Sunday, March 12, 2006

US refuses to punish Mass murderer of Muslims.

ELUSIVE JUSTICE - TOP Ten years ago, Marko Boskic allegedly helped murder thousands in Bosnia. Now living in the U.S., his crimes may go unpunished.MATTHEW MCALLESTER, Newsday, 3/12/06http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-womain0312,0,698149.story SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- There are only female voices to be heard in Emina Hidic's apartment. Her mother gasps and sobs as she tells her decade-old story of a place called Srebrenica. Hidic's 12-year-old daughter speaks quietly, sweetly. She has grown up in a family robbed of its men, in a home where sadness lingers like a permanent scent.But on an evening in mid-December, news from America made Hidic suddenly smile.One of the eight Christian men who lined up her two brothers and about 1,200 other Muslim boys and men in a field in Bosnia during its civil war more than 10 years ago and then shot them dead was in custody in Massachusetts, a Newsday reporter told her.She smelled justice at last. The United States had Marko Boskic, one of the killers of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst war crime committed in Europe since the end of World War II."They should condemn him for the crime," said Hidic, 33, sitting in the living room of the apartment she shares with her mother and daughter in a suburb of this still war-scarred city. Framed photographs of her murdered brothers sat on shelves. Her husband also is missing, presumed to be among the more than 7,000 murdered during the entire Srebrenica massacre. "It is already known [Boskic] was one of the ones killing."In December, Boskic was facing only immigration charges, but it was still possible the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts could file the much more serious charge of torture -- a federal crime that carries the death penalty for acts of torture overseas that have led to death. But on Jan. 10, the U.S. attorney's office filed a one-sentence status report in U.S. District Court in Boston, explaining that "it is not the government's intention to seek a superseding indictment in this matter."When told in January that the United States did not intend to charge Boskic with any crime other than lying to immigration authorities -- if convicted he is likely to be sentenced to time served and would face deportation proceedings -- Hidic was at first silent on the telephone from Sarajevo.Then she spoke."That is outrageous. I have no words to express what I feel," she said. "So he will be let go after he had killed so many people? Is that for real? Terrifying." (MORE)

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