Ratko Mladic: A Symbol of the Heartless Project

All my children were killed”

Six boys, two brothers... and finally my sister was hanged. ”

And my father is the fifth... they never returned... I just left my mother.

I lost my brother, my two grandchildren... my five grandchildren, my two sons...”

When I add, 24 of them are swallowed by Srebrenica...”

Year after year, one testimony follows another. I've been recording them for more than two decades, writes “journalism Al Jazeera”'s Adnan Ro persecuted who recorded the confessions of many people who have been the target of crimes of Serbs commanded by Mladic.

Those are the testimony of mostly Bosnian women and several Bosniak war survivors whose loved ones were killed in the genocide committed in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995 by Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic.

Survivors are looking forward to news from The Hague, where a first-instance decision should be pronounced against Mladic before the International War Crimes Tribunal, reports “Al Jazeera”, the Periscope broadcast.

Mladic was indicted and charged with genocide in Srebrenica and six other municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in addition to ethnic cleansing; murder; inhuman acts; destruction of Catholic mosques and churches; and siege of Sarajevo.

Those deprived of their hearts view Mladic as a symbol of the evil project, designed and prepared to enable genocide, a symbol of the system that hides the traces of crimes and the consequences of genocide and continues to hide in mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

I spent hundreds of days and nights in the company of those who spent years searching for the mortore remains of their loved ones. Searching for their bones, buried deep in Bosnian soil.

I witnessed their great grief. I watched mothers pet the only bone that belonged to their sons, talking to that skeleton as if it were a living man.

I was driven by their stories, as a journalist and a human being.

They are my most important source of information, my main method of preparation.

In conclusion, there is no balance and neutrality in reporting crimes. There is no equal distribution of media time among criminals and victims.

Criminals and their representatives should not be given the opportunity to promote crimes under the guise of objectivity, which is not the same as neutrality.

Ed Vulliamy, a British-Irland journalist who covered the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was praised with the discovery of Serbian concentration camps in northwestern Bosnia, writes in his book on war in Bosnia: “I believe there are moments in history when neutral neutrality joins crime. I am not neutral between camp guards and prisoners, between raped women and animals that raped “./Periscopi/