From: pshane@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ana M. Shane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna,soc.culture.croatia
Subject: Re: NPR: Bosnia Faces Aggression now from Croats
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:18:06 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

boyle@kirkuk.berkeley.edu (Joseph Boyle) writes:

>I can't believe you are so stupid as to tell Americans that it is OK
>to do anything to a minority, and to further expose the covert
>Serbo-Croatian alliance of racist extremists.  I am writing President
>Clinton right away to urge him to send arms and air support to
>Bosnia's secular democratic government, which seems to be the only
>hope for sanity the region, and I urge other Americans and Europeans
>to do the same.  

YES: The support should be given to the ones who are the victims of the
racist extremists! But these victims are not just of one nationality
or religion. They are all the civilians in the former Yugoslav Republics.
If this is not stated clearly as the goal of intervention (military
or political), but, instead, the intervention falls into the same racist
nationalist fascist rhetoric, it will be just taking sides with one
kind of extremists (in this case Bosnian Muslims). And that will not
really solve the problems in the area, just maybe postpone them for some
moment in the future.

>>the Bosnian government. Never before have the Bosnian Muslims felt
>>more alone.

>Wake up, Americans.  The Yugoslav conflict isn't far away and irrelevant;
>the extremists there are exactly like the extremists here who would like
>to plunge OUR society into a suicidal race war.  Let's stop them there
>before they set a precedent.

I cannot agree more. That is why it is of the paramount importance that
the whole war in Yugoslavia be understood NOT as an ethnic/religious
war, but as a mafia war between multiple warlords in which they throw their
own people. In order to bring lasting peace to the region, the international
community and the media have to launch a campaign against all chauvinism,
nationalism and ethnic hatred and support only those who are willing
to work for co-operation, civil understanding and laws which would
guarantee civilian and human rights above national rights. And moreover,
all those responsible for engineering, instigating and implementing
this war should be punished for their deeds by an international
tribunal composed of the representatives of all the victimized
nations and other UN representatives!

Please right to the president Clinton and help him understand that
no solution can be just and lasting if it is not just for all the
peoples, and that extreme chauvinism which per definition discriminates
on the national/racist basis, cannot be a ground for peace. The war
in Yugoslavian countries can  not be stopped by arming or disarming one
of the warring extremists, or by a military intervention against one
of the extreme nationalist armies. It can be stopped only when all
the extreme nationalists are stopped and when the victimized peoples of all
ethnic backgrounds open their eyes and see that devided they are
an easy prey to the criminal leaders of all sides.


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+ Ana M. Shane                    pshane@andromeda.rutgers.edu  +
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