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LETTERS
Tangled path to war
It's all the fault of the Serbs and Radovan Karadzic (your report, 23
July). Why then was the Dayton Agreement not reached before the
Bosnian wars broke out?
There was, after all, the confederal-cantonal Cutileiro Plan,
provisionally agreed by Bosnia's three ethnic leaders at negotiations
hosted by the European Community in Lisbon on 23 February, 1992. The
Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, who all along wanted a centrally
governed Bosnia, flew back to Sarajevo and met the US ambassador to
Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann. Encouraged by Mr Zimmermann, Mr
Izetbegovic disowned the plan. Washington had, in effect, pushed the
Europeans aside and paved the way for war. Some three-and-a-half years
later, Washington was congratulating itself for having engineered the
confederal-cantonal Dayton Agreement.
The beliefs of the West's favourite leader, Alija Izetbegovic, echoed
those of Islamists. His authorship of The Islamic Declaration in 1970
earned him a prison sentence. In it, he yearned for a caliphate
subject to Islamic law from Morocco to Indonesia, and ultimately
elsewhere whenever and wherever Muslims attained a majority.
Irony abounds. Just as many in the West today fear Islamist
organisations advocating a caliphate, so Bosnia's Serbs and Croats
feared a centrally governed, Izetbegovic-led Bosnia. Moreover, if
Izetbegovic were alive today, he would not be granted entry into the
US.
YUGO KOVACH
The Barons
Twickenham, Middlesex
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Last Updated: 24 July 2008 8:33 PM
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