The Guardian, UK
Ms. Di Giovanni, you speak with a forked tongue! You also resort to hearsay and double hearsay and your reuse of outdated propaganda as your source material is not just irresponsible it is unethical. Do you not realize its not very professional to lie to your readers? There simply does not exist a shred of evidence that "8,000 men and boys were killed in Srebrenica." That figure was reduced to 7,000 just two weeks after the propaganda hit the media. Then of course you totally ignore the fact that John Pomfret of the Washington Post wrote a week after Srebrenica fell that he witnessed "4,000 Srebrenica troops who had made it through the forest to Tuzla." We also know that the Serbs captured 830 Srebrenica troops and sent them to Belgrade where a railway station was converted into a temporary prison to hold them. Only about 1,200 bodies have been recovered this totals 6,030 of your 8,000 lie! When do you stop beating a dead horse Ms. Di Giovanni? Shockingly missing from your Interventionism ploy is any mention whatsoever about Nasir Oric and his band of goons and thugs who used the so-called "Safe-Haven" of Srebrenica to launch nightly attacks that destroyed 32 Serbian villages that surrounded Srebrenica. Oric video taped his outrageous slaughter of over 3,000 Serbian women and children and made Bill Schiller of the Toronto Star sit and watch what Schiller dubbed "Orich's Greatest Hits." The video showed Orich's goons blowing up Serbian houses and if there were any survivors he would decapitate them proudly before the camera. Don't these 3,000 Serbs of Srebrenica deserve any justice Ms. Di Giovanni? Your other remark that "A quarter of a million were killed..." In November, 2006 Reuters reported that "After 4 years of research by 4 major humanitarian groups combing through victims' lists they were having difficulty coming up with 90,000 killed on all sides." Oh really? In President Clinton's last inaugural address he claimed "350,000" were killed. Can't any of you get your numbers straight? Instead to writing pure revisionists crap, or worse fiction Ms. Di Giovanni why don't you try a bit of research instead of copying the worn-out propaganda of your colleagues who were also too lazy to find out the facts? William Dorich Los Angeles The writer is the author of 5 books on Balkan history and music including the 1992 book, Kosovo.
