The Srebrenica Massacre - Nova Srpska Politicka Misao

Prelude to the Capture of Srebrenica
Advisor Anthony Lake and U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith.
Amsterdam University Professor Cees Wiebes, who documented the
role of intelligence agencies in Bosnia for the Dutch report on Srebrenica,
states that the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was
given the responsibility of enabling the accelerated transfer of weapons
and personnel from Iran and other Islamist regimes, from Malaysia to
Algeria. 15
Why would the U.S. resort to measures that violated UN resolutions,
alienated former allies such as Britain and France which had UNPRO-
FOR troops on the ground and which risked a longer war? General
Boyd wrote: “The linchpin of the U.S. approach has been the underinformed
notion that this is a war of good versus evil, of aggressor
against aggrieved. From that premise, the United States has supported
UN and NATO resolutions couched in seemingly neutral terms— for
example, to protect peacekeepers—and then has turned them around to
punish one side and attempt to affect the course of the war. It has supported
the creation of safe areas and demanded their protection even
when they have been used by one warring faction to mount attacks
against another...It has supported the legitimacy of a leadership that has
become increasingly ethnocentric in its makeup, single-party in its rule,
and manipulative in its diplomacy.” 16
General Philippe Morillon, who served as UN Commander in Sarajevo
(Sept. 1992 - July 1993), told the ICTY: “The aim of the Presidency
of Bosnia, from the very outset was to ensure the intervention of
the international forces for their own benefit and this is one of the reasons
why they never were inclined to engage in talks.” 17 Morillon’s predecessor,
Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie (1992), often criticized
the Serbs for their use of heavy weaponry around Sarajevo, but upon
leaving his post in Sarajevo, he wrote that 19 ceasefires he negotiated
were broken by Muslim forces, “because their policy was, and is, to force
the West to intervene.” 18
Given the Serbs’ initial superiority in heavy weapons, they gained
control of substantial territory in the first three months of war that they
hoped to trade for peace. “The Serbs think they won already and want
the war to end,” observed General Boyd. “The Muslims know they have
not, and are seeking ways to continue it.” 19
The Bosnian government strategy was aided immeasurably by the
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