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Subject: Embargo of Serbia Helped Starve Bosnian Muslums
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From: doctorb@ix.netcom.com (. )
Subject: Embargo of Serbia Helped Starve Bosnian Muslums

Embargo of Serbia Contributed To The Inability of Bosnian Serbs To Feed 
Bosnian Muslum Prisoners and Led To Their Death By Starvation and Cold

    I spoke today on the secretive US re-arming,--despite an
"embargo" which was officially unenforced almost a year now--of
Croatia, and the attack of Croatia on the Republica Serpska
Krajina, which, as of Aug 7th, ceased to exist, sending 250,000
terrified Serbs who did not care to allow Franco Tudjman to judge
them as "war criminals". Most were not, and the large majority
had been there on that land for generations. 
     I spoke of a report that Mr. Tudjman would now expel the
last 2% of the Croatian Serbs from Croatia, effectively
completing WW II Nazi quisling Ante Pavelic's program to expel,
convert or murder, in equal thirds, the Serbs from Croatia.
     I said I had a personal communication that the first use of
the runway extension by UN 'Peacekeepers' in the so called "safe
area" of Bihac was the landing of US C-130 heavy transport war
material in support of the Croat assault. The US navy, based in
the Adriatic provided more than just the threat of bombing, under
guise to protect the "safe areas". It provided "tactical air
support"--i.e. bombing, for the mission, named Operation 'Storm'.
     And, I had seen an August 9th report that Muslum artillary
fires from the "safe area" of Gorazde.
     I said the economic embargo of Iraq 22 months after the end
of Operation 'Desert Storm' in Iraq killed 3 times the number by
starvation or disease related malnutrition than the actual
assault: 1,000,000 Iraqi. Are starving children going to
overthrow Sadaam Hussein?
     I wondered how the economic embargo of Serbia effected the
availablity of food and clothing to the Bosnian Serbs, who were
winning the war in the early years and had a large number of
prisoners they were unable to feed or clothe due to this embargo.
How they could be accused of "genocide" by a country that is
embargoing their only source of food and clothing is certainly a
feat of modern propaganda and indication of the inadequacy of the
"free" press: free to delude us all.
     And lets be clear: most of the casualties in the war
occurred in the first two years (91-93), before the May 1, 95
Croatian retaking of the Serb "safe area" of the Western enclave
of Slovenia, the failed Muslim attempt to free Sarajevo, the Serb
taking of Zepa and Srebrenica to which these soldiers had run,
and the Aug 3 Croatian ethnic cleansing of the Krajina. They
occurred mostly by starvation or from the cold, and I suggest,
because an army who is itself being starved has no obligation to
starve before its enemies do.                                     
     I ask the West to consider, in light of the embargo of
Serbia, and the effects of the embargo of Iraq: Who killed the
Bosnian Moslems?