55% of the male Bosniak population of Srebrenica was killed. Around 15,000 men tried to escape, but more than 8,000 were killed. Mladić ordered that every male should be killed. They succeeded in killing 55% of the male population. Nothing similar happened in Europe since WW2.
Κύριε τέως Υπουργέ Εθνικής Άμυνας,
Σας απευθύνομαι ως Ελληνοκύπριος πολίτης, ως άνθρωπος του οποίου η ζωή έχει χαραχθεί από την υπόσχεση του Ελληνισμού.
Η ανάρτησή σας, εορτάζοντας τον καταδικασμένο εγκληματία πολέμου Ράντκο Μλάντιτς, όχι μόνο μας σέρνει όλους τους Έλληνες στα αιματοβαμμένα εδάφη που μας άφησε η βαριά κληρονομιά της δεκαετίας του 1990, αλλά αποκαλύπτει σε όλη την Ευρώπη πως, παρά τις τεράστιες προσπάθειες ενός μέρους των πολιτών της να κατακτήσει ένα πιο ανεπτυγμένο μέλλον, η Ελλάδα ακόμη μαραίνεται στη βαρβαρότητα ενός τυφλού μίσους που βασίζεται στην αγοραία νοοτροπία της «σύγκρουσης των πολιτισμών».
Όσο οι ελληνικές και κυπριακές κυβερνήσεις συνεχίζουν να υποστηρίζουν άμεσα ή έμμεσα τους δράστες της γενοκτονίας και άλλων θηριωδιών στη Βοσνία-Ερζεγοβίνη, τόσο βαραίνει το φορτίο συνενοχής που η γενιά μου πρέπει να κουβαλά.
Γεώργιος Κωνσταντή
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Gospodine bivši ministre odbrane,
Obraćam Vam se kao građanin kiparskog grčkog porijekla, kao čovjek čiji je život obilježilo obećanje helenizma.
Vaša objava, kojom ste odali počast osuđenom ratnom zločincu Ratku Mladiću, ne samo da nas, sve Grke, vraća na krvava tla koja nam je ostavilo teško nasljeđe devedesetih godina, već pred cijelom Evropom otkriva da, uprkos ogromnim naporima jednog dijela njenih građana da izgrade razvijeniju budućnost, Grčka još uvijek vene u barbarstvu slijepog mržnje, zasnovanog na prizemnom shvatanju „sukoba civilizacija“.
Sve dok grčka i kiparska vlada nastavljaju, direktno ili indirektno, podržavati počinioce genocida i drugih zvjerstava u Bosni i Hercegovini, toliko teži teret saučesništva koji moja generacija mora nositi.
Georgios Konstandi
My first thought was... finally.
My second thought was that he died, probably peacefully in his bed, which was a luxury that he did not afford the tens of thousands of women, men and children who died because of him.
One of the world's most brutal murderers is finally dead.
At 84 years old the former Bosnian Serb general, Ratko Mladić lived way longer than he allowed his tens of thousands of victims.
The more than 7000 Muslim men and boys he had slaughtered in Srebrenica will be his enduring shame.
At least he was tried by an International Criminal Tribunal and found guilty of his enormous crimes of genocide.
I am proud of the work we journalists did in the 90s to document his crimes against humanity, to finally hold him accountable.