NEOLIBERALISM - THE BALKANS SCENARIO
The following paper attempts to address the subject of neoloberalism as
dominant ethos imposed by the West on, for one, Bosnia. Neoliberalism
being
carried out in the Balkans scenario under the guise of 'humanitarian'
intervention with that intervention effected through an overwhelming
media
propaganda campaign of global dimension devised principally by public
relations companies on behalf of such diverse clients as the Vatican,
oil
rich families of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Brunei and wealthy business men
and
women in Germany and the United States of America.
In order to gain some understanding of the complexities inherent to the
recent war in the Balkans and events thereafter it is of vital
importance
to jettison propaganda masquerading as information foist upon the public
by
unscrupulous and venal opinion makers.
"Contrary to common assumptions", writes Australian scholar Alex Carey,
"propaganda plays an important role - and certainly a more covert and
sophisticated role - in technologically advanced democratic societies,
where the maintenance of the existing powers and privileges is
vulnerable
to popular opinion".
Propaganda has a long and dishonourable tradition in the West. As early
as
1933 the Nazis turned for guidance to Ivy Lee the US pioneer of public
relations. Lee's firm was hired for $25,000 a year by the German Dye
Trust,
I,G, Farben which invited him to visit Germany to meet Hitler and
Hitler's
propaganda minister Josef Goebbels and other Nazi Government officials.
Lee's 28 year old son, James Lee, went to work for Farben in Berlin for
$33,000 a year.
An employee of Lee's firm drafted a report suggesting that Joachim von
Ribbentrop, the German general who later became Hitler's foreign
minister,
"undertake a definite campaign to clarify the American mind" by
"speaking
over the radio to the American people" and writing "a considered article
for an important American publication".
So. Then as Now. He who pays the Piper calls the Tune.
In essence PR companies have been charged with mounting and sustaining a
case against, for example, the Serbs as international pariahs to justify
Western military intervention in ex Yugoslavia. In fact in the Balkans
scenario, the Serbs have simply been in the way in that they have
represented an impediment to the take over of territories rich in
mineral
and oil deposits and human resources and offering enormous potential to
outside interests in terms of political and strategic spheres of
influence
at the heart of Europe. (1).
The lie projected by the persuaders was that the Serbs were the
"aggressor"
in ex Yugoslavia. Invaders commandeering other peoples territories. For
example, PR firms via the Western media told the world that the Serbs
had
invaded and illegally occupied 70% of Bosnian territory.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth, casualty of war, is
that indigenous Bosnian Serbs owned, resided on and farmed some 68% of
Bosnian territory prior to the outbreak of this war. (2).
>From the seemingly bottomless coffers associated with oil, military and
drugs barons in the West, US and British-based PR firms have received
vast
sums of money to organise propaganda campaigns on behalf of their
clients
in the Balkans - The Izetbegovic administration in Sarajevo, the Tudjman
government in Zagreb and the heroin mafia New York-based Albanian|Kosovo
Separatist Movement. (Source: US Department of Justice).
This is what James Harff, Director of the Washington-based PR firm Ruder
&
Finn Global Public Affairs company had to say to Jacques Merlino a
respectable associate editor of France's Channel Two - "To be frank I
can
tell you that the vast majority of Americans wondered in which AFRICAN
country to locate Bosnia. No one could understand what was going on in
Bosnia", he said. Mr Harff in acknowledging the general public's lack of
comprehension of issues related to Bosnia exults over the golden
opportunity this presented to people such as himself. "In one shot", he
said, "we were able to offer a simple story a history of good guys and
the
bad guys".
In the Channel Two interview, the PR firm boss went on to describe in
some
detail how the demonisation of the Serbs was achieved. Principally he
said
through the spreading of false rumour and unsubstantiated reports of
atrocities and war crimes. Omission of the more salient facts to a story
often achieved the effect of scapegoating Serbs. "There were all sorts
of
reasons", said James Harff, "why the Jewish intellectuals and
organisations
were hostile to the Croats and Bosnian Muslims. Our challenge was to
obtain
a reversal of this situation. We succeeded in doing so, in a masterly
manner, between the 2nd and 5th of August 1992, when the New York paper
Newsday led with a story on Serbian camps". French newsman Jacques
Merlino
said that Elie Wiesel told him that there was no comparison between the
Nazi slaughter houses of World War Two and the prison camps where
Muslims
and Croats had been held prisoner by Serbs. Wiesel had visited these
prisoner of war camps in ex Yugoslavia.
James Harff went on to speak gleefully of how Ruder & Finn had jumped on
the "death camp" potential of the Newsday report which carried with the
story a photograph which had tugged at the world's heart strings. This
was
of a horribly emaciated man. The world's assumption was that this man
was a
Muslim who had been starved and mistreated by Serb prison guards. The
truth
behind this photograph has only just been published. (See over).
James Harff again ... "We convened 3 major Jewish organisations. B'nai
B'Riths Anti Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the
American Jewish Congress. We suggested to them that they print an
insert
in the New York Times and organise a protest in front of the UN
building.
This really worked. The engagement of Jewish organisations on the side
of
the Bosnian Muslims was a super poker play", Harff said. He continued -
"Immediately thereafter we were able to associate the Serbs with the
Nazis
in public opinion. It was not long before there was a clear change in
the
press language with emotional terms like "concentration camps" evoking
Nazi
Germany and the gas chambers at Auschwitz", Harff concluded. In his book
"The Truth From Yugoslavia is not Being Reported Honestly" published by
Albin Michel SA in Paris in 1993, Jacques Merlino also mentioned that as
a
result of the "concentration camp" story, many Jewish MP's put their
signatures to the famous collective letter, headed by Margaret Thatcher,
to
the Wall Street Journal in September 1993, calling on the West to arm
the
Muslims and bomb the Serbs.
No one has so transgressed the rules pertaining to good taste by going
so
far as to suggest, that Mrs Thatcher, pace her arms dealing son Mark,
may
have had something of a vested interest in plumping for the arming of a
supposedly unarmed Muslim and Croatian military force in ex Yugoslavia.
Only writers of the calibre of Jonathon Swift or in our day Kurt
Vonnegut
or Joseph Heller could do justice to the subject matter here. Slaughter
House 5 and Catch 22 expose the myths associated with so-called "just
wars".
War is just war. It is nothing more and nothing less.
War has never been anything other than slaughter of human and animal
life -
It is destruction of the environment. Capitalism cannot exist without an
enemy. It must create an enemy to justify its 'just' wars. No enemy - No
excuse for military intervention - No intervention - No commercial take
over - No arms profits.
*Arms* - In the Balkans alone, since the late 1980's, vast fortunes
have
been made by mainly US and German arms companies. Mortars to MiG fighter
aircraft have been shipped to the region via various 'aid' agencies, the
UN
and even NATO for use against the Serbs by the "defenceless"
Muslim|Croat
Armies. (Refer Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy DFASP of
Act|Nov
1992 and UN reports). Bill Clinton, The Irish Times 30.8.94 - "Despite
the
UN Arms Embargo the CIA will continue to send arms to the Bosnian
Muslims".
During the course of their violent war of secession from the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991|92 Croat and Muslim separatist
forces in synchronised attacks took siege of all Yugoslav People's Army
(JNA) barracks across Croatia and Bosnia rendering the JNA useless in
its
defense of civilians in most areas. (These actions are detailed in the
book
"Breaking of Yugoslavia and Armed Secession of Croatia" by Dusan Vilic
and
Bosko Todorovic. The book contains copies of authentic military
transcripts). Simon Wiesenthal, Director of the Jewish Documentation
Centre
Vienna - Slobodna Bosna Sarajevo 21.5.97 - "There were factories of
military ammunition and weapons throughout the country, and when the war
in
Yugoslavia started, everybody had ammunition and weapons, everybody was
armed".
Bosnian Muslim businessmen already owned the arms factories in Gorazde -
Local Muslim forces backed by foreign Mujahedin had launched massive
attacks on Serb communities around Gorazde during 1991|92 - 2 years
before
the media began to talk of Serb attacks on Gorazde.
(The media did not mention that Muslim forces used the tops of high
buildings, to include the hospital in Gorazde, as military
installations.
(Read: The Truth About Gorazde - Task Force on Terrorism &
Unconventional
Warfare - US House of Representatives Washington 14.5.94).
In November 1996 under its new PROGRAMME FOR BOSNIA so called, the US
launched another megabucks ($400 million of them) military training and
equipment programme for the Muslim|Croat Federation Armies. This is what
is
duplicitously known as 'Aid'.
Arms and the Man. With Peace verboten.
'Retired' US Generals have been training Muslim and Croat forces in
Bosnia
for years.
There are those who fervently believe that war could have been avoided
in
the Balkans had it not been for the imperialist actions of a supremely
arrogant cabal of Western capitalists.
With their obscene race to effect 'independence' for Croatia et al,
their
insane need to sweep away the last crumbs of socialism in Yugoslavia and
grab the markets there, they caused this terrible war. A war which
brought
chaos, horror and loss of every kind to all the peoples of the ex SFR of
Yugoslavia. Furthermore, their use of special agents to carry out
terrorist
attacks and rig election results has ensured the placing in to power of
fascist leaders who are dedicated to suppression of working class and
poorer populations in the region. These entrepreneurs, their hired thugs
in
the field and those in the media who promoted their case, are the true
War
Criminals in the Balkans scenario.
Whilst on the subject of Fascism|Capitalism - This is what the President
of
Croatia Franjo Tudjman had to say in support for the Nazi 'ideology' in
his book titled "Wastelands of History" - "Genocide is a natural
phenomenon, in harmony with the societal and mythologically divine
nature.
Genocide is not only permitted, it is recommended even commanded by the
word of the Almighty, whether it is useful for the survival or the
restoration of the Kingdom of the Chosen Nation, or for the presersation
and the spreading of its one and only correst faith".
The curriculum vitae for the President of the other new Western created
puppet state or Banana Republic in the Balkans, Alija Izetbegovic, reads
thus -
"As a teenager he co founded Bosnia's version of "Hitler Youth", the
"Young
Muslims". Helped establish the Nazi Muslim SS Khanjar Division which was
responsible for appalling atrocities in Yugoslavia in the1940's. 1946:
Arrested and jailed for 3 years for founding the fascist journal
MUDZAHID.
Played major role as ABWEHR and special GESTAPO agent during World War
II.
In 1983 arrested and jailed for 6 years for anti-social fascist
activities.
President Izetbegovic has exploited and abused the Muslim faith to the
detriment of the Muslim people of Bosnia. Here is his "Islamic
Declaration"
which was reprinted in Sarajevo in 1990: "There can be no peace or
coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith and
institutions. The Islamic movement must and can take power as soon as it
is
morally and numerically strong enough, not only to destroy the
non-Islamic
power, but to build up a new Islamic one ..."
Nazism is represented at highest order to this day in ex Yugoslavia.
Upon
achieving power in 1991 Tudjman surrounded himself with fellow right
wing
extremists. These included ageing former operatives with the World War
II
Croatian Nazi regime. Some of whom had been incorporated into service
during the Cold War era with Western Intelligence Agencies. Perhaps the
most sinister figure to emerge, though certainly not from the shadows in
recent times since he lived the good life in Australia for 50 years, is
one
Dinko Sakic. Sakic was the last Commander of the Jasenovac extermination
camp in Croatia. On Sakic's return to Croatia in 1991, Tudjman appointed
him to a Senior position in the Croat Government. Tudjman gave Ustashe
member Julienne Bushich, who in September 1976 took part in the hijack
of a
TWA airliner, the job of adviser to the Croatian Ambassador to
Washington.
Her husband Zvonko, also a Croat member of the Ustashe Nazi forces, is
serving a life term for planting a bomb at New York's main railway
station.
Many more high ranking Nazi|Ustashe members were appointed to positions
in
the Tudjman Government. Despite efforts by the powers that be to
diminish
the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi forces during the 1940's amd
attempts
by certain writers in the West to re write history pertaining to that
time,
people nevertheless across the world manage to learn about what happened
in
camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau etc. There has though been a very
successful conspiracy by forces in the West to totally censor the
holocaust
which took place in Yugoslavia during the 1940's. (3).
The subject of censorship regards the Yugoslav Holocaust was raised in
Belgrade by organisers of ceremonies held recently to mark the May 9th
1945
end to World War II in Europe. The Belgrade Daily Tanjug wrote on 8th of
May last - "The unconditional surrender of Germany on May 9th 1945,
officially ended WWII in Europe, the bloodiest military conflict in the
history of mankind. WWII spilled into Yugoslavia when a dawn bombardment
rocked Belgrade on April 6th, 1941, followed by an invasion of German,
Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Albanian troops, that eventually
reached
900,000. Croatian fascist leaders, known as Ustashes, allied themselves
to
Hitler (and the Vatican), proclaiming the clerico-fascist Independent
State
of Croatia on April 10th 1941. The Ustahse aimed to purge multi-ethnic
Croatia, then populated by about 1.5 million Serbs, by converting to
Catholicism about one third of the Serbs, routing one third, and
exterminating the rest. The extermination of hundreds of thousands
Serbs
followed diligently. About 700,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist
Croatians were killed most brutally in the Jasenovac concentration camp
alone. More than 17,000 children perished in separate death camps for
children. WWII was waged by 61 nations - a total of 2.1 billion people,
which was 96% of the world's population. Over 50 million people died, 30
million of them civilians. About 12 million perished in the camps.
Yugoslavia lost 1.7 million people, most of them Serbs and about 400,000
were wounded. Belgrade was the only city in Europe that had 2 death
camps,
Sajmiste and Banjica, in which 80,000 patriots were executed". End
quote.
Director of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna Simon Wiesenthal
in
an interview on 21st May last in which he too highlighted the cover up
on
facts about the suffering of people in Yugoslavia during WWII said -
"The
Croat ustashe committed horrendous crimes. Many thousands of Serb
civilians, innocent people, were killed by the Ustashe at Jasenovac
death
camp". Simon Wiesenthal told the Independent Sarajevo review Slobodna
Bosna
- "Serbs saved Jews many times". He also went on to recall the horrors
suffered by the Serb, Jews and Gypsy people at the hands of the Nazis.
(4).
Continuing on the theme of censorhip, , holocaust, media and Public
Relations firms - PR company Ruder & Finn et al failed to suck all
Jewish
organisations into the rediculous anti socialist | anti Serb whirlpool
regards Bosnia -
For example - in March 1995 the "World Affairs" journal published the
following: Quote - While the "Jewish Frontier", along with all advocates
of
humane behaviour, abhors the slaughter in Bosnia, we feel it appropriate
to
publish a statement by survivors of Buchenwald on the historic
background
of the Serb-Bosnian conflict sent to us by John Ranz, Chairman of
Survivors
of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp group based in the USA: "The
gigantic
campaign to brainwash America by our media against the Serbian people is
just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information and
outright
lies. It is an outstanding achievement by the powerful public relations
Madison Avenue 'Boys' who have at their disposal large amounts of money
provided by a coalition of US and Middle Eastern oil countries. To our
shame, the Izetbegovic Government in Sarajevo, with its powerful
backers,
seem even to convince some Jewish 'leaders' who indirectly help the
murderers of our people in their war to subjugate the Serbs. We are not
being told that the Croatian Nazi collaborators and the Bosnian SS
Khanjar
Muslim units killed 95% of the Jewish people in Yugoslavia during WWII.
We
are not being told that the same Bosnian_Muslim and Croat Nazi allies
massacred 900,000 Serbs and the entire Gypsy population (20,000 or
more)of
men, women and children, just as they did to the Jews. Every Jew, every
victim of Nazism and every human being ought to know and understand why
the
Serbs are so desperately fighting against such powerful forces and why
they
adopted our post Holocaust slogan of 'Never Again'. Our media does not
tell
us that the Bosnian Muslims had two SS Divisions fighting at Stalingrad
on
the side of the Nazis, in the most crucial battle that decided a Nazi
victory or defeat. What is today's reality? The murderers of Jews, Serbs
and Gypsies are back from the US, Canada, Argentina and Australia where
they fled after WWII. These criminals were never punished. There were no
trials of Nazi criminals in Yugoslavia after the war. They are now
restoring Nazi symbols (in Croatia and Bosnia); they eliminated
anti-Nazi
anti-fascist monuments. Their military units use Nazi slogans like 'Sieg
Heil'. The international Nazi organisation , the International Brigade
(including the US Branch) announced a drive for volunteers to fight in
Bosnia and Croatia against the Serbs, the Communists and the Jews. (See
the
US Nazi organ 'The New Order' of January|February 1993, copies are
available on request). The Serbs fought the Nazis, they paid a terrible
price for standing at the side of the Allies against Hitler. They saved
many allied soldiers including hundreds of American fliers. They
welcomed
Jewish partisand as brothers.
Hitler bombed the Serbs for their stubborn resistance. Are our President
and NATO going in the same direction (instead of finding a peaceful
solution)? I shudder to think of it. Hitler and Clinton, no, it cannot
be".
John Ranz, Chairman of Survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in
"World Affairs" London March 1995.
Belgrade Daily Tanjug 6th April 1996 - "Some 2,270 people died when the
Germans began their dawn bombing raids on Belgrade on 6th April 1941.
According to German statisticians, 484
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Belgrade Daily Tanjug 6th April 1996 - "Some 2,270 people died when the
Germans began their dawn bombing raids on Belgrade on 6th April 1941.
According to German statisticians, 484 bombers dropped 360 tonnes of
bombs.
About 700 buildings, including the central post office and the railway
station were destroyed and 1,700 buildings were damaged in the bombings.
The total of 350,000 books were destroyed in the raids. During the 11
day
April war, 136 Yugoslav pilots were killed and 80 German aircraft were
downed. Serbian Information Bureau in Dublin 14th August 1993 - "As we
wait
for the first American bombs and missiles to fall on Serbian so-called
military targets in Bosnia, we remember US bombing raids on Yugoslavia
in
WWII. It was Orthodox Easter Sunday morning 1943 and a beautiful sunny,
cloudless day, when US bombers made their first appearance over
Belgrade.
Their targets: bridges over the River Sava, railway yards, German
barracks
etc. Their first direct hit? THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL in the centre of
Belgrade, with a large RED CROSS painted on its roof. Thousands of
Belgrade
citizens died that Easter morning, while the German military targets
remained largely undamaged. One four storey building in the residential
centre of Belgrade, destroyed in the US raid, is today the US Embassy in
Yugoslavia. Similar fate awaited the citizens of towns like Kraljevo,
Leskovac etc. Can we expect that the first "Military" target destroyed
in
Bosnia will be a hospital, school, homes and vital services? Of course,
today's technology is far more advanced, and the missiles hit the
intended
targets; tell that to the dead school children in Baghdad, the British
soldiers in their armoured vehicle in the desert, the residents and
staff
of the El Rashid Hotel inBaghdad, or the Somali civilians in the 'WAR
LORD'S HQ" in Mogadishu! When the p ower of the "mighty dollar" falls,
military thuggery follows. The anti-nuclear protests of the sixties were
inevitably accompanied by the slogan `'Yankee Go Home". Maybe it's time
they did". End Quote. SIB Dublin.
*OPERATION DELIBERATE FORCE * - On 29th August 1995, NATO war planes
backed by British, French and Muslim ground troops began a week long
series
of attacks on Serbian centres in Bosnia. Hundreds of civilia;ns died in
these attacks. Hospitals, schools, homes, bridges and civilian vital
services facilities were deliberately targetted and destroyed. This NATO
Blitzkrieg was titled 'Operation Deliberate force' and was coordinated
by
the US War Ship John F `kennedy moored at the time in the Adriatic Sea.
NATO's use of radioactive ammunition has ruined farmlands and people
continue to die from the effects of this ammunition. (The Allied Forces
dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Baghdad in January and February 1991 -
US
warships joined in with further bombing raids in the form of long
distance
missiles etc. As part of their weaponry the Allies used what they
euphemistically called depleted uranium tipped rockets or tank busters.
Nuclear weapons in short. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority reports
show that allied armies left at least 40 tons of depleted uranium on the
Gulf war battlefield, leaving vast areas of southern Iraq and much of
Kuwait polluted by radioactive waste. Tank ammunition alone contained
enough radioactive material, the International Committee of Radiology
Protection estimates, to cause "500,000 potential deaths if inhaled". PR
firm Hill & Knowleton received £11+ million from the Kuwaiti Royal
Family
to promote Allied intervention in the "war").
To return to the Bosnian scenario - Lisbon newspaper "Diaria de Noticias
(9.2.96) said of UN|NATO "Operation Deliberate Force" - "NATO DROPPED
MORE
BOMBS ON BOSNIAN SERB COMMUNITIES IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1995 THAN THE
GERMANS DID ON LONDON DURING WORLD WAR II"
On the 10th February 1994, six months prior to the execution of
"Operation
Deliverate Force", the London Independent wrote - "US A-10 tankbusters
armed with 30mm cannon that fire depleted uranium shells would be the
most
likely to be used against the few Bosnian Serb tanks. Laser-guided bombs
would be used against artillery positions, ammunition dumps and other
slightly 'softer' targets". The London Independent, 7.2.94 - "The
laser-guided bomb is the favourite and is mouned on the British Spartans
in
a special turret. The local forces would probably not know they were
'lases' until they went blind or were hit by a bomb". On the day that
this
article was published, on behalf of the people of so-called neutral
Ireland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr
Dick
Spring endorsed NATO raids and the use of these weapons against the
Bosnian
Serbs. The BBC 13.2.94 - An American air pilot based in Italy poised to
hit
Serb positions in Bosnia said quote - "NATO pilots expect collateral
damage
but will try to stay with an acceptable level of collateral damage and
keep
the killing of neutrals at a minimum". The Irish Times 23.11.94 - "7
children and a pregnant woman were killed when NATO jets bombed a
factory
in the UN 'safe haven' of Bihac yesterday". 4.9.95 - Belgrade Daily
Tanjug
stated that "NATO used nuclear, toxic and cluster bombs on Serb civilian
centres and facilities in Bosnia". The Irish Times 30.8.95 - "The
Tanaiste
and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Ireland Mr Spring, said the 'NATO
bombing of Bosnian Serb positions was justified in view of the shelling
of
the Market place in Sarajevo earlier this week".
The pretext for UN\NATO attacks on the Serbs being alleged Serb
responsibility for the shelling of the Market market in Sarajevo on
28.8.95.
*MARKET PLACE ETC ATTACKS* - `of the August 1995 market bombing, the
Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy vol XXIII No 7-8 of
July|August
1995 states - "Once again, the Sarajevo administration planted a charge
in
the market place in the city and when it was detonated with considerable
loss of life, it was blamed on the Bosnian Serba as a "mortar attack"
against innocent civilians. US intelligence sources told this journal
that
there was no radar tracking of an incoming round (although radar was in
place). There was also no collateral damage consistent with an incoming
round. And, just as was proven and stated by UN observers after the
previous market place "mortar attack", it was clear that this was also a
pre-placed charge by the Izetbegovic people designed to sacrifice their
own
citizens so that blame could be placed on the Bosnian Serbs, just before
important peace talks were to begin". A woman who witnessed the August
95
attack on Markale market from her flat window describes in her statement
to
the UN how she watched TV crews and ambulances converge on the market
PRIOR
to the explosion.
This was not the first time the leader of the Sarajevo or Bosnian
government, Alija Izetbegovic , had ordered the carrying out, with the
hiring of special agents, of atrocities against mainly innocent Muslim
people in Sarajevo. People in high places in the West knew full well
that
Izetbegovic agents bore responsibility for attacks on civilians in the
market, cemetery, food and water queues - as well as for sniper attacks
on
civilians and UN personnel in Sarajevo. Izetbegovic's army has carried
out
the most notorious of attacks on Muslim communities in Bosnia. Hitherto
these attacks were blamed on the Serbs. Shamefully Western politiicians
and
journalists conspired to prevent this information being broadcast to the
world at large.
An earlier attack in February 1994 on the Markale market claimed 68
lives.
This explosion was also described by the Defence & Foreign Affairs group
in
its July|August 95 report as a pre-placed mine set in place by agents of
the Izetbegovic Bosnian Govt. Despite the publication to a vast number
of
foreign journalists, the UN document which detailed facts and Muslim
Govt
culpability for this terrible crime, the document was used by one
Western
journalist only, Bernard Volker of the French TFI Network. Volker was
persecuted for broadcasting the UN document but has since been fully
vindicated as other military and UN personnel have gradually opened up
on
Bosnian Muslim Govt responsibility for this attack.
Realpolitik prevails - The late French President Francois Miterrand
states
in his book L'Annees des Adieux that the (now ex) UN Secretary General
Boutros Boutros Ghali had told him that he had irrefutable evidence as
to
Bosnian Govt culpability for the Markale bombings. This evidence not
revealed then for reasons of political expendiency.
Yet an earlier atrocity covered so explicitly by ex BBC reporter Martin
Bell, was the explosion in May 1992 which killed people queueing for
bread
in Sarajevo's Vase Miskin Street. Martin Bell in his report on what
became
known as the Bread Queue Massacre, blamed the Serbs for this crime. On
st
September 1992, 4 months after the Vase Miskin Street bombing, the
Republican group for the Investigation of Terrorism of the US Congress
issued a previously confidential report which details Bosnian Muslim
Govt
culpability for the Vase Miskin Street bombing. How often did viewers to
BBC coverage of the war in Bosnia hear Martin Bell speak of 'Sniper
Alley'
- Serbs as snipers - Muslims as victims. (5).
n its report of 29th Sebruary 1996 the Defence & Foreign Affairs group
in
London spoke further on the subject of pre-placed mines and the use by
the
Bosnian Govt of special foreign agents. Quote - "Very reliable sources
in
Sarajevo have confirmed that the number of mujahedin - foreign Islamist
mercenaries - fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of the
Izetbegovic
administration is between 15,000 and 20,000. About half the mujahedin
number in the country make up the Khanjar Division". (As per the Nazi SS
Khanjar of the 1940's). "One senior US Congressman said of the mujahedin
-
'We know that the Izetbegovic people have been as barbarous as any in
the
Balkans, and yet the White House will not hear of anyone in the US Govt
or,
for that matter, among the NATO partners attempting to bring any Muslim
war
criminals to justice'. NATO troops did, however, raid one Iranian-run
terrorist camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina in February 1996, finding, among
other
things, booby-trapped toys which were to be planted in the countryside".
The Defence report went on to say that mujahedin activities in and
around
Sarajevo had led to some 60,000 indigenous Serb civilians fleaing from
that
city by late February 1996 to avoid living under an Izetbegovic-led
administration. Many Serbs had already left Sarajevo during the course
of
this war. By the end of 1992 40,000 Serb civilians had fled their homes
in
Sarajevo.
Another example of genocide against civilian Muslim communities carried
out
by the Bosnian Government was the August 1994 ground attack on the UN
"safe haven" of Bihac. Over 500 Muslim civilians died in the raids and
over
600,000 people were forced to flea the enclave. Many Serb people were
also
killed in the attacks. The Bosnian Government was assisted in its
assaults
by special forces rented from the US and Saudi Governments. The
so-called
rebel Muslim forces of Bihac represented the poorer peasant Muslim and
Serb
populations of that region. Serb and Bihac Muslim forces fought
together
here against the Western backed Bosnian Governemnt and the Western
backed
Croatian Government. Serb and Muslim forces fought together in several
areas in Bosnia against Western mercenary imperialist forces.
*MERCENARIES* - According to the Belgrade daily 'Politika' of
8.12.1994,
all warring sides in the ex Yugoslavia have had mercenaries from across
the
world fighting with them. The Serbs have been backed by hundreds of
Russian
volunteer soldiers - 300 of whom have been reported killed in action.
The
Croatian and Muslim sides have been supported by mercenaries from France
(French Foreign Leagion) Italy, Germany, Poland, England, the USA,
Indonesia, Algeria, Syria, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia. The 'Politika'
said
that the mercenary forces fighting with the Croat and Muslim forces had
been recruited mainly from Western-based Nazi organisations. The daily
said
that German authorities, for one, when questioned about mercenaries in
the
Balkans, had paid no heed to a massive number of its citizens joining
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Croatian Army and that only on one occasion in 1992, the German Criminal
Bureau had said that a - quote - "considerable number of German
right-wing
extremists had participated in the Croatian struggle against Serb
communists".
In fact foreign mercenaries have operated in the Balkans on the payroll
of
wealthy businessmen and Western Governments anxious to effect
'independence' for the now ex Yugoslav states. Australian Ustashe forces
trained with the Australian Army in Aubury|Wodonga for decades prior to
returning to Yugoslavia to carry out terrorist activities against Serbs,
Croats or anyone protesting against the breakup of Yugoslavia. Their key
function was to create distrust and hatred between the thnic communities
in
the region. Between 1983 and 1992, the various anti Yugoslav|pro
separatist
mercenaries tortured and killed some 14,000 Serb people and effected the
"ethnic cleansing" of over 250,000 Serbs from their Krajinan an `Bosnian
homelands. It was not uncommon for these psychopaths to film their
monstrous crimes. One Italian born mercenary Roberto dela Feve happily
admitted in an interview with Epoca in 1995 that he had made billions of
liras from the sale of the tapes on the Western European black market.
The
videos show Serbs being raped and murdered by Italian, German, French
and
mujahedin mercenaries. Feve is with the 109th Nazi 'International
Brigade'
stationed in Rijeka and is paid by the Croat Government.
The Vienna daily Taeglich Alles - 15.8.95 wrote of British mercenaries
who
founded a 'Travel Agency' with branch offices in Munich and Zagreb who
were
offering 'Serb hunts' in Croatia.
Living Marxism Magazine May 1993 journalist Joan Phillips wrote of one
British mercenary, Robert Loftus, who went to Bosnia in 1992 to work
for
the Bosnian Muslim Government. In the report, Loftus is exposed as
having
sold stories of "Serb atrocities" to Western journalists. Loftus admits
in
his diary that he was a mercenary, receiving money for fighting with the
Muslism. His diary reveals that he had no hard evidence for his atrocity
stories. One of the reporters Loftus worked for was an American, Roy
Gutman. Gutman was US Newsday's European Bureau Chief at the time - Soon
after making himself famous and richer by publishing Loftus's totally
fabricated stories of "Serb run death camps", "Serb mass rape", "Serb
concentration camps" etc, Gutman won America's top press award, the
Pulitzer Prize. (6).
(On 5.8.92 Penny Marshall (ITN) with her cameraman Jeremy Irvin
and
fellow reporter Ian Williams (ITN) and Martin Bell's mate Ed Vulliamy
(The
Guardian) visited Trnopolje camp in Bosnia. Their "Belsen '92" picture
of
Fikret Alic supposedly "behind barbed wire fence in Serb death camp" won
Marshall's team armfulls of prizes to include the BAFTA Award. For the
truth behind this story refer the articles "The Picture That Fooled The
World" LM Mag Feb 97 and "The Mag ITN Wants To Gag" LM Mag 98 March
1997.
*OPERATION STORM* _ In August 1995, Croat and Muslim government forces
backed by special US troops launched a massive attack on mainly Serbian
communities in Krajina. This combined action, coordinated by the USS JF
Kennedy and assisted by NATO jets finally finished the job Hitler had
set
out to do in the 1940's via the Ustashe. They totally "cleansed" the
Krajina of all but a handfull of its Serbian population. Thousands of
civilians died in these attacks and another 300,000 people fled ahead of
the raids. Hundreds of people died when Muslim and US forces launched
ground attacks on the fleeing Serb refugees. Croat MiG fighter planes
bombed the miles and miles long trail of refugees. Many people died in
these air attacks, many more are still missing. 'Operation Storm' has
been
described in the F
Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy report of September 1995 as
"A
WAR CRIM MORE THAN WORTHY OF THE NAME".
*REFUGEES* _ Muslim refugees from Bosnia have been accorded assistance
in
their host countries and quite rightly. They have also been granted
unlimited media attention wherein they have had the opportunity to speak
of
their experience of war. What though of the plight of hundreds of
thousands
of Serb, Muslim, Croat, Romany and other refugees who have sought refuge
in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? Red Cross figures published on 1st
Febuary 1993 show that 575,000 people had registered as refugees in the
FR
Yugoslavia. Statistics show the ethnic breakdown of refugees from the
war
zones of ex Yugoslavia as follows: Serbs 84.2% (484,000) Muslims 6.2%
(36,000) Croats 1.6% (9,000) Other meaning Albanians, Jews, Gypsies,
Bulgarians, Hungarians etc 8% (46,000). The 1997 census on refugees
living
in the FR Yugoslavia shows that there are now over 650,000 registered
refugees in that country. Only the number of Croatian refugees had
dropped
(from 9 to 3,000 people. Due to the criminal UN sanctions on RF
Yugoslavia
, over 20,000 people have died due to lack of vital medicines and foods.
That figure to end of 1994 only. Many of the victims of sanctions come
from
people within the refugee community. Despite pleas from the current High
Commissioner for Refugees for urgent aid for Yugoslavia, instead of an
increase in aid or a total lifting of UN sanctions on that state,
international aid organisations have been instructed by the UN bosses to
stop all aid - even the little that was getting in to the country has
now
virtually stopped.
*THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL* _ As Dr Raymond Kent, Emeritus Professor of
History,
University of California Berkley and Sec. for Americans for
International
Justice Committee wrote in an open letter and petition published in 'Den
Haag' 23.7.96: The Hague Tribunal on war crimes in ex Yugsoslavia "had
been conceived in mischief, and motivated by political expediency and
might
for right'. Dr Kent went on to explain that the court existed only for
Serbs. The reason the Hague Tribunal refuses to put Dr Radovan Karadzic
and Gen Ratko Mladic on the stand, despite their appeals for a Hearing,
is
that they (the ex Serb leaders) know too much - Who the real criminals
are
in Bosnia - What the UN, NATO and other Western agencies have been up to
during the time of their involvement in the Balkans war. Who is running
the heroin trade in the region ..... This would all be exposed to the
Tribunal.
All cases against Serbs so far brought before the Tribunal have
collapsed
due to lack of hard evidence and exposure of dirty tricks.
(1) Under the Contact Group Plan (CGP) the Serbs agreed to relinquish
21%
of their ancestral lands in Bosnia to the Muslim|Croat Federation. Under
the CGP for Bosnia the Muslim|Croat Federation stand to gain 70 to 100%
of
all lead, zinc, ore, bauxite, salt, magnesite, asbestos, dolomite, OIL,
coal and lignite deposits. 75% of existing hydro electric power
facilities
and 78% of all thermal power plants. 13 Serb cities. Serb roads and
waterways would be cut off allowing no access to industrial facilities.
The
biggest railway juncture at Dodoj with river ports would become property
of the Muslim|Croat Fed. Under the CGP, Serbs would lose most of their
hospitals, ALL ARMS FACTORIES WOULD BE RETAINED BY THE MUSLIM|CROAT
FEDERATION and all river valleys would become territory of the
Federation.
Elizabeth Morrisey of Kleinman International Consultants NY said in
November 1995 "SERBIA CAN OFFER CHEAP, SKILLED LABOUR, A MARKET OF 10.5
MILLION PEOPLE AND A UNIQUE POSITION IN THE HEART OF THE BALKANS".
(2) Land inhabited by indigenous Bosnian Serbs, which, with a stroke of
a
pen (in Brussels), on the 6th April 1992, was illegally and
unconstitutionally annexed to the newly declared 'independent' state of
Bosnia. Just months earlier, the same situation had been forced on the
Serbian communities of the Krajina. With the stroke of a pen, Krajinan
Serb
homelands were summarily, illegally and unconstitutionally annexed to
the
newly declared 'independent' state of Croatia. The Serbs though were not
supposed to complain about becoming overnight second class inhabitants
of a
foreign state let alone take up arms.
(3) The German|Vatican backed Ustashe were the clero-fascist forces of
the
Independent state of Croatia in the 1940's. The Muslim SS Khanjar
forces
were allied to the Ustashe against the anti fascist Partisan volunteers.
(4) Read: "The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican" by Vladimir Dedijer.
(5)
UN report of 1.8.95 shows Bosnin Govt agents to be responsible for
sniping
attacks. They had been operating from atop Bosnian Govt buildings in
Sarajevo. The sniping stopped when the UN threatened the Muslims with
publication of its reports on Markale etc attacks. (6) Rape in Bosnia -
Final UN etc reports show less than 300 victims. Not 60,000, Bosnian
Govt
subitted 126 cases to the UN. Also read: "Censored -The News That didn't
Make the News and Why. 1996 Project Censored Year Book 20th Anniv -Ed
by
Carl Jensen|Walter Cronkite Seven Stories Press. War Crimes Reports plus
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The following paper attempts to address the subject of neoloberalism as
dominant ethos imposed by the West on, for one, Bosnia. Neoliberalism
being
carried out in the Balkans scenario under the guise of 'humanitarian'
intervention with that intervention effected through an overwhelming
media
propaganda campaign of global dimension devised principally by public
relations companies on behalf of such diverse clients as the Vatican,
oil
rich families of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Brunei and wealthy business men
and
women in Germany and the United States of America.
In order to gain some understanding of the complexities inherent to the
recent war in the Balkans and events thereafter it is of vital
importance
to jettison propaganda masquerading as information foist upon the public
by
unscrupulous and venal opinion makers.
"Contrary to common assumptions", writes Australian scholar Alex Carey,
"propaganda plays an important role - and certainly a more covert and
sophisticated role - in technologically advanced democratic societies,
where the maintenance of the existing powers and privileges is
vulnerable
to popular opinion".
Propaganda has a long and dishonourable tradition in the West. As early
as
1933 the Nazis turned for guidance to Ivy Lee the US pioneer of public
relations. Lee's firm was hired for $25,000 a year by the German Dye
Trust,
I,G, Farben which invited him to visit Germany to meet Hitler and
Hitler's
propaganda minister Josef Goebbels and other Nazi Government officials.
Lee's 28 year old son, James Lee, went to work for Farben in Berlin for
$33,000 a year.
An employee of Lee's firm drafted a report suggesting that Joachim von
Ribbentrop, the German general who later became Hitler's foreign
minister,
"undertake a definite campaign to clarify the American mind" by
"speaking
over the radio to the American people" and writing "a considered article
for an important American publication".
So. Then as Now. He who pays the Piper calls the Tune.
In essence PR companies have been charged with mounting and sustaining a
case against, for example, the Serbs as international pariahs to justify
Western military intervention in ex Yugoslavia. In fact in the Balkans
scenario, the Serbs have simply been in the way in that they have
represented an impediment to the take over of territories rich in
mineral
and oil deposits and human resources and offering enormous potential to
outside interests in terms of political and strategic spheres of
influence
at the heart of Europe. (1).
The lie projected by the persuaders was that the Serbs were the
"aggressor"
in ex Yugoslavia. Invaders commandeering other peoples territories. For
example, PR firms via the Western media told the world that the Serbs
had
invaded and illegally occupied 70% of Bosnian territory.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth, casualty of war, is
that indigenous Bosnian Serbs owned, resided on and farmed some 68% of
Bosnian territory prior to the outbreak of this war. (2).
>From the seemingly bottomless coffers associated with oil, military and
drugs barons in the West, US and British-based PR firms have received
vast
sums of money to organise propaganda campaigns on behalf of their
clients
in the Balkans - The Izetbegovic administration in Sarajevo, the Tudjman
government in Zagreb and the heroin mafia New York-based Albanian|Kosovo
Separatist Movement. (Source: US Department of Justice).
This is what James Harff, Director of the Washington-based PR firm Ruder
&
Finn Global Public Affairs company had to say to Jacques Merlino a
respectable associate editor of France's Channel Two - "To be frank I
can
tell you that the vast majority of Americans wondered in which AFRICAN
country to locate Bosnia. No one could understand what was going on in
Bosnia", he said. Mr Harff in acknowledging the general public's lack of
comprehension of issues related to Bosnia exults over the golden
opportunity this presented to people such as himself. "In one shot", he
said, "we were able to offer a simple story a history of good guys and
the
bad guys".
In the Channel Two interview, the PR firm boss went on to describe in
some
detail how the demonisation of the Serbs was achieved. Principally he
said
through the spreading of false rumour and unsubstantiated reports of
atrocities and war crimes. Omission of the more salient facts to a story
often achieved the effect of scapegoating Serbs. "There were all sorts
of
reasons", said James Harff, "why the Jewish intellectuals and
organisations
were hostile to the Croats and Bosnian Muslims. Our challenge was to
obtain
a reversal of this situation. We succeeded in doing so, in a masterly
manner, between the 2nd and 5th of August 1992, when the New York paper
Newsday led with a story on Serbian camps". French newsman Jacques
Merlino
said that Elie Wiesel told him that there was no comparison between the
Nazi slaughter houses of World War Two and the prison camps where
Muslims
and Croats had been held prisoner by Serbs. Wiesel had visited these
prisoner of war camps in ex Yugoslavia.
James Harff went on to speak gleefully of how Ruder & Finn had jumped on
the "death camp" potential of the Newsday report which carried with the
story a photograph which had tugged at the world's heart strings. This
was
of a horribly emaciated man. The world's assumption was that this man
was a
Muslim who had been starved and mistreated by Serb prison guards. The
truth
behind this photograph has only just been published. (See over).
James Harff again ... "We convened 3 major Jewish organisations. B'nai
B'Riths Anti Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the
American Jewish Congress. We suggested to them that they print an
insert
in the New York Times and organise a protest in front of the UN
building.
This really worked. The engagement of Jewish organisations on the side
of
the Bosnian Muslims was a super poker play", Harff said. He continued -
"Immediately thereafter we were able to associate the Serbs with the
Nazis
in public opinion. It was not long before there was a clear change in
the
press language with emotional terms like "concentration camps" evoking
Nazi
Germany and the gas chambers at Auschwitz", Harff concluded. In his book
"The Truth From Yugoslavia is not Being Reported Honestly" published by
Albin Michel SA in Paris in 1993, Jacques Merlino also mentioned that as
a
result of the "concentration camp" story, many Jewish MP's put their
signatures to the famous collective letter, headed by Margaret Thatcher,
to
the Wall Street Journal in September 1993, calling on the West to arm
the
Muslims and bomb the Serbs.
No one has so transgressed the rules pertaining to good taste by going
so
far as to suggest, that Mrs Thatcher, pace her arms dealing son Mark,
may
have had something of a vested interest in plumping for the arming of a
supposedly unarmed Muslim and Croatian military force in ex Yugoslavia.
Only writers of the calibre of Jonathon Swift or in our day Kurt
Vonnegut
or Joseph Heller could do justice to the subject matter here. Slaughter
House 5 and Catch 22 expose the myths associated with so-called "just
wars".
War is just war. It is nothing more and nothing less.
War has never been anything other than slaughter of human and animal
life -
It is destruction of the environment. Capitalism cannot exist without an
enemy. It must create an enemy to justify its 'just' wars. No enemy - No
excuse for military intervention - No intervention - No commercial take
over - No arms profits.
*Arms* - In the Balkans alone, since the late 1980's, vast fortunes
have
been made by mainly US and German arms companies. Mortars to MiG fighter
aircraft have been shipped to the region via various 'aid' agencies, the
UN
and even NATO for use against the Serbs by the "defenceless"
Muslim|Croat
Armies. (Refer Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy DFASP of
Act|Nov
1992 and UN reports). Bill Clinton, The Irish Times 30.8.94 - "Despite
the
UN Arms Embargo the CIA will continue to send arms to the Bosnian
Muslims".
During the course of their violent war of secession from the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991|92 Croat and Muslim separatist
forces in synchronised attacks took siege of all Yugoslav People's Army
(JNA) barracks across Croatia and Bosnia rendering the JNA useless in
its
defense of civilians in most areas. (These actions are detailed in the
book
"Breaking of Yugoslavia and Armed Secession of Croatia" by Dusan Vilic
and
Bosko Todorovic. The book contains copies of authentic military
transcripts). Simon Wiesenthal, Director of the Jewish Documentation
Centre
Vienna - Slobodna Bosna Sarajevo 21.5.97 - "There were factories of
military ammunition and weapons throughout the country, and when the war
in
Yugoslavia started, everybody had ammunition and weapons, everybody was
armed".
Bosnian Muslim businessmen already owned the arms factories in Gorazde -
Local Muslim forces backed by foreign Mujahedin had launched massive
attacks on Serb communities around Gorazde during 1991|92 - 2 years
before
the media began to talk of Serb attacks on Gorazde.
(The media did not mention that Muslim forces used the tops of high
buildings, to include the hospital in Gorazde, as military
installations.
(Read: The Truth About Gorazde - Task Force on Terrorism &
Unconventional
Warfare - US House of Representatives Washington 14.5.94).
In November 1996 under its new PROGRAMME FOR BOSNIA so called, the US
launched another megabucks ($400 million of them) military training and
equipment programme for the Muslim|Croat Federation Armies. This is what
is
duplicitously known as 'Aid'.
Arms and the Man. With Peace verboten.
'Retired' US Generals have been training Muslim and Croat forces in
Bosnia
for years.
There are those who fervently believe that war could have been avoided
in
the Balkans had it not been for the imperialist actions of a supremely
arrogant cabal of Western capitalists.
With their obscene race to effect 'independence' for Croatia et al,
their
insane need to sweep away the last crumbs of socialism in Yugoslavia and
grab the markets there, they caused this terrible war. A war which
brought
chaos, horror and loss of every kind to all the peoples of the ex SFR of
Yugoslavia. Furthermore, their use of special agents to carry out
terrorist
attacks and rig election results has ensured the placing in to power of
fascist leaders who are dedicated to suppression of working class and
poorer populations in the region. These entrepreneurs, their hired thugs
in
the field and those in the media who promoted their case, are the true
War
Criminals in the Balkans scenario.
Whilst on the subject of Fascism|Capitalism - This is what the President
of
Croatia Franjo Tudjman had to say in support for the Nazi 'ideology' in
his book titled "Wastelands of History" - "Genocide is a natural
phenomenon, in harmony with the societal and mythologically divine
nature.
Genocide is not only permitted, it is recommended even commanded by the
word of the Almighty, whether it is useful for the survival or the
restoration of the Kingdom of the Chosen Nation, or for the presersation
and the spreading of its one and only correst faith".
The curriculum vitae for the President of the other new Western created
puppet state or Banana Republic in the Balkans, Alija Izetbegovic, reads
thus -
"As a teenager he co founded Bosnia's version of "Hitler Youth", the
"Young
Muslims". Helped establish the Nazi Muslim SS Khanjar Division which was
responsible for appalling atrocities in Yugoslavia in the1940's. 1946:
Arrested and jailed for 3 years for founding the fascist journal
MUDZAHID.
Played major role as ABWEHR and special GESTAPO agent during World War
II.
In 1983 arrested and jailed for 6 years for anti-social fascist
activities.
President Izetbegovic has exploited and abused the Muslim faith to the
detriment of the Muslim people of Bosnia. Here is his "Islamic
Declaration"
which was reprinted in Sarajevo in 1990: "There can be no peace or
coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith and
institutions. The Islamic movement must and can take power as soon as it
is
morally and numerically strong enough, not only to destroy the
non-Islamic
power, but to build up a new Islamic one ..."
Nazism is represented at highest order to this day in ex Yugoslavia.
Upon
achieving power in 1991 Tudjman surrounded himself with fellow right
wing
extremists. These included ageing former operatives with the World War
II
Croatian Nazi regime. Some of whom had been incorporated into service
during the Cold War era with Western Intelligence Agencies. Perhaps the
most sinister figure to emerge, though certainly not from the shadows in
recent times since he lived the good life in Australia for 50 years, is
one
Dinko Sakic. Sakic was the last Commander of the Jasenovac extermination
camp in Croatia. On Sakic's return to Croatia in 1991, Tudjman appointed
him to a Senior position in the Croat Government. Tudjman gave Ustashe
member Julienne Bushich, who in September 1976 took part in the hijack
of a
TWA airliner, the job of adviser to the Croatian Ambassador to
Washington.
Her husband Zvonko, also a Croat member of the Ustashe Nazi forces, is
serving a life term for planting a bomb at New York's main railway
station.
Many more high ranking Nazi|Ustashe members were appointed to positions
in
the Tudjman Government. Despite efforts by the powers that be to
diminish
the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi forces during the 1940's amd
attempts
by certain writers in the West to re write history pertaining to that
time,
people nevertheless across the world manage to learn about what happened
in
camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau etc. There has though been a very
successful conspiracy by forces in the West to totally censor the
holocaust
which took place in Yugoslavia during the 1940's. (3).
The subject of censorship regards the Yugoslav Holocaust was raised in
Belgrade by organisers of ceremonies held recently to mark the May 9th
1945
end to World War II in Europe. The Belgrade Daily Tanjug wrote on 8th of
May last - "The unconditional surrender of Germany on May 9th 1945,
officially ended WWII in Europe, the bloodiest military conflict in the
history of mankind. WWII spilled into Yugoslavia when a dawn bombardment
rocked Belgrade on April 6th, 1941, followed by an invasion of German,
Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Albanian troops, that eventually
reached
900,000. Croatian fascist leaders, known as Ustashes, allied themselves
to
Hitler (and the Vatican), proclaiming the clerico-fascist Independent
State
of Croatia on April 10th 1941. The Ustahse aimed to purge multi-ethnic
Croatia, then populated by about 1.5 million Serbs, by converting to
Catholicism about one third of the Serbs, routing one third, and
exterminating the rest. The extermination of hundreds of thousands
Serbs
followed diligently. About 700,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist
Croatians were killed most brutally in the Jasenovac concentration camp
alone. More than 17,000 children perished in separate death camps for
children. WWII was waged by 61 nations - a total of 2.1 billion people,
which was 96% of the world's population. Over 50 million people died, 30
million of them civilians. About 12 million perished in the camps.
Yugoslavia lost 1.7 million people, most of them Serbs and about 400,000
were wounded. Belgrade was the only city in Europe that had 2 death
camps,
Sajmiste and Banjica, in which 80,000 patriots were executed". End
quote.
Director of the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna Simon Wiesenthal
in
an interview on 21st May last in which he too highlighted the cover up
on
facts about the suffering of people in Yugoslavia during WWII said -
"The
Croat ustashe committed horrendous crimes. Many thousands of Serb
civilians, innocent people, were killed by the Ustashe at Jasenovac
death
camp". Simon Wiesenthal told the Independent Sarajevo review Slobodna
Bosna
- "Serbs saved Jews many times". He also went on to recall the horrors
suffered by the Serb, Jews and Gypsy people at the hands of the Nazis.
(4).
Continuing on the theme of censorhip, , holocaust, media and Public
Relations firms - PR company Ruder & Finn et al failed to suck all
Jewish
organisations into the rediculous anti socialist | anti Serb whirlpool
regards Bosnia -
For example - in March 1995 the "World Affairs" journal published the
following: Quote - While the "Jewish Frontier", along with all advocates
of
humane behaviour, abhors the slaughter in Bosnia, we feel it appropriate
to
publish a statement by survivors of Buchenwald on the historic
background
of the Serb-Bosnian conflict sent to us by John Ranz, Chairman of
Survivors
of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp group based in the USA: "The
gigantic
campaign to brainwash America by our media against the Serbian people is
just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information and
outright
lies. It is an outstanding achievement by the powerful public relations
Madison Avenue 'Boys' who have at their disposal large amounts of money
provided by a coalition of US and Middle Eastern oil countries. To our
shame, the Izetbegovic Government in Sarajevo, with its powerful
backers,
seem even to convince some Jewish 'leaders' who indirectly help the
murderers of our people in their war to subjugate the Serbs. We are not
being told that the Croatian Nazi collaborators and the Bosnian SS
Khanjar
Muslim units killed 95% of the Jewish people in Yugoslavia during WWII.
We
are not being told that the same Bosnian_Muslim and Croat Nazi allies
massacred 900,000 Serbs and the entire Gypsy population (20,000 or
more)of
men, women and children, just as they did to the Jews. Every Jew, every
victim of Nazism and every human being ought to know and understand why
the
Serbs are so desperately fighting against such powerful forces and why
they
adopted our post Holocaust slogan of 'Never Again'. Our media does not
tell
us that the Bosnian Muslims had two SS Divisions fighting at Stalingrad
on
the side of the Nazis, in the most crucial battle that decided a Nazi
victory or defeat. What is today's reality? The murderers of Jews, Serbs
and Gypsies are back from the US, Canada, Argentina and Australia where
they fled after WWII. These criminals were never punished. There were no
trials of Nazi criminals in Yugoslavia after the war. They are now
restoring Nazi symbols (in Croatia and Bosnia); they eliminated
anti-Nazi
anti-fascist monuments. Their military units use Nazi slogans like 'Sieg
Heil'. The international Nazi organisation , the International Brigade
(including the US Branch) announced a drive for volunteers to fight in
Bosnia and Croatia against the Serbs, the Communists and the Jews. (See
the
US Nazi organ 'The New Order' of January|February 1993, copies are
available on request). The Serbs fought the Nazis, they paid a terrible
price for standing at the side of the Allies against Hitler. They saved
many allied soldiers including hundreds of American fliers. They
welcomed
Jewish partisand as brothers.
Hitler bombed the Serbs for their stubborn resistance. Are our President
and NATO going in the same direction (instead of finding a peaceful
solution)? I shudder to think of it. Hitler and Clinton, no, it cannot
be".
John Ranz, Chairman of Survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in
"World Affairs" London March 1995.
Belgrade Daily Tanjug 6th April 1996 - "Some 2,270 people died when the
Germans began their dawn bombing raids on Belgrade on 6th April 1941.
According to German statisticians, 484
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Belgrade Daily Tanjug 6th April 1996 - "Some 2,270 people died when the
Germans began their dawn bombing raids on Belgrade on 6th April 1941.
According to German statisticians, 484 bombers dropped 360 tonnes of
bombs.
About 700 buildings, including the central post office and the railway
station were destroyed and 1,700 buildings were damaged in the bombings.
The total of 350,000 books were destroyed in the raids. During the 11
day
April war, 136 Yugoslav pilots were killed and 80 German aircraft were
downed. Serbian Information Bureau in Dublin 14th August 1993 - "As we
wait
for the first American bombs and missiles to fall on Serbian so-called
military targets in Bosnia, we remember US bombing raids on Yugoslavia
in
WWII. It was Orthodox Easter Sunday morning 1943 and a beautiful sunny,
cloudless day, when US bombers made their first appearance over
Belgrade.
Their targets: bridges over the River Sava, railway yards, German
barracks
etc. Their first direct hit? THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL in the centre of
Belgrade, with a large RED CROSS painted on its roof. Thousands of
Belgrade
citizens died that Easter morning, while the German military targets
remained largely undamaged. One four storey building in the residential
centre of Belgrade, destroyed in the US raid, is today the US Embassy in
Yugoslavia. Similar fate awaited the citizens of towns like Kraljevo,
Leskovac etc. Can we expect that the first "Military" target destroyed
in
Bosnia will be a hospital, school, homes and vital services? Of course,
today's technology is far more advanced, and the missiles hit the
intended
targets; tell that to the dead school children in Baghdad, the British
soldiers in their armoured vehicle in the desert, the residents and
staff
of the El Rashid Hotel inBaghdad, or the Somali civilians in the 'WAR
LORD'S HQ" in Mogadishu! When the p ower of the "mighty dollar" falls,
military thuggery follows. The anti-nuclear protests of the sixties were
inevitably accompanied by the slogan `'Yankee Go Home". Maybe it's time
they did". End Quote. SIB Dublin.
*OPERATION DELIBERATE FORCE * - On 29th August 1995, NATO war planes
backed by British, French and Muslim ground troops began a week long
series
of attacks on Serbian centres in Bosnia. Hundreds of civilia;ns died in
these attacks. Hospitals, schools, homes, bridges and civilian vital
services facilities were deliberately targetted and destroyed. This NATO
Blitzkrieg was titled 'Operation Deliberate force' and was coordinated
by
the US War Ship John F `kennedy moored at the time in the Adriatic Sea.
NATO's use of radioactive ammunition has ruined farmlands and people
continue to die from the effects of this ammunition. (The Allied Forces
dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Baghdad in January and February 1991 -
US
warships joined in with further bombing raids in the form of long
distance
missiles etc. As part of their weaponry the Allies used what they
euphemistically called depleted uranium tipped rockets or tank busters.
Nuclear weapons in short. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority reports
show that allied armies left at least 40 tons of depleted uranium on the
Gulf war battlefield, leaving vast areas of southern Iraq and much of
Kuwait polluted by radioactive waste. Tank ammunition alone contained
enough radioactive material, the International Committee of Radiology
Protection estimates, to cause "500,000 potential deaths if inhaled". PR
firm Hill & Knowleton received £11+ million from the Kuwaiti Royal
Family
to promote Allied intervention in the "war").
To return to the Bosnian scenario - Lisbon newspaper "Diaria de Noticias
(9.2.96) said of UN|NATO "Operation Deliberate Force" - "NATO DROPPED
MORE
BOMBS ON BOSNIAN SERB COMMUNITIES IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1995 THAN THE
GERMANS DID ON LONDON DURING WORLD WAR II"
On the 10th February 1994, six months prior to the execution of
"Operation
Deliverate Force", the London Independent wrote - "US A-10 tankbusters
armed with 30mm cannon that fire depleted uranium shells would be the
most
likely to be used against the few Bosnian Serb tanks. Laser-guided bombs
would be used against artillery positions, ammunition dumps and other
slightly 'softer' targets". The London Independent, 7.2.94 - "The
laser-guided bomb is the favourite and is mouned on the British Spartans
in
a special turret. The local forces would probably not know they were
'lases' until they went blind or were hit by a bomb". On the day that
this
article was published, on behalf of the people of so-called neutral
Ireland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr
Dick
Spring endorsed NATO raids and the use of these weapons against the
Bosnian
Serbs. The BBC 13.2.94 - An American air pilot based in Italy poised to
hit
Serb positions in Bosnia said quote - "NATO pilots expect collateral
damage
but will try to stay with an acceptable level of collateral damage and
keep
the killing of neutrals at a minimum". The Irish Times 23.11.94 - "7
children and a pregnant woman were killed when NATO jets bombed a
factory
in the UN 'safe haven' of Bihac yesterday". 4.9.95 - Belgrade Daily
Tanjug
stated that "NATO used nuclear, toxic and cluster bombs on Serb civilian
centres and facilities in Bosnia". The Irish Times 30.8.95 - "The
Tanaiste
and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Ireland Mr Spring, said the 'NATO
bombing of Bosnian Serb positions was justified in view of the shelling
of
the Market place in Sarajevo earlier this week".
The pretext for UN\NATO attacks on the Serbs being alleged Serb
responsibility for the shelling of the Market market in Sarajevo on
28.8.95.
*MARKET PLACE ETC ATTACKS* - `of the August 1995 market bombing, the
Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy vol XXIII No 7-8 of
July|August
1995 states - "Once again, the Sarajevo administration planted a charge
in
the market place in the city and when it was detonated with considerable
loss of life, it was blamed on the Bosnian Serba as a "mortar attack"
against innocent civilians. US intelligence sources told this journal
that
there was no radar tracking of an incoming round (although radar was in
place). There was also no collateral damage consistent with an incoming
round. And, just as was proven and stated by UN observers after the
previous market place "mortar attack", it was clear that this was also a
pre-placed charge by the Izetbegovic people designed to sacrifice their
own
citizens so that blame could be placed on the Bosnian Serbs, just before
important peace talks were to begin". A woman who witnessed the August
95
attack on Markale market from her flat window describes in her statement
to
the UN how she watched TV crews and ambulances converge on the market
PRIOR
to the explosion.
This was not the first time the leader of the Sarajevo or Bosnian
government, Alija Izetbegovic , had ordered the carrying out, with the
hiring of special agents, of atrocities against mainly innocent Muslim
people in Sarajevo. People in high places in the West knew full well
that
Izetbegovic agents bore responsibility for attacks on civilians in the
market, cemetery, food and water queues - as well as for sniper attacks
on
civilians and UN personnel in Sarajevo. Izetbegovic's army has carried
out
the most notorious of attacks on Muslim communities in Bosnia. Hitherto
these attacks were blamed on the Serbs. Shamefully Western politiicians
and
journalists conspired to prevent this information being broadcast to the
world at large.
An earlier attack in February 1994 on the Markale market claimed 68
lives.
This explosion was also described by the Defence & Foreign Affairs group
in
its July|August 95 report as a pre-placed mine set in place by agents of
the Izetbegovic Bosnian Govt. Despite the publication to a vast number
of
foreign journalists, the UN document which detailed facts and Muslim
Govt
culpability for this terrible crime, the document was used by one
Western
journalist only, Bernard Volker of the French TFI Network. Volker was
persecuted for broadcasting the UN document but has since been fully
vindicated as other military and UN personnel have gradually opened up
on
Bosnian Muslim Govt responsibility for this attack.
Realpolitik prevails - The late French President Francois Miterrand
states
in his book L'Annees des Adieux that the (now ex) UN Secretary General
Boutros Boutros Ghali had told him that he had irrefutable evidence as
to
Bosnian Govt culpability for the Markale bombings. This evidence not
revealed then for reasons of political expendiency.
Yet an earlier atrocity covered so explicitly by ex BBC reporter Martin
Bell, was the explosion in May 1992 which killed people queueing for
bread
in Sarajevo's Vase Miskin Street. Martin Bell in his report on what
became
known as the Bread Queue Massacre, blamed the Serbs for this crime. On
st
September 1992, 4 months after the Vase Miskin Street bombing, the
Republican group for the Investigation of Terrorism of the US Congress
issued a previously confidential report which details Bosnian Muslim
Govt
culpability for the Vase Miskin Street bombing. How often did viewers to
BBC coverage of the war in Bosnia hear Martin Bell speak of 'Sniper
Alley'
- Serbs as snipers - Muslims as victims. (5).
n its report of 29th Sebruary 1996 the Defence & Foreign Affairs group
in
London spoke further on the subject of pre-placed mines and the use by
the
Bosnian Govt of special foreign agents. Quote - "Very reliable sources
in
Sarajevo have confirmed that the number of mujahedin - foreign Islamist
mercenaries - fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of the
Izetbegovic
administration is between 15,000 and 20,000. About half the mujahedin
number in the country make up the Khanjar Division". (As per the Nazi SS
Khanjar of the 1940's). "One senior US Congressman said of the mujahedin
-
'We know that the Izetbegovic people have been as barbarous as any in
the
Balkans, and yet the White House will not hear of anyone in the US Govt
or,
for that matter, among the NATO partners attempting to bring any Muslim
war
criminals to justice'. NATO troops did, however, raid one Iranian-run
terrorist camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina in February 1996, finding, among
other
things, booby-trapped toys which were to be planted in the countryside".
The Defence report went on to say that mujahedin activities in and
around
Sarajevo had led to some 60,000 indigenous Serb civilians fleaing from
that
city by late February 1996 to avoid living under an Izetbegovic-led
administration. Many Serbs had already left Sarajevo during the course
of
this war. By the end of 1992 40,000 Serb civilians had fled their homes
in
Sarajevo.
Another example of genocide against civilian Muslim communities carried
out
by the Bosnian Government was the August 1994 ground attack on the UN
"safe haven" of Bihac. Over 500 Muslim civilians died in the raids and
over
600,000 people were forced to flea the enclave. Many Serb people were
also
killed in the attacks. The Bosnian Government was assisted in its
assaults
by special forces rented from the US and Saudi Governments. The
so-called
rebel Muslim forces of Bihac represented the poorer peasant Muslim and
Serb
populations of that region. Serb and Bihac Muslim forces fought
together
here against the Western backed Bosnian Governemnt and the Western
backed
Croatian Government. Serb and Muslim forces fought together in several
areas in Bosnia against Western mercenary imperialist forces.
*MERCENARIES* - According to the Belgrade daily 'Politika' of
8.12.1994,
all warring sides in the ex Yugoslavia have had mercenaries from across
the
world fighting with them. The Serbs have been backed by hundreds of
Russian
volunteer soldiers - 300 of whom have been reported killed in action.
The
Croatian and Muslim sides have been supported by mercenaries from France
(French Foreign Leagion) Italy, Germany, Poland, England, the USA,
Indonesia, Algeria, Syria, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia. The 'Politika'
said
that the mercenary forces fighting with the Croat and Muslim forces had
been recruited mainly from Western-based Nazi organisations. The daily
said
that German authorities, for one, when questioned about mercenaries in
the
Balkans, had paid no heed to a massive number of its citizens joining
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Croatian Army and that only on one occasion in 1992, the German Criminal
Bureau had said that a - quote - "considerable number of German
right-wing
extremists had participated in the Croatian struggle against Serb
communists".
In fact foreign mercenaries have operated in the Balkans on the payroll
of
wealthy businessmen and Western Governments anxious to effect
'independence' for the now ex Yugoslav states. Australian Ustashe forces
trained with the Australian Army in Aubury|Wodonga for decades prior to
returning to Yugoslavia to carry out terrorist activities against Serbs,
Croats or anyone protesting against the breakup of Yugoslavia. Their key
function was to create distrust and hatred between the thnic communities
in
the region. Between 1983 and 1992, the various anti Yugoslav|pro
separatist
mercenaries tortured and killed some 14,000 Serb people and effected the
"ethnic cleansing" of over 250,000 Serbs from their Krajinan an `Bosnian
homelands. It was not uncommon for these psychopaths to film their
monstrous crimes. One Italian born mercenary Roberto dela Feve happily
admitted in an interview with Epoca in 1995 that he had made billions of
liras from the sale of the tapes on the Western European black market.
The
videos show Serbs being raped and murdered by Italian, German, French
and
mujahedin mercenaries. Feve is with the 109th Nazi 'International
Brigade'
stationed in Rijeka and is paid by the Croat Government.
The Vienna daily Taeglich Alles - 15.8.95 wrote of British mercenaries
who
founded a 'Travel Agency' with branch offices in Munich and Zagreb who
were
offering 'Serb hunts' in Croatia.
Living Marxism Magazine May 1993 journalist Joan Phillips wrote of one
British mercenary, Robert Loftus, who went to Bosnia in 1992 to work
for
the Bosnian Muslim Government. In the report, Loftus is exposed as
having
sold stories of "Serb atrocities" to Western journalists. Loftus admits
in
his diary that he was a mercenary, receiving money for fighting with the
Muslism. His diary reveals that he had no hard evidence for his atrocity
stories. One of the reporters Loftus worked for was an American, Roy
Gutman. Gutman was US Newsday's European Bureau Chief at the time - Soon
after making himself famous and richer by publishing Loftus's totally
fabricated stories of "Serb run death camps", "Serb mass rape", "Serb
concentration camps" etc, Gutman won America's top press award, the
Pulitzer Prize. (6).
(On 5.8.92 Penny Marshall (ITN) with her cameraman Jeremy Irvin
and
fellow reporter Ian Williams (ITN) and Martin Bell's mate Ed Vulliamy
(The
Guardian) visited Trnopolje camp in Bosnia. Their "Belsen '92" picture
of
Fikret Alic supposedly "behind barbed wire fence in Serb death camp" won
Marshall's team armfulls of prizes to include the BAFTA Award. For the
truth behind this story refer the articles "The Picture That Fooled The
World" LM Mag Feb 97 and "The Mag ITN Wants To Gag" LM Mag 98 March
1997.
*OPERATION STORM* _ In August 1995, Croat and Muslim government forces
backed by special US troops launched a massive attack on mainly Serbian
communities in Krajina. This combined action, coordinated by the USS JF
Kennedy and assisted by NATO jets finally finished the job Hitler had
set
out to do in the 1940's via the Ustashe. They totally "cleansed" the
Krajina of all but a handfull of its Serbian population. Thousands of
civilians died in these attacks and another 300,000 people fled ahead of
the raids. Hundreds of people died when Muslim and US forces launched
ground attacks on the fleeing Serb refugees. Croat MiG fighter planes
bombed the miles and miles long trail of refugees. Many people died in
these air attacks, many more are still missing. 'Operation Storm' has
been
described in the F
Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy report of September 1995 as
"A
WAR CRIM MORE THAN WORTHY OF THE NAME".
*REFUGEES* _ Muslim refugees from Bosnia have been accorded assistance
in
their host countries and quite rightly. They have also been granted
unlimited media attention wherein they have had the opportunity to speak
of
their experience of war. What though of the plight of hundreds of
thousands
of Serb, Muslim, Croat, Romany and other refugees who have sought refuge
in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? Red Cross figures published on 1st
Febuary 1993 show that 575,000 people had registered as refugees in the
FR
Yugoslavia. Statistics show the ethnic breakdown of refugees from the
war
zones of ex Yugoslavia as follows: Serbs 84.2% (484,000) Muslims 6.2%
(36,000) Croats 1.6% (9,000) Other meaning Albanians, Jews, Gypsies,
Bulgarians, Hungarians etc 8% (46,000). The 1997 census on refugees
living
in the FR Yugoslavia shows that there are now over 650,000 registered
refugees in that country. Only the number of Croatian refugees had
dropped
(from 9 to 3,000 people. Due to the criminal UN sanctions on RF
Yugoslavia
, over 20,000 people have died due to lack of vital medicines and foods.
That figure to end of 1994 only. Many of the victims of sanctions come
from
people within the refugee community. Despite pleas from the current High
Commissioner for Refugees for urgent aid for Yugoslavia, instead of an
increase in aid or a total lifting of UN sanctions on that state,
international aid organisations have been instructed by the UN bosses to
stop all aid - even the little that was getting in to the country has
now
virtually stopped.
*THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL* _ As Dr Raymond Kent, Emeritus Professor of
History,
University of California Berkley and Sec. for Americans for
International
Justice Committee wrote in an open letter and petition published in 'Den
Haag' 23.7.96: The Hague Tribunal on war crimes in ex Yugsoslavia "had
been conceived in mischief, and motivated by political expediency and
might
for right'. Dr Kent went on to explain that the court existed only for
Serbs. The reason the Hague Tribunal refuses to put Dr Radovan Karadzic
and Gen Ratko Mladic on the stand, despite their appeals for a Hearing,
is
that they (the ex Serb leaders) know too much - Who the real criminals
are
in Bosnia - What the UN, NATO and other Western agencies have been up to
during the time of their involvement in the Balkans war. Who is running
the heroin trade in the region ..... This would all be exposed to the
Tribunal.
All cases against Serbs so far brought before the Tribunal have
collapsed
due to lack of hard evidence and exposure of dirty tricks.
(1) Under the Contact Group Plan (CGP) the Serbs agreed to relinquish
21%
of their ancestral lands in Bosnia to the Muslim|Croat Federation. Under
the CGP for Bosnia the Muslim|Croat Federation stand to gain 70 to 100%
of
all lead, zinc, ore, bauxite, salt, magnesite, asbestos, dolomite, OIL,
coal and lignite deposits. 75% of existing hydro electric power
facilities
and 78% of all thermal power plants. 13 Serb cities. Serb roads and
waterways would be cut off allowing no access to industrial facilities.
The
biggest railway juncture at Dodoj with river ports would become property
of the Muslim|Croat Fed. Under the CGP, Serbs would lose most of their
hospitals, ALL ARMS FACTORIES WOULD BE RETAINED BY THE MUSLIM|CROAT
FEDERATION and all river valleys would become territory of the
Federation.
Elizabeth Morrisey of Kleinman International Consultants NY said in
November 1995 "SERBIA CAN OFFER CHEAP, SKILLED LABOUR, A MARKET OF 10.5
MILLION PEOPLE AND A UNIQUE POSITION IN THE HEART OF THE BALKANS".
(2) Land inhabited by indigenous Bosnian Serbs, which, with a stroke of
a
pen (in Brussels), on the 6th April 1992, was illegally and
unconstitutionally annexed to the newly declared 'independent' state of
Bosnia. Just months earlier, the same situation had been forced on the
Serbian communities of the Krajina. With the stroke of a pen, Krajinan
Serb
homelands were summarily, illegally and unconstitutionally annexed to
the
newly declared 'independent' state of Croatia. The Serbs though were not
supposed to complain about becoming overnight second class inhabitants
of a
foreign state let alone take up arms.
(3) The German|Vatican backed Ustashe were the clero-fascist forces of
the
Independent state of Croatia in the 1940's. The Muslim SS Khanjar
forces
were allied to the Ustashe against the anti fascist Partisan volunteers.
(4) Read: "The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican" by Vladimir Dedijer.
(5)
UN report of 1.8.95 shows Bosnin Govt agents to be responsible for
sniping
attacks. They had been operating from atop Bosnian Govt buildings in
Sarajevo. The sniping stopped when the UN threatened the Muslims with
publication of its reports on Markale etc attacks. (6) Rape in Bosnia -
Final UN etc reports show less than 300 victims. Not 60,000, Bosnian
Govt
subitted 126 cases to the UN. Also read: "Censored -The News That didn't
Make the News and Why. 1996 Project Censored Year Book 20th Anniv -Ed
by
Carl Jensen|Walter Cronkite Seven Stories Press. War Crimes Reports plus
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