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I will now ask you, Mr. Morrison, when will there be "Justice for Serbia?" Although I am no apologist for "Slobo," I find it somewhat ironic that while he is being accused of war crimes in Kosovo, and also in Bosnia and Croatia, what do you think of a head of a nation that would mortar his own people in order to gain sympathy from the gullible West? I am referring to the Markale Marketplace massacre, the excuse we used to bomb the Bosnian Serbs in 1995 for two weeks, hitting hospitals, schools, churches and monasteries, when a U.N. report confirmed that Bosnian Muslim forces had committed that atrocity. To further corroborate the U.N. report, The Sunday (London) Times of 1 October 1995 featured BIG headlines, "Serbs 'not guilty' of massacre, Experts warned US that mortar was Bosnian." Furthermore a British think tank, The Stoneyhill Centre, Gloucester, UK, reported, "US framed Serbs for market bombing." Ah, but who cares about the truth? We got what we wanted. While Milosevic goes to the Hague, Alija Itzebegovic bombs his own people and goes scott free! It should also be remembered that Bosnia is a creation of the West. Bosnia did not meet any of the requirements necessary to become a nation - no defined borders; no economic stability with no established currency, and was in violation of its own constitution. Today, Bosnia is a basket case, steeped in corruption. And this is called a success. How much more money are we going to pour down that sink hole? In his book, Offensive in the Balkans, the Potential for a Wider War as a Result of Foreign Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Yossef Bodansky, he wrote: "As early as 1992, Izetbegovic outlined a very precise and uncompromising strategic political objective for the Sarajevo regime: to get the West to defeat the Serbs and establish a Muslim-dominated state for him. Bodansky further writes, "The UN concluded that a special group of Bosnia Muslim forces, many of whom had served with Islamic terrorist organizations committed a series of atrocities, including 'some of the worst recent killings,' against Bosnian Muslim civilians in Sarajevo as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military intervention. These attacks escalated into premeditated attacks and atrocities committed against Bosnian Serb civilians trying to flee contested areas." Undoubtedly, Slobo will be blame for their atrocities also. Milosevic is to tried for war crimes in Kosovo. For the Trepca mine shaft massacre which revealed not one speck of tooth or bone fragment where witnesses claimed 1,500 ethnic Albanian bodies had been incinerated? Or the Racak massacre, which was discredited by the Finnish forensic team? Or the fact that Eli Weisel said there was no "genocide," as did The Wall Street Journal? Or the fact that we created the long lines of refugees with our bombs? Or the fact that there were no 100,000 bodies lying in mass graves as claimed by Former SecDef Cohen, nor were there "600,000 ethnic Albanians lying in mass graves, starving and too frightened to return to their homes?" That was certainly a good one by our former Commander in Chief, and whom are we supporting? That wonderful bunch of cutthroats, the KLA, with their hideous crimes too numerous to list - but that's okay, "they're OUR cutthroats! All of this will come back to bite us, one day. We will look back and wonder, when the world is ablaze with more Bosnias and Croatias and Kosovos (and let's now throw in Macedonia, whom we have betrayed. To Greece, I advise them to "check six.") created by The New World Order. But of course, I shouldn't neglect Franjo Tudjman - that wonderful father of Croatia who said, "Thank God my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew." He knew what he was talking about considering what the Croatian Ustashe did during WWII and today. It's pretty bad when you have to give your Croatian troops narcotics in order to stomach slitting the throats of elderly Serb women and children as they did in Operation Storm, a huge success, thanks to Uncle Sucker. Without us, the Croats couldn't have punched their way out of a paper bag. While the world's attention was focused on "Srebrenica," Charles Krauthammer wrote in TIME, April 5, 1999, "In August 1995, Croatia launched a savage attack on Krajina, a region of Croatia that Serbs had inhabited for 500 years. Within four days, the Croatians drove out 150,000 [closer to 250,000, 650,000 from all of Croatia since 1992] Serbs, the largest ethnic cleansing of the entire Balkan wars. Investigators with the war-crimes tribunalin the Hague have concluded that this campaign was carried out with brutality, wanton murder. No denunciation. No sanctions. No bombing. No indignant speeches about ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of of innocents. In fact, in justifying the current bombing of Serbia, Clinton made an indirect reference to this Croatian campaign when he credited the 'courageous people in Bosnia and in Croatia' who 'fought back' against the Serbs and 'helped to end the war.' Indeed, they did. Crotia's savage ethnic cleansing so demoralized the Serbs that they soon agreed to sign the Dayton peace accord of 1995." You stated, "The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a former republic in Yugoslavia, cost 250,000 lives." Of course, this is made to indicate that all 250,000 victims were of course, all Bosnians, but let's do a little math here. Haris Siladjzic, Prime Minister of the Bosnian Islamic government at the time, said on CNN that when Tuzla was shelled, the 71 victims represented the single largest killing of Muslims in one day in the entire war. Therefore, if we take 42 months or 1,260 days of war and use the Tuzla figure of 71 as the maximum deaths per day, we come up with a total of 89,460 - ON ALL SIDES. George Kenney, a former State Department officer well versed in events in Bosnia, puts the casualty figure between 20,000 to 60,000 and David Binder, a highly respected foreign correspondent with 30 years of experience in the Balkans claimed in World Affairs Council speech in Orange County, California, that the combined totals of all humanitarian organizations can't even come up with 70,000 victims!" I've even heard the figure as high as 500,000, hoping the mud sticks. Respectfully submitted, Stella Oh, and before I close, I invite you to go to: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jatras3.html. where you will get another side of the story on Srebrenica. ----------------------------------------------------- THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 29, 2001 Embassy Row News and dispatches from the diplomatic corridor. [EXCERPT ONLY] Justice for Bosnia Bosnian diplomat Sven Alkalaj cheered yesterday when he heard the news that Slobodan Milosevic was being sent to The Hague to face war-crimes charges. "This is very exciting. After all the crimes he committed, all the genocide, the butcher of the Balkans will finally face justice," said Mr. Alkalaj, who served as Bosnia's ambassador to the United States during the war in his homeland masterminded by the former Yugoslav strongman. "This should serve as a clear signal to all fugitive war criminals that they will face justice," Mr. Alkalaj said. The two most wanted fugitives in Bosnia are Radovan Kardzic and Ratko Mladic, who led Bosnian Serb forces in the war. The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a former republic in Yugoslavia, cost 250,000 lives. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
