This is the letter written to me by a friend of mine, left-libertarian
intelectual from Paris, one of the assistent of P. Bourdieu, well acquainted
with Yugoslav situation. It is an assesment of Berne's article.
 I think that this emotionaly charged  text is more worthy of attention than
any analisy or discussion.
Comradely,
                            Andrej
Names mentioned are my corrections, of course...


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To: Andrej Grubacic <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [CHOMSKY] YUGOSLAVIA: A HOLOCAUST DENIED by Geoff Berne


my dear Andrej

Unfortunately this text is bringing nothing new to something that you and I
know
too well. I agree with you on the fact that this text is excessive in
denying
the crimes committed by some groups of Serbs, and that it is right in saying
that now, the Serbs are victims of a hideous system of collective guilt.

I know, unfortunately too well, what the anti-serb hatred means. I told you
I
standed insults last year when I was criticizing NATO bombings on Internet.
I
told you how much I suffered every day of the way the journalists pronounced
the
word "Serb" with hatred in their voice, how much I suffered reading articles
and
seeing drawings (I was ashamed of being French). I told you how much I was
ashamed when I saw the way hungarian customers treated all the people in the
mini-van EXCEPT ME, just because they were Serb and I was French. The worst
thing I saw, was when I found myself twice with Elizabeta Petrovic amongst a
group of
Serb people down a stair of the French consulate in Budapest. A young man
Hungarian , with very short hair, the kind of perfect nazi submitting people
to
harsh commands "don't sit on the chairs" "stand in lines". I was up to show
that
man my French passport and hit his fucking nazi face. Elizabeta was
laughing. I did
not. I thought to myself : she's jewish and serb, and the people around are
serb. All those people here had people in there family who died in nazi
camps.
And that young hungarian fascist, whose forefathers were probably supporting
the
pro-nazi hungarian regime is now treating again the sons of victims like in
concentration camps. It really made me sick Andrej. Especially because it
was in
a French consulate. So don't tell me how the Serbs are treated in Europe
Andrej,
I know that too much, and it makes me suffer enough.

....... often tried to sooth me saying "well, c'est la vie. Racism is always
racism, my black friends suffer from that every day. The racists are stupid
but
they are a minority". I wonder. I wonder if anti-serb racism is not worse
now
than anti-african one. I hate that. I was not aware of that before 1998 but
now
I'm fully aware. I'm too much aware. I know that I'll have to wait for
Elizabet for
a very long time in Amsterdam just because she's Serb : all the Serb will
have
to show what they have in their luggage at the airport, while the other
European
passengers will pass quietly the custom. I know that too much Andrej. And it
makes me sick.


OPM