From: josip@src.umd.edu ()
Subject: Annihilation of nations
Originator: josip@galaxy.src.umd.edu
Organization: Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:12:04 GMT

First of all, I'm not Jewish (I'm Catholic), but I found a today's 
article in the Washington Post so troubling that I think more people 
ought to know about it.

This is a warning to all who might have thought that something like the
holocaust could never happen again.  The recent developments show that
no matter what humanitarian principles are written in the U.N. Charter,
CSCE, or anyhwere else, this is still a dog-eat-dog world where if you
are small and unimportant, you can be wiped out of existence and the
world will do NOTHING to stop it.  The moral of the story is: do not be
small and weak.

If this kind of tragedy can happen to these people in 1992, then surely
it can happen to any other small nation.  There are NO guarantees that
some more powerful adversary will be prevented from wiping you off the
map.  

So, keep Israel strong, because only strong Israel can give you
some kind of protection against the jungle out there -- the so-called
"New World Order".

Perhaps this is nothing new to you, but this point has been just implied
with shocking clarity in the following article.  When it comes to stopping
genocide, present day institutions are just about as effective as the League
of Nations was in 1930s.

Josip


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"Can the West Stop the Rape of Bosnia?  Should it?"
High Political Cost, Murkiness of Mission Argue 
Against Foreign Military Intervention
NEWS ANALYSIS
By Blaine Harden
The Washington Post, Friday, July 24, 1992, page A30

WARSAW, July 23---Will Serb militia forces get away with their
ruthless land-grab in Bosnia-Hercegovina?  The short answer, after
nearly four months of indecision in Washington and European capitals, 
is yes.

[....about tragedy of Bosnia-Hercegovina which has no oil resources....]

While Washington and London this week threatened air strikes against Iraq
for denying a team of weapons inspectors access to a Baghdad building, 
the anihilation by artillery of the refugee-packed Bosnian city of Gorazde,
where 70,000 Slavic Muslims are stranded and dying without food, water,
electricity or doctors, continues into a second month with no threats of
Western retaliation.

Bosnian refugee accounts of torture, rape, murder and mass deportation
carried out by Serb militiamen have left Western governments similarly
unmoved.  After a blitzkrieg offensive in early April, Serb forces backed
by the Yugoslav army swallowed up two-thirds of Bosnia.  Using terror,
murder, and Nazi-era practice of cramming people into boxcars, the Serbs
have since "cleansed" the areas they hold of most Muslims.

[....about the prohibitive cost of intervention and various desperate
     measures by Bosnians to prevent being wiped off the map.  However,
     by now most of them have been either killed or became refugees with no
     chance of return to their destroyed homes...]
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P.S. Of course, these people will not give up, but for all practical purposes
     they have lost their homeland.  By now, 2.2 million people have become
     refugees, and some 50,000 have died.