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anyone remember that picture taken of the 'refugee in a prison camp'? It was used to support claims of genocide. Later on, the 'camp' was found and they determined that the fence did indeed exist.. but it was around a power generator and meant to keep people out. The photographer turned out to have taken the picture from inside the generator area looking out. (early faux-photos by the lib-media)

(early faux-photos by the lib-media)

As reported by Thomas Deichmann in Michael Hume's Living Marxism magazine, no less, and still endlessly repeated by those who choose to ignore the sordid end of the episode in a London courtroom where Hume and Deichmann were tried for libel by the "lib-media" reporters.

There has never been any question in my opinion or in the article that I published that this camp was anything other than a grim place at which there were beatings, there were killings and there were rapes. There has never been any question of that. We have never argued contrary to that. - Michael Hume

I do not say that they at the time were able to leave and there - you know, there were fences, there were guards, which we have seen here, armed guards. - Thomas Deichmann

You might want to do a little more rigorous fact-checking yourself.

Just a thought.

Trnopolje was Bosnia '92, rather than Kosovo '99, btw, and here is more than you ever wanted to know about the whole affair.

Yes, the dilapidated, broken old fence - there long before the war - was mainly chicken wire with a few strands of barbed wire at the top, and with leaning thin poles. The British news crew entered the fenced area through a gap where the fence was broken, and then filmed from behind the fence. The curious men gathered round it as the reporter, Penny Marshall, engaged them in questions, and started pointing out men who looked thin. Finally, a man in the crowd pushed forward a man, saying something like here's a really skinny man for you. The man had some skeletal deformation/disease, but was otherwise uninjured and clean, as were all the others on that hot summer day.

You can see the chicken wire all below where the one man rests his hand:

You can make out a dusty/dirt-caked wheelbarrel in the lower right of the picture which shows Penny Marshall and some of her film crew: