Title: Message
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY NATO’S BALKANS CAMPAIGN –
THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
The truth, where NATO is concerned, is always difficult to
find because it is hidden and distorted. Tampering with evidence, threats,
concealing facts, bullying, huge under-the-table payouts in cash all serve the
same purpose. But there were witnesses. Not all were silenced.
Open a
western newspaper and you will find stories of “bodies” being transported
hundreds of kilometres in refrigerated lorries to burial sites in Serbia, by
Serbs of course. You will find stories of rape of Albanian girls – by Serbs, of
course. You will read about Albanian villagers being ordered out of Kosovo – by
Serbs, of course. You will be informed of the deeds of Arkan, the skulduggery of
Milosevic and the heroic altruism by that saviour of Serbia, the saintly Zoran
Djindjic.
You will probably not learn about the fact that Albanian women
and girls sought protection from Serb soldiers in Kosovo – protection from the
Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, which was selling the prettier Albanian refugees
into prostitution rings in Italy and Greece. You will also be surprised to learn
that there is a hidden nightmare about to be revealed in the Balkans – that of
the action of the Croat forces against Serbs, Croats who were trained and
equipped by the United States of America and financed by Germany. Germany’s
forcing its EU partners to recognise Croatia in 1992 sparked off the civil war
in the Balkans. The USA’s arming and equipping of the butchers who called
themselves the Croatian Army is tantamount to responsibility for the horrors
perpetrated by this collection of psychopaths.
Ethnic cleansing of
Albanians in Kosovo, the massacre of 577 Albanian civilians by Serbs, the
massacres of Racak and Srebrenica are all well-oiled gasps in the holier-than
thou western mouthpieces which purport to call themselves news organs. What
about Knin? And the Medac pocket?
To refresh the memories of those who
do not know, or do not wish to remember, here are the hard facts. The Canadian
government knows only too well what happened in Medac (1993) and Knin (1995)
because the Canadian contingent of UN forces accompanied the Croatian armed
forces there. There was documented evidence, films were taken. Garth Pritchard
was the cameraman and he told his story to the Toronto Sun newspaper
(2001.08.12)
“Civilians were slaughtered. Animals were castrated and
shot. Farms were burned. The Krajina was ethnically cleansed of more than
185,000 human beings whose roots were there for ages” claims Pritchard, who
witnessed some of the most horrific scenes any human being could imagine. He
remembers images of a child’s tricycle run over by Croatian tanks, which
returned to the scene to run over the body bags lined up by the Canadian troops,
in Knin.
Canadian General Alain Forand was officer in command of the
Canadian contingent in Krajina when the Croatian armed forces followed the
orders of their US advisors and ploughed through the weak Serb defences,
displacing nearly 200,000 Serb civilians, those who were not slaughtered. They
had to contend with scenes such as an elderly Serb lady, her eye torn out by
shrapnel, holding her dead husband and refusing to leave his side as the Croats
launched another mortar attack against their farm. Forand protected as many
civilians as he could and the men under his command, to give them their due, did
their best, even lying over civilians during mortar attacks to protect them from
shrapnel.
Meanwhile, the United Nations classified the Serb civilians as
“displaced persons” and ordered them to be handed over to the Croats. This
despite the evidence of massacres of civilians by the US-backed Croatians. “An
old woman sprawled in an ancient car, her body riddled by a machine-.gun, the
bodies of a family of farmers, thrown down the farm’s well...I documented much
of this. The National Film Board and CBC refused any part of it”, claims
Pritchard.
Knin hospital. Serb patients thrown out of windows. Bodies
piled high on the basement floor. No comment.
When the stories of the
atrocities started to leak, enormous sums of cash started to appear as a frantic
cover-up began. This would ruin the demonology carefully planned and nurtured
for a gullible public, used to decades of lies, about how horrible the Serbs
were. After all, were these people not Slavs, just like the Russians who ate
babies during Soviet times?
A Canadian who worked for the UN, who asked
to remain unnamed, told of huge sums of cash paid to him by Croats for certain
favours. The United Nations had to clear mines from roads. They used tanks,
mines exploded and Croatian roads were destroyed. Huge sums were then paid by
the UN in cash to local Croatian dignitaries. UN troops were billeted in
destroyed buildings. Huge sums were paid to the Croatian owners, in cash. UN
helicopters landed at Croatian airports. Enormous cash sums were handed over for
landing rights. Monthly meetings, huge brown envelopes exchanged stuffed full of
crispy-clean USD. Parties, wine, women and song, rivers of money exchanging
hands.
Cash. To buy the silence of those who knew the truth and to pull
strings to cover it up. Five days after the atrocities in the Krajina,
everything was cleared up, the roads repaired and traffic signs painted, in
Latinitsa (Croatian script), the bodies in Knin hospital gone, the hospital
functioning normally, evidence of the unspeakable war crimes disappeared.
What happened to the footage shot by the cameraman? The National Film
Board of Canada forced him to hand it over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the
Hague, without his being officially legally bound to do so. There is therefore
no paperwork recognising the fact that such footage exists, if it has not
already been destroyed. Evidence of war crimes committed by Croats, equipped and
trained by Americans and financed by Germans is missing. But it happened.
As for Carla del Ponte’s War Crimes Tribunal, that travesty of
international justice, a massive and unsightly carbuncle on the face of the
world’s legal systems, Croats are turning themselves in because any evidence
condemning them of war crimes has been destroyed. Major General Rahim Ademi, who
led the Croatian forces’ onslaught against Krajina, gave himself up on
2001.07.26, declaring that he had a clear conscience.
Behind the United
Nations missions in the Balkans was NATO. NATO started the conflict in the
Balkans because it needed an excuse to perpetuate itself. It needed to justify
its existence because too many high-placed people depended financially on this
outdated and useless organization. NATO decided that there had to be a hero and
an anti-hero, just like all the Hollywood films, carefully tailored for public
consumption.
The guy in the black hat was Serbia, Slavic, connected to
Russia, the chance to have a final jab at the Soviets, since that
much-sought-after war never materialised while Russia was strong enough to fight
back. The guy in the white hat...the hero of the plot...was he a Bosnian Moslem,
a Croat or a member of the UCK?
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/24/13221.html
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