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Pastimes : Kosovo
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (5563)4/26/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: John Lacelle  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Emile,

Very interesting post. I was watching Peter Arnett
of CNN speaking at the University of Lincoln, in
Nebraska about his life as a war reporter. He was
pointing out the personal attacks he took for his
effort to bring the truth of the Gulf War to CNN
and its viewers. He was hurt by the attacks that
CNN got. One writer called him "Benedict Arnett".
There was tremendous pressure on him and the other
CNN reporters in Baghdad to favor the coalition
forces. To his credit, he remained faithful to the
reporting of facts and not to any propaganda that
might have been useful.

Fast foward to his activity in Yugoslavia. He told
an intersting story about how Ratko Miladic (the
Serbian rebel army general and idicted war criminal)
grabbed him by the collar and dragged him over to
a bus outside of Sebrenka. Arnett had asked him
about whether rapes had occured on the Muslim women.
Inside the bus Arnett found it packed with these
women, some had urinated on the floor (probably due
to fear), and they were dirty and looked like hell
(as anyone who was getting ethnically cleansed might
look) and Ratko said "Look at these ugly stinking
bitches...do you think my men would want anything
to do with them?" Arnett said that at this point
he realized that the hatred between the Muslims and
the Serbs was so great that there was little hope
for any kind of peaceful solution.

Its important that we get good information. Americans
tend to make really good decisions if they have the
facts. Unfortunatly, during Viet Nam, Americans were
the target of a steady stream of disinformation and
they were confused about the situation. We really
need to keep clear minds right now in order to avoid
making bad decisions.

-John
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