----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: Re: Report on the massacre in Srebrenica
> At 11:30 20-4-02 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > > >Well, it is curious that a report on actions that resulted in many thousands > >of deaths, more deaths than the total number of deaths in the Middle East > >conflict came and went in one news cycle. > > You will have to blame the US media for that. Why? My news sources were predominately European. Not in Dutch, no, but Euorpean. You know, the BBC, the Irish Times, etc. >I can assure that ten days after the report was published, the report as well as the >discussions and consequences so far are still a major news topic over here every day. I don't doubt that was true in the Neatherlands. But, how about the rest of Europe? Did it eclipse the reports from the Middle East. Did governmental officials talk about But, my news source includes a lot of news > > >I'll give the Dutch government credit on how they are handling this. They > >are not dismissing it as readily as the European and American press are. > >But, its still very curious that it took so long for an investigation to > >report on the problem. > > Well, it was an awful lot of work. All those people to be interviewed, > investigating every incident, digging into the region's history. But six and a half years? Come one, leads get cold in that time. The facts were known from very early. Heck, the Warren Commission took less than a year. Are you actually arguing that politics didn't have something to do with the delay? Dan M.
