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the tenth circle of hell
gowerboy 7/22/2008 11:53 am
Radovan Karadzic, one time leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was arrested yesterday. If you don't know why this makes me happy, then read "The Tenth Circle Of Hell: A memoir of life in the death camps of Bosnia" by Rezak Hukanovic. It describes what was carried out in the Omarska camp, the "thirst, hunger, gang rapes, exhaustion, skulls shattered, sexual organs torn out, stomachs ripped open by the soldier assassins of Radovan Karadzic."

Karadzic is a poet. Sometimes I hate words.


sunlover1950
4115 posts 

7/22/2008 1:45 pm

And this man was lecturing on alternative medicine in Belgrad while searched all over the world...

My father was in a concentration camp for 3 years during the communist regime in Bulgaria.

Keep love in your heart !
SL

soulTrader
(Chris )

7/22/2008 1:56 pm

Thank you. Just got one of the last ones off of Amazon [uk].

Not looking forward to it.

** guaranteed Goody free **

Arrifairy
1240 posts

7/22/2008 3:18 pm

That is a monster not a man... I am happy he was caught!

"Never look back, the future is so close!"

Angie

cruiser387
11837 posts

7/22/2008 3:58 pm

I'll never understand how someone can choose to be this cruel to other people........he is a monster

HolyMagi
240 posts 

7/22/2008 4:10 pm

Reminds me of - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Ya we've got to start getting more serious
about doing something about this human
condition called genocide! That I know.
My God doesn't say to be a peace keeper
he's says to be a PEACEMAKER!

Later! Will read it.

I suggest also Romeo Dallair
"shake hands with the Devil"
If you haven't read it or heard of it yet.


Free Speech is for everyone or no one!
My Testimony
My index

MunchkinMatron2
10329 posts 

7/22/2008 4:17 pm

    Quoting sunlover1950:
    And this man was lecturing on alternative medicine in Belgrad while searched all over the world...

    My father was in a concentration camp for 3 years during the communist regime in Bulgaria.
Oh, Mariya, I am so sorry to hear that.

I still think Milosevic got off lightly. The bastard.

I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.

nooneyouknow
471 posts 

7/22/2008 4:29 pm

Art isn't always pretty. Such is life.

midnight_daisy
1240 posts 

7/22/2008 4:50 pm

I'm sorry to admit I had to look up who this Radovan Karadzic is. My goodness, I almost wish I hadn't. To say he's not nice in an understatement of epic proportions. But I did find this:

The most recent came this spring, when soldiers stormed Karadzic's family home in Pale, southeast of Sarajevo. At the time his wife Ljiljana said the troops even searched the sewage tank in their efforts to uncover the fugitive.

From what I've read since your post, I sorta wish they HAD found him in that sewage tank. Would have been a bit of poetic justice.

Cheers!

time2refresh
538 posts

7/22/2008 7:54 pm

At the end of this I want to know who has been protecting him for so long. No, not the people he was actually with, the people behind it all.

"Greater Serbia". Pah! It would make me ashamed to be Serbian if he turns on the self-pity.

I presume we are in for a long and terribly well carried out trial, with fudged outcomes and no conclusion. See first line again......

Peter

Weltbuergerin
1083 posts 

7/22/2008 10:44 pm

Thanks for the tip GB...i will definately read this book.Mike was in Bosnia in the war and my daughters babysitter was an older Croatian..this will make interesting reading...its for people like this i hope there is a hell..take care...Lydia

Remember..live each day as it comes..it may be your last!!!xx " NAMASTE"

royalpurple
2471 posts 

7/23/2008 12:02 am

He is so evil. How can he do that to humans
and not being killed with his conscience?

From my heart to yours, Love and Light!

PottersPal2008
363 posts 

7/23/2008 1:23 am

Sadly though, he could not have done these deeds alone. Where are his sheep...and what to do with them?
Will put the book on my "to read" list, and will only do so in summer. Sounds like the type of book one would want loads of daylight for.

Mistytraveller
9505 posts 

7/23/2008 1:27 am

What I find most disturbing is that according to a news report (CBC,Canada), the Serbian govt has known for the past 13 years exactly where he was. Now that Serbia wants to join the EU, he is arrested. Ironic?

Wishing you happiness

Misty

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 3:17 am

    Quoting sunlover1950:
    And this man was lecturing on alternative medicine in Belgrad while searched all over the world...

    My father was in a concentration camp for 3 years during the communist regime in Bulgaria.
He even had his own website.

Sorry your father had to go through that. Was he political, or just
another unfortunate caught up in the mass detentions of "Titoists"?

I don't mean to pry, I'm just interested.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 3:21 am

    Quoting soulTrader:
    Thank you. Just got one of the last ones off of Amazon [uk].

    Not looking forward to it.
It isn't a pleasant read.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 3:23 am

    Quoting Arrifairy:
    That is a monster not a man... I am happy he was caught!
I haven't been this pleased since someone put a bullet in Arkan.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 3:24 am

    Quoting cruiser387:
    I'll never understand how someone can choose to be this cruel to other people........he is a monster
When we are children, they tell us that monsters don't exist.

They do.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 3:38 am

    Quoting HolyMagi:
    Reminds me of - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

    Ya we've got to start getting more serious
    about doing something about this human
    condition called genocide! That I know.
    My God doesn't say to be a peace keeper
    he's says to be a PEACEMAKER!

    Later! Will read it.

    I suggest also Romeo Dallair
    "shake hands with the Devil"
    If you haven't read it or heard of it yet.

The massacres in Rwanda and Burundi were avoidable catastrophes that the
UN Security Council decided to ignore. Africa is still seen as of little
value and too risky. I've read interviews with Dallaire. He himself
suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder after what he saw.

Thank you for visiting.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:14 am

    Quoting MunchkinMatron2:
    Oh, Mariya, I am so sorry to hear that.

    I still think Milosevic got off lightly. The bastard.
I don't think you can compare Milosevic to people like Karadzic or the Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic or even his Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman. Milosevic was a nationalist, and undoubtedly turned a blind eye to atrocities, but these others were actively involved in advocating, ordering and carrying out these acts.

I in no way defend or apologise for Milosevic, but Tudjman was never demonised to the same extent. Croatia is a traditional ally of Germany, and Serbia a traditional ally of Russia. Tudjman and Milosevic agreed to carve up Bosnia between them, then they attacked one another. Later, when Croatia was attacking the Krajina and driving out the last of the ethnic Serbs, NATO just happened to be bombing Serbia.

The ICJ cleared the Serbian state of genocide in February 2007, but said Milosevic could have done more to prevent it. The same could be said for any number of politicians in any number of countries.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:16 am

Even beauty can be used to incite hatred.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:39 am

    Quoting midnight_daisy:
    I'm sorry to admit I had to look up who this Radovan Karadzic is. My goodness, I almost wish I hadn't. To say he's not nice in an understatement of epic proportions. But I did find this:

    The most recent came this spring, when soldiers stormed Karadzic's family home in Pale, southeast of Sarajevo. At the time his wife Ljiljana said the troops even searched the sewage tank in their efforts to uncover the fugitive.

    From what I've read since your post, I sorta wish they HAD found him in that sewage tank. Would have been a bit of poetic justice.
The Serbian president at the time, Slobodan Milosevic, has received far more attention in the western press. Karadzic and Mladic, Bosnian Serbs, were responsible for the Omarska camp and the massacre of 8,000 Bosniaks in Srebrenica. Three Croat generals are also under indictment for war crimes committed during Operation Storm, when the Croat Army ethnically cleansed the Krajina region in 1995.

The list goes on.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:48 am

    Quoting time2refresh:
    At the end of this I want to know who has been protecting him for so long. No, not the people he was actually with, the people behind it all.

    "Greater Serbia". Pah! It would make me ashamed to be Serbian if he turns on the self-pity.

    I presume we are in for a long and terribly well carried out trial, with fudged outcomes and no conclusion. See first line again......

    Peter
There was nobody behind it all, except maybe history. Karadzic was a Bosnian Serb nationalist. The Republica Srpska was never an integral part of Serbia. No Serbian state existed at the time. Croatia and Slovenia declared independence before Bosnia. Milosevic wanted to protect Serb interests initially within a Yugoslav framework.

Karadzic won't turn on the self pity. He'll talk about the Serb mission to defend orthodoxy, the Field of the Blackbirds, the Ottomans, Kosovo and Islamic fundamentalism. He'll talk about the right to self determination and Croat crimes against Croat Serbs. He'll talk about the West's betrayal of the Chetniks and Christendom and the NATO bombing of Serbia. He'll talk about blood and soil.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:57 am

    Quoting Weltbuergerin:
    Thanks for the tip GB...i will definately read this book.Mike was in Bosnia in the war and my daughters babysitter was an older Croatian..this will make interesting reading...its for people like this i hope there is a hell..take care...Lydia
If you're interested in the background to it all, then Misha Glenny's
"The Fall of Yugoslavia: The 3rd Balkan War" is one of the best accounts.

Hukanovic's book focuses on his experiences in the Omarska camp. Reading
it, you realise that there already is a hell.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 4:59 am

    Quoting royalpurple:
    He is so evil. How can he do that to humans
    and not being killed with his conscience?
It's people like this that make me doubt my belief in some kind of innate humanity.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 5:00 am

    Quoting PottersPal2008:
    Sadly though, he could not have done these deeds alone. Where are his sheep...and what to do with them?
    Will put the book on my "to read" list, and will only do so in summer. Sounds like the type of book one would want loads of daylight for.
When you read the book, you will see who the sheep are.

Keep the light on.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 5:04 am

    Quoting Mistytraveller:
    What I find most disturbing is that according to a news report (CBC,Canada), the Serbian govt has known for the past 13 years exactly where he was. Now that Serbia wants to join the EU, he is arrested. Ironic?
Not ironic at all. Politics.

Weltbuergerin
1083 posts 

7/23/2008 5:27 am

    Quoting gowerboy:
    If you're interested in the background to it all, then Misha Glenny's
    "The Fall of Yugoslavia: The 3rd Balkan War" is one of the best accounts.

    Hukanovic's book focuses on his experiences in the Omarska camp. Reading
    it, you realise that there already is a hell.
Thanks again..i guess AMAZ#ON will love you for this.Im not a flowery type of person and this type of reading is up my street....Lydia

Remember..live each day as it comes..it may be your last!!!xx " NAMASTE"

agag_00_back
1395 posts 

7/23/2008 6:08 am

Justice has long arms.
Can't understand why he could still remain so calm at that medical seminar with that strange hairstyle.

Agnes

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 7:04 am

    Quoting Weltbuergerin:
    Thanks again..i guess AMAZ#ON will love you for this.Im not a flowery type of person and this type of reading is up my street....Lydia
If I'd known that before I could have sent you some books. My mum needed
the space so I had to shift a few boxloads. Gave them to the local library.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 7:06 am

    Quoting agag_00_back:
    Justice has long arms.
    Can't understand why he could still remain so calm at that medical seminar with that strange hairstyle.
You'd try to stay calm if you had a Serbian were-mink sleeping on your head.

tulip7857
70 posts 

7/23/2008 7:15 am

msalchemy2
1594 posts 

7/23/2008 7:48 am

I received his collection of poems entitled, The Black Fairy Tale, in 2005 in Russian print from a childhood friend named Ilyna. I committed, Radovan, words to memory, then used his published works as a fire starter, and then sent flowers to Ilyna's parents memorial stone. I find it disgusting that, a man who is along the same vain as Stalin, was allowed to publish anything expect, his last words to the families of his victims.

I don't play it safe. If I wanted to stay safe..
I would have stayed in my mother's womb.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 8:12 am

Quite so.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/23/2008 10:21 am

    Quoting msalchemy2:
    I received his collection of poems entitled, The Black Fairy Tale, in 2005 in Russian print from a childhood friend named Ilyna. I committed, Radovan, words to memory, then used his published works as a fire starter, and then sent flowers to Ilyna's parents memorial stone. I find it disgusting that, a man who is along the same vain as Stalin, was allowed to publish anything expect, his last words to the families of his victims.
A bizarre gift.

I can't think of his last words without thinking of all the words he has caused to be extinguished.

sunlover1950
4115 posts 

7/23/2008 1:30 pm

My father was treated as an enemy by the communist dictatorship because he was an upholder of democracy. After he survived the camp, he was not allowed to practice his profession for 10 years although he was a diplomaed jurist. He had to work as a porter at the city harbour to support his family. As his wife , my mother was denied work everywhere she asked for...

I heard on the latest news tonight that Radovan Karadzic used to sit in a cafe in Belgrad, disguised in a long white beard, under his own portrait, all these years. Isn't it cynicism ?... Many Serbians still treat him as their hero and leader...

SL

Keep love in your heart !
SL

HolyMagi
240 posts 

7/23/2008 3:31 pm

    Quoting gowerboy:
    The massacres in Rwanda and Burundi were avoidable catastrophes that the
    UN Security Council decided to ignore. Africa is still seen as of little
    value and too risky. I've read interviews with Dallaire. He himself
    suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder after what he saw.

    Thank you for visiting.
Yes you are right about all that. I' m Canadian and most
Canadian were appalled and disappointed with the UN
and our own Gov. over it.

I personaly believe major powers are behind the
influences that ignore those massacres you mentioned
among others. I believe they do this because
those countries and regions don't have much
OIL or DIAMONDS or some other important resource
that they just don't register on the major or even
some middle powers' radar. At best humanitarian
aid workers are able to hire a some under funded
partisan mercinaries to help protect them when
the try to go into those area's and help.

I've been very concern about the Darfur and Islamic
militancy that has been ignored by Major powers
and the USA for far too long. Canada has not been
ignoring it but, it seems were one of the few.


I've written letters to my Gov. criticizing them but, I've
found my criticism have been misplaced. Our Gov.
was getting a lack of support from the UN Security
Council on the North African issues but, I did write
a letter to Romeo Dellair... a very critical one and
know many others have felt that guys like Romeo
Dellair and people like us who are concerned can
make a difference. I researched the subject before
I gave opinions and found that even before I wrote
my letter Canada has been seending some
military aid to African Union troops as part of
their intitiative to aid the Americans in the fight
against terrorism. Terrorism is what is really
going on there. Those people are being terroriszed.
many are Christain regions that are being invaded
by pro-Islamic militants out of Somalia & Rawanda
and now Kenya and Uganda too. Eastrn Jihad
has been making it's move and Canada has been
their but, wher are the Americans... still playing
GI JOE in Irag and Afgahnistan. the surge is
more important.

I specifically told Dellair that I felt we could afford
to back up African Union troops with a few
f-18 squadrons and some of our own
specialists and not just APC's & rifles. SO,
the did and I guess i wasn't the only one that
felt this way. Writing letters to the Government
is not a waste of time. Romeo Dellair is a
Senator in our Parliament now. I just wrote
to the right person and saw results in my favor.
more concerned People should write to their
Government on this and offer their advice.

Slowly but surely, the alliances' attention is starting
to turn towards Darfur and Zimbabwe and the UN
has been stepping it up some in aid. Romeo is doing
what he can to influence the UN this way. Unfortunately
AIDS and humanitarian relief seems to be their only
goal. Yet, often this aid ends up in militant hands.
That's gotta stop and the UN has to start being more
accountable with the security issue or the alliance
should take over the deployment & security of aid
that is being wasted coming from the west and ending
up in Islamic Jihad or guerrilla fighters' hands.

I just wonder if it may be to little to late! What do you
think?


Free Speech is for everyone or no one!
My Testimony
My index

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/24/2008 3:36 am

    Quoting sunlover1950:
    My father was treated as an enemy by the communist dictatorship because he was an upholder of democracy. After he survived the camp, he was not allowed to practice his profession for 10 years although he was a diplomaed jurist. He had to work as a porter at the city harbour to support his family. As his wife , my mother was denied work everywhere she asked for...

    I heard on the latest news tonight that Radovan Karadzic used to sit in a cafe in Belgrad, disguised in a long white beard, under his own portrait, all these years. Isn't it cynicism ?... Many Serbians still treat him as their hero and leader...

    SL
Unfortunately, your father's story is one shared by too many. It's a
tribute to him, and to your mother, that they not only survived, but
raised a fine daughter, too.

Karadzic knew he was under a certain official protection, until the
wind changed and he became dispensable. Supranationalism is now more
important than nationalism, even in Serbia.

gardencitygirl
1730 posts

7/24/2008 3:54 am

GB you are really good at this!!!! I mean blogging

out of curiosity...does anyone here know what is GB called in real life?





Thank you for the music, the songs Im singing
Thanks for all the joy theyre bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/24/2008 4:02 am

    Quoting HolyMagi:
    Yes you are right about all that. I' m Canadian and most
    Canadian were appalled and disappointed with the UN
    and our own Gov. over it.

    I personaly believe major powers are behind the
    influences that ignore those massacres you mentioned
    among others. I believe they do this because
    those countries and regions don't have much
    OIL or DIAMONDS or some other important resource
    that they just don't register on the major or even
    some middle powers' radar. At best humanitarian
    aid workers are able to hire a some under funded
    partisan mercinaries to help protect them when
    the try to go into those area's and help.

    I've been very concern about the Darfur and Islamic
    militancy that has been ignored by Major powers
    and the USA for far too long. Canada has not been
    ignoring it but, it seems were one of the few.


    I've written letters to my Gov. criticizing them but, I've
    found my criticism have been misplaced. Our Gov.
    was getting a lack of support from the UN Security
    Council on the North African issues but, I did write
    a letter to Romeo Dellair... a very critical one and
    know many others have felt that guys like Romeo
    Dellair and people like us who are concerned can
    make a difference. I researched the subject before
    I gave opinions and found that even before I wrote
    my letter Canada has been seending some
    military aid to African Union troops as part of
    their intitiative to aid the Americans in the fight
    against terrorism. Terrorism is what is really
    going on there. Those people are being terroriszed.
    many are Christain regions that are being invaded
    by pro-Islamic militants out of Somalia & Rawanda
    and now Kenya and Uganda too. Eastrn Jihad
    has been making it's move and Canada has been
    their but, wher are the Americans... still playing
    GI JOE in Irag and Afgahnistan. the surge is
    more important.

    I specifically told Dellair that I felt we could afford
    to back up African Union troops with a few
    f-18 squadrons and some of our own
    specialists and not just APC's & rifles. SO,
    the did and I guess i wasn't the only one that
    felt this way. Writing letters to the Government
    is not a waste of time. Romeo Dellair is a
    Senator in our Parliament now. I just wrote
    to the right person and saw results in my favor.
    more concerned People should write to their
    Government on this and offer their advice.

    Slowly but surely, the alliances' attention is starting
    to turn towards Darfur and Zimbabwe and the UN
    has been stepping it up some in aid. Romeo is doing
    what he can to influence the UN this way. Unfortunately
    AIDS and humanitarian relief seems to be their only
    goal. Yet, often this aid ends up in militant hands.
    That's gotta stop and the UN has to start being more
    accountable with the security issue or the alliance
    should take over the deployment & security of aid
    that is being wasted coming from the west and ending
    up in Islamic Jihad or guerrilla fighters' hands.

    I just wonder if it may be to little to late! What do you
    think?

The current situation in Darfur has its roots in economic, ethnic and tribal divisions, rather than religion. The Sudanese civil war which ended in 2005 was caused by attempts by the Sudanese government, based in the north, to islamicise the entire state, including the non-islamic south. Darfur is not the same.

In the Darfur region there is intense pressure on land and water resources. The Sudanese government is backing the Arabic Jinjaweed nomads who are moving into areas traditionally inhabited by non-Arabic groups. Even this is a gross generalisation on my part. The ethnic and tribal composition of Sudan is too complex to boil the whole conflict down to Islam versus Christianity.

I have no idea what you mean by "Eastern Jihad". As far as I can tell it's a catch-all term applied to any Islamic group involved in any conflict by people who want to foment a "Western Crusade".

You don't solve a conflict over water and land by sending weapons. You do it through economic development.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/24/2008 4:09 am

    Quoting gardencitygirl:
    GB you are really good at this!!!! I mean blogging

    out of curiosity...does anyone here know what is GB called in real life?


Thank you.

In real life I'm called all sorts of things

msalchemy2
1594 posts 

7/24/2008 6:13 am

    Quoting gowerboy:
    A bizarre gift.

    I can't think of his last words without thinking of all the words he has caused to be extinguished.
Not at all. Not when you consider a young man trying to understand the loss of his parents. The book was sent from Kazan, I would say, a reasonable distance from Sizje, wouldn't you?

I don't play it safe. If I wanted to stay safe..
I would have stayed in my mother's womb.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/24/2008 6:43 am

    Quoting msalchemy2:
    Not at all. Not when you consider a young man trying to understand the loss of his parents. The book was sent from Kazan, I would say, a reasonable distance from Sizje, wouldn't you?
That puts it in a different light. Sizje lies just outside Republika Srpska and is mainly Bosniak. I can find little more information about it. Does this mean that his parents were Bosnian Serbs?

debutanteBaltimr
12668 posts 

7/24/2008 1:13 pm

...PEOPLE!

A Woman's from the BACK !

HolyMagi
240 posts 

7/24/2008 3:37 pm

    Quoting gowerboy:
    The current situation in Darfur has its roots in economic, ethnic and tribal divisions, rather than religion. The Sudanese civil war which ended in 2005 was caused by attempts by the Sudanese government, based in the north, to islamicise the entire state, including the non-islamic south. Darfur is not the same.

    In the Darfur region there is intense pressure on land and water resources. The Sudanese government is backing the Arabic Jinjaweed nomads who are moving into areas traditionally inhabited by non-Arabic groups. Even this is a gross generalisation on my part. The ethnic and tribal composition of Sudan is too complex to boil the whole conflict down to Islam versus Christianity.

    I have no idea what you mean by "Eastern Jihad". As far as I can tell it's a catch-all term applied to any Islamic group involved in any conflict by people who want to foment a "Western Crusade".

    You don't solve a conflict over water and land by sending weapons. You do it through economic development.
Agreed on the causes of these war not entirely
agreed on the method. If we keep sending aid
that is not properly protected than we are
only fueling both greed and religion based
hate and warmongering and we are then indirectly
guilty of it ourselves. To not send troops
and weapons to those providing security for
Humanitarian relief & Aid would be irresponsible
and like send LAMBS LED TO SLAUGHTER. Sending
too much Arms & Armour would also be irresponsible
because it could end up in enemy hands. We
still have to step up our security operation
in North Africa for sure and find a strategy
that is least likely to see our arms & Aid
end up into enemy or potential enemy's hands.

In my perspective I'm aware it's more complex
than this but, it just seems that all these
conflicts result in the spread of Islam even
in the wars that don't have Jihad as their
main cause or support. As you pointed out
the janjaweed tribe are Islamic and therefor,
likely Islamic in religious orientation and
likely to warmonger in the name of Allah or
as Allah's favor to be their main motivation
by teaching in fundamentalists camps of
those who lack literacy & are impressionable.

PS: yes Islamic extremist brain washing camps
is going on in many Arabic and non-Arabic
third world countries even now and it is
one of the MAIN causes of wars in the Middle
East & North Africa for sure. We are hard
pressed today in the west to ignore this
strategy of war and water it down with
our own usual western politics & Apathy
and then not protect our humanitarian
efforts against them.


Free Speech is for everyone or no one!
My Testimony
My index

sens_4_always
777 posts 

7/24/2008 9:25 pm

Gower

My dreams are too vivid, and horror hits me too deeply to be able to read a true account of such horrorific porpotions.

I can't understand why the members of the human race the leaders and the followers, glorify in the actions of demons.

Even if I doubt in heaven, I know surely there must be a hell where these people are conceived.

Sens

between the stars,
beyond the planet mars,
there Sens will be

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/25/2008 8:32 am

Who needs 'em?

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/25/2008 8:52 am

    Quoting HolyMagi:
    Agreed on the causes of these war not entirely
    agreed on the method. If we keep sending aid
    that is not properly protected than we are
    only fueling both greed and religion based
    hate and warmongering and we are then indirectly
    guilty of it ourselves. To not send troops
    and weapons to those providing security for
    Humanitarian relief & Aid would be irresponsible
    and like send LAMBS LED TO SLAUGHTER. Sending
    too much Arms & Armour would also be irresponsible
    because it could end up in enemy hands. We
    still have to step up our security operation
    in North Africa for sure and find a strategy
    that is least likely to see our arms & Aid
    end up into enemy or potential enemy's hands.

    In my perspective I'm aware it's more complex
    than this but, it just seems that all these
    conflicts result in the spread of Islam even
    in the wars that don't have Jihad as their
    main cause or support. As you pointed out
    the janjaweed tribe are Islamic and therefor,
    likely Islamic in religious orientation and
    likely to warmonger in the name of Allah or
    as Allah's favor to be their main motivation
    by teaching in fundamentalists camps of
    those who lack literacy & are impressionable.

    PS: yes Islamic extremist brain washing camps
    is going on in many Arabic and non-Arabic
    third world countries even now and it is
    one of the MAIN causes of wars in the Middle
    East & North Africa for sure. We are hard
    pressed today in the west to ignore this
    strategy of war and water it down with
    our own usual western politics & Apathy
    and then not protect our humanitarian
    efforts against them.

The west has been guilty of greed and religion based hate for centuries. History is biting back and we refuse to acknowledge it.

The United States established the School for the Americas and turned out some of the most vicious Christian thugs ever unleashed on Latin America, long before Islamic insurgents began copying their methods (learned, of course, in CIA financed camps in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan).

One of the main causes of war in the Middle East and North Africa is the west's constant attempts to subjugate and belittle cultures who have done nothing to deserve it, other than sit on reserves of oil.

If by the "spread of Islam" you mean a "threat to Christianity" then you are just as guilty as they are of fomenting religious intolerance and conflict.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/25/2008 8:55 am

    Quoting sens_4_always:
    Gower

    My dreams are too vivid, and horror hits me too deeply to be able to read a true account of such horrorific porpotions.

    I can't understand why the members of the human race the leaders and the followers, glorify in the actions of demons.

    Even if I doubt in heaven, I know surely there must be a hell where these people are conceived.

    Sens
Don't read the book, then.

Really. It's too much.

perfectK
1778 posts 

7/25/2008 10:22 am

From my part of world at that time things looked so differently.
When they were in the middle of war i had to follow every night often LIVE how the war goes.
Later on we got movies about atricities happened there. Then start to be blury for me.. There were to many in and the causes they fighted for had no logic. And i could not take time to clear it up for myself as i was in the middle of my universitariar exams.
He was poet you say... You know wife of Causescu was also academician and doctor in chemical field and she was "doctor honoris causa" ... imagine.. she.. who had only 4 elementary clases...and Causescu himself wanted to candidate at Nobel price for peace... this rise a question.. who are the people behind Radovan's poems?
Who are the people who were behind Elena's amazing research?
I doubt that beautiful words can come from such minds..
And some serbians sees him as hero?...
Some does indeed, he served their cause ...strange why UN figure out that late that he is responsable for crimes?

PretttyTall
25 posts 

7/26/2008 4:21 am

    Quoting gowerboy:
    When you read the book, you will see who the sheep are.

    Keep the light on.
I also thought of those who carried out the orders, probably often taking it upon themselves apply torture in a way that was their own. Yes, they deserve to be arrested and tried as well. However, life might have its own little way of balancing things out. They performed such acts under the influence of groups. Once out of the group, some of these monsters live with the most unbelievable guilt, filled with daily nightmares.

Keeping my fingers crossed, as self-inflicted punishment through the mind until one dies is (in my view) one of the worst.

PT

msalchemy2
1594 posts 

7/26/2008 12:12 pm

    Quoting gowerboy:
    That puts it in a different light. Sizje lies just outside Republika Srpska and is mainly Bosniak. I can find little more information about it. Does this mean that his parents were Bosnian Serbs?
You do know your history of the region. Yes, he is Nasrudin hodža decent, and we know what happened to his parents. But I do, Thank you, for your offer. He's doing well in Kazan. He's presently enrolled in the University, but of course distancing yourself has it's down falls.

I don't play it safe. If I wanted to stay safe..
I would have stayed in my mother's womb.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/28/2008 3:36 am

    Quoting perfectK:
    From my part of world at that time things looked so differently.
    When they were in the middle of war i had to follow every night often LIVE how the war goes.
    Later on we got movies about atricities happened there. Then start to be blury for me.. There were to many in and the causes they fighted for had no logic. And i could not take time to clear it up for myself as i was in the middle of my universitariar exams.
    He was poet you say... You know wife of Causescu was also academician and doctor in chemical field and she was "doctor honoris causa" ... imagine.. she.. who had only 4 elementary clases...and Causescu himself wanted to candidate at Nobel price for peace... this rise a question.. who are the people behind Radovan's poems?
    Who are the people who were behind Elena's amazing research?
    I doubt that beautiful words can come from such minds..
    And some serbians sees him as hero?...
    Some does indeed, he served their cause ...strange why UN figure out that late that he is responsable for crimes?
Karadzic was not a stupid man. Beautiful words and horrific deeds can come from the same mind.

The UN knew he was responsible, but he has been protected by Serbian security agencies. He was just another card to be used in the poker game of EU accession negotiations, and now they've played him.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/28/2008 3:38 am

    Quoting PretttyTall:
    I also thought of those who carried out the orders, probably often taking it upon themselves apply torture in a way that was their own. Yes, they deserve to be arrested and tried as well. However, life might have its own little way of balancing things out. They performed such acts under the influence of groups. Once out of the group, some of these monsters live with the most unbelievable guilt, filled with daily nightmares.

    Keeping my fingers crossed, as self-inflicted punishment through the mind until one dies is (in my view) one of the worst.

    PT
It has been shown time and time again that ordinary people are capable of some of the most extraordinarily cruel acts. Whether they then feel guilt, I don't know.

gowerboy
9195 posts

7/28/2008 3:57 am

    Quoting msalchemy2:
    You do know your history of the region. Yes, he is Nasrudin hodža decent, and we know what happened to his parents. But I do, Thank you, for your offer. He's doing well in Kazan. He's presently enrolled in the University, but of course distancing yourself has it's down falls.
If you want to get back to a place you first have to leave.
As Nasrudin himself might have said (but probably more wittily).

HappyMozart
222 posts 

8/4/2008 4:15 pm

I watched Karadzic live at his trial on the news channels last week.

He looks older and thinner. He always looks like a mild friendly man!

But I know what his forces did.

Stange life isn't it?

HM

gowerboy
9195 posts

8/30/2008 8:53 am

    Quoting HappyMozart:
    I watched Karadzic live at his trial on the news channels last week.

    He looks older and thinner. He always looks like a mild friendly man!

    But I know what his forces did.

    Stange life isn't it?

    HM
Very philosophical.

It is, indeed, a strange life.

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