| URL is http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/gorazde.htm Subscribe to our newsletter at http://emperor.vwh.net/MailList/index.php Send the link to this text to a friend. If you're reading this in email, please forward this article to your friends. * Looking for a gift? See ad at end of article for JUDGMENT! video - the movie shown by Milosevic at The Hague * ========================================================== During the trial of ex-Bosnian Serb official Biljana Plavsic, Madeleine Albright and Elie Wiesel made speeches about the supposedly monstrous Bosnian Serbs. They portrayed Bosnian Muslims as analogous to Jews and Bosnian Serbs as analogous to Nazis. As I shall demonstrate in an upcoming article on that trial, what Albright and Wiesel said amounts to Holocaust denial. In addition, I will demonstrate that in his so-called testimony, Mr. Wiesel lied. Anyway, while researching Elie Wiesel's earlier statements about Yugoslavia, I happened to read a most revealing 1992 Associated Press (AP) dispatch. It is posted below. The AP dispatch is notable for three reasons: 1) It describes an all-out attack on the Serbian civilian population in and around the Bosnian town of Gorazde. Prior to the attack, there had been sustained fighting between Bosnian Serb troops and Muslim military forces who controlled the town of Gorazde which had a mixed Muslim/Serb population. The Serbian troops withdrew as a peace gesture. After that, on August 26th, a column of cars and buses including:
The attackers were merciless:
The AP dispatch was published on September 12th, that is, 17 days after the attack. Yet up until then,
The attack was not limited to the one gruesome ambush:
This AP dispatch is unusual in
that it actually *mentions* the attack on these
Serbs. Mostly the media was silent when Serbs
were attacked. As we shall show in a soon-to-be-published
article by Prof. Francisco Gil-White, in fact it
was the Serbs and also their moderate Muslim
allies who were the main victims of anti-civilian
terror in Bosnia. This was not because the Serbs
were saints. It was because the people whom they
and their Muslim allies were fighting were
fanatical Islamic Fundamentalists, misportrayed
in the Western media as peace loving, moderate
democrats. But all that is discussed in Prof. Gil-White's
forthcoming article. (When posted, it will be at The point here is: this AP dispatch stands out because it at least reports the anti-Serb atrocities. 2) But even this article reveals anti-Serb media bias. From the start the article refers to anti-Serb violence as "revenge." Revenge for what? What does the AP claim happened to provoke such "revenge"? The article gives no details, saying only that the town had been under siege. By using the terms, "siege" and "revenge," the writer creates the impression that monstrous crimes must have been committed *by the Serbs* because how else could what the Muslims did constitute "revenge"? Let us consider this a bit more. The article says the Muslims outnumbered the Serbs in the Gorazde area, 70% to 30%. A 30% minority is probably not in a position to terrorize a 70% majority. Moreover, this particular majority included people who were armed and prepared to carry out the sort of atrocities described in the AP dispatch. Supporting this point, the AP uses the term, "siege." If Gorazde was under siege *from Serbian forces* then it must have been controlled *by Muslim forces.* So: the town had a mainly Muslim population; it was militarily controlled by Muslims; some of them were quite capable of carrying out massacres. This hardly sounds like a situation in which the Serbian forces would feel safe in provoking the Muslims, even if they wanted to. Moreover, as the article states, the Serbs withdrew their forces as a peace gesture. Would they have done so without first rescuing the Serb civilian inhabitants of Gorazde if, having committed outrages, they had every reason to expect anti-Serb "revenge?" The withdrawal of Serbian troops, the coordinated assault on the Serbian neighborhoods, the desperate flight of columns of cars and buses without troops to protect them, the ambush and the extreme violence all suggest that a) the Serbs naively misestimated their foes' capacity for terror and b) after the troops withdrew, the Serbian civilians were caught unaware by the anti-Serb attack and fled in disarray. The comments of a Serbian man supports this view:
And a Serbian military official says: "'Muslims have abused our peace gesture by launching attacks on innocent civilians.'" Based on all of the above, I would suggest this hypothesis: the presence of Serb military forces near Gorazde *prevented* atrocities against Serbian civilians. When the Serbian military withdrew, the extremists among Muslims launched a pogrom: ambushes, horrific murder, torching and looting of houses, slaughter of livestock. 3) Speaking of livestock, note that the article describes the attackers as having slaughtered pigs in the Serbs' yards. The Bosnian Serbs were/are mostly peasant farmers, many of whom do indeed breed pigs. This is an important detail. Let me explain why. The AP dispatch states that, "The Serb forces hold about two-thirds of Bosnia's territory." It was common for the Western media to make such statements, suggesting that the Serbs had *seized* most of Bosnia, i.e., they were aggressors. A small point that the media neglected to mention was: the Serbs *owned and occupied* roughly 2/3 of Bosnia. Before the fighting broke out in Bosnia, the Slavic *Muslim* population was comprised mainly of city dwellers. The Slavic *Orthodox* population was overwhelmingly farmers. Because farming is land-intensive, in 1991 the Serbian population owned about 2/3 of the land in Bosnia - that is, they owned the land they lived on and farmed. Bosnian Serb farmers were important food producers for Yugoslavia and other European countries. (We'll soon post an ethnic map of Bosnia that demonstrates this.) During the Bosnian conflict, many media reports included sentences like the following, taken from a different Associated Press dispatch: "During the first two years of the war, Serb forces took about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the Muslim-led government controlling the remainder." (AP, October 27, 1994, In fact, by limiting their military presence to the 2/3 of Bosnia where Serbs and their Muslim allies were concentrated, the Bosnian Serb army was demonstrating a defensive strategy. As Prof. Gil-White's article will show, the Bosnian "Government" army was Islamic Fundamentalist. One 6000-man division was named after the World War II Waffen SS Division, Handzar, which means "scimitar." These Fundamentalist troops, often trained and led by fanatical veterans of the Afghan war of the 1980s, preyed on Serbian peasants. One such detachment controlled the town of Srebrenica. Its leader was Nasir Oric, a Yugoslav Islamist. Here is a Toronto Star reporter's account of an evening spent listening to Oric boast about slaughtering Serb farmers:
Note the sentence: "These video reminiscences, apparently, were from what Muslims regard as Oric's glory days." Oric's glory days! When he could raid Serbian villages with impunity, cutting off heads and launching people to the moon. His *glory* days! And the Fundamentalist monsters who committed these crimes were portrayed as moderate democrats by the Western media. Note also that Oric curtailed his raids *because of the increased strength of Serbian military forces*! What the Western media called "laying siege to Muslim towns," was in fact the heart of Serb military strategy: to have sufficient military presence to protect civilians from being slaughtered by the Islamic Fundamentalist army. Here's the AP dispatch on Gorazde. -- Jared Israel ========================================================== (c) AP 1992 - Posted for educational and fair use only =======================================
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