Bernard Kouchner's Legacy of Failure
T.V. Weber
&
Alida Weber
We have long been complaining about the U.S. news media and its failure
to inform the public about the Clinton Administration's "legacy" of
anarchy and mayhem in Kosovo. The news media in the U.S. has been almost
completely silent about the ongoing genocide against Serbs, who are
being victimized by terrorists associated with the "disbanded" KLA and
its sympathizers in the U.N./KFOR occupation.
Over the past few months, though, the level of bloodshed has increased
enough that news of it is beginning to trickle through the blockade in
the mainstream U.S. news media.
In a Newsweek interview on May 15, 2000, Bernard Kouchner, the U.N.
official in charge of the occupation of Kosovo, even admitted,
"Apparently a Serb has a 20 times greater chance of being a victim of a
crime than an Albanian does." (See
http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_message&list_id=STOPNATO&
msg_num=9003&start_num=9008.) But the tone of the Newsweek interview
made it clear that neither Kouchner nor the magazine's interviewer were
unduly concerned about this fact.
An article by Associated Press writer Danica Kirka, "Three Killed in
Shooting in Kosovo," appeared in the Washington Post on May 29, 2000.
(See
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/specials/europe/balkans/A26941-2000May29.html.)
The article describes an act of senseless slaughter, in which an
unidentified attacker, "thought to be an Albanian terrorist" and "armed
with an automatic weapon, opened fire on a group of Serbs gathered in a
store in Cernica." Killed in the attack were three Serbs, 4-year-old
Milos Petrovic, Petrovic's grandfather, Vojin Vasic, 60, and Tihomir
Simjanovic, 45.
Bernard Kouchner was ready with his crocodile tears, saying "What can
possibly be gained by killing a child?" But according to the article,
Kouchner insisted that "only the regime of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic stands to gain by unrest in this southern Serb province."
By making such a statement, Kouchner is attempting to shift the blame
for this innocent child's death to Mr. Milosevic. But that's ridiculous.
Milosevic, for nearly a year, has had no control, nor even any
influence, over events in Kosovo. Kouchner himself is the man in charge.
This incident is particularly revealing of Kouchner's true nature, but
the murder of yet another Serb in Kosovo is, sadly, no isolated event.
Too many other such crimes have been committed in recent months to
repeat all of them here, but an abundance of reports are available in
news archives on the Internet, for those who can stand to read such a
catalogue of tragedy and horror. Most revealing of all is the recent
action by Doctors Without Borders (a/k/a Médecins Sans Frontières or
MSF), an organization that Kouchner himself helped to found. It should
tell us something when even MSF can't keep up the charade any longer. On
August 7, 2000, MSF announced in a news release that their organization
is withdrawing from Kosovo. In their words, "Médecins Sans Frontières
has decided to reduce its teams and to stop its present operations in
the Kosovar enclaves. The humanitarian organisation refuses to continue
its operations on behalf of the ethnic minorities in a context where
basic protection for these populations is not being guaranteed by the
military and civilian administration of Kosovo." (See
http://www.msf.org/projects/europe/kosovo/reports/2000/08/pr-enclaves/
and http://www.egroups.com/message/decani/33582.). MSF's news release
was picked up by Associated Press and appeared in Nando Times, but did
not receive wide coverage in the U.S. (See
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/global/story/0,4382,500236922-500346724-502000175-0,00.html). Like
so many other self-styled "do-gooders" who have made their careers in
corrupt government bureaucracies and equally corrupt NGOs, Kouchner is a
trafficker in human misery. He won't willingly do anything to put
himself and his fellow vultures out of business. After all, the longer
he can keep the misery going, the longer he, and others like him, keep
their jobs. But this works only so long as he can continue blaming the
misery on someone other than himself. And it's getting harder and harder
for him to get away with that. As Kouchner's term as administrator of
occupied Kosovo draws to a close, it is clear that the reign of
corruption, lawlessness, and terror in Kosovo represents Kouchner's
personal failure. The rest of the world knows it, even if Kouchner does
not.
7/11/2000 Mailing address:P.O. Box 388164Chicago, Illinois 60638 Phone
773-767-5690
T.V. Weber
&
Alida Weber
We have long been complaining about the U.S. news media and its failure
to inform the public about the Clinton Administration's "legacy" of
anarchy and mayhem in Kosovo. The news media in the U.S. has been almost
completely silent about the ongoing genocide against Serbs, who are
being victimized by terrorists associated with the "disbanded" KLA and
its sympathizers in the U.N./KFOR occupation.
Over the past few months, though, the level of bloodshed has increased
enough that news of it is beginning to trickle through the blockade in
the mainstream U.S. news media.
In a Newsweek interview on May 15, 2000, Bernard Kouchner, the U.N.
official in charge of the occupation of Kosovo, even admitted,
"Apparently a Serb has a 20 times greater chance of being a victim of a
crime than an Albanian does." (See
http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_message&list_id=STOPNATO&
msg_num=9003&start_num=9008.) But the tone of the Newsweek interview
made it clear that neither Kouchner nor the magazine's interviewer were
unduly concerned about this fact.
An article by Associated Press writer Danica Kirka, "Three Killed in
Shooting in Kosovo," appeared in the Washington Post on May 29, 2000.
(See
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/specials/europe/balkans/A26941-2000May29.html.)
The article describes an act of senseless slaughter, in which an
unidentified attacker, "thought to be an Albanian terrorist" and "armed
with an automatic weapon, opened fire on a group of Serbs gathered in a
store in Cernica." Killed in the attack were three Serbs, 4-year-old
Milos Petrovic, Petrovic's grandfather, Vojin Vasic, 60, and Tihomir
Simjanovic, 45.
Bernard Kouchner was ready with his crocodile tears, saying "What can
possibly be gained by killing a child?" But according to the article,
Kouchner insisted that "only the regime of Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic stands to gain by unrest in this southern Serb province."
By making such a statement, Kouchner is attempting to shift the blame
for this innocent child's death to Mr. Milosevic. But that's ridiculous.
Milosevic, for nearly a year, has had no control, nor even any
influence, over events in Kosovo. Kouchner himself is the man in charge.
This incident is particularly revealing of Kouchner's true nature, but
the murder of yet another Serb in Kosovo is, sadly, no isolated event.
Too many other such crimes have been committed in recent months to
repeat all of them here, but an abundance of reports are available in
news archives on the Internet, for those who can stand to read such a
catalogue of tragedy and horror. Most revealing of all is the recent
action by Doctors Without Borders (a/k/a Médecins Sans Frontières or
MSF), an organization that Kouchner himself helped to found. It should
tell us something when even MSF can't keep up the charade any longer. On
August 7, 2000, MSF announced in a news release that their organization
is withdrawing from Kosovo. In their words, "Médecins Sans Frontières
has decided to reduce its teams and to stop its present operations in
the Kosovar enclaves. The humanitarian organisation refuses to continue
its operations on behalf of the ethnic minorities in a context where
basic protection for these populations is not being guaranteed by the
military and civilian administration of Kosovo." (See
http://www.msf.org/projects/europe/kosovo/reports/2000/08/pr-enclaves/
and http://www.egroups.com/message/decani/33582.). MSF's news release
was picked up by Associated Press and appeared in Nando Times, but did
not receive wide coverage in the U.S. (See
http://www.nandotimes.com/no_frames/global/story/0,4382,500236922-500346724-502000175-0,00.html). Like
so many other self-styled "do-gooders" who have made their careers in
corrupt government bureaucracies and equally corrupt NGOs, Kouchner is a
trafficker in human misery. He won't willingly do anything to put
himself and his fellow vultures out of business. After all, the longer
he can keep the misery going, the longer he, and others like him, keep
their jobs. But this works only so long as he can continue blaming the
misery on someone other than himself. And it's getting harder and harder
for him to get away with that. As Kouchner's term as administrator of
occupied Kosovo draws to a close, it is clear that the reign of
corruption, lawlessness, and terror in Kosovo represents Kouchner's
personal failure. The rest of the world knows it, even if Kouchner does
not.
7/11/2000 Mailing address:P.O. Box 388164Chicago, Illinois 60638 Phone
773-767-5690