Here are two of my comments posted on the Washington Post website, regarding Christiane Amanpour's "Witnesses to Genocide". Boba ==
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/12/scream_bloody_murder.html Christiane Amanpour asks: What can we learn from people who were shunned or ignored when they screamed bloody murder about genocide? There was no genocide committed by the Serbs in Bosnia ever!! Nazi state of Croatia has committed genocide against the Serbs helped by Handzar Muslim (Nazi) units when they slaughtered some 700.000 Serbs during World War II. Serbs have screamed "GENOCIDE" since, but Amanpour doesn't hear. Serbs have screamed "INJUSTICE" and "WAR CRIMES" when Clintons Administration, of which Christiane Amanpour was the embedded reporter, armed and trained mujahedeens from Bosnia to kill Serbs in the war of 1990s. Serbs screamed "ETHNIC-CLEANSING" and "SLAUGHTER" was committed by foreign mercenaries and Muslim units of Naser Oric in and around Srebrenica in 1992-93 (when 142 Serbian villages were burnt and Serbs either killed or expelled), yet Christiana Amanpour decided to ignore these facts and continue with her selective and biased reporting against the Serbs. To answer the Amanpour's question - We can lean that Christiana Amanpour is neither morally nor professionally fit to report about such a grave matter. ========== ======== Will she ever stop advocating for Muslims in Bosnia or does it pay so well that she cannot refuse? Christiane Amanpour, the producer and narrator of the documentary, is renowned for her reports from Bosnia, Middle East, and other war zones. She grew up in Tehran, and her father Mohammed an Iranian airline executive, is a Muslim, her mother Patricia, a Catholic, and her husband James Robin, is a Jew. Therefore, one might think that her views on these three religions are source of reference. Religious extremism is a valid news story and an accurate, honest comparison of the three major monotheistic faiths would undoubtedly have a positive impact on public debate. Unfortunately, the sense of many viewers is that Amanpour didn't spend a year researching religious extremism, but rather reinforcing her own world views. [Dishonest Reporter Award 2007] Herbert Foerstel writes that: " Some very influential journalists have embraced the "journalism of attachment" in covering the Balkan wars, often merging their reporting with official government policies. CNN's Christiane Amanpour is a prominent example. Some of Amanpour's colleagues have had trouble accepting her personalized journalism. "I have winced at some of what she's done, at what used to be called advocacy journalism," wrote Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times. "She was sitting in Belgrade when that market massacre happened, and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it. There was no way she could have known that." Indeed, a subsequent UN report blamed the Bosnian Muslims for the massacre. Amanpour's cheerleading for the Clinton Administration's military intervention in the Balkans was noted with concern by her peers, but there was little public criticism until she joined the official family by marrying James Rubin, the State Department's high-profile spokesman" [The Balkan Wars: A Media-Driven Disaster ] ." Driven by her advocay journalism, Amanpour continues presenting false accusations against the Serbs as a true fact. She was not only a cheerleader for the Clinton Administration's military intervention against the Serbs in Bosnia and elsewhere, but was also an unsurpassed advocate for the Muslim cause in Bosnia and Kosovo. There was no genocide committed by Serbs in Bosnia , yet Amarpour's driven agenda, good connections and story that pays continues with the same dirty reporting so acutely associated with her and Clinton's unprovoked, illegal and unnecessary bombing of Serbs in 1990's. Boba ________________________________ http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/12/scream_bloody_murder.html Washington Post Dec. 4, 2008 Guest Voices Main Page| Guest Voices Archives| On Faith Archives Christiane Amanpour Witnesses to Genocide For the better part of the past year, I have been interviewing people who found themselves witnessing history that made them scream bloody murder. They were trying to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime - genocide - only to be shunned, ignored, or told it was someone else's problem. I wanted to know what made them do what they did. Some were idealists. Others were pragmatists. All were stubborn. And none considered themselves heroes. Even though the international community was indifferent when they tried to stop the killing, their moral courage gives us hope. For what they witnessed on their watch was genocide, unchecked evil that they would not let pass without a fight. I confess: there's much here I do not fully understand. As a young correspondent covering the war in Bosnia, my day often began with a trip to the Sarajevo morgue to count bodies. How else would a journalist know how many Muslim children were cut down by Bosnian Serb snipers? How else could we put names to civilians left faceless by mortar shells from the surrounding hills? I learned what it means to bear witness. In the 1990's in the heart of Europe, "never again" was happening again for the first time since WWII. The Bosnia war pitted Orthodox Christian Serbs against the Muslim population, in a quest to achieve an ethnically pure Greater Serbia as Yugoslavia exploded. Hundreds of thousands were killed, millions were forced to flee as refugees. But to this day, I ask myself what would have happened if roles had been reversed. If the principal aggressors were Muslim and their victims were Christian, would the West have intervened sooner to stop the slaughter of innocents? In Rwanda, in 1994 Roman Catholic Hutus turned with a vengeance against their Tutsi compatriots, often chasing them into churches and butchering them there. Yet today a strong Christian faith sustains many who find themselves on the path to national reconciliation. In Rwanda I watched as Iphegenia, a Tutsi woman who had lost her husband and five children, served lunch to Jean Bosco, the Hutu neighbor who had killed them. When I asked her how she found it in her heart to forgive, she responded "I am a Christian and I like to pray to forgive. In my heart the dead are dead and they cannot come back." I often wonder, when I've come back from a place like Rwanda or Bosnia, why people ask me: Is it really that bad? I guess they do not want to believe such evil can exist. Or perhaps they just do not want to be pushed into that moral space where they would have to take a stand and do something. The heroes we profile stood up to confront and speak out against the evil they saw. Their governments thought they too were exaggerating. They, too, were not believed. We're always told that evil happens when good men, and women, do nothing. Well these heroes did something, and the question -- my question as a reporter and as a witness to history is: Will we ever learn? Or will I or my children or my successors be reporting on this same kind of atrocity and inhumanity for years and years to come? Dec. 9 marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Genocide. Its commitment to prevent and punish this awful crime are inspiring words. Christiane Amanpour is CNN Chief International Correspondent. Her special report, Scream Bloody Murder, premieres at 9 p.m. Dec. 4 on CNN. 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