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George -

Hi,

just one question. Where is this ribfest?

thanks, George

Alan -

Down by the waterfront.

george -

Hi,

Which waterfront in what city/province

ry -

THis has no real place belonging here, but there really isn't a way to get this stuff without cluttering up your comments section, Alan.
Rememebre a few weeks back I was saying that there is stuff out there about how the Balkans are a mess, a decade later, that nobody is talking about? Well, a buddy just sent me this about it.
Ry(no this isn't France bashing).
deleted]Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: [mil_history] French and Bosnia

> The narrative of the Srebrenica massacre has had a long and unfolding
> history over ten years. It soon emerged that the French general in
> charge of United Nations forces in Bosnia, Bernard Janvier, had given
> up on the enclaves, including Srebrenica. Not only that, but he had
> done a deal with General Mladic at a meeting on 4 June 1995 whereby he
> would not call on Nato to attack the Serbs with serious air strikes.
>
> Minutes of a meeting in Split a few days later show Janvier insisting
> that the Serbs “want to modify their behaviour” and “need
> international recognition”. Those of a further meeting in Zagreb at
> the height of the Srebrenica crisis, after Karremans had asked for air
> strikes which would have stopped the Serbian onslaught, show Janvier
> isolated over the matter, but resolute – and backed by his Japanese
> civilian boss, Yasushi Akashi. Janvier and Akashi had their way, and
> thus Srebrenica was sold to the slaughter.
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-yugoslavia/srebrenica_2651.jsp
>
> The brutality, as well as the scale, of the killing knew no bounds: on
> one infamous occasion, cited by Judge Fouad Riad at a trial in The
> Hague some years later, an elderly man was skewered to a tree by a
> knife and made to eat the innards of his grandson; “truly scenes from
> hell,” said the judge, “written on the darkest pages of human
> history”.
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kobiece strony... >>> http://kobieta.interia.pl/

Mike -

Hi,

I've noticed that someone else has asked where this ribfest is, and i would like to know as well? e.g. lake On is on burlington so what magor city is it on or near?

thanks,Mike

Alan -

That be Kingston up there, Mike. Happens every summer.

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