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...Bosnian government sat down with its domestic foes and their godfathers, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, for another round of peace talks. Everyone felt the mood of deja vu, but this time the Muslims had to choose between taking what little they might get in a settlement now, or holding out for more -- and losing everything. Washington debated whether it could use a flash of air power to warn the Serbs away from Sarajevo without encouraging the Muslims to balk at signing an agreement. That was as much a sop to conscience as a calibrated military...
Standing brazenly among the honored guests, personifying the very tragedy ^ Wiesel condemned, was Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. His Croat brethren had just begun a vicious onslaught of "ethnic cleansing" in western Bosnia, burning villages and villagers in one of the cruelest campaigns of the war. "Whole valleys of people have been massacred here," a British peacekeeper on the scene reported. "It's horrendous...
...last week. Jerusalem received a most unexpected visitor: Martin Bormann, son of the Hitler aide of the same name, came to pay tribute at that city's Holocaust memorial. There were discordant notes as well. In Washington Wiesel and others were outraged at the presence of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who had claimed in a 1988 book that the number of Holocaust deaths is widely exaggerated. Most shockingly, one in five American adults (see the chart) said in a survey they were unconvinced that the Holocaust had ever occurred...
...police chief Drljaca. "It's a religious war." The operative lie is that Bosnia's Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, is bent on creating a Muslim fundamentalist state. Never mind that Bosnia's Muslims are not fundamentalist, indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs claim that an "Islamic Declaration" that Izetbegovic wrote in the 1970s is proof of his intention to establish a religious state. "There was nothing in it," says...
...objective of the war is Serbian "ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share of territory, and Bosnian Muslims, fighting at the raw level of their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders...