[Edited Message Follows] I would like Michael to write more about Chomsky's writing about Yugoslavia ( not just " eg Chomsky on the Balkans") especially about the war in Bosnia and I agree with Micheal that Chomsky did not understand what was happening there but he talked a lot about it especially about Srebrenica never acknowledging that Srebrenica was just a final stage of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia by Serbian armed forces.
" To reduce genocide to those few weeks and to that one city is to relativize and even trivialize crimes against humanity, to reward war criminals and war politics. It is an invitation for new crimes. Did the Holocaust take place only during 1944 and 1945, or did it culminate at the beginning of the war, when the policy of "final solution" was shaped, when the Third Reich was at the height of its power? Holocaust wasn’t shaped and executed in the fall of Nazi power. The genocide in Bosnia also began at the peak of Serbian military power in 1992. Srebrenica was just the finalization of what Serbian politics had started in Prijedor and Sarajevo in May 1992." https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/44852-legacy-srebrenica-bitter-victories-genocide.html or https://www.spiritofbosnia.org/volume-6-no-4-2011-october/a-letter-to-noam-chomsky-from-a-bosnian-colleague/ or this video, which is probably too harsh and rude to Chomsky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCcX_xTLDIY&rco=1&ab_channel=Kraut Do not forget that Chomsky was here together in a camp with Diana Johnston and Edward S.Herman. I apologise for my editing, but sometimes when I am writing my comment all my comment suddenly disappear and I have to write everything from the beginning and then missed to write something that I wanted and thought was important. To add this : I agree with Chomsky that a contributing factor to Yugoslav dissolution was the impact of neoliberal policies pushed by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and US Treasury Department, which pitted international capital through the international financial institutions and major banks. I was working in one of the biggest companies in Yugoslavia Energoinvest when the US Congress passed legislation in 1990 that restricted financial transactions with Yugoslavia, including dealings with Yugoslav banks. These measures were part of broader international efforts to influence Yugoslavia's economic policies and encourage a shift towards market-oriented reforms. I recall when we had to travel abroad hiding suitcases of cash to buy some components such as microchips than we could continue our production. After implying some of the measures forced on us by the IMF half of the companies in Yugoslavia went to bankruptcy and huge unemployment, uncertainty and despair started. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30876): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106824716/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
