Natalie Sugira

Student Activist

"I must speak up, because so many of the women who survived the genocide are now dying of AIDS."

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Sign the Petition to Arrest Bosnian War Criminals

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Help us make certain that Mladic and Karadzic are arrested before the end of 2007

The 12th anniversary of the Srebrenica, Bosnia massacre is July 11, 2007. The two men largely responsible for this crime remain free. Radovan Karadzic, the former President of the Bosnian Serb Republic, masterminded the campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. Ratko Mladic, the former head of the Bosnian Serb Army, personally supervised the onset of the massacre. Both men have been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia but have evaded arrest.

Two years have passed since the 10th anniversary of the massacre. PHR was told then by officials around the world that the arrests of Karadzic and Mladic were imminent, but nothing happened. There is talk now that Serbia will use the arrest of Mladic as a bargaining chip for concessions on Kosovo. This cannot be allowed to occur. Long-term peace and stability in the region hinges on both the victims and perpetrators of war crimes seeing those personally responsible brought to justice.

Karadzic and Mladic will not be arrested unless there is a demand by concerned people around the world who want to see perpetrators of genocide brought to justice.

Please help us make certain that Mladic and Karadzic are arrested before the end of 2007.

PHR has joined again with the Center for Balkan Development, The Advocacy Project, the Congress of North American Bosniaks, and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Serbia, to launch a new international appeal to President Bush and other world leaders calling for the immediate arrest of these two men.

We urge you to add your name to this call.

In 1996, under the leadership of International Forensic Program director William Haglund (now a Senior Consultant to the Forensic Program), PHR conducted investigations of sites in Kraviza, Pilica Farm, Cersca, and Lazete that contained almost 500 bodies from the Srebrenica massacre. These investigations constituted the first scientific proof that Bosnian Serb forces had systematically murdered thousands of fleeing Bosnian Muslim men and boys. This work led to the conviction in 2001 of General Radislav Krstic for genocide and other crimes related to Srebrenica. However, that verdict is partial justice as long as those who are most responsible for the genocide, General Mladic and former President Karadzic, evade the court.

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