A.B. Abrams

When the Jewish organisations entered the game on the side of the [Muslim] Bosnians, we could promptly equate the Serbs with the Nazis in the public mind. Nobody understood what was happening in Yugoslavia.

By a single move we were able to present a simple story of good guys and bad guys which would hereafter play itself…. Almost immediately there was a clear change of language in the press, with use of words with high emotional content such as ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘concentration camps,’ which evoke images of Nazi Germany and the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

this included widespread organised rapes of Serb, Roma and pro-government Albanian women,76

Although portrayed as freedom fighters until after the Western military campaign against Yugoslavia ended in 1999, the KLA’s war crimes were well documented by both Western and international sources.

Although claims that Serb forces had raped 20,000–100,000 Muslims were widely circulated,31 hearings held by the European Community’s Committee on Women’s Rights in February 1993 rejected them due to a lack of evidence.

and the use of child soldiers

which fabricated the most extreme claims. The BBC, for one, informed its millions of listeners that Serb snipers were under orders to single out children for targeting, and were paid 2,700 French Francs for every child killed.38 The London Daily Mirror took this even further, and alongside Germany’s Bud am Sonntag and Italy’s La Repubblica reported that a Bosnian woman was “forced to give birth to a dog” – a bizarre and biologically incredible story supported by lurid fabricated accounts of fiendish Serbian gynaecologists implanting canine foetuses into her womb.39 German parliamentary deputy Stefan Schwarz told stories in the Bundestag of Serbian “successors to Mengele” who forcibly implanted dog embryos in women, claiming that a videotape would corroborate his claim.

As stories of Serb atrocities were increasingly widely accepted by Western populations, European media outlets outdid themselves in the gruesome nature of their allegations. Even among the Western media, however, it was the British press