From: Chrys Pelegris <chrysp@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Yugoslavia            2/2
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Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:09:24 GMT

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CANADIAN MEDIA ARE BIASED. For unknown reasons, the CBC's Journal
producer Mark Starowitz and his anchor Bill Cameron have never
interviewed anybody since the beginning of the Yugoslav crisis who could
provide a Serbian point of view. No reporter has yet explained to the
Canadian public that foreign journalists can end up in Croatian jails
for up to five years if they do not submit their reports to the Croatian
government for approval. The Independent Federation of Journalists
stated that one out of four journalists killed worldwide while on duty
in 1991 were killed in Croatia and that particular targets were those
who did not report in favour of Croatia. The situation is stable now
since Croatia is filled with 'good' reporters who blame the Serbs for
everything, like the CBC's Piere Vicary. Some of the journalists are
genuine hate mongers. Many published 'facts' do not undergo even the
most basic scrutiny. For example, in his recent editorial "Serbian
Atrocities" published in the Calgary SUN, columnist Eric Margolis claims
that there are 2.3-million Muslims refugees from Bosnia. An obvious lie,
since there have never existed more that 1.9 million Bosnian Muslims.


                 How can this war be stopped?

Western support for the unilateral secession of the former Yugoslav
republics without allowing any changes to their borders is the root
cause of the conflict in Yugoslavia. Unilateral secession is an act of
aggression which no country tolerate within its own borders. Western
powers have first violated the Helsinki Accord when they recognised
Croatia and Slovenia, and then invoked it to declare that the borders of
the new states were inviolable. The Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia had no
other option but military struggle in an effort to establish control
over territories where they are majority. With the death of Tito's
Yugoslavia in 1992, the internal borders which he arbitrarily created
are also dead and new borders must be negotiated.

The recognition of Bosnia and Croatia was a mistake. These two countries
should have been forced to first reach a territorial settlement with the
local Serb population. The right of more than 2.5 million Serbs in
Bosnia and Croatia to self_determination is not inferior to 1.9 million
Muslims, 1.8 million Slovenes, 1.3 million Macedonians and 4 million
Croats.

The Muslims do not want to negotiate. Since they live largely in the
cities and they own only about 25% of the land, their dream to control
all of Bosnia would perish at the negotiating table.They must be forced
to negotiate. This was also stated by Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie.
UN troops must be pulled out of Bosnia, or recognition as a sovereign
state must be withdrawn until new borders are negotiated.

If ... it were not for complacent and biased media and politicians, the
U.S. and Canada could have stood up to Germany, the Vatican and the
Islamic countries in their zealous effort to spread their influence in
the Balkans, and this civil war could have been avoided. All that is
needed is fair international arbitration with  equal treatment for all
sides.



Harvey Kane, National Executive Director, Jewish Defence
League of Canada, in co-operation with the Serbian Unity
Congress from Western Canada. For more information write to
P.O. Box 57134, 2525-36 St. NE, Calgary, Alberta T1 Y 5T0.


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