Paul,
Not so minor detail. The claim in this article
that it was the Serbians who first suffered ethnic
cleansing at the hands of the Croatians is baloney.
The Serbs did it to the Croats and the Bosniaks,
first in Slavonia and Krajina and then in Bosnia. Then
later the Croats did it back to the Serbs in Krajina.
Given the appallingly one-sided indictment of
Milosevic, it is nevertheless important that we keep
our facts straight.
Unfortunately we are now witnessing an escalation
of both the illegal attacks upon civilians and the
infrastructure supporting them in Yugoslavia by NATO,
war crimes for sure, and now the "stealth" preparation
for a ground assault by building up "peacekeeping
troops" in neighboring countries. This is going from
bad to worse.
BTW, for anybody who has not seen it, the column
in today's Washington Post by Victor Chernomyrdin is
very important and vey sobering.
Barkley Rosser
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>Marin Independent Journal Friday, May 21,1999
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>Stop This Horrible Slaughter — now!
>
> By Frank Scott
>
>"Women and children were killed and scalped,
>babies killed at their mothers' breasts, and all
>the corpses were most horribly mutilated… The
>women's corpses were profaned in a way that
>makes you sick in the telling, and throughout,
>Colonel Chivington was inciting his troops to
>commit their diabolical outrages."
>
>This is not testimony from Kosovo; it is from a
>report on the slaughter of American Indians by
>the First Cavalry of Colorado. We would do well
>to learn our own history of mass murder before
>labeling other people as genocidal, especially
>while we are in the process of destroying
>another nation of innocent people.
>
>In a deadly blend of immorality, arrogance and
>breathtaking stupidity, the U.S. has inflicted
>mayhem on Yugoslavians who have done nothing to
>hurt any Americans. A murderous air campaign is
>being rationalized as a “humanitarian” response
>to the ethnic cleansing which has actually
>increased in intensity and violence because of
>this assault.
>
>A little understood crisis in the Balkans, much
>of it provoked by western powers, finds many
>politicians using the weapon of nationalism to
>gain power, with Milosevic of Serbia being the
>main proponent. But it was the Serbians who
>first suffered ethnic cleansing at the hands of
>Croatia, which was aided by the US. The Serbians
>then began their dreadful treatment of the
>Kosovar Albanians. Now, we are to believe that
>the suffering which was experienced before March
>24 is somehow corrected by the horrible
>slaughter that has taken place since.
>
>Americans have been confused by an endless flow
>of slanted, one-sided reporting, and the
>ridiculous use of words like genocide, holocaust
>and extermination. Media mind managers simply
>repeat what they are told by the U.S. military
>and its NATO spear carriers. Brain-dead
>commentators and pundits offer analysis designed
>to reduce our minds to mush. The public has
>suffered a propaganda barrage that may be the
>closest thing to genocide - the attempted
>extermination of an entire people’s ability to
>think.
>
>Bloody human limbs scattered among fruits and
>vegetables from a bombed market in Serbia is
>reported - for Americans - as “collateral
>damage”. Stories of bombed stores, public
>transit, refugee convoys, embassies and other
>targets not even remotely military, are first
>called enemy lies, then excused as mistakes
>which must be expected in war. But there has
>been no declaration of war, and this is not war;
>it is a slaughter.
>
>Slobodan Milosevic is a political opportunist of
>the type who might be quite successful in
>America. Likening him to Hitler is an abuse of
>language and logic. Serbia has not invaded other
>countries or even threatened to do so, and it
>has no plan to exterminate any populations. It s
>policy of ethnic cleansing is wicked, and some
>of its attacks on Kosovar Albanians are
>terrible. But calling this a holocaust or
>genocide is a travesty that degrades those who
>have suffered real genocide, like the Jews of
>Europe, or the native people and African slaves
>of the Americas.
>
>The ethically challenged president and his
>cronies bear major responsibility for this
>carnage, but it is sustained by morally bankrupt
>bipartisan support. It demands the opposition of
>all Americans who are still able to think for
>themselves, and who haven’t been reduced to
>being obedient zombies, obeying party bosses and
>toeing a party line. Too many have already died,
>and too many are still being killed. It is time
>for the silent majority of citizens to speak up,
>and demand that their representatives, whether
>liberal or conservative, end this murderous
>campaign. Now!
>
>
>Frank Scott, who lives in San Rafael, is a
>freelance political columnist and is president
>of the Marin Democratic Club
>
>frank scott
>http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~frank/columns
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