Letters to the
Editor
February 15, 2002
Washington Post
Dear Editor,
I respond to your article, (2/15/02) Why Not Victor's Justice? by Gary
J. Bass. That is best answered by asking, what is at stake in a free
world if we temporarily permit ourselves to violate every international
treaty and law we have signed in this past century to catch one
criminal?
The Hague Tribunal was established illegally by the U. N. Security
Council in violation of its own charter and without a vote of the
general assembly. This arrogant attack on international law was
compounded by selecting judges for the Tribunal from such human rights
violators as China, Malaysia and Pakistan. Even if Milosevic is guilty
of all charges, the end does not justify the means.
On October 29, 1991, Croatian radio gave its Serb minority Ň48 hours to
leave their homes with the barest of necessities.Ó President TudjmanŐs
regime called it a Ňdepolulation plan.Ó When attributed to Serbs itŐs
called Ňethnic cleansing.Ó What followed on November 1st was the
killing of 225 Serbs, the destruction of 36 Serbian churches, the
razing of 250 Serbian villages and the forced expulsion of 58,000 Serbs
who fled to Belgrade. Not a single indictment has been filed against
thousands of Croatian perpetrators. The Hague continues to ignore this
first major war crime
that
set the stage for all others.
In Bosnia, Osama bin Laden sent thousands of Afghan trained terrorists
to fight the Ňholy warÓ in Bosnia. These terrorists were photographed
decapitating their Serb victims and dozens of these pictures are part of
major testimonies recorded in Tribunal documents, yet not a single
indictment has been issued.
At the beginning of the Bosnian Civil War and as Commander and Chief,
President Alija IzetbegovicŐs army established the first concentration
camp on the outskirts of Sarajevo near Tarcin in May, 1992, where
hundreds of Serbs were tortured, raped and murdered. Eight months
after the signing of the Dayton Accords which called for the release of
all prisoners, Tarcin remained in use. Though documented as early as
1992 by the International Red Cross, the Tarcin silo, former President
Izetbegovic and his generals continues to escape indictments or
Tribunal investigations.
Dr. Ljubica Toholj, director of the Yugoslav Commission on War Crimes
and professor of Gynecology at the University of Belgrade personally
examined over 4,000 Serbian POWŐs in 1994. Her findings were presented
to the Tribunal which contain evidence that hundreds of Serbian POWs
were not just Ňsexually mutilated," many were "castrated.Ó These
mutilations have made these Serb POWs sexually dysfunctional for life,
yet this Kangaroo court has not issued one single indictment against
the perpetrators, their generals or any of their political leaders.
How can this be called justice? It makes the United States a party to
violating the very human right we pretend to be defending.
William Dorich
Los Angeles, CA
The writer is the author of 5 books on the Balkans including the 1992
book, Kosovo.
February 23, 2002
Letter to the Editor
The Chicago Tribune
Dear Editor,
I respond to your editorial, No lies, Just Deception (2/23/02). The
media
is also guilty of ignoring the shadow government which the press treats
like
the ŇEmperor has no clothes.Ó
President Clinton was a master of double-speak. In his last inaugural
address Clinton claimed Ň... over 250,000 were killed in Bosnia.Ó That
was
a total lie with no corroborating evidence. Secretary of Defense
William
Cohen convinced the world the ŇSerbs were killing 100,000 Albanians in
Kosovo.Ó Today, KFOR is having difficulty finding 3,000 bodies, a third
of whom were Serbs.
American taxpayers were ŇdeceivedÓ that KLA ŇterroristsÓ had become
Ňfreedom fighters.Ó When the Serbs surrounded hundreds of these KLA
terrorists who attacked Macedonia and were about to be liquidated, KFOR
stepped in and
provided buses to take them back to Kosovo. That is when the big lie
was uncovered. American military advisors were among these KLA
terrorists.
In the 1993 Markale Market massacre in Sarajevo, Madeleine Albright not
only
lied as Secretary of State, she marked the evidence ŇsecretÓ making
sure the world would be deceived, that evidence clearly proved the
Bosnian Muslims bombed their own people to gain world sympathy. That
lie cost the Serbian people one third of their nation and thousands of
innocent lives.
Perhaps the most grotesque lie was the staged Racak massacre in
January, 1999 in which the Serbs were accused of mutilating 45 Kosovo
Albanians. The lack of blood at the crime scene and the fact that
Ambassador Walker prevented Ms. Marinkovic, a Serbian pathologist from
reaching the alleged crime scene three times adds up to the big lie
used as the pretext to bomb Serbia inflicting $36 billion in damage to
a sovereign nation. Ambassador Walker told the media ŇIt was the worst
thing he had ever seen.Ó I think not! During WalkerŐs diplomatic tenure
in El Salvador, death squads decapitated thousands of Salvadorian
victims, their heads were placed on pikes and used to dot the landscape
according to Fr. Daniel Santiago. Walker remained silent about this
crime against humanity because the perpetrators were trained at U.S.
military bases and were aided and abetted by the CIA.
General Wesley Clark lied that our military Ňcrushed the Serbian army.Ó
That
lie was exposed when hundreds of unscathed Serbian tanks rolled out of
Kosovo and the truth came out that only 13 Serbian tanks were destroyed
in our 78 day bombing campaign which cost taxpayers billions.
I agree that Ňour government has an interest in misleading its
enemiesÓŃit appears it also has an interest in misleading its own
citizens. President Eisenhower warned us about the evils of the
Ňindustrial military complex.Ó Since 911, President Bush has succeeded
in increasing the military budget while simultaneously reducing our
civil liberties. The most appalling of his Orwellian lies is that
cooperating with known terrorists like the KLA is in our national
interests.
A pox on the houses of all of them!
William Dorich, Los Angeles
The writer is the author of 5 books on the Balkans including his 1992
book, Kosovo, one of the first books published on the subject in the
U.S.
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