THE US SOLDIERS UNDER BELGRADE COMMAND

Re: Why and how President Clinton joined the humilation of Bosnian Army?

Honorable Congressmans

                 Bosnia never asked US soldiers to fight, 
                                    nor 
           US politicians to negotiate its division with Belgrade 
                                    

Does Bosnia need another 100,000 civilian casualties for the embargo against
its self-defense be lifted? 

In the interview to CNN TV network (June 4, 1995), President Clinton
referred to the smaller number of Bosnian civilian casualties in 1994 (in
comparison with 130,000 murdered Bosnian citizens in 1992) as proof of the
success of his administration's policy in Bosnia. 

The one important thing that anyone should know is that the reduced number of
dead is not the result of "peace negotiations", "limiting the war to Bosnia", 
or "keeping the arms embargo against Government forces." Nor is this the result
of any other application of the Administration's strategy. The cited difference
in the number of dead is because the first huge number of causalities in 1992 
was the result of a well prepared genocide scenario, written in the Yugoslav 
Army headquarters in Belgrade, a number of years before it commenced.  Thus, 
the initial shock and mass extermination was a result of the fact that Karadzic
had members of the Yugoslav Army corps transferred to Bosnia, from Slovenia and
Croatia, after acceptance of the Vance plan for Croatia which substituted 
the Yugoslav Army troops on the Serb-Croat front lines with UNPROFOR troops.  
It has already been well proven by numerous observers that this was a well 
prepared and premeditated genocide by the aggressor against Bosnian citizens.
It is hard to believe that this was not known to the Western military leaders, 
political observers, and analysts. The delay in the public recognition by
France and Britain that concentration camps existed proves that the observers 
were caught off guard. The real suprise only came because of the unexpected
cruelty and the dimensions of the "greater Serbia protagonists." These mistakes
in Britain and France are today openly discussed, and now the concept of
needing earlier to put UNPROFOR peace keeping troops in Bosnia and the "multiethnic
Balkans" is advocated.

The high causalities of Bosnian civilians during 1992, was a result of a
couple of hundred documented concentration camps run by Serb/Yugoslav army
and militias -- including additional death camps and monthly street killings 
of thousands peoples undefended towns (Prijedor, Zvornik, Brcko). In the
Bosnian-Serb border towns on Drina river, such as Foca, Zvornik, and Visegrad,
hundreds of surprised people were killed daily in columns -- their throats
slit by knife and their bodies thrown into the Drina river regardless of whether
they were children, old men, or women. 

The truth is that the reduced number of dead in 1994, is the result of
(unexpected) emergence of Bosnian Army, that started defending the
citizens in the spring of 1992 and developed into a fighting force worthy
of a respect as the time went by and the battles raged.  In their high
moral ground of justice, the Bosnian Army expected that the support from
the world and the USA would come sooner or later as they had been led to
believe. Instead, the Bosnian soldiers continue to be cynically and illegally
humiliated by being forced under the arms embargo (a violation of UN Charter's 
Article 51 giving sovereign nations the right to self-defense). 
And, to add insult to injury, Bosnian citizens and their Army,
their country recognized by the US on April 7, 1992 as a sovereign
international entity, today in the speeches of Administration's officials are
being publicly insulted by being lumped in with their enemies . In the
recent CNN TV interview, President Clinton casually stated that the
"sides in the conflict" are "killing each other." 

Second thing that requires to be pointed out, is that Bosnians should be
seriously concerned with the President's statement on CNN in which he used
the victimization of the victim argument in the preceding discussion about 
lifting of the arms embargo. The genocide is an indisputable
argument for lifting of the embargo to Bosnia. The argument against it is 
used in context of the failed Douglas Hurd argumentat concerning "containing 
the war (or genocide) in Bosnia" and "limiting the amount of hostilities", 
by three-year long veto of Bosnia's right to self defense. The smaller number 
of civilian casualties is the result of the "surprisingly" organized, 
motivated, and civilized people that were sentenced to the death penalty.  
"Bosnia lost the war" was the phrase that tried to simplify the thinking 
of the European public, was stated by the US Chief of
Staff in Januarry this year, just after the European politicians where
looking for somebody else to ruin their own credibility should Bihac survive. 

Regarding the modalities of the US involvement , Bosnians are even not
asking that or any US soldier to fight for them, Bosnia is only asking
their right to defend themselves. After last President Clintons statement,
creating the "NEED" for unrecognized rump-Yugoslavia to recognize ,
recognized Bosnia, exchanging lifting of the sanctions against guilty for
war ( not guilty for not recognizing Bosnia), it seems that soon Bosnians
will have to ask the USA to recognise Bosnia again. The price that Bosnia
is already asked to pay for all that is obviously to slow "the conflict"
between UN Charter and Karadzic, by "peace negotiation" between Bosnia and
Karadzic , about the remainding legal signature s that Karadjic's new country of
graves needs. 

This text with all of the emotions in it, is the result of believing in 
the indisputably strong, moral and clean spirit of America and its people. 


Borogovac Musadik  
English language editing by Sven Rustenpasic



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