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For example: Years of Western-backed Balkan wars culminated with NATO's 1999 Serbia/Kosovo terror bombing, an atrocity playwright/Nobel laureate Harold Pinter described as follows:
"Little did we think two years ago that we had elected a government which would take a leading role in what is essentially a criminal act, showing total contempt for the United Nations and international law." Saying it made him ashamed to be British, he called cutting children to pieces from 15,000 feet "barbaric" and despicably hypocritical.
"Let us face the truth," he added. "Neither Clinton nor Blair (gave) a damn about the Kosovar Albanians. This action has been yet another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile. It set out to consolidate one thing - American domination of Europe. This must be recognised and it must be resisted."
This barbarism mustn't be allowed to stand. Yet victims are held accountable for the perpetrators, the way victors' justice always works - including writing the mythology about what allegedly happened in July 1995 at Srebrenica.
A Potocari, Bosnia Genocide Memorial Stone (SrebrenicaStone.jpg) lists "8372...." deaths. Saying it, however, doesn't make it so.
Separating Truths from Mythology
Diana Johnstone wrote the definitive Balkan wars history. Her book, "Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions," is essential reading to understand its causes and long-lasting effects.
For the West, it was about deterring Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" quest, a gross mischaracterization about a war Western powers wanted and initiated, notably America and Germany. They encouraged cessation, provoked conflict, then took credit for ending it, committing real massacres in the process.
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