Mary Mostert a écrit : > To my Serb readers, > > I sent this out to some local people here in Utah and am getttng a great > response from it. Please read this, and the article that apeared in my > local newspaper concerning the Bosnian Muslim terrorist who shot strangers > in one of Salt Lake City's malls. No one here wants to call him a > terrorist. > > I wrote the following letter to the editor, who also happens to be the > brother of my member of Congress. The paper has begun to get e-mail from > Serbs who know about this. I urge you to not only write a letter to Deseret > News yourself but urge every Serb you know to also write a letter. The > article to which I am referring is at Deseret News > http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660209623,00.html incredibly is the > result of the paper actually going to Bosnia for the funeral of the killer - > and the hate propaganda designed to somehow make us believe it was really > the fault of the Serbs that Sulejman Talovic went on a killing spree. > > Letters from all over the world to the editor - Joe Cannon - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the author of the article Joseph Bauman at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I know will have an impact not only here, but would also > have a huge impact in Washington, DC and Congress. I won't tell you what to > write, but the letters will be much more effective if you mention the fact > that Serbs are America's traditional friends because both Serbs and > Americans value liberty and truth. > > Send me a bcc or blind copy - I'm getting some great letters from Serbs who > have written who are telling in their letters what REALLY happened in > Bosnia, Kosovo, etc. This is a golden opportunity to educate not only > Deseret News but a lot of people in Congress. Write letters! > > Mary Mostert > > > >> ______________________________________________ >> From: Mary Mostert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:09 AM >> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> Subject: About absurd Statements in Deseret News Story re >> >> To: Joe Cannon, Editor >> >> Joe, >> >> It is embarrassing to read in Deseret News a story as ridiculous as the >> Sunday edition article by Joe Bauman which tried to portray the Trolley >> Square terrorist, Sulejman Talovic, as a normal kid. Normal kids do not >> go on shooting sprees at the mall whether in Salt Lake City or in Israel. >> Furthermore, the article, entitled "Cities, citizens still scarred by war" >> repeats as "facts" the same one-sided, unsubstantiated claims that CNN's >> Muslim reporter Christiane Amanpour gave us nightly during the Bosnian war >> in the mid-1990s. As a journalist old enough to remember World War II and >> the slaughter of more than a million Serbs in the Holocaust, along with >> Jews and Romas (Gypsies), it puzzled me that no one was even mentioning >> the fact that the second largest group of people killed in the Holocaust, >> after the Polish Jews, were Serbs in occupied Yugoslavia. Not once did >> Amanpour or anyone on CNN interview a Serb or even mention the execution >> of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies by the Croatians and the Bosnians. Nor did CNN >> ever mention the fact that it was the Serbs under Druza Mihailovich who >> rescued over 500 American airmen shot down over Yugoslavia during WW2, and >> it was the Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and Albanians who were supporters of >> Adolph Hitler in both World Wars. >> Is it likely that the major source in the article, Nezim Halilovic, an >> Islamic imman who was "commandant of the Fourth Muslim Brigade" that >> successfully drove out the Serbs in Sarajevo, is going to tell the truth >> about what actually happened? He claimed "Around 300,000 people were >> placed in concentration camps" and "about 40,000 women were raped, amongst >> whom were 10,000 girls." >> When I was writing as editor of Michael Reagan's website and newsletter, I >> checked out the statistics from the last Yugoslave census. In 1991 the >> population of Sarajevo was 525,980 . It was 49% Muslim, 29.9% Serb, 6.6 >> Croats and 14.2 other. About 155,000 Serbs and 262,000 Muslims lived in >> Sarajevo and its suburbs before the war. (see: 1996 article "Ethnic >> Cleansing under NATO's Watchful Eye" - >> http://www.bannerofliberty.com/Serbs,BosniaKosovo/OSKosovo-MasterTOC.html >> ) How could 155,000 Serb men, women and children put 300,000 Muslims, or >> 115% of the entire Muslim population of Sarajevo in concentration camps >> and commit all the atrocities the Islamic former commandant of the Fourth >> Muslim Brigade, clearly a military outfit, claims he watched?, >> By 1996, the Associated Press reported, "only about 30,000 Serbs remained. >> Today, Sarajevo is 80% Muslim, rather than 49%, and 5% Serb rather than >> 30%. In 2002 there were only 401, 118 people in Sarajevo, 328,094 of them >> Muslim, or about 60,00 MORE Muslims than in 1991, while only 20,055 Serbs >> live in Sarajevo, which is 135,000 fewer than in 1991. Hard facts clearly >> show that it is the Serbs, not the Bosnian Muslims who have suffered >> ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo. >> Bauman wrote: "When investigators dug up one mass grave last year, they >> found the remains of "an older woman that was approximately 103 years old >> - she had documents - and her grand-grandchild, that has only three years. >> The child was still in the woman's arms. The cause of this and the people >> that did this are Serbs," he said. So where ARE the documents? What did >> they say? How many women at the age of 103 HAVE a 3 year old grand child >> or great grandchild? Where ARE those 135,000 missing Serbs? If the >> Bosnian Muslims were the persecuted ones, how is it they have INCREASED by >> 68,984 people in Sarajevo in the past 10 years? >> Do we really need to have our local newspaper spouting Bosnian Muslim >> propaganda designed to make us feel sorry for a Bosnian Muslim terrorist >> who decided to shoot up Trolley Square? >> >> Mary Mostert >> 426-8315 >> 602 East 4450 N >> Provo, UT >> >> > The Deseret News Article - Sunday - April 8, 2007 (for pictures go to: > http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660209623,00.html > Deseret Morning News, Sunday, April 08, 2007 > Cities, citizens still scarred by war > By Joe Bauman > Deseret Morning News > SARAJEVO - To understand the impact on Bosnians of the 1992-95 war, > ask anybody in this country old enough to remember it. > > . > Men from Talovici converse after the service for Sulejman Talovic. > Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning News > From the bellhop who grows morose and silent when questioned about > the fighting to the top imam in Bosnia, all have horror stories. A country > the size of West Virginia, Bosnia has far more than its share of misery per > acre. > Bosnia's Muslims suffered genocide, the worst crimes in Europe since > the Holocaust. They were killed, raped, tortured. "Ethnic cleansing" squads > forced them from their homes. Livestock and houses were destroyed. Horrific > massacres filled mass graves, and other victims starved in concentration > camps. > > A cemetery in the Bosnian city. During the war, which lasted from > 1992 to 1995, about 1,700 children and many more adults were killed in > Sarajevo. > > Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning News > Why did this happen? Yugoslavia was not a country that naturally > coalesced over the centuries. Proclaimed at the end of World War I, it was > made up of largely Muslim Bosnians, called Bosniacs; Eastern Orthodox Serbs > who are traditionally pro-Russian; and Catholics called Croats. Several > "republics" operated within the Yugoslav framework. > The history of the former Yugoslavia is complex, with shifting > alliances and a succession of parliaments and rulers. Between the end of > World War II and the late 1980s, it was ruled by the communist dictator > Josip Broz Tito, who managed to keep the country's hostile factions from > attacking one another. But after Tito's death in 1980, Yugoslavia began to > fracture along ethnic lines. > > A scenic view of Sarajevo > > Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning News > In 1986, Slobodan Milosevic - an advocate of "ethnic cleansing" > against Bosniacs and Croats - took power as Yugoslavia's strongman. "Between > 1991 and 1992, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia all > seceded from Yugoslavia," says a U.S. State Department Web site. > These republics met varying levels of resistance from the republic > of Serbia and local ethnic Serbs. Slovenia easily forced Serb troops out, > but Bosnia paid a monstrous toll. > > Two men put up a sign in Sarajevo. Some buildings are still in > disrepair. > > Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning > Bosnia-Herzegovina held a referendum in 1992 and proclaimed > independence, leading to attacks from ethnic Serbs in this republic. > However, some Serbs defended the country. > The international community imposed a weapons embargo against the > former Yugoslavia on the theory that if combatants have no guns they can't > fight. But Serbia inherited the army of Yugoslavia, the fourth largest in > Europe, according to Nedim Hasic, a journalist from Sarajevo who assisted > the Deseret Morning News. > While driving through Sarajevo, Adi Sokolija - another translator > for the paper - pointed out the high hills around the city. A child when the > war began, he and his family left Sarajevo for Zagreb, Croatia. He mentioned > recent reports that Serb gunners had artillery in place every 30 meters to > shoot down into the capital city. > "It was systematically emplaced so they could shoot any part of > Sarajevo. They could choose which part to shoot." > The artillery took aim at civilians, he said. > "At the beginning it was just to make people scared. Later, people > standing in rows for water and bread, that was more fierce. They shot at > people that were waiting just to have a piece of bread." > War repairs are under way throughout Bosnia, but many towns remain > badly scarred. Major buildings are still burned-out ruins in Sarajevo, and > bullet marks still scar buildings. One large building clearly shows where a > machine gun was aiming for a window, possibly to take out a sniper. An arc > of pockmarks leads across a wall to a corner of the window, where many shots > are concentrated. > "A lot of children, actually, were killed," Sokolija continued. They > were targeted, he said. "A lot of children waiting in rows for bread and > water, part of those were killed." > He said about 1,700 children were killed in Sarajevo, and, of > course, many adults died. "You know, people cannot understand why someone > would kill children." > The siege of Sarajevo went on for three years, he said, but the > Serbs were not able to take over. Ethnic Serbs living in Sarajevo helped in > its defense, he added. > "There are a lot of heroes here. A lot of people fought for the > freedom." Many of his relatives were wounded and "I have a lot of friends > that fought here." > Sokolija's cousin, Djenana Hondjo, lived in Jablancia, about 25 > miles north of Mostar. Mostar, she said as Sokolija translated, was "the > most devastated town in Bosnia. It was shelled a lot." > While Jablancia wasn't hit much by artillery fire, she said, she > could hear shooting, and the town was occupied by Croats. > "After the Serbs the Croats were not that rough. But it's still > rough if you look at it now.... The Croats were with us at the beginning and > later they stabbed us in the back. That's what she says," Sokolija said. > Shortly after the war started, she and her family left for Croatia, > then returned. "They went there for three months, and they returned to a war > zone because they didn't want to be treated as bad as refugees there. > "You're treated like you're a lower form of life, " Sokolija added, > "I know that because I was a refugee." > One of the grinding aspects of war, she said, is the uncertainty. > "Your future is not defined." Also, there was not enough food anywhere in > Bosnia. > She recalled visiting her grandmother's home. "They had a piece of > bread and some cheese on it. They would divide it in half and eat it, and > that was luxury." > People couldn't turn on the lights and "there were funerals all the > time," Hondjo said. > During the war she gave birth to identical twin girls at a field > hospital set up in a basement. Her fiance had been killed. He was a > volunteer soldier, a scout who went across enemy lines. > "It wasn't a real hospital," Sokolija quoted her. "It was a war > hospital. They do all kinds of stuff there." The hospital was in a basement > in order to protect wounded soldiers and doctors from bombardment. > In her seventh month of pregnancy, Hondjo needed a Caesarean. > "She had to wait four hours till the doctors operated on some > wounded soldiers, Bosnian soldiers. And she was in a lot of pain." > The clinic had one incubator, which had been donated by French > doctors. "Nobody knew that day how to turn that incubator on. In the moment > she was giving birth, the guy that brought that incubator, he came into the > room.... > "That was a coincidence, you see? It was luck.... He put that > incubator on and saved her children's life." > One of the children had been declared dead. "But there was, you see, > another coincidence. There was a Spanish convoy and there was a woman ... > anesthesiologist. > "She ran into the basement to help the little baby and she saved > her." > The twins, Adna and Dgina, are doing well today. "She's special > baby," Hondjo said of the rescued Dgina. > The most influential imam in Bosnia, Nezim Halilovic, described what > he called "genocide and hard aggression" against Bosnia-Herzegovina. > Interviewed in the Islamic Center in Sarajevo, he wore western clothing and > a short beard. > He had been the main imam in the town of Konjic, near Mostar. "He > was a fighter," said Sokolija, who translated as Halilovic spoke. "He was > commandant of the Fourth Muslim Brigade." They achieved a great deal with > almost no equipment or guns, he added. > You can see churches standing in the places occupied by the > Bosnia-Herzegovina army, Halilovic said. "There were no massive killings of > civilians.... > "On the opposite side, where those Serbs and Croats were, 614 > mosques were destroyed; not one church on this side. And to add to that ... > 307 mosques are left damaged. That's out of a total of 1,400 and some > mosques." > Private homes of Bosnian Muslims were destroyed as well as industry, > he said. > "Bridges and anything that links people and helps them get around, > it was all destroyed. Two hundred thousand Muslims and patriots from other > nations were killed in Bosnian war." > Around 300,000 people were placed in concentration camps, he said. > "About 40,000 women were raped, amongst whom were 10,000 girls." > When investigators dug up one mass grave last year, they found the > remains of "an older woman that was approximately 103 years old - she had > documents - and her grand-grandchild, that has only three years." > The child was still in the woman's arms. "The cause of this and the > people that did this are Serbs," he said. > On July 11, 1995, near Srebrenica, a woman named Jamila noticed a > woman in the crowd who wore an expression of pain. Jamila asked her what was > wrong. > "And she was saying, 'I'm giving birth."' > Image > A man carries produce to the market in Sarajevo. During the war, > food supplies were scarce. > Jamila told her, "Hold my hand and hold the hand of the woman next > to you." The woman gave birth to a boy. > "It had black, long hair, and it looked clean even though it was > just born. She took the child on her stomach." > A Serb ordered her to put the baby on the ground, then stepped on > him, killing him, he said. > Eternal sadness > In downtown Sarajevo, an eternal flame memorial burns, a display of > plaques and flowers beside the sidewalk. The memorial was established to > honor residents who fought fascists in World War II and who died helping the > partisan resistance to the Nazi occupiers. But Bosnians also use it to pay > tribute to recent sacrifices for their country. > "Lot of people lay their flowers for the heroes that died defending > Sarajevo" during the war of 1992-95, said Sokolija. > David Schwendiman, a prosecutor from Utah who is in Sarajevo working > on war crime cases, has more insight than most Americans concerning the > impact of the atrocities. A former assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake > City, he is assisting the prosecutor's office of Bosnia-Herzegovina. > Schwendiman is among six international legal officers on the staff. > "I thought I was tough" because of his earlier experience > prosecuting violent crimes, Schwendiman noted by e-mail. > "Nothing, nothing prepared me for the intensity and the sheer volume > of all of this. The human wreckage is enormous. > "The physical damage as you noticed is all around, but the human > damage is even more pervasive. I have only begun to not see the shell > craters and the 'Sarajevo roses' (bullet marks) on the walls and streets." > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > C 2007 Deseret News Publishing Company > > > > > > > > >
