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Introduction<br />

in a philosophy of impartiality and non-violence which, however admirable, was<br />

unsuited to the conflict in Bosnia” (SG/SM/9993). <strong>The</strong> claim of impartiality or<br />

indifference on the part of the United States and its allies was then, and remains<br />

to this day, a falsification of the historical record.<br />

24 See items cited in n. 21, above. Also see Lenard J. Cohen, Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia’s<br />

Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition, 2nd. Ed. (Boulder, CO:<br />

Westview Press, 1995); David Owen, Balkan Odyssey (New York: Harcourt Brace<br />

& Co., 1995); Susan L. Woodward, Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after<br />

the Cold War (Brookings, Washington, D.C.: <strong>The</strong> Brookings Institution, 1995);<br />

Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup, <strong>The</strong> War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict<br />

and International Intervention (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999); Robert<br />

M. Hayden, Blueprints for a House Divided: <strong>The</strong> Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav<br />

Conflicts (Ann Arbor, MI: <strong>The</strong> University of Michigan Press, 1999).<br />

25 See Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade, pp. 28-29. Also see Rajko Dolechek, “<strong>The</strong> International<br />

Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia: A Creation and Instrument<br />

of Nato,” Ostrava, February, 2000.<br />

26 Bosnian Muslim civilian deaths in Bosnia were substantially greater than those of<br />

the Serbs, but the Serb civilian victims were also quite numerous. On the tit-fortat<br />

nature of the Bosnian civil wars through the end of July 1995, see Cedric<br />

Thornberry, “Saving the War Crimes Tribunal; Bosnia Herzegovina,” Foreign Policy,<br />

September, 1996.<br />

27 Cees Wiebes, Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 1992–1995 (London: Lit Verlag,<br />

2003), pp. 207-208; Richard J. Aldrich, “America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian<br />

Muslims: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Srebrenica</strong> report reveals the Pentagon’s role in a dirty war,” <strong>The</strong><br />

Guardian, April 22, 2002; Richard Norton-Taylor, “US used Islamists to arm<br />

Bosnians: Official Dutch report says that Pentagon broke UN embargo,” <strong>The</strong><br />

Guardian, April 22, 2002.<br />

28 See the report submitted to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council<br />

(A/48/177 - A/25835), Memorandum on War Crimes and Crimes and Genocide<br />

in Eastern Bosnia (Communes of Bratunac, Skelani and <strong>Srebrenica</strong>)<br />

Committed against the Serbian Population from April 1992 to April 1993, Yugoslav<br />

State Commission for War Crimes and Genocide, April, 1993, p. 19,<br />

. Also see Ivanisevic, <strong>Srebrenica</strong> July 1995—in<br />

search of truth; and Joan Phillips, “Victims and Villains in Bosnia’s War,” Southern<br />

Slav Journal, Spring-Summer, 1992.<br />

29 See Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade, pp. 146-52; Nebojsa Malic, “Whitewashing the<br />

Holocaust: Jasenovac and the Politics of Genocide,” Balkan Express, April 28,<br />

2005, .<br />

30 See Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade, pp. 32-40. Also see the discussion of this issue in<br />

Herman and Peterson, “<strong>The</strong> Dismantling of Yugoslavia,” pp. 9-14,<br />

.<br />

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