The alleged "Racak Massacre"

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	LeoCasey at aol.com[SMTP:LeoCasey at aol.com]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Monday, January 22, 2001 11:12 AM
> To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: 	Re: The alleged "Racak Massacre"  
> 
> Hey, Justin, you turned the terms of the question around. It is the 
> supporters of Slobbo, the Proyects of the world that see socialism in 
> authoritarian ethnic cleansing, that deny the reality of massacres such as
> 
> that at Racak. It is all imperialist propaganda. And it is they -- in this
> 
> case, Mr. Kuhls -- who refuse to discuss the issue with those who point to
> 
> the inconvenient corpses. Context, my brother, is everything: yes, they do
> 
> lose the argument. 
> 
> Leo Casey 
> United Federation of Teachers 
> 260 Park Avenue South 
> New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) 
> 
> 
Why do you have to be a Milosevic apologist to think the Racak massacre was
trumped up? The man who overthrew the Milosevic regime three months ago,
Voijslav Kostunica, also thinks it was trumped up. There were several
high-profile massacres in Kosovo, most of them aren't questioned by
reasonable people. 

But Racak is highly suspect. It conveniently happened just after the U.S.
decided it wanted to bomb Serbia; it was press-flacked by Madeleine
Albright's hand-picked "verifier," William Walker, whose shadowy record
covering up massacres in El Salvador, and ties to the CIA, make him highly
suspect; the head of the French monitoring team in Kosovo strongly disagreed
with Walker's "findings"; the Finnish forensic pathologists picked by NATO
to investigate now say it's impossible to conclude it was a massacre; and
several invesigative journalists who are decidedly not Milosevic
apologists--CBC Radio, Berliner Zeitung, Le Monde--have questioned the
standard version of events.

The point of questioning Racak is not to say Milosevic wasn't killing people
in Kosovo (which he undeniably was). It's to show how the U.S. skillfully
railroaded its European allies into starting a war they didn't want. 

Seth