Well, the good news is I've been quoted and linked to by another blog. The bad news is that first, the blog is in Spanish (though I took Spanish in school, I'm not very good at it) and second, when I translated it via Google Translate, it was not very complimentary towards me. It concerns my post yesterday about Radovan Karadzic. The original post at the blog is here--if you don't speak Spanish, you'll have to translate it with one of those online translators.
My problem with the conflicts of the 1990s in the Balkans is, as I said before, I simply am not entirely educated about them. I was too young at the time to pay attention and educating oneself about them now is not an easy task. As Fjordman says in this essay:
It was this situation that led to the rise of Serb nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic. However, instead of reporting about the advancing Jihad to make some sense of the situation, Western media, according to Ruth King, "went into a frenzy of accusations against the Serbs, much as it has against Israel and with similar distortions. The media depicted the armed, violent and jihadist Moslem Albanians as 'unarmed civilians' despite the fact they called themselves an army and perpetrated assaults, bombings, murder of civilians and targeted assassinations of Albanians loyal to Serbia. President Clinton outrageously referred to a 'holocaust' perpetrated by Serbia and compared the Moslems of Kosovo to the Jews—this, even though the Serbs had behaved well toward the Jews during the real Holocaust and Clinton himself was pressing Israel's Jews to accept the 'peace partnership' of Arafat, a brutal terrorist far worse than Milosevic, admittedly a dictator and a Communist thug."
The Western media has so distorted what went on that it is quite difficult to uncover the truth. Just from experience, my initial instinct was that Karadzic's crimes may be blown out of proportion. Fjordman also writes, in the above-mentioned essay:
As Hugh Fitzgerald says, "One must keep in mind both the way in which some atrocities ascribed to Serbs were exaggerated, while the atrocities inflicted on them were minimized or ignored altogether. But what was most disturbing was that there was no context to anything: nothing about the centuries of Muslim rule..."
I fully admit that my instincts may be wrong on this case. I am still in the process of doing research. Until I know more, I am going to take down the controversial post of yesterday. Yesterday was the day Karadzic was captured, and loads of new information that I did not see has come in. For example, I did not know that there were concentration camps, as detailed in this article. That now indicates to me that I was incorrect in some of the assertions I made in last night's post. I think both sides who fought in the Bosnian war were guilty and did terrible things.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
More On Radovan Karadzic
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"For example, I did not know that there were concentration camps, as detailed in this article."
Yes, there were genuine concentration camps, but there were also media-hyped fake concentration camps made up to demonize Serbs. By the later I mean refugee centers which were falsely portrayed as concentration camps and a bunch of propaganda and lies about abuse.
There was, for example, the British media, ITN, which found a fenced area around a small agricultural area with a tool shed and wheelbarrow, and set up inside it to film and interview curious Muslim refugees throw the few strands of barbed wire at the top of the fence (the bottom part was merely chicken wire) who had recently arrived at an open refugee center run by Serbs.
It was a hot summer day and some men had taken off their t-shirts. When the interviewer, started mentioning and looking for skinny people, the group brought forward a man who was freakishly skinny. But this man had some obvious condition (deformation of bones) and was otherwise unscathed, clean and smiling. Plus he'd only just arrived there very recently and people don't get that skinny that fast. His name is Fikret Alic and he is living in Denmark, married and with children today.
Anyhow here is a youtube video on how people discovered that the Muslims were standing OUTSIDE the fence. (By the way there was a broken down area/gap in the fence which the film crew uses to enter the area.)
Phony camp video:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTQ4BjJrWI
"That now indicates to me that I was incorrect in some of the assertions I made in last night's post. I think both sides who fought in the Bosnian war were guilty and did terrible things."
Actually there were 3 sides to the Bosnian war. The Bosnian Croats were involved too and while they initially started off fighting with the Muslims, they started fighting each other in many places in Bosnia within 6 months. From around October 1992 until the U.S. brokered deal between the Bosnian Croats and Muslim at the end of February 1994, they were fighting intensely in Central and Southern Bosnia.
Here is a Croat site on the Muslim Croat war from the Croat-biased view:
http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/interview.html
You will see that heavy weapons were being used by both the Muslims and Croats as soon as they started at each other which disproves that those groups were unarmed. Plus you will see that some of the most intense fighting was over an explosives plant in Vitez that the Croats controlled.
Now Croat are in an unhappy union with the Muslims in the Muslim-Croat "Federation". The Croat population is apparently shrinking and some predict in a few decades the Catholic population of Bosnia may become extinct.
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