UWRZ42C@prodigy.com (Brad Coleman) rammed down the throats of soc.culture.british:

The American Jewish Congress and a coalition of groups are bringing the following resolution to the meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago, to be held this week.

RESOLUTION ON GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

WHEREAS

and

WHEREAS

and WHEREAS the U.N. General Assembly, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, the World Conference on Human Rights, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have all recognized the slaughter in Bosnia as genocide;

and

WHEREAS

and

WHEREAS

NOW THEREFORE

1.      Recognizes as genocide the continuing 
calculated slaughter of the population of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and


2.      Requests that President Clinton cause the 
government of the United States to take the actions
 set forth below and work to persuade our allies to 
join us in such actions:


a.      Carry out all of the mandates of the 
International Genocide Convention


b.      Protect the U.N.-designated "safe areas" of
 Bihac, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Gorazde.  Such protection 
should include actions to respond to the shelling of 
civilians and to block the advance of troops on these
"safe areas"


c.      Require that Serbian forces detaining persons
 from the U.N.- designated "safe areas" of Srebrenica
 and Zepa allow international humanitarian organizations
 immediate access to such detainees and insure the safety
of such detainees


d.      Insure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to 
civilians in the U.N.-designated "safe areas" of Bihac,
 Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Gorazde and the safety of medical
 evacuations from such areas


e.      Protect civilians remaining in Serb-held 
territories from harassment designed solely to intimidate, 
terrorize or forcibly expel such persons or to implement
 a policy of "ethnic cleansing".  Such harassment has 
included abuses such as rape, forced labor, forced 
eviction, and imprisonment.


f.      Publicly identify and prosecute as war criminals 
those who provide or assist troops who carry out actions
 in pursuit of genocide or who allow atrocities to be
 committed by troops under their direction


g.      Assist actively, including sufficient budgetary
 support, in the efforts of the International Criminal 
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to identify, 
prosecute, and punish war criminals and to prevent
war crimes


h.      Maintain full economic sanctions against
 Yugoslavia (Belgrade) (as recognized by the United 
States and the United Nations) until the government of
 Yugoslavia cooperates in full with the investigation and 
extradition of suspected and indicted war criminals

EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA WASHINGTON, DC

VICTIMS AND AGGRESSORS ARE NOT THE SAME

Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Sven Alkalaj, today issued the following statement on the unfounded accusation that Bosnian government forces may have shot toward Bosnian areas:

A piece in today's New York Times again shows that the international community's policy toward my country is based on moral rot. It supposes that victims are equal to aggressors, that those who are raped are equal to those who rape, that those who besiege are the same as those who are besieged, and that those who murder are equal to those who are murdered.

Moral equivalency tries to paint the picture that nothing can be done to ease the plight of we Bosnians and tries to cover up and excuse the international community's impotence and failure. The tired argument of moral equivalency has failed. This will also prove to be the last gasp for those who continue this line of deceit and dishonor which is most often propagated by Serb propagandists.

The New York Times report is based only on, as the report itself says, "rumors." No one is named, the French UN command would have us believe that they are holding back information when they have none, and, of course, there is no written report. There is no written report because there is no evidence, period.

The goal of this report is two-fold. First, the British and French, who are running the UN show on the ground are trying to discredit our people so that they may continue in their failed neo-colonial policies toward our country. Secondly, this report is timed to directly correspond with today's House vote on the arms embargo, a move opposed by the French and the British-- who even went so far as to say that the Congress' voice, and thereby, the voice of the American people, was somehow "bizarre."

The world knows what is happening. The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague made this perfectly clear. Former UN Special Rapporteur Tadeusz Mazowiecki knows the truth. He left his post in disgust with the UN's handling of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Mazowiecki chose honor and dignity over failure, cynicism and complicity to genocide.

Indictments of crimes against humanity and genocide means that there are victims. The victims are well-known. Unfortunately, we also know who is being denied the right to self-defense: the victim.

It is time to cure this moral rot. Lift the arms embargo now, so that those who are the victims of genocide can have a fighting chance for survival. It is our choice and we have spoken: "let us defend ourselves."

--
Frank Hendrix
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