Owen

Hello Emir

I'm pretty sure Amnesty's use of the word Massacre was not accidental.

Back at the time 15 or so years ago Jasna Causevic and I engaged with Amnesty after they invited Noam Chomsky to give their annual lecture in Belfast, asking how they reconciled the invitation with Chomsky's record on Bosnia, Kosova/o and Cambodia.  

We had a very unsatisfactory response from them.  They asked Chomsky for his comments on what we said and then by mistake included the trail of communication with Chomsky in a reply to Jasna (unfortunately that answer has since been lost).  

Chomsky was very offended that he was even being asked to explain himself and ended up throwing his toys out of the pram and refusing to answer Amnesty's questions.  

Amnesty just wriggled out of further conversation with us and even refused to explain to us why they (not just Chomsky) were referring to the Massacre in their communications with us rather than the Genocide.  

The person at Amnesty who was responsible for the invitation to Chonsky and probably for their position re Srebrenica was someone called Patrick Corrigan, head of Amnesty Northern Ireland.

You are right to go after them.  There are some good, very decent human rights activtsts at Amnesty and there are also some questionable ideologues.

I wish I hadn't lost my copy of the exchange between Chomsky and Amnesty - it was pathetic on both sides.

All the best

Owen