Re: Fallout from Srebrenica massacre in Netherlands

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 07:34 , Icarus wrote:

There have always been people who stick there heads in the sand,and refuse to 
accept  things 
as they are.
Even today in 2002 there are people who say the holocaust never happened.
They drag out things that tend to support  their view point,and crow "I told 
you so".
This changes nothing because it denies reality.
How many people have to die before you awake to see this for what it is?
Genocide is repulsive to view,but the price of ignoring it is more of the same 
later.

I don't think things are quite so simple. The fact is, before the bodies were 
discovered, many 
people, including respected historians such as Michael Parenti, questioned the 
evidence, and at 
the time to do so was reasonable, since most of the other "war crimes" 
committed by Serbs 
were invented. Now that several thousand bodies have been discovered, one can 
no longer 
question that a massacre occurred -- although one can still discuss the 
sequence of events and 
question the events surrounding this tragedy. Now, someone who had, for 
instance, read some 
of the material been written before the bodies had been discovered, but not 
looked at more 
recent evidence, might legitimately ask the question that was asked, and to 
respond with such 
abuse ill becomes a Marxist, in my opinion -- especially given the known 
fabrications of other 
Serb "atrocities", and the systematic denial of Nato-assisted ethnic cleansing 
in Krajina, of mass 
killings of Serbs by Croatian and Muslim paramilitaries, and so on. One must 
also be aware that, 
although there is now no doubt that a terrible atrocity was committed by the 
Bosnian Serb force, 
there were mass killings around Srebrenica of Serbs by Muslim forces -- not as 
large, but in the 
hundreds, and this never gets mentioned. So one must refrain from parrotting 
the demonization 
of the Serbs that one finds in the mainstream media.

It is also noteworthy that the Dutch report says that there is no evidence to 
implicate Milosevic in 
the actions of Mladic's force.

John
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