Dear TVO Producer,
"Milosevic on trial" shown on TVO is at best imbalanced and at worse fictional and prejudicial. Milosevic was elected by a Yugoslavian constituency in Yugoslavia to serve Yugoslavians not to serve foreign agendas that threatened the nation’s sovereignty, peace and security. Let’s take the civil war in Bosnia and compare it to the historical treatment of familiar cases in history. The American Civil War was bloody as it is usually the case in civil wars. Ten percent of the United States population, men, women and children, died. Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States at that time. How would have TVO treated his handling of the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy if TVO had been around at the time? Would TVO have labeled Lincoln the Butcher of North America? Arguably Lincoln was more responsible for the death and destruction in the American Civil War because the Union Army was under his command, whereas the crimes that Milosevic was held responsible for at the Hague were not done by order of the government directly. The violence in Bosnia was between civilian rivals. Regarding Kosovo, a province of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia’s security was threatened by terrorists supported by the same Bin Laden that supported the knocking down of the Twin Towers and the death of 3000 innocent American citizens. Terrorists in Kosovo were financed and armed by foreign governments including the United States. What would TVO say if the Canadian Prime Minister failed to step in and defend the sovereignty of Canada on the face of foreign financed terror threatening one of Canada’s provinces? Barack Obama has been elected by the American people to serve American citizens and to protect the sovereignty of the United States. There are 22 million illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico in the United States. California has the highest proportion of these foreign invaders within its state. Mexican children have been falsely taught in Mexican schools for 130 years that California was stolen from Mexico. Many Mexicans hold on to the belief that Mexico has a legitimate territorial claim against the United State. This is equivalent to the surge of Albanians taking residence in Kosovo in the last decades, prior to the breakout of hostilities, swelling their numbers in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo. What if Mexican nationals illegally in the United States and supported by Mexico, a foreign country, were to spark a civil war in California demanding independence from the United States? Would Barack Obama sit still and allow such a threat to fester or would he send the National Guard to California and protect the sovereignty of United States territory and the security of American citizens residing in the state, as it is his obligation to the citizens of the United States who elected him? Wouldn’t Milosevic have been derelict in his duties if he had not fought to preserve the territorial integrity of (Kosovo) Yugoslavia on the face of foreign financed and organized intervention, sabotage and terrorism? The United States intervention in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia was done illegally without the approval of Congress and without the sanction of the United Nations. The U.S and NATO bombing of a nation that had not threatened nor crossed its borders to enter the territory of any NATO or European Nation was a criminal act and an act of cowardice. Only bullies in the world arena who pound their chest after mercilessly bombing a non-threatening nation and who through the manipulation of the World Bank/IMF, as one of many examples, promotes the prostitution of political representatives in nations that they hope to control are to be despised – yet as war “victors” these bullies get the first lick at also controlling public relations whitewashing of their abuses and crimes. The TVO management may not agree with my analysis of these historical events that haunt us to this day and that will continue to trouble world peace, but my point is that “Milosevic on Trial” was one-sided in its portrayal of the conflict and Milosevic’s trial. For that reason I label the movie bias and unfair. Out of a sense of fairness I ask that you present a program of equal weight, length and seriousness to the opposing point of view. Tony Dolz Los Angeles, California
