From: kutluk@ccl.umist.ac.uk (Kutluk Ozguven)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: An article on Bosnia from the Chicago Tribune (from Haluk)
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:05:01 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In <1993Jan8.173015.12227@gvl.unisys.com> armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc) writes:

>In article <1993Jan7.230441.28434@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, enis@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (enis.surensoy) writes:
> 
>|> 	Bush the other day said "Leadership cannot be asserted or 
>|> 	demanded; it simply is demonstrated". Yet when it comes to 
>|> 	save Turks/Moslem from massacre, rape and murder in most 
>|> 	horrible ways, he miserably fails to "demostrate" the same 
>|> 	leadership he is preaching about.
>|> 
>|> 	By the time they make up their minds, there won't be any 
>|> 	Turk/Moslem left to be saved. I wonder if that is what
>|> 	their purpose is.

>That is exactly what the Western Europeans want. They don't want a moslem
>state in the middle of the world.  Even though the Bosnians are very
>moderate and secular moslems, they can't stand the idea of a Moslem
>state in Europe.  Therefore, they let the Serbians do the dirty job, ethnic
>cleansing, for them while they condemn Serbians in public. This is very
>discracing.

  I'd disbelieved it before I read a Daily Telegraph article 
[the main conservative paper] two years ago, saying that Bosnia should
not be recognized along with others, because then it would be a Muslim
state in Europe, and 'we know how fanatical Muslims can become'. 
  The British foreign policy is one of the reasons for this genocide
They deliberately slowed down every international attempt to
recognize, or intervene, or imposition of no-fly zone or even more
importantly take off the arms embargo.  Malcolm Rifkind, the Defence
Secretary, led the  campaign of illogical-talk to legitimize the
slaughter and make all institutions just watch. The fact that his
Jewish relatives had received the same genocide during the war did not
bother him. Meanwhile the elegant arts-dealer Lord Carrington, the
former EC envoy, have unashamedly hidden all the  massacres from the
media during summer 92. But Britain is not the only one. 
  In US, the deliberate inaction of the government was protested by
the US Yugoslavian affairs chief himself. He resigned 5 months ago,
and naively joined Clinton's team, who said he'll intervene - as if it
were something other than an election promise. The world which united
to save a whale four years ago, let the cavemenlike Serb army destroy a
Muslim nation and its culture in the middle of Europe. 
  The UN commanders somehow forgot the armed vehicle doors open,
Hakkija Turalic got killed; the UN somehow forgot the arsenal doors
open, Serbs snatched the heavy arms; Ghali somehow forgot Haris
Sladzic's concentration camp reports and proofs on his desk, the Serbs
killed 150,000 while the reports waited there two months. It is not
the personalities but the whole international system that will impose
genocide and chaos on populations like the Bosnian Muslims. Until now
the destroyed Muslims were Arabs, or Iranians, geographically close
but culturally remote nations [or at least we are told so] What
keeps us Turks is that Bosnians have been so similar to us in all
aspects, and that they played exactly with the rules they were told by
the West to play. 
  This is absolutely a nightmare. We have to do something against
this murderous arrogance.

Kutluk
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