Molimo SVE srpske organizacije i pojedince u Kanadi i svetu da na dole navedene e-mail adrese posalju protestno pismo (donje sadrzine ili slicno) protiv predlozenog zakona kojim se u Kanadi obelzava secanje na "genocid" u Srebrenici.... <http://www.novine.ca/ni/Oliphant_Srebrenica_Remembrance_Day_en.pdf> Oliphant_Srebrenica_Remembrance_Day_en.pdf Pisite/Write to: Prime Minister of Canada <p...@pm.gc.ca>; M Harper <harpe...@parl.gc.ca>; oli...@parl.gc.ca; roliph...@on.aibn.com, nic...@parl.gc.ca, Jason Kenney MP <ken...@parl.gc.ca>; Ignatieff <ignatief...@parl.gc.ca>; layto...@parl.gc.ca; Bob Rae MP <r...@parl.gc.ca>; APPEAL TO PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA AND THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT: NO TO THE SREBRENICA REMEMBRANCE DAY BILL. Dear Prime Minister and honorable Members of Parliament, As concerned Canadian citizen, I call on you to seriously reconsider the plan to adopt a Bill Calling for a July 11th Srebrenica Remembrance Day. The execution of Moslem prisoners in July of 1995, after Bosnian Serb forces took over Srebrenica, was a war crime, but it is by no means a paradigmatic event. Throughout the war period, 1992?1995, Serbian villages around Srebrenica weere subjected to widespread and systematic attacks by Moslem military forces concentrated within the Srebrenica enclave. The fate of Srebrenica Serbs is but a microcosm of their wartime fate in Bosnia/Hercegovina as a whole. Serb inhabitants in the villages surrounding Srebrenica were murdered in the hundreds, abused, expelled, and kidnapped for ransom by Bosnian Muslims. There is nothing to set one crime apart from the other, except that its commission was more condensed in time. In a vicious civil war, in which all sides commit crimes, all innocent victims are entitled to compassion but the victims of one ethnic group should have no special moral claim to unique recognition. Putting the suffering of one group on a pedestal necessarily derogates from the right of the other group in this case Serbian non-combatants in the devastated villages surrounding the enclave of Srebrenica ? to an equal measure of sympathy. More importantly, what really happened in Srebrenica in July of 1995 is an issue that is still not settled, or why it occurred, and who was behind it. The accepted version of events, shaped mainly by war propaganda and hyperbolic media reports, is becoming increasingly obsolete because it is being vigorously questioned and reassessed by critical thinkers in the Western world. Much reliable information on these events is still unavailable and needs to be researched, but without it responsible conclusions on the nature and scope of the Srebrenica massacre cannot be drawn. Both the events alleged scope and its legal description as "genocide" are intensely in dispute. It would therefore be very unwise for Canada and its parliament to formally commit themselves to a version of events that is thin on evidence but long on moral and political implications that are extremely detrimental to Serbian people. I am also troubled by the prospect of Canada and its parliament might accept the thesis that the massacre in Srebrenica, regrettable as it may be, amounts to "genocide. That would unpardonably diminish genuine genocide as a phenomenon of the 20th century, of which the Holocaust of the Jewish people and the mass extermination campaigns against Armenians, Pontus Greeks, Assyrians, Kurds, Serbs and the Roma are some outstanding examples. I am concerned that the politicisation of human suffering and the frivolous usage of the grave legal category of genocide greatly cheapens these important concepts and constitutes an undeserved insult to innocent victims of political violence everywhere in the world. For these reasons, I appeal to you to refrain from passing the Bill Calling for a July 11th Srebrenica Remembrance Day. [vas potpis/your signature] Also read: <http://www.srebrenica-project.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=3&Itemid=4> www.srebrenica-project.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=3&Itemid=4 --- <http://www.srebrenica-project.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=16&Itemid=14> www.srebrenica-project.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=16&Itemid=14 ======================================================= Serbian victims A chronicle of inhumanity and horror Throughout the war period, 1992?1995, Serbian villages around Srebrenica were subjected to widespread and systematic attacks by Moslem military forces concentrated within the Srebrenica enclave. The fate of Srebrenica Serbs is but a microcosm of their wartime fate in Bosnia/Hercegovina as a whole. Serb inhabitants in the villages surrounding Srebrenica were murdered in the hundreds, abused, expelled, and kidnapped for ransom and exchange. Most of the villages were torched after the personal property of their Serbian inhabitants had been pillaged. The attacks were indiscriminate and they targeted Serbs as such, without any attempt being made to determine the victims personal position vis-a-vis the ongoing conflict in Bosnia/Hercegovina or the level of threat to Muslim armed forces they might have represented. It is important to note that the Muslim civilian and military authorities conducting these operations out of Srebrenica did not operate independently, but were linked in the political and military chain of command to the Alija Izetbegovic regime in Sarajevo. That government publicly claimed to be multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, and many in the West were misled by intense propaganda to accept its claims at face value. But all the while that regimes Srebrenica representatives were conducting a ruthless three-year pogrom in complete disregard of the fact that their targeted victims were peaceful peasants, indistinguishable from their Moslem neighbors except by the fact that they were Serb and Christian. This is probably a unique case where an internationally recognized government used its military instruments to conduct a carnage of inhabitants that, when addressing the international community, it duplicitously claimed as its own citizens. These witness statements, and others that we will soon add, will make it abundantly clear why Serbs in Bosnia/Hercegovina uncompromisingly insist on being masters of their own fate and why they are entitled to the Republic of Srpska as their safe heaven just as the Jewish people are entitled to Israel. _____ Za odjavljivanje sa liste - kliknite ovde <mailto:in...@novine.ca?subject=unsubscribe> To be removed from the list - <mailto:in...@novine.ca?subject=unsubscribe> click here _____ NOVINE Toronto <http://www.novine.ca> www.novine.ca <mailto:in...@novine.ca> in...@novine.ca <mailto:redakci...@novine.ca> redakci...@novine.ca <mailto:imenik2...@novine.ca> imenik2...@novine.ca T.416.466.0888 F.416.466.1921 _____
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