Home Forums Serbian Yellow Pages Library ... Email Notes on "death camp" defense fund launch Posted by Lissa on March 07, 1997 at 11:08:53: These have come my way:
[All comments in square brackets are mine. These are from notes taken quickly and in poor handwriting. Any errors are mine.] Speakers: Thomas Deichmann , freelance journalist, author of "The pictures which fooled the world"
George Kenney , formally of the Yugoslav desk at the US State Department, efore resigning in August 1992
Mick Hume , editor of LM and named in ITN's libel action for printing Thomas Deichmann's story
Thomas Deichmann In a short introduction, Thomas set out the heart of the story. The pictures are misleading; Penny Marshall and Ian Williams never called Trnopolje a "concentration camp", but pictures tell their own story, so they were interpreted as a "Nazi-style camp"; None of the journalists involved corrected that false impression. Some journalists are very excited about who Thomas is. He has written articles in 25-30 papers throughout Europe. He was an "expert witness" to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, called by Dusko Tadic's defence team. For the last few years he has specialised on the wars in Yugoslavia. He has no political or personal links to any Serb institution, he has never taken sides in the wars in Yugoslavia and is not "pro-Serb". He stands for the idea of professional standards of journalism - that journalists should not manipulate the facts. At Trnopolje camp, people weren't happy and they wanted food. No-one would want to be there if they could have been somewhere else outside the war zone. There is no such thing as a "good" camp. Trnopolje was not a nice place. | |
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