Comments on: Which War Crimes Get Prosecuted?

By: PlasticDoor

PlasticDoor — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:47:12 +0000

@Kelz: “A nice informative article, recently I discovered this short article which I think it will be helpful: [...] Two appalling news were broadcasted this week in the media, which are alarming and an insult to the human race, as the most evolved species on this planet.”

It IS informative, isn’t it…. It’s bloody about time it was written, too. The history is written by the victors; it’s amazing to me how the assumption is always that NATO, the US, the Aussies, the Brits, or whatever are assumed to be spotless, while the Black Hats of the world are assumed to be baddies.

Round up the usual suspects!

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:39:50 +0000

Paul D’amato places begining of his history of serbo-croat’n military conflict in august ‘95.
he also neglects the fact that croatian serbs always wanted separation and not any other sol’n.
paul tacitly suggest that it was up to croats/germans to gurantee croatian serbs some rights. but neglects to inform the readers that serbs did no want any.
yet he omits yet another fact: the fact that croatian serbs have lived w. croats in fair harmony for at least 2 cent’s or until ca mid-19th cent.
serbs have settled in croatia at around 1650.
in 1850s serbs of serbia have issued croats a warning. it can be translated as, Finish to the end; for u or for us.
it took another 70 yrs for croats to realize what most croatian serbs were up to.
and in 91, croats once again learned what the croat’n serbs were up to.
the details of serb aggression against croatia is well known. we can skip this.
aggression w. cleansing the regions of croatia of the croats is by far worse crime than croat attack of ‘95.
gotovina is now being prosecuted for ousting serbs. we shall wait for the verdict. D’amato chooses to make own proclamation; shows thus his bias.
of course, more cd be said. these few details gives a dif’t history than most people on the left.
thank u

By: Kelz

Kelz — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:36:14 +0000

A nice informative article, recently I discovered this short article which I think it will be helpful:

May 10th 2008

Two appalling news were broadcasted this week in the media, which are alarming and an insult to the human race, as the most evolved species on this planet.

First, Human Rights Watch said that it has reviewed investigations carried out at the time, and that it believes that about 400 Serbs who went missing after the war in 1999, were taken from Kosovo into Albania by ethnic Albanians. HRW asserts that in Albania “doctors extracted the captives’ internal organs’’ to sell in the markets. It also affirms that the allegations are “serious and credible”. A claim that is supported by the Ex-war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, in her book, (BBC News, May 6th 2008).

The Kosovo Liberation Army is trained, supported and still is under the protection of imperialist powers, especially the U.S. Imperialism.

In the second news, Amnesty International has called for the role of the U.S. in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes.

According to the report, based on the testimonies of refugees who have fled Somalia’s capital, in recent weeks, Ethiopian troops have killed civilians by slitting their throats.

Ethiopian and Somali forces were also accused of gang-raping women and attacking children.

A refugee, named Haboon, accuses Ethiopian troops of raping a neighbor’s 17-year-old daughter. When the girl’s brothers – aged 13 and 14 – tried to help her, Ethiopian soldiers gouged out their eyes with a bayonet.

U.S. troops trained Ethiopian forces involved in military operations in Somalia, and the U.S. government supplied military equipment to the Ethiopian military, (Independent.co.uk, May 7th 2008).

It is interesting that the new “state” of Kosovo and governments of Albania and Ethiopia are among a chain of imperialism’s imposed “democracies” around the world. These “democracies” heinous acts remind us of atrocities committed by German Nazis and Japanese militarists during WWII.
From:
http://democracyandsocialism.com/InBrief.html

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By: Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:02 +0000

The European integration process is about turning the page and moving on, not raking over old coals. For that reason, the proper course would be to wind up the tribunal and grant an amnesty to all sides. Karadzic’s arrest simply re-opens old wounds. Incidentally, whatever may have been the reaction of the “western” (US?) media, there has been no fanfare in the European press about this. The fanfare here is about Obama.

Oddly, Karadzic’s arrest is actaully unfavourable to Obama, since his “line” is that he will bring us all back to the Golden Age of Clinton, which Europeans hanker for far more than Americans. Granted, Yugoslavia was an artificial construct in accordance with the ideas of 1918 and was condemned to unravel sooner or later, the ongoing and unending mess that the unrvelling has taken is Clinton’s doing. That mess has made Europeans inherently wary of American “bullshitting”. They trusted Clinton and look what happened! Obama will have to deliver before they’ll trust him!