http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0603/30/opinion/6internati.htm
The Ithacan
Ithaca College, USA
March 30, 2006
Letter
International genocide forges on
By Aleksandar Pavic
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro - The zeal to condemn
and punish horrible crimes, as seen in the article
“Genocide must be recognized” by Kim Gillman, is
highly commendable.
However, it is important to get the facts straight.
Prior to the Bosnian war, Slobodan Milosevic tried to
make deals with moderate Muslims, Filipovic and
Zulfikarpasic, which would have preserved Bosnia
within Yugoslavia, but Bosnian president Izetbegovic
sabotaged them.
In 1993, Fikret Abdic, who outpolled Izetbegovic in
the 1990 elections but was pressured to back down,
made peace with the local Serbs and Croats in western
Bosnia but received no Western support whatsoever.
As for two other claims in the text: “200,000” dead:
the 2006 figure by a Sarajevo commission is 96,000
dead — on all three sides.
Compare to, say, Iraq.
Milosevic tried to “make a pure Serbian nation”:
Serbia was and remains the most multi-ethnic of all
the ex-Yugoslav republics.
Focusing attention on Milosevic has deflected it from
the true warmongers, Germany and the Vatican, which
unilaterally recognized secessionist republics
Slovenia and Croatia before a settlement could be
reached.
Later, the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Zimmerman,
talked Izetbegovic into withdrawing his signature on
the 1992 Lisbon Plan, which would have kept the peace
in Bosnia.
Milosevic may have been a lot of things, but
“genocidal” he wasn’t.
The new brand of “international justice” actually
instrumentalizes the very concept of “genocide” and
“war crimes” for some very pragmatic ends.
What that actually does is to make future genocides
much more likely.
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