-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [sn-vesti 58847] Fw: The New Zealand Herald letter submitted Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:44:10 -0400 From: sparta <
I submitted the following letter to The New Zealand Herald. To my knowledge, it was not published. Guess they didn't want to know the truth about Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet. Stella --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Zealand Herald 19 August 2008 *I take exception to the comment by Irfan Yusuf regarding the Muslim-Serb couple who were "gunned down by Serb snipers." * ** *Japanese state television NHK reported in 1994 that the lovers were murdered by Bosnian Muslims rather than Serbs. A documentary containing both Bosnian Serb and Muslim testimonies reported that Muslims were responsible for the murder of the lovers, whom the Western media nick-named Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet.* Serbs were also accused by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic of killing 250,000 Bosnian Muslims during the war. However, BBC reported in 2002 that approximately 40,000 were killed, on all sides! Other Balkan experts put the deaths at between 20,000 and 70,000. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic wrote in his Islamic Declaration, "There can be no peace or coexistence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith political institutions...The Islamic movement must and can take place as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough, not only to destroy the non-Islamic one, but to build up a new Islamic one." Whereas Yugoslavia was once a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state, Bosnia today is the Muslim state that Izetbegovic had envisioned. Considering the atrocities against Serbs by Bosnian Muslims, by al-Qaida and by NATO's unmerciful bombing for 78 days of innocent civilians, one must wonder, who are the real victims? Stella L. Jatras http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=171&objectid=10527506 <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=171&objectid=10527506>
