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From: Nurev Ind Research <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 5:00 AM
Subject: [CTRL] No genocide in Kosovo
> -Caveat Lector-
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>Date sent: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:41:49 +0000
>From: Marjaleena Repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: NO GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO: Richard Gwyn
>To: ALL LISTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [note: Throughtout the War, the Toronto Star(supposedly left wing!)
> demonized the
> Serbs in any which way they could think of, while repeatedly
>lauding NATO as the pillars of humanity. I had sent numerous
>letters to the Star complaining of the fallacious portrayal of the
>Serbs, while mentioning the econonic catastrophy unleashed on
>behalf of the yours truly. Yet they continued on a slanted,
>unobjective, and partisan path. This was by no means impartial
>reporting!!!... When finally, I received a e-mail from the
>ombudsman explaining that he "can't understand why NATO would
>drop D.U weapons on Yugoslavia, if this would put Peace keepers
>in harms way". He went on say that"I must first prove that NATO
>had actually used this weaponry"--and that I did... I finally received
>a call explaining that they were "comtemplating" whether or not to
>print my letter. Unfortunately, or shall I say not surprinsingly, they
>did not do so, considering this would only discredit all previous
>"reports" on this issue...
>Now finally, the BIG LIE is exposed.]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>W IT CAN BE TOLD - that the "genocide" and "holocaust" charges against
>the Yugoslavian government and the Serbs were deliberate
>falsifications. This is the first (published) Canadian journalist, I
>believe, who has actually put together the findings from various
>independent sources which have travelled on the Internet for a couple of
>months. Let us see if it affects any of the coverage in the Toronto Star
>which was relentless in its viciousness toward the Serbs and didn't
>hesitate to repeat every outlandish story that it came across, in order
>to foster hatred against the Serbs! Let us see if other columnists will
>follow with a "mea culpa." Gwyn, of course, does not do a real
>self-criticism of himself, his newspaper and the overall Canadian and
>international media, and throws in the usual gratuitous comments about
>Milosevic and the"stupidity of Serbs", but nevertheless this is a
>significant first step.
>
>The column comes from a debate that took place on an TV Ontario
>programme, "Diplomatic immunity" on Oct. 29, between three journalists:
>Patrick Martin of the Globe and Mail, Richard Gwyn and Eric Margolies
>(perhaps the most vicious of the falsifiers), and Major-General (Ret'd)
>Lewis MacKenzie, with Gwyn, Martin and MacKenzie raising the issues of
>falsification (Patrick Martin even brought out the role of the PR firms
>in this war, reminding the viewers of the Hill and Knowlton created
>"incubator babies" incident in the Gulf War in 1990!). (If anyone has
>the transcript of this watershed programme in the Canadian media, please
>send it to me so I can spread it around the world.)
>
>This article needs to be circulated widely. If you can get your copy of
>the Toronto Star of November 3, you will have a ready made leaflet to
>give out to friends, relatives, fellow workers and neighbours, who have
>been at the receiving end of the false propaganda tales. They will find
>this an eye-opener.
>
>On the web you can locate the article at Toronto Star's site:
>http://www.thestar.com among the "Opinion" pieces
>
>This is an EXCELLENT time to respond to the Gwyn article, by forwarding
>it to your MP with your personal comment and request for a public
>inquiry into Canada's involvement in an illegal and immoral war. Also,
>do write letters to the Toronto Star. It is bound to publish some of
>them. (Do send us a copy so that we can send out a whole stream of them,
>whether they are published or not.) The e-mail address is at the end of
>the article.
>
>Marjaleena Repo
>-------
>Toronto Star November 3, 1999
>
>NO GENOCIDE, NO JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR ON KOSOVO
>
>Richard Gwyn
>
>IN THE GENOCIDE of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo by the forces of Serb
>leader Slobodan Milosevic, the worst incident occurred at the Trepca
>mine.
>
>As reported by American and NATO officials, large numbers of bodies were
>brought in by trucks under the cover of darkness. The bodies were then
>thrown down the shafts, or were disposed of entirely in the mine's vats
>of hydrochloric acid. Estimates of the number of dead began at 1,000.
>
>That was six months ago, in the middle of the war undertaken to halt
>what both U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony
>Blair called ``a human catastrophe.'' Estimates of the number of ethnic
>Albanians slaughtered went upward from 10,000. U.S. Defence Secretary
>William Cohen put the count at 100,000.
>
>Three weeks ago, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
>Yugoslavia released the findings of Western forensic teams investigating
>the horror at Trepca. There were not 1,000 bodies down the mine shafts
>at Trepca, reported the tribunal. There were not 100 bodies there. There
>was not one body there, nor was there any evidence the vats had ever
>been used to dispose of human remains.
>
>Shortly afterward, the tribunal reported on its work at the most
>infamous of all the mass graves of ethnic Albanians, at Ljubenic near
>the town of Pec. Earlier, NATO officials had said 350 victims had been
>hastily buried there by the retreating Serb forces. There were not 350
>bodies at Ljubenic, though. There were five.
>
>So far, not one mass grave has been found in Kosovo, despite four
>months' work by forensic teams, including experts from the FBI and the
>RCMP.
>
>This discovery - more accurately, this non-discovery - first was made
>public three weeks ago by the Texas-based intelligence think tank,
>Stratfor. Stratfor estimated the number of ethnic Albanian dead in
>Kosovo at 500.
>
>Last weekend, the story was broadcast for the first time by the TV
>Ontario program Diplomatic Immunity. (Last Sunday's New York Times was
>still using the ``10,000 deaths'' figure.)
>
>The story has begun to appear in European newspapers. Spain's El Pais
>has quoted the head of the Spanish forensic team, Emilo Pujol, as saying
>he had resigned because, after being told to expect to have to carry out
>2,000 autopsies, he'd only had 97 bodies to examine ? none of which
>"showed any signs of mutilation or torture.''
>
>Because 250 of 400 suspected mass graves in Kosovo remain to be
>examined, it's possible that evidence of mass killings will yet be
>found. This is highly unlikely though, because the worst sites were dug
>up first.
>
>No genocide of ethnic Albanians by Serbs, therefore. No ``human
>catastrophe.'' No ``modern-day Holocaust.''
>
>All of those claims may have been an honest mistake. Equally, they may
>have been a grotesque lie concocted to justify a war that NATO
>originally assumed would be over in a day or two, with Milosevic using
>the excuse of some minimal damage as a cover for a surrender, but then
>had to fight (at great expense) for months.
>
>There's no question that atrocities were committed in Kosovo,
>overwhelmingly by the Serb forces, although the ethnic Albanian
>guerrillas were not innocent. Quite obviously, these forces, acting on
>Milosevic's explicit orders, carried out mass expulsions of people,
>terrorizing them and destroying their homes and property.
>
>Acts like these are inexcusable. That they occur often in civil wars
>(far worse are being committed by the Russians in Chechnya), is
>irrelevant to their horror. But they have nothing to do with genocide.
>
>No genocide means no justification for a war inflicted by NATO on a
>sovereign nation. Only a certainty of imminent genocide could have
>legally justified a war that was not even discussed by the U.N. Security
>Council.
>
>No genocide means that the tribunal's indictment of Milosevic becomes
>highly questionable. Even more questionable is the West's continued
>punishment of the Serbs - the Danube bridges and the power stations
>remain in ruins - when their offence may well have been stupidity rather
>than criminality.
>
>The absence of genocide may mean something else, something deeply
>shaming. To halt the supposed genocide, NATO bombed targets in Serbia
>proper. Because of ``collateral'' or accidental damage, such as the
>bombing of a train, some 500 civilians were killed (Belgrade claims
>almost 1,000 deaths). NATO very likely killed as many people as were
>killed in Kosovo.
>
>The number of these dead isn't large enough to justify NATO's actions
>being called a ``human catastrophe.'' But, unless proof of genocide can
>be produced, NATO's actions were clearly a moral catastrophe. THE END
>--------------------
>RICHARD GWYN'S column appears Wednesday, Friday and Sunday in The Star.
>He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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