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To all, this is my response to the AP
Report titled, "U.N. tribunal announces Srebrenica charges." I do
not expect to hear from them. Stella
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Associated Press
Commentary
The Other Side of the Story
by Stella L. Jatras
For any news media to be credible and gain the respect of its
readers, its reports must first be factual and true. In the AP report of 9
April titled, "U.N. tribunal announces Srebrenica charges," a former
deputy chief of security for the Bosnian Serb Army is accused of having loaded
and assisted in the execution of 1,000 Bosnian Muslim males in the village of
Orahovac. However, just as the accusation that 700 Albanians had been
ground up into little pieces, thrown into the Trepca mine and incinerated by
Serbian forces in Kosovo, a gruesome story which journalist Daniel
Pearl, on 31 December 1999 in The Wall Street Journal,
exposed as a hoax. Similarly, the massacre story at Orahovac was also
exposed as a hoax when The Guardian of London reported on 6 August
1998, "European Union (EU) found no evidence of mass graves in the town of
Orahovac, the teams' Australian leader, Walter Ebenberger, said." The
Orahovac massacre was also front page news in The Washington Times
giving the same gory details. However, the following day, The
Washington Times carried a small, barely noticeable item hidden on page A15
(World Scene, 7 August 1998), which stated, "NATO Chief [Secretary-General
Javier Solana] dismissed mass graves in Kosovo."
As for Srebrenica, Gregory Copley, Editor of Defense &
Foreign Affairs Daily, on 8 September 2003, gave his analysis entitled US
Official Implicated With Bosnian High Representative [Paddy] Ashdown in
Attempting to Force Fabricated Report on Srebrenica.
Copley spelled out explicitly how Ashdown, aided by Deputy HR
Amb. Donald Hayes of the US, intended to force responsibility of a fictional
account of a narrow section of the Srebrenica fighting during the
Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war on the Bosnian Serb (Republica Srpska) Government,
effectively giving Ashdown the tool to dismiss the democratically-elected
Government and President of Republica Srpska. Serbian President Cavic was
known to have been told that he would be removed from office by HR Ashdown if he
refused to accept the "findings" of the so-called Commission on Srebrenica which
had been sponsored by Ashdown, and dominated by his appointee, the head of the
Muslim dominated Commission on Missing Persona. The firing of almost 60
elected and appointed Republica Srpska Government officials on June 30-July 1,
2004, while leaving President. Cavic in place, obviously reinforced the fact
that they would not be able to speak the truth about Srebrenica or any other
issue that clashed with the view of the OHR and still retain their
jobs.
Gregory Copley further writes on 18 September 2003 that
the Srebrenica casualty numbers have been challened by experts as being
politicized and ethnically divisive, when "On the eve of the dedication of a
monument to Muslims killed at Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1995, a
group which includes a former UN official, intelligence experts, and
journalists, released a statement challenging the alleged casualty number of
7,000 victims as "vastly inflated and unsupported by evidence.
They asserted that one-sided interventionist policies
permitted al-Qaida forces and radical Islamists backed by the Iranian clerical
government to take root during the Bosnian war, clouding the future of the
region. As well, they agreed that the "memorialization" of false numbers in the
monument actually appeared to be intended to perpetuate regional ethnic hatred
and distrust and to deliberately punish one of the victim groups in the Bosnian
civil war." While Serbs are being hunted down and sent to The Hague,
Kosovo governor Soeren Jessen-Petersen recently congratulated terrorist
Agim Ceku for his good work for implementing the eighth
standard outlined in the Standards for Kosovo document. If anyone
belongs at The Hague, it is Agim Ceku who was commander of Operation Storm in
Croatia that ethnically cleansed over 250,000 Serbs from their ancestral home in
the Krajina. Ceku then went on to become Kosovo Protection Corps
Commander, an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army that was armed and trained
by Osama bin Laden and is responsible for the eradication of Serbian
culture, language, society and religion that is taking place at this
moment.
Serbians have become victims of the Stockholm Syndrome
with regard to Srebrenica; they have been so demoralized, so
dehumanized, and so brutalized that they are willing to confess to
anything and everything that is put before them hoping to get a better deal for
themselves and for their families. It is obvious to this writer that The
Hague�s Chief Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, must
have her pound of Serbian flesh either by hook or crook, in order to justify her
kangaroo court. "If you don�t confess (regardless of the accusation), we will
guarantee that you will receive no less than 20 years," is clearly the offer
from del Ponte, who, like a jackal, has tasted blood and will not rest until she
has devoured her prey.
While scant attention is paid to the barbaric acts of
atrocities that have been and continue to be committed against the Serbian
people by Albanian mobs, repeated hoaxes such as the Trepca mine, the Orahovac
massacre, the discredited Racak massacre, Operation Horseshoe whereby a report
by a retired German general who claimed that the 1999 reports showing that
Belgrade planned the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's entire Albanian population
were faked, and other exaggerated reports of alleged
Serbian atrocities, continue to take the headlines of influential news
agencies such as the Associated Press.
I leave you with the following quotes:
"This organized anti-Serb and pro-Muslim propaganda
should cause anyone believing in democracy and free speech serious concerns. It
recalls Hitler's propaganda against the allies in World War II. Facts are
twisted and, when convenient, disregarded." � Yohanan Ramati, Director of
the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense.
"The gigantic campaign to brainwash America by our media against the
Serbian people is just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information
and outright lies....What is today's reality? The murderers of Jews, Serbs and
Gypsies are back (in Croatia) from the U.S., Canada, Argentina where they fled
after World War II. The Serbs fought the Nazis, they paid a terrible price
for standing at the side of the allies against Hitler. Humanity owes them
a debt of gratitude." - John Ranz, Chairman of Survivors of Buchenwald
Concentration Camp, USA.
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** FYI: Following is the AP report. Also, if you go
to google or one of those info websites and type in "U.N. tribunal announces
Srebrenica charges," you will find this AP report on many different on-line
websites. If you would like to respond, you can go to their chat
rooms, but I couldn't see an e-mail address to send a letter directly to the
newspaper that published the AP report. Therefore, I am going directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the Associated Press
Int'l Desk. Have at it! Stella
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U.N. tribunal announces Srebrenica charges Associated Press
9 April 2005
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
announced war crimes charges Friday against a Bosnian Serb captain
for his alleged role in the deaths of more than 7,000 boys and men
in Srebrenica.
Capt. Milorad Trbic, former deputy chief of security in the Bosnian
Serb army, has been charged with one count of murder in the 1995
massacre in the U.N.-protected enclave in
Bosnia.
Trbic was transferred to the court on Thursday, a court statement
said. It was unclear if he was arrested or surrendered
voluntarily.
Trbic was initially indicted alongside Gen. Vinko Pandurevic, who
was also charged with genocide and surrendered last month to the
U.N. court, based in The Hague.
Trbic, 47, assisted in the planning and preparation of the mass
execution of the Bosnian Muslim boys and men, his indictment
said.
In the village of Orahovac, where hundreds of Bosnian Muslims were
detained, "Trbic assisted in loading the Muslim men onto the trucks
to the execution sites and assisted in the executions by shooting
Muslim men with his rifle. Approximately 1,000 Bosnian Muslim males
were killed," the indictment said.
Although Bosnian Serbs had long been blamed for Srebrenica, it was
not until June 2004 that Serb officials acknowledged their security
forces carried out the
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