NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers

[kelley]

henry, when i was doing research on plant closings in a community i lived
in, i read about how the factory recruited folks from eastern europe and
northern italy just so they could put them to work in a chemical factory
where many of them were killed, maimed, burned, and had body parts torn off
or burned off from the chemicals.
this was similarly violent behavior, normalized, acceptable, and so on and
certainly rationally calculated.  these folks were  seen as less than human
and expendable too and US labor history is replete with such examples.  i'm
not belittling the often ignored and poorly taugh history of chinese
oppression in this country, but it is just plain wrong for you to think
that some of those who you consider "white" now weren't treated as if they
were less than human a century ago.

furthermore there were activist groups who worked against the shameful
treatment of chinese americans.  yes it wasn't questioned much but there
surely were groups of white folks--especially patronizing
religious/missionary groups--who worked toward ending such abuse.  yes,
often to only reinscribe their own brand of racism, but nonetheless.

At 02:17 PM 22/06/99 -0400, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
>The Whites are very experienced in that.  All the railroad tunnels in Western
>America and Canada and all the mines were dug by dynamite blasts ignated by
>human (Chinese) detonators with no delay fuse.
>This is the meaning of moral imperialism.
>
>Henry C.K. Liu
>
>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> At 09:46 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> >
>> >NATO Bomb Kills Two Peacekeepers;
>> >Clinton Thanks Macedonians for Help
>> >
>> >Associated Press
>> >
>> >The British military said Tuesday that a bomb blast killed two
>> >peacekeeping soldiers and two civilians as the troops cleared
>> >explosives from a schoolhouse.
>> >
>> >They said the accident came not from a Serb booby-trap, but
>> >from a NATO cluster bomb that accidentally went off.
>> >
>> >The deaths Monday of Lt. Gareth Evans and Sgt. Balaram Rai --
>> >Nepalese soldiers attached to the British army -- were the first
>> >allied fatalities since NATO peacekeepers entered Kosovo on June
>> >12. Dozens of civilians, however, have died in explosions of land
>> >mines and booby-traps since the peacekeeping force began to take
>> >control of the southern Serb province.
>>
>> So it looks like the British Army is still using the brown people as mine
>> detectors.  Very social democratic and humanitarian (for the white men),
>> indeed.
>>
>> Heil Blair.
>>
>> wojtek
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