Please do distribute this gem far and wide. It’s truly worth it…
“The Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada”: Genocide Deniers,
Hypocrites, Character Assassins
By James Bissett
Former Canadian Ambassador in Yugoslavia James Bissett, Chairman of The Lord
Byron Foundation, unveils some curious and disturbing facts about a gauche
Bosniak outfit that has tried to “ban” Dr. Srdja Trifkovic from speaking at UBC
Vancouver next week. It’s an eminently postmodern and thus grimly amusing little
story…
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ABosnian-Muslim propaganda front, calling itself The Institute for Research of
Genocide of Canada, has triedto have Dr. Srdja Trifkovic “banned” (South African
Apartheid-style) from speaking at the University of British Columbia next
Thursday, March 24. What is outrageous – and faintly funny, in a postmodern kind
of way – is that, over the years, the “Institute” has indulged in World War Two
genocide denial of the sort that would make David Duke blush. It has also
attempted to blacken the reputation of one of Canada’s most highly respected
soldiers and to make patently false claims about its standing in the
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GENOCIDE DENIAL – Before the “Institute’s” director, Emir Ramiæ, and his cohorts
remove the incriminating material, please take a look at their featured article
“Examination of Serbian Deaths in Jasenovac Camp” – a nauseating piece of
Holocaust denial – and then contrast it with a more authoritative source, such
as the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Contrast the “Institute’s” hate-filled ravings
with the entry on “Jasenovac” by Menachem Shelach, Encyclopedia of the
Holocaust, 1990, p. 739, which says, “Some six hundred thousand peoplewere
murdered at Jasenovac.” The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamestimated
“that close to 600,000 … mostly Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, were murdered at
Jasenovac.”
“A historical revisionist like Trifkovic should not be allowed to lecture in an
academic context,” says the “Institute.” This is the moral and intellectual
equivalent of David Irving demanding measures against Yad VashemCenter (at which
Dr. Trifkovic, incidentally, delivered the keynote speech at a symposium on the
holocaust in Yugoslaviain June 2006). Historical evidence clearly suggests that
the magnitude of the crimes that were committed at the Jasenovac death camp
during the Second World War exceed anything that happened at Srebrenica in 1995
by not less than thirtyfold. In nature those crimes were unspeakably more
gruesom.
SELECTIVE MEMORY — What happened to the Armenians around the time of WW I
constitutes an infinitely more genuine case of „genocide“ than what happened to
any one side during the Bosnian war of 1991-95. Nevertheless, I am not aware of
the „Institute“ seeking to ban and as the „genocide deniers“ those Turkish
government officials — meaning ALL Turkish government officials — who are
adamant that what happened to the Armenians is NOT a genocide.
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION – An indication of the lengths this disreputable
organization will go to misrepresent the facts and slander the name of anyone
who might take a different (i.e. more objective) view of the events that took
place in Bosnia during the conflict there in the early 1990s is the item posted
on their web site on December 26, 2010, entitled “The Shocking Account by Raped
Bosniak Women and Criminal Undertakings of Lt. General (Ret.) Lewis Mackenzie.”
During the war in Bosnia, the Muslim leadership became furious when General
Mackenzie – who was representing the United Nations – was not deceived (as many
journalists were) by the blatant propaganda generated by the Muslim side and by
his insistence at remaining impartial. In an attempt to have him replaced, the
Muslims concocted false charges of rape and misconduct against him. These
charges were so obviously fabricated they were summarily dismissed by
responsible authorities. As the general was able to prove, he was not even in
Bosniawhen many of the alleged offences took place.
Despite the facts, the “Genocide Institute” continues to knowingly slander the
good name of General Mackenzie and their web site contains a long list of so –
called rape victims who relate in lurid detail how they were raped – sometimes
seven and eight times – by the Canadian officer. They even claim that during
some of these rapes the general was “protected ‘– not by UN troops but by
heavily armed “Chetniks.” The stories are so obviously fabricated that to those
who know the General personally – as I do – can only wonder at the seriously
psychotic nature of individuals who would repeat these lunatic charges.
MISREPRESENTATION – Outrageously, Emir Ramic purports to speak “on behalf of
more than 50.000 Canadians of Bosnian origin” when demanding a “ban” on
Trifkovic. People of “Bonsian origin” are Serbs, Croats, and Muslims (who have
taken to calling themselves “Bosniaks” in the 1990’s). Statistically, of those
50,000 Canadians some 22,000 are Muslims, 17,000 Serbs, and 9,000 Croats. It is
to be hoped that the Bosnian-Muslim community in Canadahas enough common sense
not to allow Mr. Ramic to claim to speak on its behalf. As for the Serbs and
Croats, the claim is patently preposterous. It is the equivalent of the IRA
claiming to speak on behalf of all Northern Irishmen, Protestants included. It
is the equivalent of Hezbollah claiming the authority to represent all people of
“Lebanese origin.”
HYPOCRISY – When it suits its peculiar agenda, the „Institute“ wants to
promote the decisions of international bodies, such as The Hague Tribunal
(ICTY), as sacrosanct and decisive: after the Tribunal’s verdict is pronounced,
no debate is allowed – the issue is no longer a matter of opinion. At the same
time, its activists demand the revision of the 1995 Dayton Accords and in
particular they clamor for the abolition of the Republika Srpska established
under Dayton. This demand is in clear contravention of a key political decision
of the highest international body of them all, the United Nations… the body
which is the founder of The Hague Tribunal itself. A subsidiary offshoot is to
be kowtowed to unthinkingly, but its originator is to be defied, as it suits the
political needs of the “Institute” and its abettors.
AS FOR THE UNIVERSITY, let me note that the UBC powers-that-be have not
responded directly to the call for Trifkovic’s “ban,” but rather by
re-circulating the 2009 “Respectful Debate” memorandum to students and staff by
the University President, Professor Stephen Toope. Written in the context of the
controversy surrounding an event related to the Middle East, it reiterated the
University’s respect for free speech and its demand for respect for opposing
viewpoints. Only indirectly does it address the attempt of one group to prevent
another from articulating its views, thus thwarting “discussion across
boundaries and across preconceptions” that Professor Toope asserted the UBC
favours.
Personally, I would have preferred a more specific answer to this issue. The
reaction to a specific wrong should include, but should not be limited to, a
blanket condemnation of all similar wrongs. Pope Pius XII has been criticised,
rightly, for using oblique and indirect language to condemn real and present
wrongs. While not of the same order of moral magnitude, the reaction by USB
authorities is not qualitatively different.
JUST A COINCIDENCE? – Let it be noted that the “Institute for Research of
Genocide of Canada” uses for itself the acronym “IRGC.” That acronym is more
commonly associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. While
conceivably accidental, the coincidence is not altogether inapt.
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