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- From: pshane@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ana M. Shane)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna,soc.culture.croatia
- Subject: Re: NPR: Bosnia Faces Aggression now from Croats
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.16.18.05.1993.20370@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:18:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.155221.19585@husc3.harvard.edu> <1jmfun$9af@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- boyle@kirkuk.berkeley.edu (Joseph Boyle) writes:
-
- >I can't believe you are so stupid as to tell Americans that it is OK
- >to do anything to a minority, and to further expose the covert
- >Serbo-Croatian alliance of racist extremists. I am writing President
- >Clinton right away to urge him to send arms and air support to
- >Bosnia's secular democratic government, which seems to be the only
- >hope for sanity the region, and I urge other Americans and Europeans
- >to do the same.
-
- YES: The support should be given to the ones who are the victims of the
- racist extremists! But these victims are not just of one nationality
- or religion. They are all the civilians in the former Yugoslav Republics.
- If this is not stated clearly as the goal of intervention (military
- or political), but, instead, the intervention falls into the same racist
- nationalist fascist rhetoric, it will be just taking sides with one
- kind of extremists (in this case Bosnian Muslims). And that will not
- really solve the problems in the area, just maybe postpone them for some
- moment in the future.
-
- >>the Bosnian government. Never before have the Bosnian Muslims felt
- >>more alone.
-
- >Wake up, Americans. The Yugoslav conflict isn't far away and irrelevant;
- >the extremists there are exactly like the extremists here who would like
- >to plunge OUR society into a suicidal race war. Let's stop them there
- >before they set a precedent.
-
- I cannot agree more. That is why it is of the paramount importance that
- the whole war in Yugoslavia be understood NOT as an ethnic/religious
- war, but as a mafia war between multiple warlords in which they throw their
- own people. In order to bring lasting peace to the region, the international
- community and the media have to launch a campaign against all chauvinism,
- nationalism and ethnic hatred and support only those who are willing
- to work for co-operation, civil understanding and laws which would
- guarantee civilian and human rights above national rights. And moreover,
- all those responsible for engineering, instigating and implementing
- this war should be punished for their deeds by an international
- tribunal composed of the representatives of all the victimized
- nations and other UN representatives!
-
- Please right to the president Clinton and help him understand that
- no solution can be just and lasting if it is not just for all the
- peoples, and that extreme chauvinism which per definition discriminates
- on the national/racist basis, cannot be a ground for peace. The war
- in Yugoslavian countries can not be stopped by arming or disarming one
- of the warring extremists, or by a military intervention against one
- of the extreme nationalist armies. It can be stopped only when all
- the extreme nationalists are stopped and when the victimized peoples of all
- ethnic backgrounds open their eyes and see that devided they are
- an easy prey to the criminal leaders of all sides.
-
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- | Nemoj, sine, izgubiti duse, |
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- + Ana M. Shane pshane@andromeda.rutgers.edu +
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