Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings/Rugova associate shot de ad

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Michael Pugliese[SMTP:debsian at pacbell.net]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:14 AM
> To: 	lbo
> Subject: 	Re: Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings/Rugova associate
> shot dead
> 
> But, without beginning to come to a recognition of the
> war crimes of the earlier period from '92-'95 in Bosnia, under the
> direction
> of Milosevic,Karazdic, Seslj, Arkan and Mladic and the gangster
> paramilitaries, in which 200,000 died, it is difficult to say that any
> reckoning with the tragedies later from late '98, to both civilians in
> Kosovo and Serbia during the NATO bombing,  will come about.
>    (And recent stories on  the Krajina ethnic cleansing in '95 and the new
> Croat regime show a reckoning beginning there on the Tudjman era.
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Those who want Serbia to act more like Croatia should start treating Serbia
more like Croatia. Instead, Serbia gets sanctions while Croatia gets aid.
Serbia gets hostile militaries threatening its borders while Croatia gets
security guarantees from NATO. Serbia is portrayed as a genocidal
civilization while Croatia is welcomed into the "international community."
Then people are shocked - shocked! - when Serbs become paranoid and insular.

Kostunica has said he favors some kind of truth commission to investigate
"our crimes and the crimes of others." Again, the Susan Sontags of the world
hate this idea. They *don't* want the Serbs to do what the Croats are doing
- to say "we committed terrible crimes too." They want the Serbs to say: "It
was all our fault. We accept the Madeleine Albright version of Yugoslav
history. We are the perpetrators and everyone else is a victim." And Serbia
is no more willing to do that than Croatia - or anyone else - is.

Seth