Re: [Marxism] Michael Parenti on demonizing Milosevic

["Michael Karadjis" <mkaradjis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote

> Michael Karadjis wrote:
> > officer tearing up the board with the village's name." The Krajina
itself,
> > in any case, acocunted for only a quarter of Croatia's serbs, most f
whom
> > live in cities alongside Croats and were profoundly alienated by the
actions
> > of the fderal army, the Serb Democratic party and the Chetniks.
>
> This stuff is profoundly repulsive. You can now begin to understand why
> the late Ernest Mandel took the DSP to task for adapting to Croatian
> nationalism.

> The invasion of Serbian Krajina?
>
> by Greg Elich
>
> This study is based on a paper presented in book "NATO in the Balkans"
> (ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), pages 131 - 140.
>
> In early August 1995, the Croatian invasion of Serbian Krajina
> precipitated the worst refugee crisis of the Yugoslav civil war. Within
> days, more than two hundred thousand Serbs, virtually the entire
> population of Krajina, fled their homes, and 14,000 Serbian civilians
> lost them lives. According to a UN official "Almost the only people
> remaining were the dead and the dying." The Clinton administration's
> support for the invasion was an important factor in creating this
nightmare.

Sorry, why was the description of the destruction of towns and cities in
Croatia by the JNA and Chetniks in 1991 'profoundly repulsive' but the
description of the destruction of the Krajina in 1995 not? What is your
point? That they had to destroy Vukovar, Osijek, Kijevo, Dubrovnik etc  etc
etc in 1991 to prevent what happened in 1995? Don't you think maybe the
incredible destruction of inter-ethnic solidarity brought about by the 1991
rampage might have something to do with what happened in 1995?


>
> (Bobetko was never taken into custody. As should be obvious, justice is
> not blind when it comes to Yugoslavia.)

Bobetko died with the Hague chasing him. They still want Gotovina and
others. To use your language, Bobetko, Gotovina, the HDZ and the Ustashe are
not being "quislings" to the Hague, they leave that to the pro-imperilaist
social-democrats who have been in power since they ejected the HDZ in 2000
(but just got done again).




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