Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post (re: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY

Ken Hanly khanly at mb.sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 15 18:30:27 PST 2000


Why did the Serbs the ITN crew in to film in the first place if the place if the place were a prison camp or if there were anything damaging for ITN to see? Neither version of events seems in the least plausible to me. The ITN crew seem to be clearly NATO apologists out to advance NATO psychological warfare. The LM authors are Serb apologists. So Nathan just accepts the testimony of the Muslim doctor etc., There were similar stories out of Iraq. Remember the incubators being shut down testimony? Some Serb atrocities are real but others are no doubt manufactured by pro-NATO media.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

Nathan Newman wrote:


> >On Behalf Of Max Sawicky
>
> > If I've been paying sufficient close attention, none
> > of the parties in question except the witness were at
> > the other camp. What does that say about whether the
> > camp ITN visited was or was not a detention camp, and
> > whether ITN presented false information to the efffect
> > that the camp visited was a detention camp?
>
> Here is what the original allegedly libelous article said:
>
> "The fact is that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not
> imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. There was no barbed wire fence
> surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a
> 'concentration camp', but a collection centre for refugees, many of whom
> went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished."
>
> Penny Marshall and Ian Williams were accused not of faking a picture with
> camera angles to get heightened impact (a pretty common journalist sin), but
> of faking the very existence of a prison camp at all.
>
> And here is the evidence ITN presented in refutation about Trnopolji: as
> Reuters reported yesterday:
> >
> > "Among the strongest evidence in ITN's favour was the testimony
> > of a Bosnian
> > Moslem doctor who told of atrocities at a Serb-run camp at Trnopolji in
> > northern Bosnia.
> > "They took wooden legs from tables and beat people with
> > them," Dr Idriz
> > Merdzanic told the court. "We heard the screams and the beatings.
> > Then they
> > would bring some of those they beat up to us to help them, to dress their
> > wounds."
> > "He said some prisoners were taken away and never seen again."
>
> LM said Tronpolji was not a prison camp, ITN's witnesses (along with the
> Hague) say it was.
>
> I don't think LM should be fined for being Serbian apologists. But this
> case was not about camera angles, however much LM may claim otherwise; it
> was about LM's denial of Serbian oppression at a prison camp.
>
> -- Nathan Newman



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