The Independent refers to Karadzic as a "Monster." Think back to last year and consider: "How do they know what they know?" How have they attempted to justify their knowledge claims? Please be specific.
The knowers in the two articles are claiming to know what they know from deduction and rationalization. Peter Mass describes his first hand account of his tours through the prison camps and depicts the torture and pain he has witnessed. Clearly only a monster, something that is inhuman, inhumane, could allow something like this to happen. He uses deduction to conclude what is really going on behind the scenes, what is being hidden to make the camps look good. His emotional response as a human to seeing other humans tortured and beat tells him that what is going on is wrong. Being a human and having a disgusted response to what is happening in the authors mind only something inhuman, not humane, could allow a monstrosity like this to occur. Dare I say a monster? The independent uses deduction and authoritative reasoning to claim that Karadzic is a Monster. Similar to Peter Mass, being humans who create the Independent, a normal response to such cruelty and hatred they responded with fear, disgust, confusion, and an automatic bias that blocks their reasoning from seeing Karadzics views on the situation. The fear, disgust, and confusion of how someone could allow this to happen makes the knowers automatically dehumanize him by calling him a monster. Making it easier to hate what him from what he has done. They can claim that they know things also from the images, reports, and other sources of information that they have at thier fingertips to interpret as they wish. Which is authoritative.
2 comments:
Steph:
Please use even more specifics from the reading on your blog. You need to reflect a bit more on the articles provided. A nice attempt to mention the Mas reading, but use specific quotes from the readings to justify your claims - Each post must be 20 min. A good attempt to use WoK.
Question: 4/5
Wok/Aok: 4/5
Personal:3/5
Punctuality:5/5
Total: 16/20
Where is the second blog???
A second even more significant find involves the fact that "at least 100 people" buried at the Memorial died of natural causes. Ivanisevic claims that the numbers would be even larger if he'd been allowed access to the death books in Srebrenica and the surrounding towns. Nevertheless, several names with dates of birth, death and place of demise are provided: Fetahija (Nazif) Hasanovic, b. 1955 – d. Dec.15, 1996, Srebrenica; Sukrija (Amil) Smajlovic, b.1946 – d. May 2,1996, Zaluzje; Maho (Suljo) Rizvanovic, b.1953 – d. Jan. 3,1993, Glogova; Mefail (meho) Demirovic, b.1970 – d. May 10, 1992, Krasanovici; Redzic (Ahmet) Asim, b.1949 – d. April 22, 1992, Bratunac.
Thirdly, Ivanisevic charges that several hundred soldiers as well as civilians were transferred to the Srebrenica Memorial from other cemeteries and reburied, with Muslim burial rituals. One of these is the body of Hamed (Hamid) Halilovic (1940-1982), transferred from the nearby cemetery in Kazani, who apparently died a full 13 years before the Srebrenica "genocide." Other bodies transferred from Kazani to the Srebrenica Memorial include those of Osman (Ibro) Halilovic (1912-1989), Nurija (Smajo) Memisevic (1966-1993), Salih (Saban) Alic (1969-1992), Mujo (Hasim) Hadzic (1954-1993), Ferid (Ramo) Mustafic (1975-1993) and Hajrudin (Ismet) Cvrk (1974-1992).
Fourth, using captured records of the Bosnian Muslim Army, Ivanisevic lists more than a dozen names of soldiers whose families were granted housing and social benefits due to families of soldiers killed in action before Nov. 11, 1993, when the documents were captured by Bosnian Serb army force Fifth, on the basis of similarly captured documents, Ivanisevic provides several dozen names of Bosnian Muslim army fighters killed before March 7, 1994.
http://real-srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/ http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/jihad-in-Europe.html
Post a Comment