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  • ANKARA: Turkey Calls On Europeans: Fulfil Duties Re Bosnian Genocide

    Turkish Press
    July 1 2005

    Turkey Calls On European Statesmen To Fulfil Their Duties Regarding
    Genocide Committed In Bosnia


    ANKARA - Huseyin Kansu, the Chairman of the Turkey-Bosnia-Herzegovina
    Interparliamentary Friendship Group, Friday called on European
    statesmen to fulfil their responsibilities regarding the genocide
    committed in Bosnia.

    Holding a press conference in Turkish capital of Ankara on the 10th
    anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Kansu said that 312,000
    people lost their lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995
    according to the figures of International Red Cross Organization.

    Stating that 200,000 of this 312,000 people were Bosnians, Kansu said
    that this nation were subject to a series of massacres before the
    eyes of the world.

    Kansu recalled that one of the worst massacres were conducted by the
    Serbians in Srebrenica, and said, ''Srebrenica and Jepa regions were
    declared as security areas under the UN Security Council resolutions
    no 819 and 824. This region was taken under the control and
    protection of UN from April 1993 till July 1995, when the genocide
    was committed. But, the UN did not fulfil its responsibilities.''

    ''Serbian forces in Bosnia took Srebrenica, declared as a security
    area by the UN and protected by Dutch soldiers, under siege between
    July 6th and 8th, 1995, and left children, women and elderly people
    hungry and thirsty. When the Serbian violence began, Muslim Bosnian
    warriors wanted back the weapons they handed over to the Dutch
    soldiers in order to respond to the massacre, but the Dutch rejected
    it and laid the groundwork for Serbian massacre,'' said Kansu.

    Kansu stated that the Serbians started mass massacre on July 11th,
    and said that the Serbian forces killed 7,800 people. He noted that
    the death toll could rise to 13,000 if 30 mass graves were opened.

    EU

    Noting that he did not know how the crisis the EU was facing today
    could be concluded, Kansu said that Europe would have to face its own
    past one day.

    Stating that no legal procedure had been launched regarding those who
    were responsible for the Srebrenica massacre although 10 years
    passed, Kansu asked, ''who will ask for an explanation from the
    European politicians who stayed silent to the genocide in Bosnia and
    indirectly laid the groundwork for this massacre?''

    Kansu also drew attention that Europe was staying silent against the
    genocide committed in Bosnia as it tried to accuse Turkey of a
    so-called Armenian genocide, without basing on serious evidence, but
    totally basing on prejudices.

    200 intellectuals and representatives of NGOs from Turkey would
    attend the ceremony to be held in Srebrenica on July 11th, added
    Kansu.
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