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- From: Lloyd.Johnston@p0.f45.n342.z1.fidonet.org (Lloyd Johnston)
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- Subject: The former Yugoslavia
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:10:02 PDT
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- im> What follows is an article from the New York Times. Why am I
- im> posting it here? I feel that some of the issues pertain to at least
- im> some of the threads I have seen in this group (and the other groups
- im> that I am posting to). The article is about the calculated destruction
- im> of the Bosnian Muslims. The article contains extremely graphic
- im> descriptions of brutality, torture, and rape.
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- The Yugoslav situation is truly barbaric. In the last week of November
- a local RCMP (Bruce Lloy) officer returned from a voluntary tour of duty in
- Yugoslavia. He came to my high school and gave a talk about the "law enforce-
- ment".
-
- The law enforcement officers are military personnal in different uniforms. They
- participate in the etnic cleansing and have full power. Unlike police officers
- around the world, the Serb, Croatian, and Bosnian-Herzegovian officers have
- NO police training, and many of them have only been on the force for four years.
- Lloy was stationed in a town where he was observing the police for human rights
- violations. A muslim woman had complained to the local police after her house
- had been burnt to the ground by ethnic cleansers. When the police refused to
- do anything she said she would go to the UN international police force. A gun
- was put to her head and the military police said that "No, you won't". Now
- where are you when you can't even trust the local police.
-
- You also have to remember that the ethnic groups used to get along with each
- other quite well. Inter marrages were common and not thought of. Now with
- the ethnic cleansing people have to choose between their spouse and children
- and their families. No one can sit on a fence, or your neighbours will choose
- for you.
-
- Tito kept them in line, that's something for dictatorships.
-
- ... Hitler had the right idea, he just went overboard with the camps.
-
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