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Posted: 17/10/2005 02:47
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http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone10122005.html
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Dear Editors of Counter Punch,
With this letter, I would like to show my repulsion and my utter disgust at your willingness to publish a story filled with racist remarks bordering on religious and cultural prejudice.
I am outraged that the paper by Diana Johnstone published on Oct 12, 2005 under the title “Using War for more War, Srebrenica Revisited” would receive the approval of your editors as a story that should be placed in a position where the public would have access to view this fictitious, disrespectful, and quite degrading article, which would inevitably lead to a misrepresentation and hence discrimination towards a people.
Since the World War II, I have believed that the generation of fictitious facts and the degradation of “ethnical cleansing” events are outlawed. Having read about the incarceration of people spreading Nazi propaganda denying the Holocaust ever happened, I had assumed that editors of major publications – online or paper – such as your magazine, would screen articles for the spread of hate propaganda. The denial of the horrific mass murder at Srebrenica not only defies the facts; it depicts the Bosnian people – counting Serbs, Croats, Muslims and Jews – as an attention seeking, deceitful nation. The whole world has witnessed the removal of the bodies in Srebrenica, and the whole world has decided that genocides such as that should never occur again.
As I was reading Ms. Johnstone’s article, I was trying to understand her trail of thought and reason. The murder of innocent people should never be forgotten, nor should the murder of a certain nation be elevated and “glorified”, a word that should never be used to describe murder. However, the reason for the “glorification” of the Srebrenica massacre was due to the fact that the Srebrenica massacre happened in 1994, a time of political reform in Europe, a time where the world was sure that mass murder of those proportions was history, placed away at the memorials of Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald. However, this was not the case, and the Srebrenica massacre will for ever go down in history as a massacre that could and SHOULD have been prevented. A massacre that the world has promised would never occur again.
I am not denying the existence of concentration camps operated by all sides, but am repulsed that the memories of the lives of the Srebrenica massacre’s victims – counting boys, adults, and seniors – would be so vulgarly stepped upon. Let the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, survivors, of the Srebrenica massacre be remembered like the survivors of the Jewish Massacres. They should be remembered as fighters, and not as attention seekers. The Srebrenica massacre had nothing to do with concentration camps, and the victims cannot in any shape, or form be described as a “casualties of war”. The deliberate, brutal extermination of these Bosniaks cannot be filed in the same file as the Vietnam War, nor the current Iraqi war as Ms. Johnstone suggests, since those were not part of an ethnical cleansing, like the Srebrenica massacre was, and like the anti-Semitist actions of Nazi Germany were.
The undersigned ask that the article be removed at once from your website in the memory of the fallen, in the memory of the survivors, and in the memory of everyone that has lost anyone in that horrific, brutal massacre. The world has pledged NEVER to FORGET. Therefore let us remember…
ako se slazete da vas dodam tom pismu, javi te mi na privat ime, prezime i email adresu. ja smatram da mi kao ljudi ovo nebi smjeli tolerisati.
procitajte ovaj artikal
http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone10122005.html
onda procitajte moje pismo:
Dear Editors of Counter Punch,
With this letter, I would like to show my repulsion and my utter disgust at your willingness to publish a story filled with racist remarks bordering on religious and cultural prejudice.
I am outraged that the paper by Diana Johnstone published on Oct 12, 2005 under the title “Using War for more War, Srebrenica Revisited” would receive the approval of your editors as a story that should be placed in a position where the public would have access to view this fictitious, disrespectful, and quite degrading article, which would inevitably lead to a misrepresentation and hence discrimination towards a people.
Since the World War II, I have believed that the generation of fictitious facts and the degradation of “ethnical cleansing” events are outlawed. Having read about the incarceration of people spreading Nazi propaganda denying the Holocaust ever happened, I had assumed that editors of major publications – online or paper – such as your magazine, would screen articles for the spread of hate propaganda. The denial of the horrific mass murder at Srebrenica not only defies the facts; it depicts the Bosnian people – counting Serbs, Croats, Muslims and Jews – as an attention seeking, deceitful nation. The whole world has witnessed the removal of the bodies in Srebrenica, and the whole world has decided that genocides such as that should never occur again.
As I was reading Ms. Johnstone’s article, I was trying to understand her trail of thought and reason. The murder of innocent people should never be forgotten, nor should the murder of a certain nation be elevated and “glorified”, a word that should never be used to describe murder. However, the reason for the “glorification” of the Srebrenica massacre was due to the fact that the Srebrenica massacre happened in 1994, a time of political reform in Europe, a time where the world was sure that mass murder of those proportions was history, placed away at the memorials of Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald. However, this was not the case, and the Srebrenica massacre will for ever go down in history as a massacre that could and SHOULD have been prevented. A massacre that the world has promised would never occur again.
I am not denying the existence of concentration camps operated by all sides, but am repulsed that the memories of the lives of the Srebrenica massacre’s victims – counting boys, adults, and seniors – would be so vulgarly stepped upon. Let the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, survivors, of the Srebrenica massacre be remembered like the survivors of the Jewish Massacres. They should be remembered as fighters, and not as attention seekers. The Srebrenica massacre had nothing to do with concentration camps, and the victims cannot in any shape, or form be described as a “casualties of war”. The deliberate, brutal extermination of these Bosniaks cannot be filed in the same file as the Vietnam War, nor the current Iraqi war as Ms. Johnstone suggests, since those were not part of an ethnical cleansing, like the Srebrenica massacre was, and like the anti-Semitist actions of Nazi Germany were.
The undersigned ask that the article be removed at once from your website in the memory of the fallen, in the memory of the survivors, and in the memory of everyone that has lost anyone in that horrific, brutal massacre. The world has pledged NEVER to FORGET. Therefore let us remember…
ako se slazete da vas dodam tom pismu, javi te mi na privat ime, prezime i email adresu. ja smatram da mi kao ljudi ovo nebi smjeli tolerisati.
