Why do you ignore the suffering of Orthodox Christians?

["MR JAVIER BERNAL" <988005350@98.LINCOLN.AC.UK>]

{PRIVATE}The New York Times
Weekend in Review (page 18)
Sunday, May 2, 1999. 
                         President Clinton,
                         Why do you ignore
                           the suffering 
                            of Orthodox 
                             Christians?
200,000 Cypriot refugees have been prevented from returning to their 
homes for 25 years by 30,000 Turkish troops.
Why is no forcible action being taken against Turkey to compel their 
return?

600,000 Orthodox Christians (Greeks and Vlachs) are being persecuted in 
the Northern Epiros region of Southern Albania. They are guaranteed 
autonomy under international agreements going back to 1914. 
Why are you not calling for their autonomy the way you are for Albanians 
in Kosovo?

The leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army have stated publicly that after 
they "liberate" Kosovo, they intend to go after areas in the former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia and Northern Greece to create a Greater Albania. 
Why don't Washington and NATO compel them to renounce all claims to 
any territory of their neighbors?

350,000 Orthodox Serbs were driven from their ancestral lands in Croatia 
in 1995. 
Why are you doing nothing to force Croatia to let them return, while 
bombing Serbia relentlessly to compel the return of Albanians to 
Kosovo?

Earlier in this century, Turks exterminated 2,000,000 Armenians and 
Greeks and carried out the most extensive ethnic cleansing in history, 
forcing 1,500,000 Greeks to leave their homes in Anatolia. Yet every effort 
to condemn that genocide has been opposed by your administration.

Why is Washington more tolerant when the victims are Orthodox 
Christians? 
Why is American foreign policy slanted against Orthodox Christians 
wherever we turn?

Orthodox Christians abhor acts of ethnic or racial oppression perpetrated 
by anyone at anytime. We condemn the acts of ethnic cleansing carried out 
by the Milosevic government, as strongly as we condemn similar acts 
carried out against our people. Help the Kosovo refugees: Punish 
Milosevic. But lighten our pain too!

Most Orthodox countries fought with America in both world wars and 
millions died for our shared values. We deserve better.

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