Re: The media and the Yugoslav Collapse

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In a message dated 10/10/1999 6:58:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
paul.flewers@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< I don't discount that the Bosnian authorities, or some section of them,
 might have staged a provocation. On the other hand, I think it perfectly
 possible for the Serb forces around Sarajevo to have done it.

 Paul F >>

Of course, in deciding guilt and innocence, one must a) examine facts and b)
consider context.  Context can provide clues where abstract logic fails.  The
Serbs were doing everything possible to go along with the UN at the time to
avoid a pro-sanctions vote.  Aside from the factual evidence - e.g., the
behavior of the Islamist authorities, which I have documented and which
points to setting up a massacre, the impossibility of a mortar causing the
wounds, and so on - aside from that, there was NO reason for Serbian forces
to massacre Serbian and other civilians on May 27, 1992.  The Bosnian
Islamist government, on the other hand, had every reason to stage a
provocation: they wanted to get the sanctions vote passed.

As in any criminal investigation, one can always say "anybody could have done
this" - that is why one HAS an investigation, to ask a) who gains (clearly
not the Serbs and b) where does the factual evidence point and the MO - this
is very significant.  The West had begun using the media (especially
television) to misreport the breakup of Yugoslavia with the fighting in
Slovenia and the Bosnian Islamists were the proven masters of media
manipulation.

Really, the evidence here is a hundred times greater than, say, the evidence
of US complicity in the sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor in 1898.  And
yet there is such amazing resistance to admitting the obvious.  Why?

Jared