not to speak of Poles, Russians killed by Germany
Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 9:34 AM The Globe and Mail of Canada published an article that blatantly omitted the genocides of Serbian, Russian, and Greek Orthodox Christians: The Globe and Mail - Print and Online ©2011 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved. SEE CORRECTION AT END OF TEXT 600,000-1,500,000 Armenians 1915-1923 6,000,000-7,000,000 Ukrainians 1930s 6,000,000 Jews 1933-1945 500,000-2,000,000 Nigerian Igbos 1967-1970 1,500,000-2,000,000 Cambodians 1975-1979 100,000-200,000 Iraqi Kurds 1988 200,000 [sic] Bosnian Muslims 1992-1995 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis 1994 200,000 East Timorese 1976-1996 200,000-300,000 Sudanese 2003-present I encourage you to write a letter of protest to the Globe and Mail: Letters@globeandmail.com I submitted the following letter myself. Feel free to copy, paste, and amend it if you like. August 26, 2011
Dear Editor:
As a Serbian-American who lost some 100 relatives during the Holocaust of Serbians during WWII, I was deeply saddened and surprised that a well known and reputable newspaper such as yours would so blatantly omit the genocide of Serbian, Russian, and Greek Orthodox Christians in your article entitled: "THE POLITICS OF MEMORY," August 20.
The genocide of some 500,000 - 1,000,000 Serbians, which was officially recognized as such at Nuremburg, as well as the genocide of 25 million Russians during WWII, and 1.7 million Greeks in Asia Minor earlier in the 20th century should have been included in your article. The Serbs were the second only to the Jews in the proportional loss of their population during this genocide. The Russians, of course, lost more than any other ethnic group ever in the genocide perpetrated against them.
Instead, you mention the "genocide" of Bosnian Muslims with a highly inflated and erroneous figure of 200,000. Even the Red Cross has stated that not more than 100,000 people perished on all sides in the Bosnian civil war. The highly contentious issue of "genocide" of Bosnian Muslims surrounding the alleged 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and teenage boys in Srebrenica is still being investigated as most of the alleged victims have yet to be found and the West has yet to acknowledge the genocide of Serbians at the hands of their enemies in the recent civil wars in the former Yugoslavia.
It appears that your newspaper is not interested in uncovering the truth and reconciling humanity but in fact, with obvious historical amnesia, presenting a highly biased, highly censored, anti-Orthodox Christian and anti-Slavic presentation of distorted history, You should be deeply ashamed.
Sincerely,
Michael Pravica, Ph.D.
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