GR-related: American RadioWorks: The Promise of Justice: Burning the Evidence

[Doug Millison]

...broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday afternoon, a 
gruesome story about a lead manufacturing plant that the Serb army 
used to dispose of the bodies of massacred men, women, and children 
in Kosovo, using the same processes that are used to prepare and 
refine lead ore.  One of the men who worked in the plant, interviewed 
in the feature, made the genocide/factory system link explicit in his 
remarks.

More of that "convergence" Pynchon discusses in the Luddite essay, 
perhaps, and which he depicts in GR.

"Serbian security forces incinerated the remains of hundreds of 
ethnic Albanians in an industrial furnace during the 1999 war in 
Kosovo. The secret operation was part of a highly organized effort by 
Serbia's leadership to conceal evidence of possible war crimes from 
international investigators. "
continues at
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/010126.kosovo.html

This site includes a brief overview of the story and a Real Audio feed.
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