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WAR IN THE BALKANS
Apaches and Tomahawks
Nancy Dolhem
Is it cynicism? Amnesia? Or have the Americans just not stopped to reflect that the
arms they are now using to attack the Serb regime with its odious ethnic cleansing
are named after the Indians they exterminated last century?
Think of Tomahawk missiles and Apache helicopters. The tomahawk was the
Indians' axe and the Apaches were, as the Sioux and the Cheyenne, victims of
appalling ethnic cleansing.
This is what Major Wynkoop wrote in his report of the inquiry into the extermination
of a camp of Indians by the First Cavalry Company of Colorado: "Women and
children were killed and scalped, babies killed at their mothers' breasts, and all the
corpses were most horribly mutilated. � The women's corpses were profaned in a
way that makes you sick in the telling, and throughout, Colonel Chivington was
inciting his troops to commit their diabolical outrages."
There was a small child, his report went on, probably three years old, just old enough
to walk in the sand. The Indians had fled and the child was trying to reach them. He
was stark naked, just walking in the sand. Wynkoop saw a man dismount at about 80
yards, lift his gun and shoot. He missed. Another man arrived and said he could "get
the bastard". He dismounted, knelt down and fired. He also missed. A third man said
the same, then fired. The child fell.
What would we say in 50 years or so if the Serbian armed forces decided to name
one of their missiles "Kosovar"?
(1) Helen Jackson (1830-85), A century of dishonour: a sketch of the United States
government's dealings with some of the Indian tribes, Norman, London, 1995.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED � 1997-2002 Le Monde diplomatique
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