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