From: steve@dmntor.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj)
Subject: Re: Getting to the truth about detention camps & human rights abuses
Summary: Clear who the aggressor is!
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 22:37:25 GMT

In article <Bt5pvv.92w@ecf.toronto.edu> blazic@ecf.toronto.edu (BLAZIC Joseph R) writes:

> ... but of course no comment ('neutral operator' image)
> on the degree of abuses by the respective sides.  The ICRC has been pretty
> consistent when it comes to such issues; it always blames 'all sides' and
> leaves it at that.  ...

For sure.  Which is why it's important to slice away the political fluff
and get at reality, before there's no people left to care!  To wit, look
at what an independent US investigation turns up:

	"Ethnic cleansing by Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina near goal"
		Bylined GERSTEL Tue Aug 18 13:24:54 1992
	   WASHINGTON (UPI) _ The ``ethnic cleansing'' by Serbs in Bosnia-
	Hercegovina has substantially achieved its goal through widespread
	atrocities, massacres and mass evacuations of Moslems, a staff report by
	the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded Tuesday.
	   The campaign has created a Serb-inhabited region contiguous to Serbia
	that occupies 70 percent of Bosnia-Hercegovina and a corridor connecting
	Serbia with Serb-inhabited territory in the Krajina region of Croatia.
	   ``The new Serb territories were created by forcibly expelling the
	Moslem populations that had been the overwhelming numerical majority in
	the regions of Bosnia-Hercegovina closest to Serbia.
	   Sen. Claborne Pell, D-R.I., head of the Senate Foreign Relations
	Committee, released the documents and said, ``This is the first U.S.
	government report documenting the extent of horrors associated with the
	ethnic cleansing campaign being carried out by the Serbs against the
	Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina.''   ...
	   The committee staff report was prepared by staff members Peter
	Galbraith and Michelle Maynard who traveled through the region early in
	the month and ``spoke with scores of refugees from, eyewitnesses to and
	survivors of, atrocities in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
	   The documents said ``ethnic cleansing'' was carried out with 
	``widespread atrocities'' and that ``random and selected killings are a
	routine part of the process of evacuating Muslim villages in Bosnia-
	Hercegovina.
	   ``In some villages, there were organized massacres of the Muslim
	population,'' the report said. ``We believe the death toll associated
	with forcible removal of the Muslim village population of Bosnia-
	Hercegovina far exceeds the death tolls from the bombardment of cities
	or from killings in prison camps.
	   The report said detention camps were way stations for civilians where
	``rapes, beatings and killings occurred in some instances'' and that
	able-bodied males 15 or over, Muslim or Croation, were held in prisons
	where they were beaten and starved.
	   ``Killings in the camps often appear to be recreational and sadistic,
	'' the report said. ``There is evidence that paramilitary groups from
	Serbia and Montenegro have entered certain camps, often drunk and by
	night, for the purpose of torturing, killing and raping.''
***	   The report said that Serbian civilians in Bosnia-Hercegovina have
***	been the victims of violence by Muslim, Croatian and Bosnian Serb
***	forces.
***	   ``In no sense, however, does the violence against the Serbs compare
***	to the atrocities inflicted on the Muslims, nor are conditions in Muslim
***	or Croation prison camps comparable to those in the Serbian death camps.

Note the "***" lines!  Let's get real!  Let the truth be known, and quit the
whitewashing of Serb attrocities.  These criminals should be recognized for
what they are.  Just like the Nazis had to pay, they will have to pay.  (And
just like the world has understood that not all Germans are Nazis, nobody is
saying all Serbs are butchering chetnik animals; but those that are, ARE!
So let's not pretend they're cuddly little teddy bears.)
-- 
Steve Pozgaj (signature in postmark; cute remarks in comics section)