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April 1, 2001
The hoax that started a war
How the U.S., NATO and the western media were conned in Kosovo
By PETER WORTHINGTON -- Toronto Sun
Back in March, 1999, what tipped the scales for then U.S. president Bill Clinton to launch an air war against Serbia, were reports of a massacre of 45 Albanian civilians by Serb security forces at the village of Racak, some 30 km from Pristina in southern Kosovo.
Clinton told the world on March 19, 1999: "We should remember what happened in Racak ... innocent men, women and children were taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt and sprayed with gunfire." Photos circled the world. NATO bombing began March 24, and lasted 78 days.
White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said of Racak: "A strong message will be brought to President (Slobodan) Milosevic about bringing those to justice who should be punished for this ... "
U.S. Foreign Secretary Madeleine Albright, eager to make war against then-Yugoslavia and speaking on CBS' Face the Nation, cited Racak where, she said, there were "dozens of people with their throats slit." She called this the "galvanizing incident" that meant peace talks at Rambouillet were pointless, "humanitarian bombing" the only recourse.
Germany's Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, told the newspaper Berliner Zeitung that the Racak massacre "became the turning point for me" and war was the only answer.
Canada's then foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy, called the massacre "a disgusting victimization of civilians."
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported the dead had fingernails torn out - evidence of torture.
On Jan. 16, the day after the actual massacre, William Walker, the veteran American diplomat who headed peace verifiers for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), was taken by Kosovo Liberation Army members to Racak to see the bodies in the ditch. He declared that the dead "obviously were executed where they lay."
His OSCE report spoke of "arbitrary arrests, killings and mutilations of unarmed civilians" at Racak.
GROUND TROOPS
Canada's Louise Arbour, then special prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal, (hand-picked for the job by Albright) was prevented by Serb authorities from visiting Racak. She vowed retribution for the massacre, urging that "international troops on the ground" were the only way to effect arrests.
When Milosevic was indicted as a war criminal, the massacre at Racak was cited as evidence. The London Times wrote that victims had their eyes gouged out, heads smashed in, faces blown away at close range, all "farmers, workers, villagers, aged 12-74, men, women, children."
Serbian and Belorussian forensic people investigated, but were suspect, so the European Union authorized a forensic team from Finland, headed by Helena Ranta, a dental pathologist, to investigate. The Finnish report was not made public.
Ranta gave a press conference at which she was vague, admitting there was no evidence of mutilation or torture, and that Yugoslav authorities had co-operated. But she also called the killings "a crime against humanity," widely interpreted to mean Racak was indeed a cold-blooded massacre.
It has since turned out, through subsequent investigations by German, French and American correspondents and by human rights and peace groups, including the anti-war International Action Centre and the Liberty Foundation, that the Racak massacre seems an enormous, albeit effective, hoax perpetrated by the Kosovo Liberation Army to persuade the U.S. and NATO to attack the Serbs. The goal was independence for Kosovo, possibly leading to the dream of a Greater Albania.
We now have a far better idea of what really happened at Racak - a pre-crisis town of 2,000 and a stronghold of KLA agitation. By January, 1999, most of its population had fled to a nearby town, Stimlje, leaving perhaps 400 people behind. When four Serbian policemen were ambushed and murdered in two separate incidents in a week, Serb security forces surrounded Racak and attacked. The Serbs tipped off foreign journalists who came to see. Fighting was savage and brief, not only in town but in the countryside.
Journalists found Racak had few people actually living there.
Some 20 bodies were counted. Serbs and journalists left at dusk. The next day, Jan. 16, the KLA was again in control.
During the night, it seems that all the KLA killed fighting in the area - 45 of them - were dumped in a gully at Racak and journalists and the OSCE investigators invited to see what was described as the "massacre" of unarmed civilians.
Military insignia and/or badges had been removed from clothing, military gear replaced by civilian clothing. No weapons were in sight. The hoax was on. William Walker was first on the scene and believed what he saw and was told. The international press relayed his outrage to the world.
Forensic evidence showed - as the Finnish team has since confirmed - that most of the 45 Racak dead had been shot at long range, not execution-style. Corpses tested positive with residue of gunpowder on their hands, indicating they had been firing weapons. No ammunition or shell casings were found near the bodies, where they had supposedly been massacred, nor were there pools of blood.
BODIES MOVED
Pathologists also found the 45 dead men had all been shot in different parts of the body, from different directions, indicating a battle somewhere else, the dead dumped together for effect.
Until recently, no one was interested in the truth. "Whether or not it's a massacre, nobody wants to know any more," wrote Austria's Die Welt newspaper. Autopsy findings were delayed while the thirst for war echoed in the halls of allied power.
The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung got access to the Finnish forensic findings, and sent a team of reporters to investigate and concluded: "In all probability, there was no Racak massacre at all ... "
French journalist Renaud Girard of Le Figaro was in Racak and was puzzled that reports failed to mention it was a "fortified village with a lot of trenches" - a KLA stronghold. Although he wrote an initial massacre story, he later had doubts: "I felt something was wrong."
Christophe Chatelet of Le Monde was in Racak the day of the Serb attack, and found one dead and four wounded when he left at dusk. The next day the KLA showed bodies from a massacre that hadn't been there before. "I can't solve that mystery," he said. (At the time, KLA commander-in-chief Hashim Thaci told the BBC: "We had a key unit in the region and had a fierce fight. Regrettably, we had many casualties, but so did the Serbs.")
Further investigation shows that two TV journalists for Associated Press and two teams of OSCE observers also saw the fight for Racak from a hill, entered when Serb security forces did and left when they left. The AP crew filmed a deserted village. It was overnight that the KLA returned and gathered their dead from the fighting. Next day, Walker told the world how adults and children had been "executed," some as they tried to flee. CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, wife of U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin, showed little skepticism in reporting on the "massacre of civilians."
CHECK THE NET
(For those who want to check further, enter "Racak massacre" on Google or Yahoo on the Internet and see what you get.)
It changes nothing, but Racak should make people wary of government propaganda about areas where they have little knowledge, but strong feelings. Remember the emotions generated about "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo?
At the end of World War II, the population of Kosovo was 50-50 Serb and Albanian. By 1999 it was 90% Albanian. Today, it's close to 96%. Over 50 years, who's been "ethnically cleansed"? Today, Albanians in Macedonia are using arguments similar to those used against Serbs in Kosovo - prejudice, being frozen from jobs, discriminated against. Rarely mentioned are maps produced in Albania that show not only Kosovo, but parts of Macedonia and Montenegro as part of "Greater Albania."
It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that the U.S., NATO and western media have been conned and manipulated into supporting an aggressive exercise in nation-building that is not likely to be resolved peaceably. NATO's beleaguered soldiers are innocents caught in a Balkan quagmire, thanks to a blundering, myopic, vainglorious political leader.
Although this is nothing new for Freepers and other decent people, valuable article to forward to all those humaneatarians who supported bombing of Yugoslavia and murdering of more than 1500 civilians.
Shout it.
CNN had the BBC video of the Bosnians on the other side of the fence and still potrayed it as if they were inside the fence. I HATE this damn propaganda!
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This same stuff was pulled during the Gulf war about Kuwati babies being tossed out of inculbators. I only disagree on one point and that is about Clinton. I believe he knew all along that this was a damnable lie, but he wanted this war along with the gang he had around him. This propaganda was for the masses.
The lesson is: power and money always win.
Did you know that there are still some people around who continue to believe the Kuwaiti baby myth? Amazing, isn't it?
Good post DTA - it always makes me feel hopeful when one slips through the net. Bump and regards, Kate.
Heck, there are probably some people who still believe that Germans speared Belgian babies with their bayonets in 1914.
No hoax started this war. If Clinton wanted a war any port in a storm would do, and it did. It's like Arafat used Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount to start the uprising even though everyone now knows that wasn't the real reason.
For anyone who saw the movie Wag the Dog in the first few days of its release - which was a few days before the Lewinsky story was revealed or quite awhile before the Yugoslavian war started - neither of those news events was any surprise. Life imitates art...
Thanks. I would be very interested to know if any of the NATO criminals studied the earlier hoax that started a war perpetrated by SS Major Naujocks and his people at the border radio-transmitter at Gleiwitz in 1939.
It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that the U.S., NATO and western media have been conned and manipulated into supporting an aggressive exercise in nation-building that is not likely to be resolved peaceably. NATO's beleaguered soldiers are innocents caught in a Balkan quagmire, thanks to a blundering, myopic, vainglorious political leader.
Hey, Worthington, it's clear to an attentive reader that you mean Clinton. But maybe you should have spelled it out, for inattentive readers.
In any case, the media weren't conned. They were willing co-conspirators.
The hardest thing for a human being to do is to think intelligently.
I've heard that movie mentioned several times on this website. What is it about?
fyi-it moved into the English speaking press now as an op-ed.
Good timing. Bump.
. The hoax was on. William Walker was first on the scene and believed what he saw and was told. The international press relayed his outrage to the world.
So now it's all the KLA's fault? I wonder why this article fails to mention Walker's diplomatic career in South America?
Walker's BackgroundAccording to various newspaper reports, Walker began his diplomatic career in 1961 in Peru. He then reportedly spent most of his long career in the foreign service in Central and South America, including a highly controversial posting as Deputy Chief of Mission in Honduras in the early 1980s, exactly the time and place where the Contra rebel force was formed. The Contra force was the cornerstone of then-CIA Director William Casey's hardline anti-Communist directive, and Honduras was considered, along with El Salvador, the front line in the war with the Soviet Union. From there, Walker was promoted, in 1985, to the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America. This promotion made him a special assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, a figure whose name would soon be making its way into the headlines on a daily basis in connection with a new scandal the press was calling the "Iran-Contra" affair.
Walker would soon briefly join his boss under the public microscope. According to information contained in Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's lengthy indictment of Abrams and Oliver North, Walker was responsible for setting up a phony humanitarian operation at an airbase in Ilopango, El Salvador. This shell organization was used to funnel guns, ammunition and supplies to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Despite having been named in Walsh's indictment (although he was never charged himself) and outed in the international press as a gunrunner, Walker's diplomatic career did not, as one one might have expected, take a turn for the worse. Oddly enough, it kept on advancing. In 1988, he was named ambassador to El Salvador, a state which at the time was still in the grip of U.S.-sponsored state terror.
Walker's record as Ambassador to El Salvador is startling upon review today, in light of his recent re-emergence into the world spotlight as an outraged documenter of racist hate-crimes. His current posture of moral disgust toward Serbian ethnic cleansing may seem convincing today, but it is hard to square with the almost comically callous indifference he consistently exhibited toward exactly the same kinds of hate crimes while serving in El Salvador.
In late 1989, when Salvadoran soldiers executed six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her 15 year-old daughter, blowing their heads off with shotguns, Walker scarecely batted an eyelid. When asked at a press conference about evidence linking the killings to the Salvadoran High Command, he went out of his way to apologize for chief of staff Rene Emilio Ponce, dismissing the murders as a sort of forgiveable corporate glitch, like running out of Xerox toner. "Management control problems can exist in these kinds of these kinds of situations," he said.
In discussing the wider problem of state violence and repression--which in El Salvador then was at least no less widespread than in the Serbia he monitored from October of last year until March of this year--Walker was remarkably circumspect. "I'm not condoning it, but in times like this of great emotion and great anger, things like this happen," he said, apparently having not yet decided to audition for the OSCE job.
Finally, in what may be the most amazing statement of all, given his current occupation, Walker questioned the ability of any person or organization to assign blame in hate crime cases. Shrugging off news of eyewitness reports that the Jesuit murders had been committed by men in Salvadoran army uniforms, Walker told Massachusetts congressman Joe Moakley that "anyone can get uniforms. The fact that they were dressed in military uniforms was not proof that they were military."
Later, Walker would recommend to Secretary of State James Baker that the United States "not jeopardize" its relationship with El Salvador by investigating "past deaths, however heinous."
This is certainly an ironic comment, coming from a man who would later recommend that the United States go to war over...heinous deaths.
One final intriguing biographical note: Walker in 1996 hosted a ceremony in Washington held in honor of 5,000 American soldiers who fought secretly in El Salvador. While Walker was Ambassador of El Salvador, the U.S. government's official story was that there were only 50 military advisors in the country (Washington Post, May 6, 1996).
A Spooky Choice
With a background like this, it seems implausible that Walker would be chosen by the United States to head the Kosovar verification team on the basis of any established commitment to the cause of human rights. What seems more likely, given Walker's background, is that he was chosen because of his proven willingness to say whatever his government wants him to say, and to keep quiet when he is told to keep quiet-- about things like a gunrunning operation, or the presence of 4,950 undercover mercenaries (whose existence he regularly denied with a straight face) in the banana republic where you are Ambassador.
The Iran-Contra incident isn't the only thing in Walker's background which gives reason for pause. Another is his curious ability to remain in Central and South America throughout virtually his entire diplomatic career.
Not since before the fall of China has the State Department allowed its career people to remain in one place for any significant length of time. After the Chinese Revolution, the State Department enacted what has come to be known as the Wriston reform, which dictated that Department employees be rotated out of their posts every few years. With this reform, the government was hoping to put an end to a problem which they termed "quiet-itis"--the development of "excessive" sympathies towards the culture of one's host countries.
With the Wriston act, the U.S. government eventually got exactly what it wanted--a State Department characterized by fortress-like embassy compounds, in or around which Americans live amongst themselves in monolingual, isolationist bliss, counting the hours until they're rotated out to their next job in Liberia, or Peru, or wherever. As a result, most State employees see three or four different posts in different corners of he world every ten years. It is well-known among career foreign service people, though, that one of the few exceptions to this rule are the CIA agents in the embassies. Our intelligence people take longer to develop their contacts, and in order to preserve these "personal relationships" (bribe-takers don't like to change bagmen), they tend to hang around longer.
Walker was in Latin America virtually throughout his entire career, until he arrived in Kosovo. He had no experience in the region which qualified him to head the verification team in Yugoslavia. Furthermore, he spent the entire 1980s occupying high-level State positions in Central America, under the Reagan and Bush White Houses, when the region was the source of more East-West tension than in any other place in the world, and Central American embassies were the most notoriously CIA-penetrated embassies we had. You can draw your own conclusions.
Nonetheless, one need not prove that Walker is a CIA agent to make the case that the United States made a serious error in judgement in appointing him. Whether or not he was sent to Kosovo to guarantee that evidence of ethnic cleansing would be "discovered", and whether there even exists a covert plan, of which Walker might be part, to install a semi-permanent U.S. military force in the Balkans, it is bad enough that other countries might identify Walker according to their own criteria and assume the worst. And assume they will, according to political analysts familiar with the story.
"Ambassador Walker's record in El Salvador does not a priori invalidate his testimony on the massacres in Kosovo, but it certainly does compromise his reliability as an objective witness," said James Morrell, research director for the Washington-based Center for International Policy.
"No question about it, they should have chosen someone else," said Felgenhauer. "If this guy was working for Ollie North, then that's all anyone in Russia is going to need to know, anyway."
There is a widespread belief not only in Russia, but in other countries, that Walker's role in Racak was to assist the KLA in fabricating a Serb massacre that could be used as an excuse for military action. Already, two major mainstream French newspapers--Le Monde and Le Figaro--as well as French national television have run exposes on the Racak incident. These stories cited a number of inconsistencies in Walker's version of events, including an absence of shell casings and blood in the trench where the bodies were found, and the absence of eyewitnesses despite the presence of journalists and observers in the town during the KLA-Serb fighting.
Eventually, even the Los Angeles Times joined in, running a story entitled "Racak Massacre Questions: Were Atrocities Faked?" The theory behind all these exposes was that the KLA had gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their uniforms, put them in civilian clothes, and then called in the observers. Walker, significantly, did not see the bodies until 12 hours after Serb police had left the town. As Walker knows, not only can "anybody have uniforms", but anyone can have them taken off, too.
The story of William Walker's involvement in the war is just one of a rapidly-growing family of tales cataloguing the incompetence and arrogance of the United States and its allies throughout the Kosovo conflict. Even if it isn't proof of some as-yet-unreleased sinister plan to secure a permanent military presence in the Balkans, the fact that the United States didn't even care to avoid the appearance of impropriety in its search for Serb atrocities says a lot about our approach to international relations. It says, "Go ahead and think the worst about us. We don't care. We've got more bombs than you do." If that's the sum of our entire policy, it's only a matter of time before a place like Russia decides to strike first. They won't wait for us to send the next Walker.
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It is appropriate that this article comes out on April fools day!
I was going to say that this is old news, and I didn't buy it then, and I don't buy it now. I think it ignores and distorts the Ranta findings. But I take your point that the damn thing is metasticizing.
"This same stuff was pulled during the Gulf war about Kuwati babies being tossed out of inculbators. I only disagree on one point and that is about Clinton. I believe he knew all along that this was a damnable lie, but he wanted this war along with the gang he had around him. This propaganda was for the masses."
That's an excellent point! Certainly Clinton knew that Racak was a hoax. He is totally immoral, but he's not stupid. When that Kuwaiti "nurse" testified before that Senate committee about the Iraqi troops who unplugged the incubators, I can't believe that those Senators didn't know that she was really the teenage daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the US. Kuwait was and is a close military ally and very well known to the US oil industry. Most senators would know who Kuwait's ambassador was. But, if for some reason, they didn't know, it is inconceivable that they would not do a background check on such an important witness.
One of the secrets to rallying support for a war, in these cases, is to keep hammering on the point that "immediate action is needed." IOW don't give the public too much time to think about it and ask the questions that would shoot down all the State Dept.'s claims. If people had more time to think about it, I doubt that there would nearly have been as much public support for either the Gulf War or the air war against Yugoslavia. But the spin doctors said "NATO has to act RIGHT NOW to stop the Serbs from ethnic cleansing and prevent a humanitarian disaster."
Back in l999, as soon as I heard that it was William Walker, who uncovered the Racak "massacre," and that it was the same William Walker who was behind the CIA's dirty work in Central America, I could see the writing on the wall. That guy is an evil genius when it comes to being a spin-doctor.
Wag the Dog is a movie about what a President will do to cover up a crime. From what I remember a President was in trouble for having sexual relations with a girl scout type and to take media coverage away from that, a pretend war in Albania, or some such place, was thought up and the news agency took it and ran. Similar what to what Clinton did when he ordered the bombings in Sundan.
Clinton, Blair, Schoeder, and very likely many top people in the media knew very well that this was a lie, and they could have cared less. There was an orchestrated campaign of propaganda and disinformation that was perfectly clear at the time to anyone with an eye to see it. Those who were Freepers at that time were certainly aware of what was happening, even before the bombing started.
No doubt these lies served to pull the wool over the eyes of those suckers who are born every minute, but I can't believe for a minute that the NATO leaders didn't know perfectly well what they were doing. They all behaved like absolute scum.
Geepers, Mr Kent, another conspiracy theorem, complete with proof. Once again, crackerboy from Arkansas should be hung up by his testicles, too bad he has none. Uhh, Monica wus jest helpin me open up a toothpaste dispenser... Now, Mad Albright...
Thanks for posting this. It's never too late.
******CNN had the BBC video of the Bosnians on the other side of the fence and still potrayed it as if they were inside the fence.
I saw that too. But the BBC last year (October?) in one of their programs called "Reporter" did the same.
Yowser!! Some interesting information, don't you think? Some of it may be true, some of it might be leftist babble....... all that anyone could really ask is that the truth actually come out, and that guilty people everywhere get what's comin' to 'em, right?
Let's just keep some history in mind, remember, it was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that lead to a much larger role for American servicemen and women in Vietnam. And of course most of us remember that the Tonkin Incident was contrived by forces within the invisible government in the USA.
Anyone remember that Perot's vice-presidential running mate in 1992 was Adm. James Stockdale? Did you know that he was an eyewitness to the Tonkin Incident and knew that it was a hoax?
********Did you know that there are still some people around who continue to believe the Kuwaiti baby myth? Amazing, isn't it?
Do you know how many still believe in the Kosovo "genocide" and think that something had to be done?
Thanks for the post.
Problem is, it wasn't the KLA who was doing the conning, they were just an active participant in the US/NATO con job on their respective populations.
You mean the Huns didn't? :0)
Life imitates art...
Yeah, it used to be the other way around.
I personally know of some who believe the myth of genocide in Kosovo. This is in spite of emailing them articles like the one that started this thread. For most Freepers, this is not a new story. We've been reading about it a long time. But for those who only see Dan Blather and his Blatherettes (Petah, Tom et al) for the news, they believe this. Just as they once believed the ugly myth about Kuwait.
CNN had the BBC video of the Bosnians on the other side of the fence and still potrayed it as if they were inside the fence.
FYI, the original was news footage taken by the ITN team at Omarsaka (Penny Marshall, Ed Vuillamy). It was exposed by a German freelance journalist called Thomas Deichmann - I saw his presentation of the whole tape where you actually see the cameraman go into the generator enclosure to film out.
Kz
...a President was in trouble for having sexual relations with a girl scout type...
She even wore a black beret and was little bit chubby.
Everyone knew that it was a hoax, but everyone was afraid of LBJ. The few in congress who dared to say the Emperor had no clothes were hounded out of office by the mainstream media.
This line that appears in the above article:
But she also called the killings "a crime against humanity," widely interpreted to mean Racak was indeed a cold-blooded massacre.
is not quite correct. It was a CNN reporter at the press conference who put those words in her mouth. As I recalled, she was asked if this was "a crime against humanity," and after thinking for a while, she answered that "yes, anytime that anyone dies violently," it is "a crime against humanity."
This was in order for CNN to make their headline story the next day (I think it was March 18, 1999): "Crimes Against Humanity; Massacre believed to be carried out by Serbs"
I wonder if he is related to the William Walker who crowned himself Emperor of Nicaragua working for the banana boys in the 1880s.
Some of it may be true, some of it might be leftist babble.......
Leftist babble? Hardly, coming from Peter Worthington. Worthington is a well respected, and very conservative journalist and author.
His specialty is military issues and military history, and is well known in Canada for his conservative views on social and political issues.
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I wonder if he is related to the William Walker who crowned himself Emperor of Nicaragua working for the banana boys in the 1880s.
I don't know. It's a common name. But the William Walker of Racak certainly acts like the William Walker, Emperor of Nicaragua.
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