Today I am shipping you Part II of what I believe is quite an astonishing "Revisionist" article published a few days ago in the Sunday Times. It shows how "atrocity inflation" occurs when the professional war mongers need to play on the emotions of people.
Here, a European atrocities investigator, Pujol, tells how, when he arrived in Kosovo, he did not find what he had come to find - that is, mass graves of massacred Albanians:
Times: (Pujol speaking)
"I called my people together and said: 'We've finished here.' I informed my government and told them the real situation. We had found a total of 187 bodies, 97 in one place, eight in another, four in another and so on. Four or five had died from natural causes." He added: "A military action prejudices truth and I want to stress that trying to manipulate an international court does not benefit anyone."
Zundelsite:
"Trying to manipulate international court!" Wow! Just like they did in Nuremberg? Old tricks - new generation! Wiser because of Revisionist activity!
Times:
There never was much doubt in many reporters' minds, including my own, that the final death toll in Kosovo would turn out to be significantly lower than the more outrageous claims made by Nato. How much lower is still a question that cannot yet be answered.
Zundelsite:
Finally a breath of fresh air! Yet the Times had been guilty in months past of joining in the anti-Serbian activities at the time - as many people will remember!
Times:
As we roamed the devastated countryside we calculated that it probably was somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000. There are 2,000 villages in Kosovo and, if each village lost on average five people, perhaps a conservative figure, that would suggest 10,000 killed.
Zundelsite:
The "devastated countryside"? Devastated by whom? How? When? Why? Massive NATO bombing was more likely the reason than a few burst of machine gun fire by the Serbs!
Times:
The ICTY is rightly cautious about revealing its findings, although Kelly Moore, a spokeswoman, said thousands of bodies had been exhumed. The American State Department says international investigators have recovered just 1,400 bodies, but these come from only 20% of the suspected grave sites.
Zundelsite:
Still fighting a rear guard action! Laying down a bit of artificial fog! Delaying the impossible!
Times:
The ICTY was never mandated, however, to do a proper body count. Its role is to prosecute individuals accused of serious human rights violations in Kosovo, including genocide and crimes against humanity. What is important so far is that it has been able to turn up valuable forensic and documentary evidence of war crimes that it believes will help it establish a chain-of-command responsibility that will help in its indictment of President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his top aides.
Zundelsite:
So that is where they are going! First claim "genocide" and "mass murder" - then find a few executed guerrillas and use them to prosecute and hang a duly elected government that saw itself challenged by US-armed gangs of murderers and guerrillas.
Times:
In May the tribunal indicted Milosevic on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by his forces in Kosovo, and further indictments of figures in the Serbian war machine are in the pipeline.
The tribunal has now packed up for the winter as snow and cold weather grips Kosovo. It will resume next summer when the bulk of its work will be done, said Paul Risley, another spokesman.
In the past four months the tribunal has investigated 150 of 400 crime sites. There have been many chilling discoveries of grievous human rights abuses. Even though no evidence of disposed human remains were found down the Trepca mine shafts, in a mass grave nearby French troops recently discovered 28 bodies of ethnic Albanians, all believed to be the victims of a raid by Serbian paramilitaries. Four people have been arrested.
Zundelsite:
Were those ethnic Albanians art of the "Kosovar Liberation Army" - guerrillas by international law? No one says!
Times:
It is a pity that, during the war, Nato and western politicians repeatedly and deliberately overstepped the mark in their passionate justification of military action against Serbia to end atrocities in Kosovo.
Zundelsite:
That has been the modus operandi of the "democratic" regimes since World War I. Wildly accuse the enemy of "cutting off of babies' hands" or turning "cadavers into soap" - a claim by the British in World War I, rehashed in World War II by Jewish propagandists.
Times:
The gap between the hyperbole of the western propaganda machine and the realities of Kosovo were wide throughout the air campaign and led to the publication of wild, misleading and just plain untrue stories. Above all, there was a tendency to claim there was a systematic campaign of genocide in Kosovo.
Zundelsite:
And didn't they claim exactly that in World War II - that there was just such a policy by National Socialist Germany using the dreaded "gas chambers"? These stories are all cut from the same cloth - they are the Allies' psychological stock-in-trade weapons.
Times:
Just some examples. On April 19, in the midst of Nato airstrikes against Serbia, the American state department reported that up to 500,000 Kosovar Albanians were missing and feared to be victims of Serbian genocide. On May 16, William Cohen, the American defence secretary, said that up to 100,000 ethnic Albanian men in Kosovo had vanished and might have been killed by the Serbs. "We've now seen about 100,000 military-aged men missing," Cohen told CBS. "They may have been murdered." A column of 35,000 refugees vanished and Kosovar Albanian sources reported that tens of thousands of people had been rounded up in a sports stadium and were never heard from again.
Zundelsite:
Telling that it was Mr. Cohen and Ms Albright who lied with such facility. It seems lying is second nature to some.
Times:
The war in Kosovo was Nato's first intervention in a sovereign country, so building a case to sway public opinion was crucial for it and member governments. "Public opinion wins wars," General Eisenhower said during the second world war; a remark that is as apt today as it was then.
Zundelsite:
Public opinion, shaped by lies, whipped into a frenzy, leads to miscarriage of justice - exactly as happened in Nuremberg!
Times:
War reporting is now experiencing extraordinary changes. In the case of Kosovo, western military officers, officials and ministers all conspired to push out the party line. There was spin-doctoring on an unprecedented scale, which has damaged Nato's reputation for fairness and truth. And journalists as well as some military officers have been angered by the way Nato tried to stop its own mistakes and incompetences being exposed.
Zundelsite:
"Conspired to push the party line" - as if that was anything new! The Allies did it in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. This is as old a tactic as there have been armies on battle fields.
Times:
All this has left a dedicated forensic scientist such as Pujol, who had come to Kosovo to help establish the truth, deeply irritated. In an interview with El Pais, he says: "We had been working with two parallel problems. One was the propaganda war. This allowed them to lie, to fake photographs for the press, to publish pictures of mass graves, or whatever they had to influence world opinion in favour or against Milosevic or in favour of the Nato bombings. At first, based on the 'witnesses' who arrived in Albania, they spoke of the massacre of 22,000 people by the troops of Milosevic. Later, when the Nato troops entered, they spoke of 11,000 dead. Later they started to talk of 9,000, but I believe they will arrive at a much lower figure."
Zundelsite:
When will the people of the Western world finally take off their blinders and allow the same logic to World War II and the claims against the Germans? You should think 54 years of "sleep" is enough!
Times:
There never was a genocide in Kosovo. It was dishonest and wrong for western leaders to adopt the term in the beginning to give moral authority to the operation. Contrast the stark and emotive language over Kosovo, accompanying intervention, with the inaction of western governments when faced with a real genocide, as in Rwanda. When at least 500,000 people perished in 13 weeks in 1994, the American government forbade its officials to use the word "genocide" because of the moral and legal imperatives attached to it. The extermination continued.
Zundelsite:
***There was never a genocide in Germany either!*** The same criticism, applied to the Allies' tactics against Serbia, can with equal measure be applied to the Western democracies and their Soviet ally in World War II against the Germans - and, since 1945, that tactic is immoral! No, it is criminal!
(Tomorrow: Conclusion of the Sunday Times article)
Thought for the Day:
"There is an odd thing with Hitler; I always knew that someone who deserved to be universally hated with such unrelenting intensity couldn't be completely bad."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)
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