SERBIAN AGGRESSOR USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO GASS FLEEING BOSNIAN CIVILIANS FROM SREBRENICA IN JULY 1995
SREBRENICA,Bosnia - The Bosnian civilians who survived the genocide in Srebrenica and vicious attacks against them described mortar shells that produced a strange smoke, one that spread out slowly.Survivors testified that some people then began to hallucinate and act irrationally, killing themselves or their friends. Human Rights Watch believed the chemical used was B-Z, a non-lethal agent that incapacitates people.B-Z is a chemical the army of the former Yugoslavia possessed. Federation of American Scientists.At that time, the evidence remained "inconclusive" due to inability of Human Rights Watch to properly test the samples.
However, in 1995, a team of the U.S. Defense Department experts interviewed a number of the genocide survivors from Srebrenica in the summer of 1996, and concluded that their accounts supported allegations of the use of chemical incapacitants. The conclusion was deemed highly significant by the department. This information was sent up the chain of command. In late 1996, the U.S. intelligence community had information that chemical weapons may have been used by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. A large investigation, which included physical sampling, was undertaken in late 1996 or early 1997 by the U.S. Government. The results of this investigation are not known to us.Srebrenica Genocide Blog
One U.S. official told Human Rights Watch in December 1996 that "we do not see an advantage in declassifying those documents relating to chemical weapons use in Bosnia. We have spoken with people and received assurances that other channels are being pursued that we believe would be more effective and achieve a more favorable outcome than simply publicizing them." The 1998 U.S. Congressional Hearing on Srebrenica Genocide
The total Yugoslav chemical weapons arsenal contained sarin, mustard gas, BZ, and the tear gases CN and CS (all in large quantities), together with quite traditional products such as phosgene, chlorine picric acid, cyanogen chloride, adamsite, lewisite, and other materials, often only in laboratory quantities. Federation of American Scientists
In 2006 opening statements, the U.N. Prosecutor McCloskey stated that “criminal orders in war are as a rule issued verbally”, and that a few exceptions existed to the rule. One of the most striking ones is a report sent on 21 July 1995 by Serbian General Zdravko Tolimir from Zepa to General Radomir Miletic, acting Chief of General Staff of the VRS (the genocidal military forces of the Serbians living in Bosnia). Tolimir is asking for help to crush some Bosnian Army strongholds, expressing his view that "the best way to do it would be to use chemical weapons". In the same report, Chemical Tolimir goes even further,proposing strikes against refugee columns leaving Zepa, because that would "force the Muslim fighters to surrender quickly", in his opinion. SENSE Tribunal
Only recently, the world media have started writing somewhat more about the mass use of chemical weapons against civilian targets ; chemical weapons which had been produced for years in the Serbian factories of death. One of these deadly factories was located on the territory of Bosnia, in the township of Potoci near Mostar. The former Yugoslav Army installed in the village of Potoci the machinery for the production of chemical weapons. This was a nucleus from which later developed a whole industrial complex with completely isolated production-research facilities. The production of the toxin of the type SARIN which has a short term effect begun in the factory in Potoci.
Later, the production of SIPERIT, a poison gas with long term effects, was started. For years on the slopes of the Vitez mountain, far from the eyes of the public, numerous experiments were performed: contamination of the terrain and experiments on animals. Only those with security clearance could work in the factories of death. The employees were usually brought in from Serbia and Montenegro. Many people from the Mostar area remember Serbians and Montenegrins who arrived with their families. Their wives were village teachers and spewed out "knowledge" to Bosnian children. All that was conceived under the guise of brotherhood and unity. Of course that now, after the discovery of everything that took place in Potoci the older locals remember that their sheep, cows and horses used to die for no reason. Domestic animals used to produce offspring without hair and with deformities. All this was of course, the effect of the toxins and their vapors. The whole monstrosity of the crime surfaced during the war when the genocidal Serbo-Montenegrin Armada, incapable to change the situation on the front, turned to the deadly chemical weapons which destroy nervous system and cause changes on the body.
According to the reports which have been completed by the experts from the Bosnian Army, the mass production of the chemical weapons in Potoci started in 1984. In that year, a technological line for the production of psychological toxins of the type BZ with the capacity of 5kg per day was established.
Those very same psychological toxins will have a decisive deadly role in the killing of the inhabitants of Srebrenica and Zepa. According to the report of the military experts from the Bosnian Army, during those years, the experts of the former Yugoslav Army feverishly worked on the development of the production of nerve poisons such as SOMAN, VX, TABUN and others. At that time began the collaboration with Iraq, to which large quantities of chemical weapons were sold. Colonel Bozidar Dzakula, M.Sc., was in charge of the whole project of the production and use of chemical weapons.
In the factories of the former Yugoslav Army the production of the artillery shells with the caliber of 122mm which were filled with 1,8 liters of poison. 152 mm shell could be filled with 3.5 liters of poison gas... Airplane shells BAD 100 could hold as much as 20 liters of poison gas. Even landmines filled with poison gases were produced. All produced chemical weapons were stored in the military dump in Zunovnica. From that storage dump, at the beginning of 1992, 40 tones of raw materials necessary for the production of SARIN were taken for the former Yugoslav Army. Since 1990, military experts at the Military Technical Institute in Belgrade have been feverishly investigating lack of iodine in the water supply of Srebrenica and Zepa. More precisely, they were trying to establish the consequences of the lack of iodine and salt on the human body.
It seems that even before the beginning of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia and mass suffering, the eastern Bosnian towns of Srebrenica and Zepa were earmarked for mass experiments on their population. It is not an accident that the former Yugoslav Army and then also Serbian war criminals Karadzic and Mladic with their collaborators forbade the transport of salt to Srebrenica where the population was suffering en masse from the thyroid. Lack of salt together with the occasional bombardment with poison gases had a horrendous effect on the human body.
According to the genocidal Serbian aggressors' strategic goals at the time, it was more important to kill from time to time and observe what was happening to the population of Srebrenica than to immediately enter the town, slaughter the inhabitants and occupy the enclave. Srebrenica was a long time ago, it seems, predestined to become the training ground for various biochemical experiments. That is why it has been said that the West had known everything and had been warned on time; however they were also eager to obtain the results of the monstrous Serbian experiments. Only now it is becoming clear why in every enclave, besides UN soldiers there were also experts for atomic and biochemical warfare who were always studying something in the field. No one was interested in what they were doing; only now it is clear what function they had.
Poison gases were specifically produced by the genocidal Serbian aggressor with the aim to destroy the human psyche. After a release of the gas in a certain area , the contaminated persons exhibit uncontrolled behavior. People from Srebrenica even now, after all the horror they have been through, talk about the horrendous effects of chemical weapons. Those affected by the poison gas used to shout that they didn't want to fight or move towards the free territory, but instead went straight towards the Serbian aggressor. People would become apathetic or "drink" water from nonexistent streams; they hallucinated that huge blocks of ice were falling on them... and the Serbian aggressor would infiltrate their soldiers among the poisoned Bosnians and kill them.
It is possible that the Serbian aggressor was interested in how long the poison gas remains effective, what the limits of human stamina are and for how long it was possible to control the contaminated people. The camp prisoners from Manjaca, Keraterm, Bratunac, Batkovic and other camps, emphasize that the guards in the camps poured, in front of everyone, white powder in the water which was given to the prisoners; after that the prisoners were even more thirsty than before, became apathetic and resigned.
The tragedy of the population of Bosnia, must not be ignored. Among the many accusations of genocide we should include this one about the mass crimes committed by the fascist Serbian experts who produced chemical weapons; and certainly those who ordered these monstrosities should also pay for their crimes.
The testimony of Stipe Mesic, the last president of the former Yugoslav Presidency who sent the classified documents about chemical weapons to the USA, also confirms that the West knew about these criminal experiments.
"In June, 1991, while I was the president of the presidency of the former SFRY, by chance I stumbled across some documentation about the production of chemical weapons. I believed that such activity was dangerous, not only for this area, but also for the international community. Since it was obvious that a war would break out soon, one could assume that the possible use of these weapons could cause a catastrophe. Therefore, I used this situation to inform certain circles in the American administration about the case. Short time after that, I was taken to the USA where I turned the documents over to the accredited Pentagon officials," Stjepan Mesic emphasized after the discovery of the massive use of poison gases against the civilian population.
