STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 02/07/01 00:38:05 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << > Can anyone give me the low down on one the latest > machinations directed against Milosevic and Serbia, i.e., this > supposed " recently unearthed mass grave" ? My nerves can't > also tolerate all these fabricated charges, so, sometimes I > completely ignore stories on the subject. > > David O Q > >> Well David, no need to read the papers b/c the pattern is already familiar. Here are some things you should consider: 1) These "discoveries" came soon after Milosevic's lawyer had demanded that his client be released b/c in three months the Yugoslav and Serbian authorities weren't able to produce ANY evidence of corruption. 2) The potential press coverage of this FACT was buried under press reports of new discoveries of mass-graves, thus shifting the focus just as Milosevic's culpability was begining to be questioned both in Yugoslavia and abroad. 3) We are told that dozens of bodies are being unearthed, yet so far the available, yet really limited, footage has shown very few marks of real mass-graves (i.e. bodies mangled together, many bones from different corpses tied together, huge pits with skulls and bones prominently jutting out) but some very vague images that really don't seem like anything if looked at closely - although its been proven that people will often see what they what they want to believe they should be seeing when shown an image - other than mud, rocks, and maybe, maybe some bones, of something... 4) Recently the BBC ran an article on how these gravesite finds may actually secure the ICTY's conviction, meaning that no concrete prior evidence existed to these finds. 5) The Republic of Serbia is under the full security control of DOS and the police and many of the security forces are wholly under the thumb of Djindjic. Furthermore the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia has proven to be extremely porous and completely controlled by NATO, there is nothing, and I REPEAT, nothing, to prevent NATO and its loyalists from planting these bodies (if they are bodies). 6) A likely scenario is that these aren't even bodies, or that they are bodies (of humans or animals?) reburied from other places to set Milosevic up. Just recently a similar tactic was used in the Peruvian election to discredit Alan Garcia when suddenly bodies were found near an army base and attributed (without any proof) to Garcia's previous tenure as President. This was done to secure the victory of Alejandro Toledo, Washington's man in Peru. The pattern is almost identical in both cases were bodies are discovered near sites controlled now by Washington's allies in order to forward Washington's interests and discredit its regional rivals. 7) You see it would be different if thousands of bodies were found, then maybe one could say there was a cover up...but so far it has been a dozens. Let's just say for a moment that these are all Albanian civilians and that they are all women and children (the first being very doubtfull as most of the bodies are apparently, according to Yugoslav news, those of men and the second patently false)...Why would Milosevic cover up a few dozen victims if he really personally directed the killing of 10,000 Albanian civilians (as the press now routinely states)? You see it makes no sense for him to go out of his way, and potentially discredit himself in the process, in order to cover up a few crimes if so many were committed. 8) Of course the stories of the one (unamed) lorry-driver talking about mountains of corpses piled on top of each other - which has accompanied the press reports - is: a) a classic attrocity story propaganda (unverifiable, designed to shock and to elicit outrage and moral revulsion at the object of demonization), b) a tool to perpetuate the myth that there are more from were these bodies came from (although in all probability this is the last we will hear of these bodies, as they served only as a justification to extradite Milosevic), and c) a means of giving new ammunition to proponents of the ICTY and appologists for NATO, seeing as all their other accusations have crumbled into dust and more and more people are becoming aware of this with each passing day. 9) There is no reason to believe anything the Western press corp and self-appointed "experts" in the Balkans says about anything in the region. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
