Letter submitted to the Globe and Mail

not to speak of Poles, Russians killed by Germany    Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 9:34 AM Dear All:        The Globe and Mail of Canada published an article that blatantly omitted the genocides of Serbian, Russian, and Greek Orthodox Christians: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/memory-becomes-a-minefield-at-canadas-museum-for-human-rights/article2135961/   IRA BASEN 4331 words 20 August 2011 The Globe and Mail GLOB The Globe and Mail - Print and Online CTGGLO F1 English ©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. Letter to the Editor The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 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. ______________________________________________________________________

 

NATO is in big trouble

24.08.2011

 

Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) of the UN Security Council were very clear in their terms: No foreign military personnel, no mercenaries, no weapons to the parties in conflict and inspection of vessels ferrying arms and soldiers. NATO has breached all four counts and now is liable for prosecution under international law.

Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) of the UN Security Council stated very clearly and categorically that there were to be no foreign troops on the ground in Libya, there were to be no mercenaries, neither were foreign powers to arm the parties to the conflict, as well as imposing the obligation on parties surrounding this to investigate vessels shipping in personnel or arms. NATO has not only failed on all four counts, it has categorically breached them all. NATO is guilty of breaching international law, and there will be consequences.

Quite apart from its obvious breaches of international law, NATO is liable for war crimes - strafing civilian structures such as the water supply system, to "break the population", strafing civilian structures with military hardware, murdering civilians in their homes by precision-bombing children, strafing civilians using Apache helicopters from the USA (isn't there a law in the US about that?).

The more this conflict goes on, the more sinister NATO becomes and the more those of us who knew Colonel Gaddafi's projects and thanked him for his wonderful humanitarian policies (which irritated practically all the players in the western lobbies) are convinced that we have been right from day one, whatever the outcome. This is backed up by today's message from Muammar al-Qathafi, Leader of the Green Committees Movement, in his address to the World Green Committees, in which he called on his supporters to stand firm, encouraged those who said they were depressed, exhorted people not to use violence if possible.

For those who accuse Colonel Gaddafi of terrorism, then let each and every one suffer the crimes that the Black and Tans did to innocent civilians in Ireland, and then come here look me in the face and speak of terrorism. For those who accuse Colonel Gaddafi of terrorism, show me one shred of tangible evidence.

Colonel Gaddafi spread knowledge, not fear. He spread e-learning programmes, he spread telemedicine programmes across Africa while others, from the countries NATO represents left what legacy? 500 years of slavery, of colonialism and pillaging and raping Africa of its resources.

Colonel Gaddafi, as I write, is not finished. He can and would, if given a chance, spread these social and developmental programmes further, if NATO was not so intent on killing him and destroying his country.

The world is at a crossroads. Today, August 2011, we are facing a monumental battle between the forces of evil against an innocent man and an innocent and heroic population. The world is watching Goliath trying to devour David, who fights back heroically against NATO and its Satanic forces of evil who are racists, who have decapitated people in the streets, murdered children (like NATO) raped women and looted.

There is fresh evidence that foreign mercenaries are being deployed by NATO - British, French, Qatari and UAE military personnel have been captured; the Libyan Armed Forces allowed the British to come and collect their dead and wounded as they fled screaming, while the Royal Air Force would have strafed them.

And a clear sign that NATO represents evil is the sinister new practice of deleting facebook accounts of independent journalists, the alleged threats by CNN staff against numerous independent journalists in Tripoli (under investigation) and the media blackout from Libya. However it is not sufficient. We have other ways and means besides Facebook.

There are other social networks. We have other means besides channels like SKY, CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. There is an international movement to boycott them. There are also commercial consequences: a pan-African movement is being implemented to lock NATO countries out of Africa. You murdered Libyan kids? No place in Africa, no contract. Go steal your own resources, not ours.

And a new international community is being formed by the people of the world, who are flocking towards the Jamahiriya system of government (Read The Green Book *).

It is difficult to know what NATO wanted out of this. It was not peace, for they refused to negotiate. It was not democracy, for they refused to heed the call for elections. Could it then have been simply and only to steal a sovereign country's resources by murdering its people?

Now what, ladies and gentleman, will posterity say to that? Messrs. Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, and that sickening clique of cowards in NATO, you are in deep, deep trouble. And by God, are you going to pay for what you have done...

 Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/24-08-2011/118852-nato_trouble-0/

Serbia refuses to compromise on Kosovo despite German pressure

 

Serbia will 'never recognize' an independent Kosovo

Serbia has once again vowed never to recognize Kosovo's independence, despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel's warning on Tuesday that Belgrade's rift with Pristina could threaten Serbia's bid to join the EU.

 

Serbian President Boris Tadic on Friday reiterated that his country would never accept an independent Kosovo, even if it meant endangering its hopes of joining the European Union.

"Serbia will not abandon its people in Kosovo," Tadic told the state news agency Tanjug. "If Serbia is requested to choose ... my response will be that Serbia will not give up its legitimate interests."

The comments came in response to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Belgrade on Tuesday, when she made it clear that Belgrade had to work towards easing tensions with Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, but has not been recognized by Serbia.

Merkel insisted that, apart from pushing through economic reforms, Belgrade had to abandon parallel government institutions in pro-Serbian northern Kosovo, if Serbia was serious about EU membership.

Violent border clashes broke out in July

"The request for Serbia to take part in abolishing national institutions such as hospitals and schools is unnatural and Serbia cannot accept such a demand," Tadic said. He also insisted he would continue his policy of pursuing his EU bid while maintaining that Kosovo is part of Serbia.

Long and winding road

Serbia was hoping to start EU accession talks by the end of the year, after it arrested its two remaining fugitives from the Bosnian and Croatian wars in the 1990s - Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic - who were handed over to the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal.

But Germany, which provides the largest contingent in NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, insists that Kosovo's independence is non-negotiable. Serbia, however, sees the territory as the cradle of Serbian history and culture and it is also still formally the seat of the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church.

Last week, Serbia and Kosovo reached a temporary deal to diffuse tensions, which flared up along the border in July when Kosovo tried to take control of customs outposts. EU-mediated talks between Pristina and Belgrade stalled, until the two sides agreed to resume negotiations in September, in talks mediated by the NATO commander in Kosovo, German General Erhard Bühler.

Author: Nicole Goebel (AP, Reuters, dpa)
Editor: Rob Turner

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15346429,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf