R: (IWPR) VOTE FOR YOUR 'FAVOURITE WAR CRIMINAL'

["Fulvio Grimaldi" <bassottovic@libero.it>]

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@mail.inet.it>
A: <pck-yugoslavia@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@iwpr.net>
> To: Institute for War & Peace Reporting <info@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@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
>
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