Revisionism must be catching - the Sunday Times has been caught revising itself. :)
No, not about the "Holocaust" as yet - but give it time! As you read the article below, compare the Serbian atrocity stories to the claimed Holocaust atrocity stories - and draw your own conclusions. It's deja vu writ large!
Here is the Sunday Times, October 31 1999:
Times:
As doubts rise about the number of dead in Kosovo, Jon Swain, who reported the war, says Serbian barbarity must not be forgotten
Lost in the Kosovo numbers game
IN A grim and icy-cold corner of northern Kosovo is the site of what was suspected to be the country's largest mass grave. To date, however, four months later, the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague has had to admit that its investigation of the site has turned up no evidence of bodies or of any wrongdoing by the Serbs.
Zundelsite:
So where is the ***retraction*** of the previous hysterical claims by Allied propagandists and war mongers about this and many other alleged "killing sites"?
Times:
Back in June, in the full heat of a Balkan summer, some Nato officials and local residents said the deep shafts, the vats and the hydrochloric acid tanks of the Trepca mining complex where gold, silver, lead and zinc are extracted, were used as a disposal site to hide the bodies of ethnic Albanians killed by Serbian forces. The bodies were brought in trucks in the dead of night escorted by Serbian jeeps and troop carriers. They were dropped down the shafts, incinerated or dissolved by the acid.
Zundelsite:
Where are the ***proofs*** of those wild claims, now that over four months have passed for the "peacemakers" to come up with evidence for their outlandish claims?
Times:
The first day local Kosovar Albanians said they saw the trucks was back in September 1998 and they said they continued to enter the mine until a few days before Nato troops arrived in June. Some reports at the time said as many as 1,000 bodies a day had been incinerated in the mine over the past two months.
Zundelsite:
Aha! Now we find out! So the lying started over a year ago already! Just like in World War II about alleged atrocities committed by the Germans against Jews and Poles.
Wild accusations are not facts.
Times:
"There are Kosovar witnesses and still photos of these trucks," an anonymous American official was quoted as saying in Koha Ditore, the Kosovo Albanian daily, giving the report the imprint of authenticity.
Zundelsite:
So all they had was photos of mining trucks? What else would the Serbs have had at a mining site?
By analogy, does that mean that all trucks photographed at American mining sites are proof that the US is exterminating its minorities?
Times:
The idea that the Serbs were using Trepca to hide the evidence of mass killings quickly caught on in western newspapers. "Trepca - the name will live alongside those of Belsen, Auschwitz and Treblinka," said The Mirror. "It will be etched in the memories of those whose loved ones met a bestial end in true Nazi final solution fashion." Another report, in The New York Times, said residents on the edge of the mine reported an "unusual, pungent bittersweet smell, which they assumed to be burning bodies".
Zundelsite:
You can see how useful unopposed Holocaust propaganda tales are to the successors of the genocidal maniacs who bombed Germany into the stone age! All they have to do is to dredge up the old lies, dust them off, and give them new names - and bingo! Reason enough to bomb a small, defenseless country and its people!
Times:
Trepca is near the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, in the sector of Kosovo assigned to the French forces. It was one of the first places to be searched by Nato peacekeeping troops after the war's end. And the French troops who entered the mines were certainly suspicious of Serb activities. They informed the Hague tribunal (ICTY) that they had uncovered piles of Albanians' clothing, shoes, family photographs and identity documents when they searched the smelting area and mine shafts. The French also found that the vats had been cleaned before the Serb troops stationed in the complex had left, suggesting they had destroyed the evidence of their crimes.
Zundelsite:
Now cleanliness has become an international crime? Piles of family photos? Clothing? Shoes? Where have we heard these claims before? As if these items could not be more easily burned than human bodies!
Times:
Trepca was clearly earmarked to be one of the keys to documenting mass killings of ethnic Albanians by Serbs in Kosovo, and the mine was immediately made a priority investigation site for the ICTY's forensic scientists, who began arriving in Kosovo in droves in June on the heels of the Nato victory. Their mission was to conduct a war crimes investigation unprecedented in military history.
Zundelsite:
The Advocate General of the US Army, too, had hundreds of autopsies performed on human bodies disinterred in Dachau, Ohrdruff, Belsen and elsewhere. Not one victim of "gassing" was ever documented. (See Larson's book, Crime Doctors)
Times:
The finding by the tribunal that there are no bodies at Trepca, and the fact that another infamous mass grave site at Ljubenic, near Pec, which was widely publicised as containing 350 bodies and which turned out to hold only five, are now being presented as evidence that the number of civilian ethnic Albanians killed by the Serbs is much lower than Nato had originally claimed.
Zundelsite:
The same old tactic, employed by the same worn-out, unconscionable liars! How long will the world these people to deceive them?
Times:
One analysis by Stratfor, a private analytical group that looked at reports from the FBI and other police agencies sent to Kosovo to exhume bodies, suggests that the final death toll might be in the hundreds, not thousands. And the estimate of a Spanish forensic surgeon, Emilio Perez Pujol, who has just returned home, disillusioned after investigating war crimes in Kosovo, is that as few as 2,500 civilians were killed.
Zundelsite:
Were killed how? By whom? How many of those 2,500 died as a result of Allied bombardments, strafings etc.?
Times:
In an outspoken interview, Pujol complained he had been sent to head a large investigation team attached to the ICTY, consisting of pathologists and police specialists, to work in the north of the country. But he found that what was publicised as a search for mass graves was "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines, because we did not find one - not one - mass grave".
Zundelsite:
Now that's an interesting phrase - "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines"! Where is that asinine, smiling Jamie Shea - now that his lies are being exposed? Bought, sold and delivered?
Times:
Pujol said his team had material for 2,000 autopsies and had expected to be in Kosovo for two and a half months. But in mid-September, after digging up 97 bodies in a cemetery, which showed "no signs of mutilation or torture, but rather death from shrapnel or bullets", he decided to go home.
Zundelsite:
Death from shrapnel indicates bombs. Few Serbian bombs fell. We're talking likely Allied victims. Telling also that Pujol does not mention US or Serbian bullets - easily identified by experts.
(To be continued tomorrow)
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Thought for the Day:
"It took 54 years for Revisionism to reach mainstream consensus in exposing major World War II Allied propaganda claims - think of the fabled "six million"!
It took only 5 months to revise the atrocity exaggerations in the criminal Kosovo war - thanks to the Internet."
(Ernst Zundel)
Thought for the Day:
"The likelihood of Steven Spielberg ever making a film about the Cheka killing Cossack girls with sledgehammers is remote indeed. Marxism will never have a Holocaust chained to its ankles."
(- from a review by Lawrence Osborne )