[Marxism] Racak?

[Louis Proyect]

Michael Karadjis wrote:
> Newsweek broke a story in its April 24, 2000 issue
> that the team had discovered bullets in the gully, confirming that the
> killing was indeed a massacre as earlier reported.

Good grief. When a Marxist journalist quotes Newsweek so shamelessly, I 
really worry about the Green Left comrades.

Here's what the Newsweek article said:

"Still, a crucial piece of the puzzle was missing. Despite a large 
number of victims' wounds, few bullets were ever found. The bullets had 
to be somewhere--but no one had looked for them. Last November, Ranta 
led a team back to the site. Exploring the ravine for the first time, 
she said, the experts found the forensic evidence that had lain 
untouched for all those months."

Can't you just see it? The investigative team returned to the scene of 
the crime and found the bullets. Eureka. They must have had NYC cops 
working with them. Just ask the widow of Sean Bell.

Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted Ranta, even after she "discovered" the 
bullets: "I see no reason to change anything in my initial statement." 
In fact, she never denied that there was a massacre, only that one could 
not be proved. "Moreover, medicolegal investigations cannot give a 
conclusive answer to the question whether there was a battle or whether 
the victims died under some other circumstances."

But that doesn't stop "decent leftists" like David Wall, Michael 
Karadjis and Roger Lippman from drawing such a conclusion, that a 
massacre took place. Clearly we are dealing with Serbophobe fanatics who 
are beyond reason. They have gone beyond the pale and entered the 
dubious realm of propaganda. Not propaganda in the Leninist sense but in 
the Newsweek sense.