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From notes@igc.apc.org Wed Aug 9 21:58:07 1995 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (192.82.108.1) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (MailShare 1.0b10); Wed, 9 Aug 1995 21:58:08 -0500 Received: (from notes) by cdp.igc.apc.org (8.6.12/Revision: 1.203 ) id QAA27105 for "conf-zamir.chat"; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 16:46:42 -0700 Date: 09 Aug 1995 16:32:37 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com Subject: Bosnia: 44% Muslum, 31% Serb, 17% Croat To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199508092330.QAA10302@ix3.ix.netcom.com> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk zLLines: 83 From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com (. ) Subject: Bosnia: 44% Muslum, 31% Serb, 17% Croat Bosnia: 44% Muslum, 31% Serb, 17% Croat "The United States formally recognized the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of six constituent republics of the former Yugoslavia, as a sovereign state in April 1992, following a free and fair referendum in which 63 percent of its voters endorsed independence. (1) You mean 37% of the population voted AGAINST the formation of 'Bosnia'? And we're not mentioning those who boycotted the election altogether. "Bosnia's population consisted of 4.4 million people before the war, 44 percent of whom were Muslim, 31 percent Serb, 17 percent Croat, and 8 percent other nationalities." (2) "Within days of the Republic declaring its independence, elements of the JNA, supported by Serbian nationalist militias, launched attacks throughout northern and eastern Bosnia and Serbian Democratic Party leader Radovan Karadzic declared the establishment of the "Republika Srpska" or "Serb Republic." (1) Between the declaration of independance in April l992 and ". . October 1993, some 200,000 Bosnians were said to have died as a result of the conflict; over 800,000 became refugees outside Bosnia; and another 1.2 million were displaced within the nation." (2) By end of 1994 "The estimated number of dead neared the quarter-million mark, ." To recap: The first 18 months, 200,000 "were said to have died as a result of the conflict". The next 14 months, up to 50,000 [1/4 million minus 200,000] were "estimated. . dead". The first 1 1/2 of the war took the most lives. Where were the speeches on the House floor about ethnic cleansing and genocide then? The killing had substantially slowed. In l995 up through May 1 95 it practically came to a standstill. Nevertheless, the former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency head was in Croatia late last year training them for the assault they accomplished on the Republica Serpska Krajina, producing, in three days, 1/4 million terrified Serbian refugees. President Milosevic, who assisted the Bosnian Serbs in establishing the Krajina, stayed out of it this time in hopes of having the embargo against his country lifted. In what sense is the embargo against Milosevic different from the Serb encirclement of Sarajevo? In degree only: They are both acts of war. Technically the U.S. is at war with Cuba, in that it attempts to strangulate it's economy with an embargo. [This is to show the world what an abject failure communism is.] Apart from all this talk of lifting the arms emabargo against Bosnia, in what sense does it still exist since Peter Tarnoff, Undersecretary for Political Affairs said "In compliance with the Nunn-Mitchell Amendment, we have ended our participation in enforcement efforts against Bosnia but continue to honor the arms embargo." (3) So, besides an opportunity to harangue the world about how dedicated they are about stopping genocide, on the eve of the Croatian blitzkreig they have planned for the Krajina, what function did the debate have other than mass psychological deception, and propoganda for the assault? I remeber: it was so these brave humanitarians could vote to end humanitarian aid, put their European tails between their UNPROFOR legs, get out, and leave Bosnia to the international arms racketeers. (1) BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES, 1994 AUTHOR: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DATE: FEBRUARY 1995 (2) BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES, 1993 DATE: JANUARY 31, 1994 AUTHOR: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE (3) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DISPATCH VOLUME 6, NUMBER 26, JUNE 26, 1995