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Tears filled the eyes of the men and women who stood in the wintry spring wind at last week's dedication of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, remembering the mass murder of a half-century ago. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the German death camps, turned from the audience to address Bill Clinton, who was sitting behind him. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been in the former Yugoslavia last fall. I cannot sleep since what I have seen. We must do something to stop the bloodshed." Wiesel almost pleaded: "Something, anything, must be done...
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...
...Wiesel said that the first thing he saw upon being liberated was a Black soldier weeping," he added...
...chair and chief executive of Chicagobased Telemat, Ltd.; Antonio Madero '58, founder and chief executive of Mexico's Corporacion Industrial San Luis; Frank N. Newman '63, vice chair and chief financial officer of BankAmerica; Anne H. Richardson '51, chair of Washington D.C.-based Reading is Fundamental; and Torsten N. Wiesel, President of Rockefeller University...
...Popovic barks on. "They say they are innocent! But did they tell you about the lists of Serbian women they kept that they wanted to put into harems?" There it is again, the Muslim horde. Wiesel calms the colonel and pleads for more blankets for the prisoners...