April 14, 2011
Letter to the Editor
Los Angeles Times:
In your article, Two U.S. Citizens from Bosnia Held in Wartime Killings, the Times once again reveals the ugly 'partisan press' that your newspaper perpetrate throughout the Bosnian Civil War when these pages never published one single article during the breakup of former Yugoslavia that was written by a Serbian journalist, author, scholar or political leader. Your one-sided reporting has been contemptible.
Your so-called journalist, Stephen Ceasar is equally culpable of a lack of ethics and morals. If these were two Serbs accused of these war crimes the headline would have surely screamed SERBS! But because these alleged killers are Muslims your reporter and this newspaper hoodwink your readers leaving the obvious conclusion that these two criminals are Serbians.
Your reporter knows full well the identity of these monsters but like the Times lap dog he grovels at the feet of some sick editor who continues his campaign to paint Serbs with collective guilt… a pox on all of your houses. Your subscribers deserve to read the facts and the truth and determine for themselves if the identity of the accused deserve protection by a major metropolitan newspaper. Shame on the Times.
Do I expect this letter to appear on your pages? I am not that stupid or gullible. But it will be published on every Serbian website around the world to expose the Los Angeles Times' continued ugly and irresponsible display of yellow journalism.
William Dorich
Los Angeles, CA
The writer is the author of 5 books on Balkan history including his 1992 book, Kosovo.
