From: gt7242a@prism.gatech.edu (KHAN,RAHEEL)
Subject: RE: PEACE: to whom it may concern
Followup-To: soc.culture.pakistan
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:43:03 GMT
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>To all supporters of peace and justice in former Yugoslavia:
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      There can be no peace until Justice is restored and Justice
      demands that the Serbs be pushed out of the Bosnian territories
      that they have usurped!  Seems like this is an effort by the
      Serbian-American Media Center and their political satellites.
      It is funny to hear about peace and non-violence now that the 
      Serbians have managed to get away with engineering a successful
      genocide in Bosnia!


      
>Action for Peace in the Balkans, a multiethnic, San Francisco Bay
>Area-based peace group, has organized a nationwide telegram hotline to
>President Bill Clinton, urging him to seek a peaceful solution to this
>conflict. The telegram reads:

>"I oppose military intervention or lifting the arms embargo in the civil war 
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     The United Nations and the United States also recognize Bosnia-Hercegovina
     as an independant state.  This is a deliberate attempt by Serbians to 
     downplay their involement in the war!  The fact is that Serbia is the 
     aggressor and she has broken all past records of inhumanity and cruelty in
     quest for expansion.  

>in former Yugoslavia.  Such action will fuel the fighting, prolong civilian 
>suffering, and lead to an even wider conflict in the region. Exercise 

     I don't understand.  This is a joke, right?  So a murderer comes into your
     house, rapes your daughters and your sisters and kills your sons and then
     these two-faced policemen of peace come around and try to restrain you 
     from fighting with the murderer!  

     This is so openly hypocritical that I want to wretch.  These people come 
     around masquerading as peace-makers when indeed they are responsible for the
     misery of innocent Bosnians.               

>evenhanded diplomacy and pressure the three warring sides in Bosnia and 
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      As if the policy to date has been even-handed.  Every-one knows of the 
      Serbian Death Camps where thousands of Muslims have perished, and the
      world has not seen a trial of those responsible, in spite of the Nuremburg
      declaration against Genocide.  The world knows about Serbian bomardment of 
      civilian targets inside Bosnia and not a single "No Fly Zone " has been 
      implimented by the U.N.  The world knows that the Bosnians are dying 
      without food and clothing and isn't it ironic that 23% of all aid 
      going into Bosnia is given to the Serbs for appeasement!

      Earlier in this Century, the world appeased to another aggressor, and it
      looked the other way during another genocide and the result was that every
      single country in the world was effected by Germany's bid to expand and
      "cleanse" itself.

      History shows that a Peace without Justice leads to more misery.  If Serbia
      is allowed to get away with one genocide, let the world be prepared with
      a hundred genocides!
 
    
>Hercegovina to negotiate a mutually acceptable political solution."


>We urge you to take part in and advertise broadly this action, which will
>be taking place for a limited time after inauguration. Our new
>administration's policy on this issue has apparently not been set yet, but
>defining it is its highest foreign policy priority. This is why it is of
>paramount importance to immediately  let them know that military
>intervention is *not* a viable option. This message must be sent in a
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     No-one wants America to intervene militarily, although it is her moral duty
     to do so after the great propoganda campaign for "Human Right and Democracy"
     during the Gulf war.  However, the injust ban on military weapons on Bosnia 
     must be up-lifted immediately!  The Bosnains have every right to defend 
     themselves against the Serbian aggressors.  I think that it is hardly "even-
     handed" to allow Serbians to riddle Bosnia with rockets and artillery when
     Bosnians don't even have hunting rifles to defend themselves with.  The 
     Bosnian defense forces have 2 tanks---the Serbs have  more than 350!  The 
     Bosnians have no aircraft---the Serbs have a whole airforce!

>clear, visible and organized way, and this action serves that purpose.
>Certainly, other means of voicing your opinion on the subject remain
>equally important as before. But we ask you to take this action seriously,
>since only many thousands of telegrams can make a difference.


>ACTION FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS


    All Muslims should do whatever they can to end the suffering of their brothers
    and sisters in Bosnia.  The world knows that the Muslims are the ones who have 
    suffered the most in this conflict.  Why did a 100,000 Muslims die in Bosnia?
    why were 50,000 Muslimas desecrated by Chetnik animals? It was because we 
    are Muslims only in name.  We fear everything but Allah and we trust everyone
    except Allah.  We want the issue to be resolved peacefully, by U.N. mediation 
    when the U.N. has showed its true colors more than once.  Lets pray to Allah 
    that he guides us and gives us the courage to be true Muslims:  only then will
    the suffering of Muslims end in Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Algeria, India, Palestine,
    Burma.......... 


    The Qur'an assures us that we are the best community because we "enjoin good and 
    forbid evil".  So lets call the U.S. and ask them to not become partners in the
    injustice and lift the Arms Embargo in Bosnia.  Lets call our Embassies (all
    Muslim embassies are our embassies)  and ask them to get their act straight. And
    lets remember all our suffering brothers and sisters in our prayers.

        Comment-line for the White-House:  (202) 456-1111
         
        Address for the White House:
                              1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
                              Washington DC 20500 

        To find the number of a Congressman or Senator:  1-800-366-2998

        Number of some Embassies:
 
        Pakistan:   (212) 879-8600
        Turkey:     (212) 949-0150
        Iran:       (212) 687-0220
        Saudi Arabia: (212) 752-2740 

   These are the only numbers that I know of.  If any-one has addtional numbers
    to call, please post them on the net.

Raheel Ahmed Khan
                             
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KHAN,RAHEEL
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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