Djindjic death: Ex-policeman accused

BBC ^ | 2003/03/12 20:48:10

[Almondjoy]

You might be right. My memory doesn't always serve me well so someone more into the subject might be able to help us out here. To my knowledge the genocide was played up before hand because of what happened in the other balkan wars. It was sort of the attitude "ahh Serbia is at it again". I could be wrong but I think history played into the matter. It is true that the mass graves weren't dug up to well later but I think word leaked out on the "genocide" that was going on well before the war started.

[Southack]

Precisely.

Your post *nails* the French double standard. When it was Chirac urging on a war against the Serbs, the media was silent about a lack of UN approval.

But now today, the French insist that the U.S. gain UN approval for waging war on Iraq.

And while the media is clearly not silent about the new French demand for UN approval, it is still silent about the French double-standard for war...

[Dragonfly]

It's not only the French. Did Germany or any other NATO country urge Clinton to get UN support for the Kosovo war? A day or two after the bombing started, the BBC reported that Kofi Annan gave his "conditional" support for this non-UN backed war.

[vooch]

Djindic was a extreme Marxist-Leninist. He wrote extensive turgid pro-commie tracts in the 70's and 80's while he associated with German leftist radicals.

[Homer1]

Interesting article, but IIRC, the US involvement had more to do with Monica Lewinsky than Jacques Chirac...

[branicap]

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[theFIRMbss]

>Your post *nails* the French double standard....

You're missing the point.
There is no "double standard."
There are no standards!

Modern politics
is about people doing
what they want to do

by any means there.
It's about managed "assets."
(That is, media.)

To think "principles"
or "history" or "values"
is to live a dream.

The only people
who try to live out dogma
are the terrorists

who've made fringe Islam
their defining principles.
When the terrorists

are crushed, the whole world
will be defined by the whims
of the suits in charge.

[DTA]

>>>>>The massacre had some foreign intelligence involved so I read. :)<<<<<<<<

intelligence in this case is kind of misnomer. That "intelligence" estimated number of Tutsis that will be killed 500 and 500,000. It was over 1 million.

Factor of error was 2000x!

Those guys are more experienced in drug imoprtation than analysis.

[Voronin]

OTOH, x.42 and Mr. Cabbage kept the war in Bosnia going because they could not accept a Serb victory. Several military comentators have said that the war was effectively over in 1993, and that most of the fighting was pinging bullets at the other side but not aiming, i.e. low level stuff. Total US backing for Izetbegovic, including the evesdropping on UN communications, which was then passed on directly to the BosMos gov., thus guaranteeing no peace. Sarajevo was riddled with US spooks working against the UN.

The fact that it may have been Chirac who called publically for airstrikes is about as meaningful as saying Gavrilo Princip was the cause of World War One. The reality was taht the stage was being prepared once the famous 'break out' of Sarajevo in early 1995 failed massively, despite US and German backing. Total support for Izebegovic was shown clearly when the Serbs gave up Mts. Igman and Bjelisnica, which the UN promptly let the BosMos forces cross at will and without any credible threat of punishment. X.42 was apoplectic not because he didn't want to bomb the Serbs, but because it didn't follow his own carefully scripted plan for Bosnia and that it was some smelly frenchman telling him that he was an appeaser.

This article is just shallow, ignorant and retains the strong smell of horse urine.

VRN