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Today we have reached the milestone of a historic episode that has haunted Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkan region for the last thirteen years. Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian para-state from 1992-95 war and genocide in Bosnia, was arrested in Serbia on two charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and for systematically organizing the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica, a UN- declared “safe haven.”
The Bosniak-American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BAACBH) and the Bosnian American community remains indebted to you for your sustained commitment and efforts to bring justice to the fallen innocent victims of the Bosnian war. It emphasizes that a pledge to justice prevails the institutionalized atrocities against the innocent victims and that an indicted war criminal can not escape the system of international justice.
To accentuate the importance of this day one needs to attribute it to the memory of the sufferings that so many innocent have endured. In order to prevent the past from repeating itself and to rebuild the bonds of humanity it is imperative to continue the commitment to bring those responsible for genocide and ethnic cleansing to justice. The struggle to bring justice must continue, not only to build a more decent future but to give humanity its dignity and values back.
This brings us closer to the realization and imminent task before us requiring reassessment and action to deal with the institutional inheritance of genocidal politics.
The institutions built by Karadzic must not remain as a reward for genocide he carried out. The indictment, and we are confident the judgment against Karadzic, will prove beyond doubt that the Genocide was committed throughout the entire territory controlled by his forces, not limited to Srebrenica.
Today, that territory is known as the Republic of Srpska. We invite your views, suggestions and most importantly active support for the H. Res. 679 addressing the
very need for reassessment of the institutional inheritance of genocidal and apartheid-like politics that continues to exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina today, as well as the commitment to capture Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb military commander who is still at large.

GENOCIDE, COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE, EXTERMINATION, MURDER, WILFUL KILLING
16. The Prosecutor re-alleges and incorporates by reference Paragraphs 1-15; and alleges and incorporates by reference Paragraphs 67-92 in Counts 1-6.

17. Between 1 July 1991 and 31 December 1992, acting individually or in concert with others, including Momcilo KRAJISNIK and Biljana PLAVSIC, and between early March 1995 and 30 November 1995, acting individually or in concert with others, Radovan KARADZIC; planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or execution of the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat national, ethnical, racial or religious groups, as such, in several municipalities, including but not limited to: Bijeljina; Bratunac; Bosanski Samac; Brcko; Doboj; Foca; Ilijas; Kljuc; Kotor Varos; Novi Grad; Prijedor; Kozarac; Rogatica; Sanski Most; Srebrenica; Visegrad; Vlasenica; Zavidovici; and Zvornik. The destruction of these groups in these municipalities was effected by:

a) the killing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats which took place during and after the attacks on and within the municipalities; the killing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in and after they had been taken away from camps and detention facilities; and the killing of Bosnian Muslims after their captivity in several different locations in and around the Srebrenica enclave;

b) the causing of serious bodily or mental harm to Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during their confinement in camps and detention facilities, and during their interrogations at these locations, police stations and military barracks, where detainees were continuously subjected to, or forced to witness, inhumane acts including murder, sexual violence, torture, beatings and robbery; and

c) the detention of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in camps and detention facilities under conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction in whole or in part of those national, ethnical, racial or religious groups, as such, more fully set out in Bosniak American Advisory Councilfor Bosnia and Herzegovina www.baacbh.org