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Srebrenica: an Appeal to Reason by R. K. Kent

December 27, 2005

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G.M. Books of Los Angeles has just published and released Peter Brocks powerful  and  devastating book which   takes a very close and intimate  look at the trees and the forest. Its title is  Media  Cleansing: Dirty Reporting  Journalism and Tragedy in Yugoslavia. While the major media in the U.S. and Western  Europe  continue to repeat endlessly that the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and BOYS by the Serbs at Srebrenica constitutes the only case of genocide in Europe since WWII, Brock shows that the claim is built like a house of cards. Poke SERIOUSLY at any angle and the claim collapses. The numbers are, to say the least, highly suspect. Actual   findings,  even years  after l995, do not support them. All kinds of researchers, in teams and individually, have arrived at  a host  of major doubts about  this constantly repeated  claim even before Brocks new book. The context of the event alone, based on factual and verified information, exposes the claim as a methodical, structured and manipulative adjunct to an end  or ends  that  have transcended an  initial propaganda phase. It managed to hide (a) that there was a civil war ongoing in Eastern Bosnia, involving the entire district of Srebrenica; (b)that a SYSTEMATIC extermination and ethnic cleansing of near-by Serb villagers.---men, women and children-- had been going on even before  Srebrenica became, by U.N. mandate,  a safety zone, inhabited only by unarmed civilians; (c) that this old silver-mining town was, in fact, used by well armed Bosnian Muslims, led by a warlord named Naser Oric, to liquidate  all the near-by Serbs by terror and mayhem, DOCUMENTED BY ORIC HIMSELF; (d)that Oric and up to about 5,000 of his men, forewarned from Sarajevo,  fled to the Bosnian Muslim stronghold of Tuzla, days before the Bosnian Serb Army took Srebrenica ; (e)that  the allegation of  genocide  with which  General Ratko Mladic is being charged, could not stand in any real court of law because he put the Muslim elderly, women and children of Srebrenica  into buses and sent them to Tuzla, in sharp contrast to the real GENOCIDE carried out by Oric;  (f) that while Oric has been running a disco for U.S. G.I.s in Tuzla, under no indictment   by the Hague Tribunal until recently (for mistreating prisoners) Mladic is wanted by it as a major war criminal for having committed genocide at Srebrenica;. (g) that the U.S.under a NATO cosmetic umbrella  had the command and put into action  its  preponderant personnel and weapons systems to wage  a 78-day purely punitive air war against a defenseless Serbia, without the Congressional declaration of war mandated by the Constitution and causing over 3,000 civilian death plus a damage to Serbias infrastructure, governmental and private properties estimated at the low of $20 and high of $40 billion;.  (h)that the  punishment  exceeded by far the non-existent SERIE  of sins  into  which  the Serbs are  being  marched, with sticks and carrots,  to accept  collective guilt because some  ethnic Serbs committed egregious crimes in an egregious  tripartite fratricide heavily assisted via  the classic Balkanization by foreign powers of our own moment in time,  some with an attested   pedigree .in repetitive invasions,  civilized savageries and undergoing  an acute  historical amnesia.   Given all that plus the latest and decidedly  irrefutable  work by Brock it is difficult to understand the unending flow of  political venom against present-day Serbia from our powerful Solons who have inducted the  U.S. Congress into additional, this time economic, threat of punishments if Mladic and Karadzic  are not delivered by Serbia to the Hague Tribunal, by 31st May 2006. Since the  International  Community has constructed an international boundary between Serbia and Bosnia,  Belgrade cannot send troops  into Bosnia to capture Mladic. If foreign  requests  were to be  put to Syria to deliver Bin Laden to the U.S. one could only laugh at them. But, the analogy is symmetric. It is also doubtful that Karadzic is still in any ex-Yugoslav space. This  turns   the demand to Serbia into  either a  fait accompli  to punish since it cannot be met or, else, borders on the irrational..

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