Thursday 21 January 2010

Genocide Deniers

Srebrenica

Last week a genocide denier commented on my blog and effectively denied that the Srebrenica massacre had occurred.  Actually, a couple of years ago before the mass graves were discovered, they denied there had been a massacre at all.  They claimed that the 8,000 men and boys were cowards who had cleverly fled town to avoid the conflict.  Unfortunately, in their expression of grief, the families and survivors were unable to accept that their loved ones were dead and so the situation perpetuated until the graves were discovered and unearthed by the UN.

With the discovery of the graves, the tactic of hate had to be altered.  When this person commented, he claimed that the Bosniaks, the Bosnian Muslims, were tired of not getting their own way in the Balkan war and so they orchestrated the massacre to force NATO involvement.  These deniers in fact can’t really make up their minds precisely how to spread their hatred as the links he posted suggest that the Bosniaks were holding Al-Qaeda training camps and therefore, in the name of the War On Terror it is only right and true that 8,000 men and boys were killed at Srebrenica.

That is right – six years before the attacks on the US and the start of the War on Terror, the Serbs magically thought to purge the world of the Al-Qaeda terrorists.  The problem with that kind of hatred is they simply aim to make our blood pressure rise but their arguments are always fundamentally flawed.

I have expressed my revulsion at genocide deniers before in my entry Right and Wrong.  This time I felt quite appalled afterwards as I had replied to the comment and that means that anyone who had previously commented would have received my reply full of fury and vitriol in their inbox.  I feel that I should apologise.  Not for what I said but for the manner in which it was executed.  Calling a commenter “scum of the earth” on your blog is not exactly the way to engender the respect of your readers or encourage further conversation and discourse.  My aim therefore will be to continue doing what I do and to weed these people out and expose their actions until the whole world knows that there is no use in them denying what they have done.

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6 comments

makegivelove said...

I am a new reader to your blog and I just wanted to say that I have so much respect for what you write about- it is so easy to ignore or deny the tragedies that are so real for many people, when we should be passionately helping these people in whatever way we can. Keep writing!

Cher Duncombe said...

Please, do continue to out these deniers. It is a pox on global society that they have the gall to state such lies. Worse yet are the people who buy into these lies and spread them like butter across current atrocities. Soul-less. Too many out there are just soul-less.

Mandy said...

@ Wandering Artist: Thank you very much! Good to meet you.

@ Cher: Thank you and thank you so much for your comment on Blogged. I'd felt a bit awkward but your encouragement really helps.

Unknown said...

With the Holocaust memorial day yesterday it seems that the deniers have decided to unlurk and they are popping up left and right again.

Thank you for doing what you are doing.

Srebrenica Genocide said...

Thank you so much for mentioning the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. Thank you for making a positive difference on a global scale. Keep blogging!

Mandy said...

@ Hevel: thank you for reading. I meant to do a post on the memorial day but I missed the deadline!

@ Srebrenica Genocide: And thank you for your continued efforts. You do so much good to bring about knowledge about this event.

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