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Where have all the bodies, 2 chast [re: Bezrodnik] |
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Bezrodnik () |
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Публикувано | 15.11.99 14:14 |
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To date, fewer than 500 bodies have been found, and
hundreds of those were individually buried – not what you
would expect during a mass-murder campaign. Forensic
teams have expressed frustration as they follow up specific
stories of atrocities and find no evidence at the precise
alleged site.
Undoubtedly, the site of the best-known and most horrific
NATO allegation was the infamous mine at Trepca, where,
according to reports shared with the Western media, more
than 700 murdered Kosovo Albanians were thrown down the
mine shafts and boiled in vats of hydrochloric acid. The ICTY
itself investigated this site and found no evidence to support
the allegations.
There are those who hope that 9,000 more bodies are found
so that NATO’s justification of its bombing campaign will be
vindicated. I am not one of them. I am delighted that only a
small percentage of the original estimates of those murdered
are being exhumed. I hope that means 9,000 fewer fellow
human beings died than we were led to believe. I would hope
NATO agrees.
That is the good news. What is extremely disturbing is the
thought that the Western public was knowingly misled – lied
to – to hold the NATO alliance together and to justify bombing
a sovereign nation.
This absence of evidence is not a big story in North America,
where we have the luxury of putting Kosovo behind us and
getting on with life. Not so in Europe, where numerous
governments trusted U.S. intelligence. If it transpires that they
knowingly sold their citizens a lie or were duped by the United
States, NATO solidarity could be seriously jeopardized, with
all that implies.
Perhaps we should stick to what the alliance does best –
defence!
Retired Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie reported for
Canadian television from Belgrade during four weeks of the
NATO bombing campaign.
[Reprinted from and copywrite by THE GLOBE AND MAIL,
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 COMMENT p. A17]
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