From: "Jeff" <meis...@xs4all.nl> > When hearing this I cannot help but remembering the (almost surely) > widespread use of rape (apparently organized as a systematic policy) in > the > Bosnian war of the early 90's, when some "Marxists" (i.e. Stalinists) > found > themselves (for reasons I still cannot fathom) in alliance with the > Serbian > state and with the Bosnian Serbs. They had a similar blind spot to the > incidence of rape. When questioned they would cringe and fall back on > "there's human rights abuses by ALL sides, but we have to concentrate on > opposing imperialism which is ultimately responsible......" etc. etc. > If I remember rightly, the story of 50 000 Bosnian Muslim women being raped by Bosnian Serbs, as part of an organised policy, was nothing more than propaganda designed to give a 'liberal' justification for American imperial intervention. Louis knows more about this, I think (I remember some post from him about the subject quite some time ago) - can you clarify?
If we can find it amongst ourselves to understand (which is NOT the same as justify - to equate the two is just right-wing rhetoric) how some might be led to commit suicide bombings or large scale murder (which I'm sure many here would try and understand in certain contexts), then the same applies to rape. None of this is in any sense apologetics for the actions of the Red Army in Berlin. Solidarity, Ian ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
