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- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: The White Feather Campaign
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- References: <1992Dec22.035650.1538@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:14:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >DPIROT@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA writes:
- >>It is likely, judging from the lack of confirming evidence and from
- >>the opinions of aid workers in Bosnia that the reports are greatly
- >>exaggerated, that the stories have been made up in order to stir up
- >>sympathy for a Balkan war.
- >
- >Hmm. I don't know. They had a thing about this on NBC Nightly
- >News last night. They had a soldier who described in detail how
- >he raped ten women and killed six of them; how the Serbs run
- >'bordellos' filled with the female prisoners. Both the rapes and
- >the murders, he claims, were committed 'under orders.' They also
- >interviewed a young woman who was pregnant from being held captive
- >in one of these 'bordellos'. Didn't strike me as particularly
- >ficticious.
-
- Hmmm... my assumption was always that NBC Nightly News is precisely a
- work of fiction. Their sole purpose seems to be making up interesting
- stories which, if true, would serve the interests of the working
- class. For those of you wondering why these stories of "rape camps"
- and all are being *FABRICATED* by the news media, I have but two
- words: "Grosse Deutchland."
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