Originally Posted by essay editor \H2SO4/
In August 1992, millions of people were shocked to see photographs of a supposed Bosnian Serb death camp.
You may recall those pictures. Taken by the British news station, ITN, they focused on Fikret Alic, the emaciated-looking man on the left. The mass media broadcast these pictures as supposed "proof" that Alic and the others were imprisoned behind barbed wire in a death camp for Muslims run by the Bosnian Serbs.
President Bush, Sr. claimed the pictures proved that harsh measures were needed against the Bosnian Serbs.
But these men were *not* imprisoned behind barbed wire. The ITN film crew were filming from inside a fenced-in area used to store building materials. By filming through the fence (composed of chicken wire with a few strands of barbed wire on top) ITN created the impression of a concentration camp.
In fact this was a refugee center, as one of the refugees tries to explain to ITN reporter Penny Marshall.
Using footage shot by a Serbian TV crew that accompanied ITN in Bosnia, the Emperor's Clothes film 'Judgment!' proves the Serbian "death camp" story was a lie. It shows that the people in the picture, reproduced above. were chatting and joking with the ITN film crew. Then it demonstrates, step by step, how the phony death camp pictures were created.
The "death camp" lie was used to demonize the Serbs and justify devastating economic sanctions against the Serbs, and NATO military intervention - including massive bombing - in Yugoslavia.
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