Fw: Michael Collon - "Serb Extermination camps" : media-lies

[Andrej Tisma]

Yes, Kouchner lied...

By MICHEL COLLON

The co-author of one of the biggest media lies of the nineties has just 
confessed. A good example for the future because ways of manipulations are 
always the same...

Flash-back. Summer 92, war in Bosnia. Bernard Kouchner and his "doctors of 
the world" (Médecins du monde) broadcasted into the press and on the walls 
in Paris an advertisement, outstanding and expensive. The photograph showed 
"prisoners" of a Serbian camp in Bosnia. Behind barbed wires, Kouchner 
sticking the picture of a watchtower from Auschwitz. His text blamed 
Serbians for "mass executions".

Was it right or wrong? Wrong, admits Kouchner twelve years later. His latest 
book, the warriors for peace, recounts an interview with Izetbegovic (the 
Muslim nationalist leader in authority at the time of Sarajevo), in his 
deathbed:

-Kouchner: those places were awful, but they didn't exterminate 
consistently. Did you know about that?
- Izetbegovic: Yes. The assertion was false. There were no extermination 
camps even if those places were terrible. I thought that my revelation would 
bring faster bombings.

This media lie did actually change the opinion towards the support for 
bombings. All the Western press broadcasted it massively but the latest 
rectification was not communicated. The public could actually not be 
informed that they get rolled.

The half-confession of Kouchner and this media silence makes us asking some 
important questions:

1. Did Kouchner know all about it previously?
Answer: Yes. Since 1993, a journalist from France 2 channel, Jacques 
Merlino, revealed the deception in his book with an eloquent title "All the 
truths are not good to say". He was interviewing the director of Ruder Finn, 
US agent for public relations. The latter, very proud to tell that his 
campaign on" extermination camps" was just fake :
- "We got around three big Jewish organisations: B'nai B'rith, American 
Jewish Committee et American Jewish Congress. And right away, we managed to 
make the link between Serbians and Nazis concerning the public opinion. The 
case was complex, nobody understood what was going on in Yugoslavia, but 
bolt upright it was not really difficult to formulate who was the nice and 
the good people.
- By lying, points out the journalist! Answer: We are professionals. We are 
not paid to give moral lessons."
So, Kouchner knew since a long time and that's not nice to charge up the 
entire blame on a dead person.

2. Did the media hide all the proofs of the deception?
Answer: Yes. A German journalist Thomas Deichmann showed since 1994 that the 
photograph about barbed wires was fake, and also the prisoners were not 
locked.
I reality, it was taken from an ITN reporting where they declare to be 
well-treated, but the journalist took away those declarations!


3. Did Kouchner receive protection, even from "media critics"?
Answer: Yes. One example: Daniel Schneidermann( Arrêts sur images, France 5 
channel TV) contacted us about this paper, and he dropped us from Kouchner 
in order to not annoy him.
No questions about the media lies on Kosovo and neither his disastrous 
statements on this province were asked to Kouchner.
We are talking about media lies and not mistakes. His career plan focusing 
the UN general secretary post, and he has to do whatever to please USA.

4. Why did they have to tell a story "simple", but false?
In order to hide the responsibilities of big Western powers in this 
conflict:
- Since 1979, the German CIA (the BND) was supporting extremists to collapse 
Yugoslavia.
- In 1989, the IMF put neoliberal pressure to eradicate the auto management 
and the workers rights, provoking the crisis and nationalisms.
- In 1991, German gave weapons to the Croatian and Muslim extremists before 
the war.
- From 1992 to 1995, the USA intentionally extended and prolonged the 
conflict as certified by a special European reporter in Bosnia, Lord Owen.
- Are there any advantages in those actions? Eradicate a social system too 
much in the left side, and also control the strategic Balkans and the oil 
roads.

5. Is it a matter to contradict all the crimes committed?
Not at all, but when our governments try to pull us into a war propaganda 
"nice versus bad people", it is important to think about their hidden 
interests. And their fake information. For example, concerning prison camp 
in Bosnia, the UN counted six Croatians, two Serbians and one Muslim. And 
they were rather gathering camp for exchanges, not extermination camp. But, 
the Croatian and Muslim nationalists as being our allies or rather "our" 
agents, Kouchner, Bernard Henri Levy and the permanent media guests 
whitewashed them.
We would have to judge the war criminals. All the war criminals, in all 
camps. But not by phoney courts created by a justice of winners where the 
USA and the NATO are sitting above the law and straight out outlaw since 
they are violating the UN bill without embarrassment.

6. Are there any more media lies "well-done" in this war?
       Yes. Just one example. When NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, in 1999, 
it claimed
 its action  after the "massacre of 40 civilians" by the Yugoslavian army, 
in Racak, Kosovo village. But Belgrad was talking about a fight between two 
armies, caused by the Albanian separatist forces. The UN asked for a report 
to a medical examiner commission led by a Finnish doctor, Mrs Ranta who 
confirmed what Belgrad asserted. The media lie remains intact for the 
opinion.
Why? Because media lies of Kouchner, BHL and others, allowed to divide the 
left and stopped it from opposing to the war in reality unfair. The public 
opinion needs to be manipulated. And the next time, it will start again.