NYPress - The Bunker - George Szamuely - Vol. 14, Iss. 34 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

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Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------------------------     http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b387dc10d3d.htm     SAME SONG, SECOND VERSE by Stella L. Jatras   The recent discovery of "Kosovar" bodies in a refrigerated truck that was recovered from the river Danube once again points to an alleged Serbian atrocity.   It seems to me I’ve heard that song before. What is different this time is that the Serbian police have pointed the accusatory finger at former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. But there is something here that just doesn’t sit right. There are too many unanswered questions and what I offer is mere speculation on my part.   What doesn’t make sense to me is that where the refrigerated truck was found is more than a four hour drive, even on good roads, from Kosovo. Furthermore, the area where the truck was found is known for smuggling illegal aliens. Too often we have heard of smugglers, when they thought they were going to be caught, dumping their cargo in the ocean, or abandoning their human cargo to die in the containers in which they were being transported to their illegal destinations.   What I fail to understand is why this could not be considered a possibility and why the Yugoslav government is so anxious to blame this unspeakable act of murder on Milosevic even before thoroughly investigating the incident, thereby collectively condemning the Serbs. What it also indicates is that the Serbs may actually be beginning to believe the lies that they have had to endure for so many years. What’s the old expression? If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth? Furthermore, we don’t even know for sure who these people were - for all we know, they could have been Gypsies, or from any one of the Turkic countries. One report said that "A total of 86 bodies, believed to be [let me repeat that] "believed to be" Kosovo Albanians, were found in the freezer truck," putting into question their nationality whereas another report (UPI) of June 2 stated that "A senior Serbian police officer said Saturday that a mass grave has been located, believed to contain the bodies of women, children and old men from a refrigerated truck hoisted from the Danube River in April 1999." It should be noted that this report mentions no nationality of the victims.   Too often we have heard of shocking atrocities attributed to the Serbs - Racak, Trepca, genocide, mass graves, cannibalism, mutilations, castrations, rapes, ethnic cleansing and some of the most outrageous charges known to man which the world was all too eager to believe before they were discredited by the evidence, and yet the accusations keep coming. And now that curse has fallen on the Serbs themselves, all too ready to believe this latest accusation. Once again, we will hear calls to de-Nazify the Serbian nation collectively, just as there were calls to de-Nazify the Germans.   And too often the Serbs have been accused of such atrocities only to learn later, after irreversible damage, that the Serbs were not responsible. To the contrary, the alleged atrocities were, in reality, committed by Senator Joe Lieberman’s pals, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an army that rapes Serbian nuns, murders Serbian priests, destroys ancient churches and monasteries (all under the protective noses of KFOR), who are engaged in sex slavery, prostitution, murders, kidnapping, and drugs, a band of cutthroat gangsters about whom Senator Lieberman sings high praises: "The United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and the principles . . . Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." (Washington Post, Apr. 28, 1999).   THE QUESTION MUST THEN BE ASKED:   Why would Yugoslav investigators go along with what they are calling another unspeakable atrocity allegedly committed by Serb forces supposedly on the orders of former president Slobodan Milosevic? Perhaps the answer lies in an AP report which stated, "Police link former President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday to cover-up of atrocities in Kosovo, including the dumping of bodies in the Danube River – a revelation that could help the U.N. war crimes tribunal." I repeat, "help the U.N. war crimes tribunal." Another relevant headline reads, "Serbs exhume bodies that could, [let me repeat that also] "that could" implicate former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic." As for the Yugoslav investigative authorities cooperating in this latest effort to send Milosevic to The Hague, it conjures up Stalin's show trials where the accused had already been found guilty as an enemy of the State. Today's War Crimes Tribunal serves the same purpose as a warning to others who oppose The New World Order.   Do the Yugoslav authorities really believe that their participation in something as doubtful as to who the victims are and who the culprits are before fully investigating is in the best interest of the Serbian people? With this latest revelation, tremendous pressure is being put upon Serbian president Vojislav Kostunica to turn Milosevic over to the War Crimes Tribunal. If he capitulates, he stands to lose the support and trust of the Serbian people. If he stands by the Constitution, he loses the desperately needed financial aid from the very people who bombed his nation back to the stone age and ironically, earning him disrespect from the international community for turning his back on his own people. Either way, it does not bode well for the president.   Evidently, there those in the Yugoslav government who believe that by cooperating with The Hague’s Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, she will look upon them with favor and grant them a few crumbs from the table. Do they really think that by handing over Milosevic to a voracious "Inspector Javert," they will be rewarded with their 30 pieces of silver? Or are they more interested in undermining President Kostunica?   I totally agree with Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic who has accused The Hague's Chief Prosecutor of exercising one rule for Serbs and another for Croats, Muslims and Albanians. In letters to del Ponte, he criticized her failure to issue war crimes indictments against anyone other than Serb leaders. Batic accuses her of "hounding Serbs and saving her Mother Theresa-treatment for everyone else," calling on the Chief Prosecutor to show that Serbs are often the greatest victims, not merely the executors in every case.   And finally, IF this is true, and frankly, in my estimation, it is a big "IF," the Serbs should turn this around to their advantage and say, "We Serbs have owned up to atrocities that we have committed; now it is for you Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians to do the same."   Perhaps I’m sticking my head in the sand, but too often the Serbs have taken the rap for atrocities they didn’t commit and frankly, I’m tired of it.   ----- Original Message ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nypress.com/14/34/taki/bunker.cfm The Bunker George Szamuely Grim Fairytales The most recent "genocide" hoax from the Balkans is the breathlessly retold horror story of "mass graves" of Kosovo Albanians supposedly littering Serbia. The Serbs allegedly murdered the Albanians in 1999, but rather than have NATO discover the evidence of this crime, Slobodan Milosevic ordered that the bodies be taken out of the province and buried in Serbia. Let us trace the origin of this amazing story. The first person to make this claim was Natasa Kandic, who heads the Humanitarian Law Center, a Belgrade outfit that has been bankrolled for years by George Soros and the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED). During the 1999 bombing she did her duty and promoted the cause of her paymasters, NATO. On April 30 she announced that some 800 bodies were removed from their original burial sites in Kosovo and reburied elsewhere in the province and in Serbia. She demanded that the new regime in Belgrade reveal the "truth" about this destruction of evidence. The timing of Kandic’s demand was interesting. One month earlier the Belgrade regime had arrested Milosevic—on corruption, not war crimes, charges. The charges were bogus and the investigation was going nowhere. Kostunica was scheduled to visit Washington in early May. His meetings with Bush, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice were evidently brutal affairs. The Administration was not happy with his foot-dragging. U.S. aid to Yugoslavia, it was made clear to him, was conditional on Milosevic’s swift handover to the Hague Tribunal. Belgrade had to come up with "evidence" of war crimes to sell the policy of "cooperation" to a skeptical public. Next a story appeared in a local crime magazine, Timocka Krimi Revija, about a Mercedes refrigerator truck from Kosovo, full of bodies, that was hauled out of the Danube in April 1999. After the truck was recovered, the bodies were buried. According to the diver who helped recover the truck, Zivadin Djordjevic, there were between 30 and 50 bodies inside. Many were naked and some of the women were wearing Muslim-style pantaloons. There was a heavy stone leaning on the accelerator pedal. The truck had Kosovo license plates and belonged to an Albanian meat processing firm. According to a wire story, the diver "provided no details of where and how the bodies were disposed." The story tells us nothing. We do not know who the people inside the truck were, or how they died. The only identifying feature was the Muslim-style pantaloons. They may or may not have been Muslims, may or may not have been Albanians. Yet in no time at all, the story was presented as conclusive proof of Serbian war crimes and Milosevic’s cover-up thereof. On July 31, in the middle of a standard New York Times puff piece on the U.S.-installed Belgrade regime, Carlotta Gall uttered this gem: "What is known is that bodies were dumped in mass graves, either in the Danube or on land. The exhumations of the 800 to 1000 bodies known about so far will take months. Captain Karleusa says he will need much longer to establish who gave the orders for the carnage and who carried it out." Amazing that after all the tales of mass graves and trucks filled with bodies going from Kosovo to Serbia, Karleusa’s estimate of the number of bodies buried is identical to Natasa Kandic’s from three months earlier. They evidently have to keep their stories straight. The refrigerator truck story is so absurd that it will have an even shorter shelf life than NATO’s other stories. We are asked to believe the following: Yugoslavia was being bombed round-the-clock. Yet the army took the trouble to transport thousands of bodies for burial. Given a truck limit of 50 bodies, disposing of thousands of bodies would need a lot of trucks. U.S. satellites were closely monitoring Yugoslavia, yet NATO never had the slightest inkling of this refrigerator truck convoy. Moreover, dumping bodies into the Danube is not the brightest of ideas. The Danube is a busy waterway. The chances of collision are high. Nor is destroying Mercedes trucks the most prudent course for an impoverished country like Yugoslavia. Then again, why would one want to transport dead bodies just to remove evidence? Wouldn’t dousing them in gasoline, setting fire to them and burying the ashes be a lot easier? Curiously enough, the Humanitarian Law Center’s website gives a clue as to what really happened. The site carries a story from the newspaper Danas, dated June 1, which reported eyewitness accounts of the recovery of the truck. Yet one of the eyewitnesses actually saw the dumping of the truck. Here is what he says: "I was in a boat on the river, only some thirty meters from the bank, when I heard voices about 2.15 a.m. Sound carries a long way on the Danube at night. I don’t know what language they were speaking there on the bank—I didn’t understand any of the words. It might have been Turkish or Albanian—who knows. But I’m certain it wasn’t Serbian or Romanian, which I know well." The story must have slipped past the Humanitarian Law Center’s censors. Albanians are Europe’s leaders in the lucrative business of immigrant and prostitute trafficking. This is a story of gangsters and human trafficking, not war crimes. Or rather it is the usual story of government and media collusion in lying. Volume 14, Issue 34         ©2001 All rights reserved. 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