From: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person)
Subject: Re: Wiesenthal about detention camps in Bosnia
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:56:10 GMT

In article 14827@husc3.harvard.edu, stojanov@husc10.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic) writes:
> 
> I am forwarding this from Mr. Trifunovich
> 
> From TRIFUNOVICH@bms.com Mon Aug 17 18:54:10 1992
> 
> INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, August 12,1992
> 
> SERB CAMPS UNLIKE NAZIS', EXPERT SAYS
> 
> Vienna (Reuters)
> 
> Simon Wiesenthal, the veteran Nazi hunter, said Tuesday that he rejected 
> comparisons between detention camps in Bosnia and the Nazi concentration camps 
> of WW II, saying they trivialized Germany's treatment of Jews.
> 
> "To call the camps 'concentration camps' is a minimization of Nazi 
> concentration camps, because not even Gulag camps could be compared with the 
> Nazi camps," he said, referring to the Soviet labor camps, in an interview at 
> his Jewsih Documentation Center.

Mr. Stojanovic (as the poster), Mr. Trifunovich and the Serbian government of
Sloban Milosevic are all using the well-known hatred by Mr. Wiesenthal of
any sort of "Holocaust relativism" to imply that Mr. Wiesenthal, Holocaust
survivor, is absolving the Serbs of crimes against humanity. Mr.
Wiesenthal is rightly fighting the trivialization of the term "Holocaust".
The term "concentration camp" was originally used during the Boer War,
and, in the original context, is the valid term to describe the Serbian camps in Bosnia. At these camps, Serbian "irregulars" starve and beat Muslims, Croats
and other inhabitants of Bosnia-Herzegovina until they sign documents
agreeing to "voluntarily" give up their homes to a "Greater Serbia". Many
beaten and killed for "payback". An extreme number of Muslims
are killed solely because of their religion, being labelled "Turks"
before they die (fully in line with the Serbian fear and dismay of
the Ottoman Empire which had the gall to humiliate them 700 years ago).

 
> Mr. Wiesenthal, who spent four and a half years in German concentration camps, 
> also accused the West of blaming only the Serbs for human rights abuses in the 
> former Yugoslavia.
> 
> "The first refugees were the 40,000 Serbs who fled Croatia after a 
> constitutional amendment defined them as minority," he said.

This followed all of the years of nationalist fascist rantings of 
Sloban Milosevic, declaring his goal for a Greater Serbia to 
cover the lands in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

 
> He said the Serbs themselves had legitimate fears in light of the killing of 
> hundreds of thousands of their people under the Croatian puppet government set 
> up by pro-Nazis in World War II.
> 
> 
> (Reprinted without permission from the International Herald Tribune)
> 
> I.D. Trifunovich
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________________________________________


Mr. Stojanovic (by himself and as poster for Mr. Trifunovich) have
persistently used this newsgroup to attempt to confuse the basic
issue of the aggression of the Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They and
the rest of the Serbian revisionists want the Jews to sit back and
ignore the slaughter, to avert our eyes because of emnity to the 
Croats and to Muslims. The Serbian concentration camps are not like
the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi camps were unique in their evil.
The Serbian camps are much more petty and truly pathetic in their evil.
The Serbs fight enemies of 50 and 700 years ago. They kill randomly and 
claim international conspiracies and threaten European nuclear reactors.
It is the current reaction of the much of the world that is like the 
situation of 50 years ago. Like George Bush today, all of the Allied 
leaders knew of the Holocaust but did nothing. But we will not be
silent and we will not be silenced by the lies of people like Sloban,
Mr. Stojanovic and Mr. Trifunovich.