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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:57:41 -0400
From:         Ljubica Jelusic <ljubica.jelusic@UNI-LJ.AC.MAIL.YU>
Subject:      Re: MIRacles No. 5 from Croatia

> With the ethnic hate I see in this country and the inaccuracies of the
> above report, I'm tempted to think that the only solution is to seal the
> borders and let these parties kill each other. And when they show to the
> world that they can have some kind of civilized behaviour, then unseal the
> borders..... About all I can do is pray for both sides and wait....

And that is exactly what they want. "Ethnic cleansing" is just
that, seal off the borders, until all non-Serbs are killed or
expelled. And all Serbs who do not agree with it, silenced, one
way or another. Of course there are atrocities on both sides of
the conflict, but you may find human monsters, sadists, killers,
rapers or cannibals in any nation. And modern weaponry (which is
possesed by Yugoslav Army, but provided from many sources, Western
arm industry included) allows even normal people to act unhuman,
because they do not see the victims. But most of the people on
both sides of the conflict are against the war, frightened,
impoverished and with no hope. What they are guilty of ? People
in Bosnia believed in peace and that is why they were so
unprepared for the war.

The war in ex-Yugoslavia is so horrible and so dangerous because
it is going on in Europe. If bullies win and possibility of
changing bordars and expelling "wrong" people with force will
become possible (exactly what U.N. did in Croatia) sealing off
Bosnia will not help. Many unsolved border and national problems
are in Europe, and some of these nations are even better armed
then Serbia.

And before you put all the blame on these poor folk in Bosnia, I
would like you to give you some facts. War in Yugoslavia was more
a result of a certain policy, then a product of some ethnical
hate. And that includes international politics. What was James
Baker ("representative" of the U.S.) doing in Belgrade, just a
few days, in last June, before the war in Yugoslavia started with
the assault on Slovenia by the Yugoslav People's Army. His node
to the armed intervention came, when someone was convinced that
such a "clean" army operation would be a nice example how the
non-contents and separatists can be dealt with. But it was just a
start of the devastating war. A few words of condemnation or at
least disapproval would do nicely, then. These words came far too
late. At least too late for the peaceful solution of the
conflict.

HATE did not start the war, hate came as the result of the WAR.
Ethnic or any hate you name.

We are hardly responsible for the all wrong-doings of "our"
politicians or arm producers, but that should stay for the people
of Bosnia too. But praying can not hurt, most of the people were just pushed
in the war they did not wish, and at least one tenth of the killed are
children and two thirds are civilians. With the concentration camps, this ratio
will be ven higher when he war will be over.

Primoz Juznic
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