Barkley wrote: >Louis, > There's a problem here. If there had been no >Serbian camps, then there would not have been >the basis for the publicity campaign. I think there is better way to formulate this. If western imperialism had not required a justification for intervening in the Bosnian conflict, would it have created a publicity campaign around Serb "concentration camps". > There is good reason to view the Serbs as having >carried out much greater atrocities than any of the other >ethnic groups in the region since 1990. No, there is not. That is the whole point. >There are very >good reasons for much of Jewish opinion to now view the >Serbs as the worst war criminals in Europe. The facts on >(and in) the ground fully support such an opinion. >Barkley Rosser Facts? Like Roy Gutman's coverage in Newsday that earned him a Pulitzer Prize? They rely heavily on hearsay and unconfirmed claims. What's interesting this go round is that there is much more sensitivity to accuracy. So when NATO makes claims about Serb rape and murder, there is much more skepticism. That's why that piece from yesterday's NY Times was so interesting. Furthermore, in today's Times, they address the question of proof of alleged "massacres": ========= In San Francisco on Thursday, President Clinton said that the Serbs had displaced "over a million Kosovars" and had killed and raped "thousands upon thousands of them." >From the interviews that journalists and relief workers have conducted with scores of refugees from Kosovo, there is no reason to doubt him. But at this point it is also impossible to prove that he is correct. If the United States Government and its NATO allies have systematically compiled records of the atrocities, they are not disclosing the information. Nor is there a clearinghouse or data base for the material gathered by the journalists and representatives of private organizations who are talking to the refugees at the borders. Instead, they have relied -- at least until now -- on the compelling repetition of anecdotal information Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
