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R: (IWPR) VOTE FOR YOUR 'FAVOURITE WAR CRIMINAL'
- Subject: R: (IWPR) VOTE FOR YOUR 'FAVOURITE WAR CRIMINAL'
- From: "Fulvio Grimaldi" <bassottovic at libero.it>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 21:24:54 +0200
Scadente e trasparente operazione di intelligence e intossicazione per arrivare a quanto l'incriminazione di Milosevic, tre volte eletto dal popolo jugoslavo (non serbo, per piacere!), faceva facilmente prevedere. La criminalizzazione dell'intero popolo onde evitare richieste di risarcimento dei danni di guerra e pretendere invece che vengano dai mostruosi serbi risarciti i pulitori etnici veri (croati, izetbegoviciani, albanesi, KFOR), i disintegratori della Jugoslavia, i bombaroli di scuole, ospedali, case, chiese, ospizi, carceri, gli operatori della guerra chimica e biologica attraverso la distruzione di impianti e la diffusione di sostanze tossiche, i nuclearisti dello sterminio con uranio-plutonio. Naturalmente è un sondaggio ad hoc, affidabile come tutta la stampa serba in mano alla DOS, o come i sondaggi del noto Pilo. Terrificante pensare che c'è chi si presta eppure ha un volto umano. -----Messaggio Originale----- Da: "Paola Lucchesi" <paola.lucchesi at mail.inet.it> A: <pck-yugoslavia at peacelink.it> Data invio: sabato 9 giugno 2001 11.25 Oggetto: (IWPR) VOTE FOR YOUR 'FAVOURITE WAR CRIMINAL' > Dragomir, tu sapevi di questo sondaggio? Che ne pensi? A me fa venire i > brividi.... Forse hai un po' di tempo per tradurre almeno una parte per i > nostri amici qui che hanno difficolta' con l'inglese? > > paola > > > > From: Institute for War & Peace Reporting <info at iwpr.net> > To: Institute for War & Peace Reporting <info at iwpr.net> > Subject: IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 254 > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:04:28 +0100 > Reply-To: Institute for War & Peace Reporting <info at iwpr.net> > > WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, NO. 254, June 8, 2001 > > > VOTE FOR YOUR 'FAVOURITE WAR CRIMINAL' > > Why do Serbs still regard Milosevic and his cronies as national heroes? > > By Petar Lukovic in Belgrade > > One of the favourite jokes doing the rounds in Belgrade is that Serbs have > undergone a radical transformation since October 5 last year. Apparently, > people here have finally discovered the wholesome delights of democracy in > all its untouched, primordial beauty. > > Serbs are a tolerant, peace-loving people, they say, who have cast off all > their old misconceptions, ditching Slobodan Milosevic and everything he > stood for. 'We never liked him, in any case," goes the cry. We might have > voted for him for over a decade but, hey, we just did this out of spite. > > The new, improved Serbia wants to woo Europe, wants Europe to embrace this > newly reformed country which has waved its goodbyes to the past and set its > designer, rose-tinted spectacles on a bright, fresh future. > > But a recent opinion poll has cast a bit of a pall over this future idyll. > It all started when the Belgrade advertising agency Strategic Marketing > decided to ask people about their heroes. > > It seemed a fairly innocuous question for cosmopolitan Serbs, and they had > no problem answering the pollsters. First choice was Ratko Mladic, second > Radovan Karazdic and third Zeljko Raznatovic "Arkan" - who just tipped > Slobodan Milosevic. > > One quality shared by all of the nation's favourite heroes is that they all > happen to be war criminals - one of them is dead, another in prison and two > are on the run. > > What does this say about the mentality of the country - that it's suffering > from collective memory loss or psychosis? > > But give us a chance. That wasn't the only question. Number two on the > pollster's forms was "Who was to blame for the wars in the former > Yugoslavia?" And the results: most guilty war mongerer, the late Franjo > Tudjman, followed by Alija Izetbegovic and Milosevic. > > The highly self-critical populus steeled themselves to answer the third > question. "What were the main causes of the wars of the early Nineties?" > Respondents felt 'Croatian nationalism' lit the pyre, 'US interests' fuelled > it and sparks were added by the 'disintegration of the USSR' as well by > 'Alija Izetbegovic's Islamists'. > > No one mentioned ideologue novelist Dobrica Cosic, the Serbian Academy of > Arts and Sciences, the Serbian Orthodox Church, Yugoslav People's Army > generals nor Vojislav Seselj. Not even massacres or genocide. Nothing to do > with us! > > Another interesting nugget which cropped up in the poll was that just ten > per cent of Serbs know anything about war crimes which their people may or > may not have committed. Yet 85 per cent were fully aware that crimes had > been committed against them. > > Well, I don't want to bore you with the Serbian victim/criminal complex. > What I'm trying to point out is that precious little has changed in this > country. What changes can we talk about when we are all under the shadow of > General Mladic? How can we go about preaching tolerance when Radovan > Karazdic is our spokesman? > > Serbia today is pretending that it has actually learned something from its > past tragedies. Somehow, through its fogged-up spectacles it still manages > to see some phantom idea of a Greater Serbia. > > You can almost hear the anguished, woe-filled cries for Serbia's heroes, > ancient lands ... Yes, our insanity is not a passing phase, it's a permanent > condition. > > But in case we get carried away, we still have that Damocles' sword of the > international community suspended over our dreaming heads. And it promises > to fall if we don't cooperate with The Hague. If we don't hand over > Milosevic, aid will be cut off, the money tap will be turned off and Serbia > in effect will dry up. > > Never mind! We can deal with that one too. The Belgrade daily Politika has > been at pains for months to explain to its readers why hero number four - > Slobodan Milosevic - should not be sent to The Hague and it's corralled a > number of local experts to explain why. > > These experts explain that sending him to The Hague is tantamount to > destroying our very identity, that tribunal lawyers don't have an ounce of > evidence to support their case. And anyway, The Hague is just some jumped up > anti- Serb kangaroo court. > > I want to single out the invaluable contribution of Momcilo Perisic, > Yugoslav army chief of staff during the Bosnian War and now leader of a tiny > party belonging to the ruling Serbian Democratic Opposition, DOS, coalition. > > Perisic says that Milosevic should not be sent to The Hague because, he > believes, it would drop all the charges against him. Why? Everyone knows > Milosevic has been collaborating with US intelligence agencies for years. > The old general lobs his ideas around the same way he threw shells into > Mostar. > > Therefore, I suggest we should organise a competition for a 'Lunatic Hero'. > I promptly nominate General Perisic! Because, in or out of uniform, this > man's credentials go unchallenged. > > Petar Lukovic, a leading Serbian commentator, is IWPR project editor in > Belgrade > > ************ VISIT IWPR ON-LINE: <http://www.iwpr.net>****************** > >
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