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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: The White Feather Campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.174450.8844@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: mec6@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec22.035650.1538@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <1992Dec22.171402.13149@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bzp7zu.GM1@nic.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:44:50 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
- mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- [Rape in Bosnia]
-
- >>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."
-
- I ignored the beginning of this thread... What exactly is the
- evidence that this is all "*FABRICATED*"?
-
- (I must say, it seems pretty believable to me that raiding soldiers
- would rape and murder... that sort of thing has a long, long history
- in war.)
-
- rini
-