From: Michael Sells Subject: Re: PLEASE! SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON DC FOR BOSNIA (MAY 15th) Organization: Haverford College Lines: 49 Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.58.172.17 X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20 X-XXDate: Thu, 13 May 93 12:09:32 GMT Subject: Re: PLEASE! SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON DC FOR BOSNIA (MAY 15th) From: Nick Jovanovic, jovanovic-nick@yale.edu Date: 12 May 1993 17:19:43 -0400 In article <1srplfINNkth@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> Nick Jovanovic, jovanovic-nick@yale.edu writes: >In article <1sredr$72b@venus.haverford.edu> Michael Sells writes: > >> ... I find it interesting that Mr. Major finds the genocide of two >>million Muslims in Bosnia acceptable ... > > >Now you are actually claiming that 2,000,000 Muslims have been killed >in B-H??? > >Please substantiate this utterly ridiculous claim. No, I'm not claiming 2,000,000 have been killed. We are in the middle of the genocide process that Mr. Major has given yet another "green light" to. Mladic seems to have most of what he wants, but Boban is just getting his appetite whetted. Because Mladic refuses to allow international observers to inspect mass-grave sites and killing centers in places like Foca, Brcko, and Visegrad, it will be years before we have an accurate account of the number killed. In practical terms, it would be impossible to kill all 2,000,000. There just isn't the kind of machinery of crematoria and gas chambers and transportation lines that the Nazis took 8 YEARS to develop. And remember, the Nazis killed minorities in the countries they occupied. To actually kill 42% of the population requires extreme genocidal organization. But I do claim that the goal of the genocide is the systematic annihilation of Bosnian Muslim culture, by killing as many as is feasible, by rape, by torture, by the demolition of mosques, libraries, and culture artificts, the burning and renaming of villages, the shelling of civilians. So that there won't be any of the 2,000,000 or so Muslims whose lives have not been shattered by the genocide, though they still may be alive. And Mr. Major not only finds this acceptable, he helps it along by making sure that the victims don't have arms to defend themselves. > >-Nick > Mike. -- Michael Sells, Department of Religion, Haverford College Haverford, Pa 19041-1392