ethnic cleansing

ethnic cleansing under NATO guidance

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Submitted by antarchi on August 24, 2008 - 23:42.
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Following NATO's victory over Yugoslavia and occupation of Kosovo, there then transpired the "largest ethnic cleaning in the Balkans [in proportionate terms]" (Jan Oberg), with some 150,000 Serbs put to flight along with thousands of Roma—with thousands of Roma suffering the loss of houses torched by the returning Kosovo Albanians. All this was done under NATO authority.

— Edward Herman: The New York Times on the Kosovo Crisis

forgetting gospic

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Submitted by antarchi on August 23, 2008 - 17:32.
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In late September 1991, over 120 Gospic Serbs, including prominent professors and judges, were abducted and murdered, their bodies destroyed or hidden.

...this was the first massacre carried out as a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing, designed to frighten the Serb population of Croatia into fleeing. Yet it was ignored by the world's media. The name of Gospic never became part of the litany of atrocities repeated by news media covering Yugoslav wars.

— Diana Johnstone, Fool's Crusade

expropriation and removal of the poor

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Submitted by antarchi on June 29, 2008 - 02:33.
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In 1895, Theodor Herzl, Zionism's chief prophet, confided in his diary that he did not favour sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to "try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."

— Jonathan Cooke

, in Zionism's Dead End

moral obligation to intervene

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Submitted by antarchi on April 27, 2008 - 12:32.
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Two years later, a Commons Select Committee would conclude: ‘Britain had a legal right to intervene [in the Turkish assault on Cyprus], she had a moral obligation to intervene, she had the military capacity to intervene. She did not intervene for reasons which the government refuses to give.’

free passage to attila

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Submitted by antarchi on April 27, 2008 - 12:29.
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The reality is that Britain had both the means and the obligation to stop the Turkish assault on Cyprus. After first ensuring Turkish hostility to the Greek majority, it had imposed a Treaty of Guarantee on the island, depriving it of true independence, for its own selfish ends: the retention of large military enclaves at its sovereign disposal. Now, when called on to abide by the treaty, it crossed its arms and gave free passage to the modern Attila, claiming that it was helpless – a nuclear power – to do otherwise.

an offshore turkish island

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Submitted by antarchi on April 27, 2008 - 12:21.
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The upshot [of the violence], clearly planned in advance, was the eviction of Greeks from Turkish areas in Nicosia and other cities, and the seizure of municipal facilities, to create self-contained Turkish enclaves: piecemeal partition, on the ground. Its organisers could be sure of British complaisance. The day before the rampage... the new governor, Labour’s future Lord Caradon, had assured its leaders that the Turkish community would enjoy ‘a specially favoured and specially protected state’ under future British arrangements. A few months later, the colonial secretary was publicly referring to Cyprus as ‘an offshore Turkish island’.
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