From: Boris Pribich 7/25/95
(Address deleted for posting)
To: Elton Gallegly, Congressman
Fax: Washington D.C.
Dear Congressman Gallegly,
What I find disturbing, and must pursue in order to protect my ci-
vil rights, is the severe bias by our administration against Bosnian
Serbs. On June 23, I sent a letter to the White House comment line de-
manding an explanation. Your office was carbon copied.
In view of our administration's persistance to bomb my family in
Bosnia, I must have an immediate accounting of any legal foundation on
which it may be based. The State Department provided copies of state-
ments made by Warren Christopher and Richard Holbrooke instead of the
requested policy on Bosnia. It appears that there is no policy.
Unless I am presented with proof of a legally sufficient basis for
those threats, I will file charges for violation of my civil rights in
defense of our Constitution and this country. If our administration is
mislead, it also must be protected.
With this letter I am asking for your assistance on how to proceed
with expediency. If we do not act immediately, this administration is
on a collision course that will cause great harm to this country, our
Constitution and to my family in Bosnia.
My research to date has found no legal foundation for our biased
treatment of Bosnian Serbs. In a civil war, where neighbor is fighting
neighbor, we can not legally apply rules of conventional war. Attroci-
ties have been commited by all sides in this war.
In 1992 Muslems carried dozens of Serbian heads on stakes through
the streets of Srebrenica while tens of thousands of Serbs fled. Each
of those heads was traded for 25 kilograms (50 lbs) of flour. I chal-
lenge anybody to face me in a court of law and lay a foundation to any
claim of Serb aggression or attrocities.
Thank you for your prompt responses to my previous letters as well
as for any future ones.
Sincerely,
Boris Pribich
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cc: Dianne Feinstein, Senator, Washington DC
Serbian American Affairs Council, Washington DC
Yugoslav Embassy, Washington DC
White House comment Fax, Washington DC