Krajina is not only NOT in the news, but there is no mention of the refugees and displaced persons. Refugees of Serbian origin hold no interest for the international community. It is worth noting that The Hague tribunal first indicted Karadzic and Mladic, then sought the evidence to convict them. The media competed for victims and sought to sensationalize the story as much as possible. Numbers of alleged rapes climbed from 30,000 to over 100,000 Bosnian Muslim women raped.
Some journalists still use concocted figures that have no basis in fact.
This crystallized the view that the Serbs were the aggressors and the Muslims the victims. The sensational charges of rape were used to a cynical extent by the major corporate media, especially in the U.S., with no attempt to examine the sources. The foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic, first raised the charge at peace talks in Geneva that 30,000 women and girls had been raped. Ms. magazine ran a cover story that accused Bosnian Serb forces of raping for the purpose of producing pornographic films. No such films were ever found and the charges were not supported by the findings of Helsinki Watch or Human Rights Watch.