-Caveat Lector- ---------- > > Subject: SN296:Bill Dorich's column in LMT. > Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 11:23 PM > > > As published in the Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune: > > Tuesday, August 10, 1999 > > TURNABOUT/WILLIAM DORICH ... Government, > press unfairly blame Serbs > > Dorich is a Los Angeles writer on Serb issues > > As a first generation American, I am the author of numerous books on Balkan > history including my 1992 book titled "Kosovo." > Even my Muslim critics have praised the quality of my work. (See text on > www.srpska-mreza.com.) As a correspondent for The > American Srbobran, the oldest Serbian newspaper in the United States, my > articles have appeared in numerous major newspapers. > > I have been called a lot of names in recent years; therefore Jim Fisher > referring to me in his editorial as "rabid" [Aug. 2] came as > no surprise -- Serbs have grown accustomed to such bigoted terminology in much > the same way they have had to endure the > assignment of collective guilt. Considering the amount of omission journalism > regarding Serbia, Mr. Fisher's characterization of me > was void of any details so the readers had no choice but to draw the same > conclusion. > > I am a victim of "ethnic cleansing." In 1897, Albanians "cleansed" my > grandparents from Kosovo. They resettled in Croatia where > my father was born. Before he reached his 12th birthday his family was > "cleansed" once again, this time by Croatians in World > War I -- they came to the United States as "displaced persons." > > During World War II, in the village of Vojnic, Croatian Nazis burned 17 members > of my family to death in the Serbian Orthodox > Church. In 1995 during the Bosnian Civil War, I lost the last five relatives to > my name. Most were too old and too sick to flee -- > they were found a year later with their throats slit. > > Therefore, I suggest that Jim Fisher's description of my hostility as "rabid" > was self-serving. Expecting me to have a "dispassionate > view" of this history as a double victim of genocide is a typical editorial > stretch. > > Arrogantly, I am supposed to believe that the real "dispassionate" views of > these wars are taking place in the media that continues > to ignore the 1.2 million Serbs cleansed from Croatia and Bosnia who have been > prevented from returning to their homes now for > nearly four years. Selective journalism is repugnant. So, too, is selective > justice. > > Last fall in the village of Klecka, the Kosovo Liberation Army killed 22 Serbs. > Their bodies were dismembered and burned in an > oven -- a hideous duplication of the horrors of the Holocaust in which Croats, > Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians helped > Hitler liquidate 1.7 million Serbs. > > After the Klecka massacre there was no outcry from Madeleine Albright. NATO was > too busy plotting a pretext to bomb the > Serbs and our commander in chief was too distracted with his Monica problem to > notice. There was also no mention of the "never > again" theory. > > Atrocities committed against Serbs have been treated in the press as "deserved" > while collective guilt against the Serbs has been a > major weapon of the State Department in dismembering a sovereign nation in > violation of numerous international laws and treaties. > > Mr. Fisher cannot have it both ways. Collective guilt has been fine-tuned to the > point that Serbs are now fair game. Implying that I > am "intolerant" because I dare to have the audacity to speak out about the > Muslim practice of Jihad (holy war) and to be outraged > by the double standards of my government officials who resort to racist > terminology is hypocritical. > > I am confident there are many fine Muslim people, but why have all of them > remained silent about the World Trade Center > bombing, the downing of the TWA aircraft, the brutal slaughter of our troops in > Dhahran and the murder of our embassy > employees? The silence from their imams, scholars, authors and influential > leaders is offensive. > > Since the arrival of NATO "peacekeepers" in Kosovo, the KLA has destroyed 49 > Serbian churches, burned hundreds of Serbian > homes and expelled 160,000 Serbs. Now the KLA is attacking Turks, Greeks, > Gypsies and Albanian Roman Catholics who stand > in the way of an ethnically pure, gangster-controlled Muslim Kosovo. > > On July 6, Sens. Carl Levin, Jack Reed, Mary Landrieu and Jeff Sessions went to > Kosovo, where they met with Hasim Thaci, the > head of the KLA. The Albanian press stated: "American senators call Thaci the > George Washington of Kosovo." What > blasphemy. George Washington did not kill six of his lieutenants to maintain > power! > > It has become rather obvious that the United States, the State Department and > NATO have climbed into bed with the Albanian > Mafia. 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Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:08:53 -0700