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A POGROM IN BELGRADEby Jared Israel [
14 May 2001]
"po·grom (pe-gròm¹, po¹grem) noun
An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one
conducted against Jews." (Dictionary, MS Bookshelf 98)
Dr. Klara Mandic, a founder of the Serbian-Jewish Friendship Association, who lost her entire family to pro-Nazi thugs during World War II,
was brutally murdered three days ago in Belgrade. Dr. Mandic and other Yugoslav Jews had worked tirelessly to expose anti-Serbian lies in the Western mass media. (See the 'Open Letter to American Jews,' of which she was a signer. It is posted below.)
The mass media in the West and the Washington-dominated media in Yugoslavia are portraying this gruesome murder as a robbery gone wrong. "Initial police findings indicated that Klara Mandic...was killed during a robbery attempt." ( 'AP', May 11)
But although robbery is a clear-cut affair - i.e., something is taken - the 'Associated Press' reported that:
"Police did not say whether any items were missing. They did not say why they thought it was a robbery attempt." ('AP')
"Killed during a robbery attempt" suggests that the robbers murdered Dr. Mandic because she caught them in the act or to prevent her from identifying them later. But according to the Wire Service reports she was 'beaten to death' and then 'shot in the back of the head' and finally set on fire. ('AP' and 'AFP', 11 May.)
This is not the behavior of robbers anxious to get the goods and escape. It is the behavior of murderers with a task: to leave a message of terror.
As with any crime the question is: who gains? The answer here is, only the current Yugoslav authorities and their Washington controllers. Belgrade's government, put in power by a coup d'état Oct. 5, 2000, is increasingly isolated.
The Yugoslav economy is functioning at about 1/3 the pre-coup level. Prices have doubled, or worse. The country is riddled with strikes opposing the government's plan to sell off Yugoslav factories at fire sale prices to foreigner interests, supposedly to pay old debts. Workers are particularly angry because according to laws passed during the Miloshevich years, when firms are privatized most shares must go to employees, current and retired. The current authorities want that scrapped.
Desperate to prevent the formation of an unstoppable opposition, the current regime has silenced all dissenting media. For example, the popular Palma TV station was recently ordered to stop broadcasting political shows.
There is a growing atmosphere of terror. Thugs working for the authorities have beaten and/or arrested scores of opponents.
THE NEW JUSTICE: MUSSOLINI MEETS KEYSTONE COPSOn March 30, the current authorities made a ridiculously botched attempt to murder or kidnap former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloshevich. They sent a group of men, without identification and wearing women's stockings pulled down over their faces. These men tried to break into the government-owned resident where Mr. Miloshevich and his family were staying. (Milosevic's own home had been hit by NATO bombs and was not fully repaired.) They were foiled by hundreds of unarmed civilians, standing in witness outside the house, and by the Yugoslav Army which was guarding it.
At first the Belgrade authorities claimed they had no idea who these stocking-masked men might be. But that night they sent hundreds and then thousands of reinforcements to the residence. Many had no identification and wore stockings over their faces. Some were overheard speaking English. These representatives of the new justice used clubs to attack unarmed civilian witnesses, particularly middle-aged women.
Charging that the authorities were trying to provoke civil war, Mr. Miloshevich surrendered. He immediately filed a legal brief demanding his release.
People noted that the authorities mobilized more men in the attempt to arrest (abduct?) the former Head of State than they have deployed to defend Serbia from terrorist invasion in the south. The authorities justified this by claiming they had proof he had committed terrible crimes, of which they suggested various possibilities, ranging from pilfering to murder. They said they had to jail Mr. Miloshevich in order to make sure he didn't 'interfere with witnesses.'
Yet though Mr. Miloshevich has been in jail almost seven weeks, his accusers have not produced one witness against him nor have they indicted him for anything, not even a traffic violation.
Clearly the current authorities arrested President Miloshevich on orders from Washington, as Richard Holbrooke boasted in the 'NY Times Magazine' [April 8].
What is Mr. Miloshevich's actual offense? He resisted Washington and he refused to crawl. (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky has shown that, ironically, the "aid" which the U.S. has promised to give Yugoslavia in exchange for crucifying Miloshevich is in fact a fraud.) (7)
A week ago, Dusan Matic, lawyer for the former security chief, Rade Markovic, who has also been arrested, told a press conference that his client had been threatened with death if he refused to testify against Mr. Miloshevich. In jail, Mr. Miloshevich has been denied critically needed treatment for a dangerous heart condition.
Many Yugoslavs who believed the current regime's promises of a better life now feel betrayed. They are turning against the regime, which has responded with terror to silence opposition. The authorities have put up billboards with the words, "We are watching you!", an imitation of the slogan "Big Brother is Watching you!" from '1984', George Orwell's book about a fascistic state. Six opponents of the regime have been murdered under 'mysterious' circumstances.
Dr. Mandic was the seventh. The purpose of her murder was to send a message to Yugoslav patriots in general, but particularly to Yugoslav Jews who enjoy credibility in the West and much respect in Yugoslavia, and who have given Washington a major pain in the neck.
Over the past decade, these Jews have publicly disputed the anti-Serbian statements made by American Jewish leaders. The murder of Klara Mandic is intended to tell these Jewish critics: Beware! You were run out of Croatia and Bosnia. You were driven from Kosovo. You think you're safe? Shut up or there will be more 'robberies'.
Meanwhile, American Jewish leaders have responded to the terror-killing of Dr. Mandic with deafening silence. Why? All evidence suggests she was killed to punish her for an ancient crime: being a Jew who told the truth.
The American Jewish leadership, self-appointed Protectors of Jews everywhere, were also silent in 1990-92, when anti-Serb fascists seized control of Croatia and began terrorizing local Jews, many of whom fled to Belgrade. Similarly, Jews fled the Sarajevo regime of the Islamist, Alijah Izetbegovic, a man ludicrously mis-portrayed by the American media as a tolerant democrat. In both cases American Jewish leaders said: nothing. (1)
Why? Because the Croatian and Bosnian fascists were Washington's allies. Washington did not want them criticized. And these 'tamed' leaders do whatever Washington dictates. And today Washington dictates: silence Serbia's Jews.
In 1992, American Jewish leaders did speak out. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress placed a full-page advertisement in the 'N.Y. Times'. Leaders of these groups made speeches and wrote articles parroting the Washington-Bonn lie that Serbs were the new Nazis and Miloshevich the (latest) new Hitler, spreading these slanders with evident relish at finding themselves on the right side of a pogrom. By comparing Miloshevich, an opponent of national chauvinism, to Hitler, they belittled the suffering of Hitler's victims (including not only Jews but millions of Slavs, 'Gypsies', leftists, etc.) (2)
Gentiles tend to view Jewish leaders as experts on genocide. So the Jewish leaders were invaluable to the anti-Serb propaganda effort. They lent an air of credibility to doctored pictures of supposed Serbian death camps in Bosnia, shown ad nauseum all over the world in August, 1992 - pictures which have been proven to be fakes. After all, if 'the Jews' said Serbs were genocidal it had to be true. (3)
But while the leaders could fool many American Jews, who, like most Americans, are uninformed about political forces in the Balkans, or, for that matter, precisely where to find 'the Balkans' on a map - they could not fool Jews in Yugoslavia. Yugoslav Jews knew exactly whom the U.S. and Germany were using as proxy forces in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo: the political descendents of Hitler's local allies who killed tens of thousands of Jews alongside perhaps 750,000 Serbs during W.W.II, killed them in ways so brutal that visiting Nazis were shocked. For example, by beating them to death and burning them. In other words, just as they killed Dr. Klara Mandic.
Yugoslav Jews have tried to awaken world opinion. Take one tiny but instructive example: it was a Yugoslav Jew, teaching in New England, who made me aware of the full story of what the Serbs had gone through in World War II, how much they had suffered trying to protect their Jewish countrymen. I will write more about that in another article, 'The Jewish Debt to the Serbs'.
It was a Yugoslav Jew, Chedomir Pralinchevich, who first told the world that several hundred thousand Serbs, Roma ("Gypsies"), Jews and other non-Albanians were being driven from Kosovo after its 'liberation' by NATO forces, with the connivance of the NATO command. A Yugoslav Jew located Mr. Pralinchevich and a Yugoslav Jew translated the interview. (4)
The wire service reports suggest that since (they say) there was no sign of forced entry, Dr. Mandic probably knew her attackers. This is nonsense. Terrorist forces in the employ of the Belgrade authorities would of course have tools for picking locks. Moreover, even a woman living alone will open the door to certain people, for example, to policemen.
Both the 'Agence France Presse' and 'BBC' stories also include the following (identically worded) paragraph:
"At least five of Milosevic's allies have been killed since 1997, including Yugoslav defence minister Pavle Bulatovic and Serbian deputy interior minister Radovan Stojicic. Their murderers have never been found. "(May 11)
The combination of "she knew her attackers" and "Milosevic allies keep getting killed" is clearly intended to suggest that this crime may be the work of the ever-accusable Mr. Miloshevich. This is consistent with the Washington-directed effort to blame all Washington's attacks on the victims of those attacks. Thus the former head of Serbian TV was held in jail for about two months (a high court just ordered that he be released). The charge against him? Well, no charge was actually filed but they were supposedly 'investigating' his 'responsibility' for the deaths of 16 technicians and reporters killed when NATO bombed Serbian television.And so we are supposed to believe that for some reason explicable only to himself, that mysteriously evil genius, Miloshevich, has chosen this moment, when his personal survival depends on rallying Serbian patriots to stand up and be counted - that he has chosen this moment to have an old friend murdered in a manner calculated to terrorize - whom? His own supporters!
In fact there is nothing mysterious about this murder. Washington's proxies have been using terror for ten years. Indeed, didn't Washington drop uranium-encased bombs on civilian targets during 78 days of bombing in 1999? What is the difference between blowing a child to bits with a cluster bomb and murdering and mutilating Dr. Klara Mandic?
The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists, who have killed thousands of Serbs, 'Gypsies', anti-racist Albanians and others in the most brutal ways, are trained by NATO Special Forces. And the thugs who murdered Dr. Mandic, imitating the methods of World War II Nazis, are in the employ of the Washington-controlled gangsters who presently run Yugoslavia. (5)
SLANDER IN THE MEDIAHaving been murdered by NATO thugs, Dr. Mandic is now being murdered again in the pro-NATO media. The 'AP' wrote:
"In 1990, Mandic helped found the Society of Serb-Jewish Friendship, though her role in it was viewed with suspicion by the local Jewish community." (May 11, 2001)
This is a lie and surely the 'AP' knows it. Almost all Yugoslav Jews in fact agree with Dr. Mandic's pro-Yugoslav sentiments, as expressed in the 'Open Letter', below.
Today the Yugoslav Jewish community is small. Why? Because the predecessors of America's current Balkans allies killed tens of thousands of Yugoslav Jews during W.W.II. Those who were not killed mainly survived due to the heroic efforts of Serbian people who risked their lives to hide them. (6)
Dr. Mandic's murder was a terrorist warning from an increasingly isolated puppet regime in Belgrade, a regime which, since it has seized control of Yugoslavia by means of a coup, has given the ordinary people nothing but growing misery and growing subservience to Washington.
Decent people will not forget this murder. Nor will they forgive those who sent the killers.
-- JI, 13 May 2001Further reading:
1) For some useful background material on Izetbegovic, Tudjman and a debate between Jews over anti-Serb slanders, see 'Some useful background material' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/cos/useful2.htm2) Miloshevich's views are routinely distorted to this day. See 'Speech at Kosovo Field' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/milosaid.html3) Emperor's Clothes co-produced a movie which proves - not argues, proves - that the Bosnian death camp pictures, featuring the famous tall, emaciated man behind barbed wire, were a fraud. or more info see 'JUDGMENT!' at
http://emperors-clothes.comFilm/astunnin.htm4) See 'Driven from Kosovo: Jewish Leader Blames NATO - Interview With Cedda Prlincevic' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/ceda.htm5) There is overwhelming evidence to support the charge that Washington and Germany created the Kosovo Liberation Army and that Washington trained it, and so on. As to the specific statement, made above, that NATO special forces continue to train the KLA - which is now attacking southern Serbia and Macedonia - that comes direct from the BBC. See: 'Diplomats Admit NATO Backs KLA Invasion of Inner Serbia' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/admi.htm6) The article, 'The Jewish Debt to the Serbs' will be published soon.
7) Prof. Chossudovsky's article, 'Economic terrorism', can be read at
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