Were there unnecessary civilian victims in Krajina? Of course there were. Were there deliberate murders of civilians? Almost certainly. Were there any arson attacks? No doubt.
Has anyone expected that that wouldn't occur in the continuation of as bloody a war as was waged in the first half of 1991? Is there a command which fully controls its soldiers?
Do the individual cases fit in the undeclared plan of the Croatian government: the events which occured during the exodus are supposed to place a barrier of fear along the line of ethnic division?
We shall see. The principle "Serb people follows a Serb army", namely the concept of ethnic concentration by all means, wasn't formulated by president Tudman. What were the feelings of the individual viewers of the program about the great migration depends on the individual attitude and, above all, individual destiny. Some have experienced that as a repetition of their own misery, others as a revenge of politics, and others as a revenge of fate.
The whole migration of the Serbs from Krajina towards the mother land is turning into a media mystification. It is a dense and, probably, well prepared move, maybe even as good as the "Storm". As such, it has moved towards oblivion the exodus of Bosniacs from Bosanska Krajina which still goes on: three times as many people and almost thousand times as many victims. It should also deflect attention from the fresh impressions from Srebrenica; even though it is not even comparable to Srebrenica.
More and more facts are indicating that a huge crime was committed in Srebrenica; so huge that it couldn't have been done without knowledge and approval from both Belgrade and Pale. We are not talking about individual murders far away from the eyes of officers and political headquarters. The crimes were committed in Bratunac, in front of a large number of inhabitants; at the same place where, at the beginning of the war, the locals were bringing in criminals from Serbia in order to help with the slaughter of the Bosniacs from the area, because the locals couldn't accomplish alone the mission given to them by the God, Holly Synod [of the Serbian Orthodox Church] and the Serbian Academy of Sciences [alluding to the so-called memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, which is considered to be the blueprint for a Serbian take over of Yugoslavia].
Why another crime which cannot be hidden?
Neither Bijeljina, at the beginning of the war, nor Srebrenica, at the time which some consider to be close to its end, were not spontaneous expressions of killing rage. Bijeljina was a well organized announcement of ethnic cleansing and was supposed to prod a column of unarmed people to flee. They certainly didn't have an arsenal which Krajina Serbs have surrendered [to the Croatian Army]. Srebrenica and ravines near Bratunac can only be one thing: a sign that Pale authorities and their mentors [from Belgrade] will not allow the return of refugees.
Killing fields near Srebrenica, and it is UN's responsibility to ensure the right to conduct an investigation, indicate unchanged character of the Pale junta which executes a policy which can only be implemented with means like those.
Although one regrets every victim of this war, equally one in Knin as well as one in Srebrenica, it is only human that the death of a larger, or far larger, number of people will cause more sorrow and a stronger reaction. Otherwise, even dead are only useful for additional political manipulations.