.
	Officials said the State Departement last week obtained graphic,
first-person accounts of the killings at two Serbian detentian camps
operated at a brick factory and a pig farm near the Bosnian town of
Brcko, about 75 miles north of Sarajevo.
	The Brcko killings were carried out under the direction of an
ultranationalist Serb leader known as Vojislav Seselj and one who goes
by the single name Arkan.
	Based on the reports, a senior State Department official told the
Times, acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger urged the United
Nations last week to establish a commission to investigate the war
crimes in Bosnia.
	A State Department official said American diplomats interviewed a
number of former prisoners of the camps at Brcko.
	``Many people were killed, in groups of up to 50 at a time,'' the
State Department official said. ``A total of about 3,000 people -- men,
women and children -- were killed in the camps at Brcko.''
	The official said at least some of the prisoners were beaten and
tortured before they were killed.
	One of the former prisoners at the camp told U.S. diplomats that ``he
several times had to transfer dead people to an animal rendering plant,
where they secretly cremated bodies at night to evade detection,'' the
senior State Department official said.
	The two worst detention camps were reported to be a brick factory and
a pig farm in the Brcko area.
	After the reports last August, Serbian officials in Bosnia denied any
wrongdoing and escorted Western reporters on a tour of Brcko, insisting
there were no detention camps in or near the city.
	But some Serbian officials later acknowledged that thousands of
prisoners were shuttled from one place in Bosnia to another in an effort
to prevent Western human rights officials and journalists from finding
the camps.