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Edward S. Herman, "Srebrenica 15 Years After: The Politicization of 'Genocide'" - 0 views

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  • The Srebrenica massacre, by contrast, was carried out by a U.S.-NATO target, occurred at a very convenient moment, and has been serviceable ever since.
  • Admittedly, 8,000 is a large number.  But 250,000 Serb refugees is a larger number.  Recall also Albright's notorious statement in 1996 that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children resulting from the U.S.-sponsored "sanctions of mass destruction" was "worth it," based on U.S. political aims.  There is also the internal State Department memo of September 1994, cited in The Politics of Genocide,6 indicating that 10,000 Hutu civilians were being slaughtered per month by the U.S. ally Kagame's forces in Rwanda.
  • In the case of the Kosovo bombing war of March-June 1999, U.S. official claims of Serb killings reached up to 500,000, and Western officials and media pundits were hysterical in their denunciations and indignation.  Eventually the official claims fell to 11,000, but the total number of bodies uncovered and missing persons together, including soldiers and non-Kosovo Muslim civilians, was little more than half that official claim (some 6,000).8  But the mainstream media used the word "genocide" 323 times in describing what happened to the Kosovo Muslims, versus 80 times for the Iraq sanctions, which involved 200 times as many civilian deaths, and they used it only 17 times for deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which involved over a thousand times more deaths than in Kosovo
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  • The fact that a well-armed Bosnian Muslim regiment of several thousand men was located in Srebrenica, and retreated without putting up any defense against a Serb attack force of 200, shows that the charges against the lightly armed Dutch peacekeeping contingent of 69 men are ridiculous and misdirected. 
  • Another Srebrenica memorial myth is that the memorial and political actions associated with it are necessary for real peace.  In the words of the EU resolution, "there cannot be real peace without justice," which means getting Mladic into court, and this is essential for "reconciliation" so that "civilians of all ethnicities may overcome the tensions of the past."  But how about justice for the thousands of Serbs killed from the UN-protected Srebrenica base between 1992 and July 1995, the 250,000 driven out of Krajina in Operation Storm, and the thousands of Serbs and Roma driven out of Kosovo since the NATO takeover and installation of the KLA in power?  NATO's bombing war against Yugoslavia in March-June 1999 was in violation of the UN Charter, killed many hundreds of civilians, and involved the use of illegal weapons (cluster bombs, depleted uranium).  Don't we need criminal prosecutions in these cases for justice and reconciliation?
Arabica Robusta

Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, "In Response to the Bosnia Genocide Lobby" - 0 views

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  • The history of the wars that accompanied the breakup of the former Yugoslavia is like a "Holy Issue in England," as Noam Chomsky recently wrote, and we agree.13  But this religion has also given birth to a cult that exists to preserve and protect the ruling orthodox version of these wars, and to attack anyone with the temerity to challenge its basic tenets. 
Arabica Robusta

The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo | openDemocracy - 0 views

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  • This book and Noam Chomsky’s foreword inadvertently show just how multi-directional the politics of genocide have become. It is true that official western propagandists minimise “our” crimes and represent those of “our” enemies in over-simplified ways, and that such legerdemain merits exposure. But it also clear that anti-western propagandists - Herman, Peterson and Chomsky among them - are guilty of the same evasions and distortions from the “other” side.
  • The journalist John Pilger endorses The Politics of Genocide on its cover by saying that Herman and Peterson “defend the right of all of us to a truthful historical memory”. This important right can never be exercised by treating the men and boys of Srebrenica, the massacred and expelled Kosovo Albanians, and the slaughtered Rwandan Tutsis as “unworthy victims”. For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of “truthful historical memory”.
  • For starters, when there's bound to be money to be had in "Blood Diamonds", there are about 7 different states involved, NOT JUST RWANDA. To try to paint Herman and Pilger, et al as complicit in some sort of revisionism is a monstrous distortion by Martin Shaw and his now widely discredited book's thesis of the collapse of Interstate war with his favourite cronies in the Pentagon being exmplars of all things peaceful in an extremely violent world.
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