Sir, Here we go again As soon as the Western media start publicising the suffering of the Serbs, some organisation or individual discovers, from the usually reliable sources some new Serbian atrocity to deflect the current reporting trends. When 200,000 Serbs were fleeing from Krajina, the focus was shifted to the alleged mass grave in Srebrenica, and some 200 Croats expelled from Serbia (of course, the fact that over 10,000 Croats still live in Serbia was conveniently ignored).
Now that the Sarajevo Serbs are leaving en mass, unwilling to live in Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic state, and the media is publishing their tragedy, the Croatian Helsinki Committee suddenly discovers another Serb atrocity, a mass grave in a Ljubija mine. As usual, the sources are reliable, and as usual the figures are vague but sensational there may be 1,000 bodies, maybe 8,000.
Of course, that committee, and others of its ilk, stayed silent on the mass graves of Serbs killed in Croatia in 1991, the mass graves of some 600 Serbs slaughtered like cattle while fleeing West Slavonia in May 1995, on the continued murders of the few elderly Serbs who remained in Krajina, on the current burning and looting of the Serb property in towns currently occupied by the Croat army, and which are supposed to revert to the Serbs under the Dayton agreement?
No doubt, there are many mass graves across Bosnia Hercegovina. If one is to believe the Muslim government, over 250,000 people have been killed in this war. Even if the true figure is only a quarter of that, obviously these people have not all been interred in individual graves. But nobody has yet shown who lies in these mass graves soldiers and civilians who died in the fighting, or just the civilians killed in cold blood. The answer is, no doubt, all of them, and on all three sides of the conflict.
With all the information which has become available in the last few months, the time has surely come for the "bash the Serbs" campaign to stop Yours etc., Serbian Information Bureau, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.