Subject: Embargo against the Federation of Serbia-Montenegro
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The text "Hidden genocide..." of our friend of transnat describing the
embargo adopted by the United Nations against Belgrade is pure demagogy,
and uses the victims as instruments for its propaganda. Such manipulation
is indignant. Why? Because the victims of the embargo (which do exist, and
represent a very serious problem) are used as a shield to protect the real
culprits, who, like their victims, are in Belgrade. It is Slobodan
Milosevic who should pay the exorbitant price of the people who are
starving in Serbia and Montenegro. He is the one who should be asked for
justice. It is his regime and him (which are preparing to hold
mock-elections) that should be held responsible for the havoc produced by
the embargo in the Yugoslav federation.
The text affords a detailed account of life today in Serbia and Montenegro.
It neatly recounts the effects of the embargo, the suffering of the
population, the death of the children who cannot receive medical treatment,
the desolation of cities and rural areas. There is nothing to object on
this point: these are truly the effects of the sanctions, and regretfully
the civilian population is the principal victim. As in all wars, in
Bosnia-Herzegovina too the victims of the attacks are children, old people,
women and civilians.
The "TV camera" of our friend neatly film daily life in Serbia and
Montenegro: there are no medicines, people are suffering from hunger and
disease. It is a pity that when it comes to the responsibilities the
description is instead completely distorted. The text seems to imply that
the blame does not lay with those who started the war, stifling the human
rights of the other populations and the international law. The blame
supposedly lays not with Slobodan Milosevic, who has masterminded this war
from Belgrade to such an extent that he is now one of the key figures of
the peace negotiations under way in Geneva. No, our friend of transnat lays
the blame on those (i.e. the United Nations) who have once again attempted
to reinstate the international law by punishing those who violated it.
The children can no longer be treated? Ask the United Nations. The dinar is
worthless? Protest in front of the UN headquarters in New York. That's too
easy, because he worries only about the populations of Serbia and
Montenegro and neglects the population of Bosnia Herzegovina. But the most
indignant fact is that our friend is as accurate in providing the figures
of the embargo and of the ensuing suffering as he is vague and demagogic in
describing the other tragedy, the tragedy of Bosnia. Our friend seems to
totally ignore the massacred population, the wounded, the raped women, the
refugees from Bosnia Herzegovina. They apparently do not to exist. Why?
Because they are supposedly the offspring of the anti-Serb propaganda. The
latter is a myth we thought belonged to the Serbian epos of past centuries.
It is instead revived today with the same identical incapacity to identify
the reason and the law. And yet we are only too familiar with this daily
massacre, filmed by camera-men from all over the world, described by
journalists of all countries and all ideal and ideological orientation, and
denounced by volunteers of the humanitarian agencies. The Bosnian Holocaust
is the most accurately documented and visible of contemporary history. And
yet even today some dare to deny it, and say it is an imposture. Made up by
whom, and what of? The grenades keep on claiming victims in the markets of
Sarajevo. Dead and wounded arrive daily at the Kosevo hospital, along with
Serbian cannon fire. Is this all a TV imposture?
This rings as familiar to us as the statements of the revisionists of the
Jewish Holocaust: those who claim, with intolerable impudence, that the
Nazi extermination camps were an invention of the Allies who discovered
them.
The simple question to ask our friend from transnat is the following: who
is to blame for the victims of the embargo against Belgrade? The victims of
Sarajevo, perhaps?
