HOTEL RWANDA…
All of you that have seen both fahrenheit9/11 and hotel rwanda might wonder why F9/11 is rated R/18 and hotel rwanda is only PG/13….. WHen you walk out of the movie theatre from seeing hotel rwanda your face is white. You are shocked. If the movie is so shocking then why did we not pay any attention back in 1994 at the atrocities that were going on?(I exclude myself and those of my generation, as I am only 15)Why did clinton refuse to send troops into Rwanda?(was it because of the evident image problem caused in SOmalia?)WHy did german, french, british , spanish, armies refuse to send in troops?My cousin(22years old) reminded me that while that was happening the world was paying attention to the O.J Simpson trial. And if this movie really is causing this much commotion, why is help being refused to sudan??the exact same thing is happening there at the moment and nobody moves a finger to help them. Not even NGO’s do, after the asian tsunami…Is it because the world is afraid action against the arab government in he darfur area will provoke Al Qaeda and other groups?…The movie was supposed to teach us a lesson, and if nothing is done, 2015’s big hit will be “Hotel Sudan” if we arent careful…….
I have another issue to denounce. The Holocaust of Serbs in the Balkans.
During the Second World War, the Croatian, Hitler-backed fascist regime was installed in Yugoslavia. The Ustasi regime was run by ultra nationalist Croatian fascists. These set up concentration camps in Croatia, such as Jasenovac (where 200,000 Serbs alone were murdered), and in total, during the Second World War, over 800,000 Serbs were brutally murdered, alongside Gypsies and Jews. It is abhorrable that to date, these acts of brutal repression have not been condemned and acknowledged. The holocaust initiated by the German fascist regime has been openly condemned world wide, and in the 60th anniversary of the horrific events, world leaders have united to conmemorate the dead. This has not happened in Serbia to date.
During the 1992 breakup of Yugoslavia and the war that ensued, the Serbs were publicly displayed as mass murderers in Western media. This is only due to one thing. The fear of the East. Even with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western Europe has not relaxed its watch on its eastern borders. How else can one explain that Russia has not yet joined the obsolete organisation NATO? How else can one explain the rejoice of the West in helping to dismantle the network of Russian allied countries? How else can one explain the rejoice in Western Europe to the expansion of the EU to the borders of Russia, and no apparent move being made to invite this noble country to said organisation?
This fear of the East has led the British press agencies to censor out absolutely any indication that Serbs were being massacred during the Balkan War. 300,000 Serbs were kicked out of their homeland by Croatian fascists (that still exist, and have not been banned, unlike their Nazi counterparts in Germany), and many more murdered brutally elsewhere throughout sovereign Yugoslav territory. This has not been condemned. The battle of Srebrenica has been openly condemned by the International Community as an act of Serb aggression. But pictures in newspapers show wailing children, crying for their parents, when the children, by age, had evidently not been born at the time, and therefore at such ripe an age, unable to feel that much desperation for their fallen parents. About 1000 muslim bosnians fell tragically in this battle (western sources claim the outrageous figure of 8000, which is 4000 more people than lived in the area at the time!), which is inevitably a tragedy, but they are not the only victims.
Krajina, in Croatia was (and still is) an area of a mainly Serb population. In 1995, like Srebrenica, it was a UN protected, ’safe’ area. During the armed conflict, the Croatian Army, under the command of General Ante Gotovina (convicted of crimes against humanity by the International War Tribunal in The Hague) overran this ’safe’ zone, and 300,000 Serbs were forced to flee what had been their homeland for centuries.
It also seems violently hypocritical that Ante Gotovina is persecuted by The Hague (and the Croatian government still won’t hand him over), when in 1992 (yes, only 10 years ago!), American contractors, encouraged by the Clinton administration, funded the Croatian Army, which then used its newly found American equipment to massacre Serbs in Krajina.
None of this every reached the media in the West. Try running a Google search for ’srebrenica’ and ‘krajina’. Notice the British censorship in the sense that not one of the one and a half million results for ‘krajina’ are British news agencies, while ’srebrenica’ gets a BBC News hit in the first page of results. It seems convenient for the West to pollute the information, making the Eastern-leaning Serbs look like the villains, and protect the Catholic, fascist, West leaning factions in Croatia, despite the apparent ‘democratic’ appeal the West seems to have.
Finally, the more recent conflict in Kosovo is almost like the final straw. Kosovo is literally the birthplace of Serbia. Since their arrival from the Caucasus, the people of Serbia built their civilisation from scratch in this area.
During the Balkan Wars, taking advantage of the fact that the borders were left weak and unguarded, hundreds of thousands of Albanians crossed illegaly into the country over the years (and they still do, for Kosovo is still Serbia, as dictated by the UN), backed by their ultra-leftists government. Once in Kosovo, violence against Serbs commenced. As is logical, and as any self-respecting country would do, the Serbian Army was sent in to cease violence.
Taking advantage of an opportunity to demote the influence of the East in gobal affairs, the Serbs were accused of massacring Albanians in Kosovo. There has never been a bigger lie. If you read the occasionaly news report in the West (naturally, never on the front page), you will see that Albanian militia (yes, organised militia, sponsored by the Albanian government, waving Albanian flags) murders Serb children, destroys Serb monasteries and churches, even the ones allegedly protected by the UNESCO (how interesting).
So, before Russian troops could enter the area to keep peace and to stop Albanians from continuing their mass murders (gasp, could you even imagine that? Russian troops marching across the Balkans? tremble…), the NATO organised it first EVER military manouver and ruthlessly bombed civilian Serb infrastructures ELSEWHERE in the country. All over Serbia, bridges were destroyed, power plants were bombed, houses were blown up. 3000 innocent Serbs died in this massacre, and they still are dying because of depleted uranium shells the NATO used (curiously enough, the Serb ‘barbarians’ downed five US ’stealth’ pilots, and returned them dutifully. When interrogated by their own authorities, the pilots said that they had never been treated better while incarcerated).
General McEnzie, who conducted the campaign, recently admitted to the world: “We made a mistake bombing the Serbs”, in light of new atrocities commited by the Albanian population in Kosovo. Naturally, it would be outrageous for the West to realise this, so it has been kept as quiet as possible. Also, French soldiers recently were outraged at their impotency to do anything about the situation, for they had clear orders to protect the Albanian population. When seeing that it was in fact the Albanian population that was massacring the UN-oppressed Serb population, and the refusal of their Commanding Officers to do anything about it led the French UNMIK soldiers to say something, to which nothing has evidently been done.
Just keep this in mind.
Comment by Adrian Cachinero — June 8, 2005 @ 4:02 pm
If, like adrian, you have a lot to say, or just get carried away, just send the article to my email canecua2k4@yahoo.com and I will post it as a new article, making it clear it was written by you.. adrian, you have a lot of free time:)
Comment by Administrator — June 23, 2005 @ 10:52 pm
haha, yeah, soz, but i got a bit fired up, especially seeing corrupt puppets like Carla Del Ponte on the news claiming Milosevic is guilty of War Crimes (of which he is not, despite the fact that he is an imbecile).
Ill set up my own blog eventually
Comment by Adrian Cachinero vasiljevic — June 30, 2005 @ 3:24 pm
uovoceoy izodqutin
Comment by Margery — March 3, 2006 @ 8:16 am