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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:39:19 -0500
From:         "Velibor M. Marenovic" <VMARENOVIC@MACALSTR.EDU>
Subject:      Real thing....
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I hope all of you "warried" will recognize that Orthodoxy and genocide have
nothing in common. Serbian Info Ministry reported today that 60,000 Muslim
refugees have been taken care of (not with machine gun) by individual families
(mini kamps) in Republic of Serbia.

Article included from Serbian net.

Velibor

>
> Subject: UNBIASED REPORT: Ashdown on Serb-run detention camps

>
> From: clarinews@clarinet.com (NATELA SJEKLOCHA)
> Subject: British opposition leader ends tour of detention camps
> Date: 11 Aug 92 17:05:07 GMT
>
>  BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (UPI) -- A British opposition party
> leader Tuesday ended a private inquiry into alleged human rights
> violations at Serb-run detention camps, saying that he found poor
> conditions but NO evidence of systematic torture and killing at the
> locations he visited.
>
>     Paddy Ashdown, a member of Parliament and head of the Liberal
> Democratic Party, returned to Belgrade after inspecting two camps where
> Muslim Slavs and other non-Serbs are being held by Serbian forces
> fighting to rip a self-declared Serbian state out of newly independent
> Bosnia-Hercegovina.
>
>     "Broadly, I believe that GENEVA CONVENTION IS BEING UPHELD, and from
> what I can tell, it is being followed to the absolute limits that it is
> POSSIBLE to do," Ashdown said late Monday after visiting the Manjaca
> detention center, near the Serbian stronghold of Banja Luka, where some
> 3,500 Muslim Slavs are currently held.
>
>     "The conditions have visibly improved in comparison to Omarska,"
> said Ashdown refering to another nearby detention center, where a large
> number of emaciated Muslim Slav prisoners of war were recently found.
> 	But, Ashdown said that many Geneva Convention articles cannot be
> upheld at Manjaca because of the SEVERE LACK OF FOOD AND MEDICINE across
> all of war-torn Bosnia-Hercegovina.
>
>     "If we want those camps to be operated to standards that we would
> recognize, we have to see what we can provide," he said.
>
>      On Sunday, Ashdown visited the Kula prison behind Serbian lines
> outside the capital, Sarajevo.
>
>      Ashdown contended that his visit and the outrage in the West over
> reports of widespread abuses at Serb-run detention centers would
> increase pressure on Serbian leaders to abolish an estimated 500 prison
> camps run by undisciplined paramilitary units not under their control.
>
>      During the one-hour tour of Manjaca, Ashdown spoke with a number of
> prisoners, although always in the presence of their guards.
>
>      Many were emaciated, apparently from a lack of food, their faces
> pale, their eyes dull.
>
>      They are housed in three barn-like structures, about 500 to each.
> They said they are fed twice daily and are allowed to take showers every
> 15 days.
>
>      Ashdown said he did not believe the commander of the camp was
> competent enough to be running the facility.
>
>      "Lieutenant Colonel Bozidar Popovic looks like a front-line solder
> given a job he does not understand, in my view, and almost certainly
> Russian-trained," said Ashdown. "Probably yesterday, somebody thrust
> the Geneva Convention into his hands."
>
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