And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Le Monde Diplomatique, English Internet edition. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Last month's issue with some back issues to 1997. http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/ Apaches and Tomahawks * 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. Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
