Hi David, Many thanks for your encouraging comments! It's interesting to note how many US/NATO corporate media claims are accepted as "given" - even by some progressives. Use of phrases such as "...of course there is no question that Serb forces carried out most of the atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo" or "Yes Milosevic was a brute/war criminal/thug/tyrant/tinpot dictator, but hey, the US/NATO power elites on both sides of the political aisle were just as bad" and other such unsubstantiated nonsense. Then there is the oft-repeated Goebbels style 'big lie' that "well,yes, the US/NATO backed Islamist SDA Izetbegovic faction Bosniak muslims & Fascist HDZ Tudjman pro-Ustasha faction were guilty of atrocities against Serbs (e.g. the cleansing of 600,000 Serbs in the Krajina province from 1990 to 1995 and the cleansing of over a million more Serbs from Bosnia & Kosovo) but the Serbs initiated atrocities first, in a systematic program like the Nazis (e.g. "Operation Horseshoe"), therefore the Serbs deserved what they got". The US/NATO corporate media spin concerning Kosovo (a la CNN's Christiane Amanpour) from late 1999 is somewhat akin to this: "Hi, my name's Wesley. Well, I just had to blow up my best friend's next-door neighbor's house and kill John's wife,dog and his five children while they were sleeping in it,which I didn't mean to do of course, I just meant to kill John, because I heard from this out of town guy that my best friend's neighbor, John, was a really bad guy - a child molestor and drug pusher. I heard he even raped his pet parrot. I mean it was kind of common knowledge, in that neighborhood you know,about how bad John was. Okay,fair enough, I found out later that my best friend's other neighbor Steve, and the out of town guy Bill, did exaggerate somewhat: he admitted John wasn't really a child molestor or drug pusher and didn't rape his parrot after all,and that Steve was actually having a 10 year long dispute with my neighbor John over land holdings adjoining a common fence in their backyards,and yep sure, I admit, Steve blew up John's car,raped his wife and killed John's dog in revenge after it crapped on Steve's lawn two years ago-but John was a child molestor and rapist himself, so I figured hey, what the heck,John deserved what he and his wife got. But at the time the out of town guy,Bill, as well as Steve, seemed so sincere about John being a child molestor, drug pusher and parrot rapist, that I had no reason to doubt their word!! I mean give me a break will you! Even if just one of these charges about John was true, I couldn't stand by and do nothing, could I? I mean my best friend having to endure living next to either a possible child molestor or drug pusher or parrot rapist -I mean,all the more so, when I had so much TNT lying around the house not being used - especially when one day, my wife said: "honey, what's the point of having all this TNT lying about the house if you ain't gonna use it?" So I took my wife's advice, took the TNT out at 3AM and blew up John's house while he was sleeping. I mean,I never meant to kill his wife,dog,parrot and five children, you know. I just meant to stop him from committing his vile deeds. I mean, you have to remember, I was personally told by Steve and Bill -who are both honest reputable journalists that he was a real,real terrible bad guy who threatened to murder Steve's family,and it was common knowledge in the neighborhood that John was a bad guy,I mean everyone was saying it, so what else could I do? It was the only moral thing at the time to do you know, to stop John from molesting all those little children, raping his parrot and selling drugs. In 2006, this is changed to: "John died today in the state penitentiary via lethal injection with poison. John was a serial killer,serial rapist, child molestor, drug pusher,parrot and poodle rapist guilty of murdering Steve and Bill and everyone else in his entire neighbourhood and setting fire to nine hundred houses in the adjoining neighborhoods and surrounding suburbs. Wesley regrets that John's many, many victims including his wife, dog, five children, pet parrot and the neighborhood's poodles will never see justice." The fact that this latest corporate media portrayal by CNN's Christiane Amanpour of the late Milosevic and the Yugoslav conflict has ZERO evidence/justification to support it (e.g.,the Tudjman HDZ Croats & Izetbegovic SDA Bosniaks were publicly committed to genocide of the Serbs BEFORE the outbreak of hostilities in 1991/92 by openly publishing articles and making statements in PUBLIC praising the WW2 Nazi SS /Ustasha personalities & policies of genocide against the Serbs,then by threatening the Serbs with genocide directly by firing them from their jobs, forcing Serbs to carry an identity card with the number "3" identifying them as Serbs, murdering them in their homes and burning their houses down to force them to leave by the tens of thousands as early as late 1990) is of course never mentioned by CNN. Regards, Pete.

 

Pete:

This is very interesting and---I believe---important work on your part.  Thanks for sharing it with everyone.  (And feel no need to apologize over being "off-topic."  In any genuinely common space, such as the comments section to this blog ought to be, for anyone to raise a topic is to be on-topic.  Period.) 

For others not familiar with our topic at the moment, see, e.g., "The Bosnian Genocide Promoters."  Or simply go straight to the work of this rats&undefined; nest of interlinked members of the Bosnian- and Srebrenica-genocide Lobby.  (Namely, the 16 different "Links Worth Checking" that the so-called Srebrenica Genocide Blog currently lists down its left-hand column.  Though there are many others besides the 16 listed there.)

I&undefined;d urge everyone to take a look at:

"An Open Letter to Mr. Daniel Lam, of Quebec, Canada, author of &undefined;Srebrenica genocide blogspot&undefined;," Peter North, March 5, 2006

And for three other very fine, yet nevertheless under-read, analyses along the same lines, also see:

"Srebrenica, Mon Amour: An Ostracized Narrative," Gilles d&undefined;Aymery, Swans, July 18, 2005
"Slobodan Milosevic, 1941 - 2006: A Cursed, Blasted Statesman," Gilles d&undefined;Aymery, Swans, March 13, 2006
"The Demonization and Death of Slobodan Milosevic," Louis Proyect, Swans, March 27, 2006

 

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Hello David,

Regarding Mr. Daniel Lam of Quebec, Canada and his "Srebrenica Genocide Denial" blogspot, see my blog post "An Open Letter to Mr. Daniel Lam of Quebec Canada, author of "Srebrenica genocide blogspot"  at

 http://nato-media-lies-exposed.blogspot.com/2006/03/open-letter-to-mr-daniel-lam-of-quebec.html

and at the blog run by Neil Craig of Glasgow, Scotland:

 http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_a-place-to-stand_archive.html

scroll down to the comments section under the article post "Milosevic: Murder of the Century"

 

Best,

Pete.