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5th August 2011, 07:16
FYI:
obert Hunt, US ambassador to NATO from 1993 to 1998, has blamed Britain for the Srebrenica genocide which resulted in the killing of 8000 Bosnian Muslims.
In response to statements made by General Sir Michael Rose, Commander of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia in 1994, Hunt published a letter in the Financial Times on July 27, 2011.
In the letter, Hunt said that the main reason why NATO failed to prevent the Serb slaughter in Bosnia was that Britain tried its best to ruin the Alliance's cooperative action.
“The failure of NATO to reach agreement on serious military action can be attributed to the efforts of one allied nation: Great Britain,” wrote Hunt.
Hunt attested that Britain was the ally that did all it could to prevent NATO from taking any military action from July 1993 until after Army of Repulika Srpska massacred 8000 Bosnian Muslims “when, in face of horrendous killing, it finally stopped its obstruction.”
Moreover, Hunt asserted that France and Canada were also hesitant to consider any agreement on military action, but it was Britain that relentlessly resisted any effective military action by NATO.
He said that after isolating Britain, NATO used the “two-key” system to authorize air strikes. However, he acknowledged that it was just a response to the carnage which had already taken place.
“Britain thus has a huge burden of responsibility for what happened at Srebrenica; NATO's failure before Srebrenica to act militarily lay in London, not either in Washington, at NATO-Brussels, or with the Dutch soldiers with UNProfor at Srebrenica,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, in a letter to the Financial Times, Rose said that the US-led NATO forces systematically undermined peacekeeping operations by the UN in Bosnia by giving military equipment and training to Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
Rose told the Financial Times that NATO is as blameworthy as the UN is for the Srebrenica genocide. He claimed that if NATO had not based its forces in Bosnia in 1992, as demanded by then-president of Bosnia Alija Izetbegovic, neither the Bosnian War nor the Srebrenica massacre would have occurred.
He claimed that NATO and the US were not able to play a role in the events through air strikes after UN forces had become discredited among the parties involved in the conflict in Bosnia.
He acknowledged that UN mission failed in Bosnia in 1995 which encouraged Ratko Mladi? to launch the attack on Srebrenica.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192348.html
obert Hunt, US ambassador to NATO from 1993 to 1998, has blamed Britain for the Srebrenica genocide which resulted in the killing of 8000 Bosnian Muslims.
In response to statements made by General Sir Michael Rose, Commander of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia in 1994, Hunt published a letter in the Financial Times on July 27, 2011.
In the letter, Hunt said that the main reason why NATO failed to prevent the Serb slaughter in Bosnia was that Britain tried its best to ruin the Alliance's cooperative action.
“The failure of NATO to reach agreement on serious military action can be attributed to the efforts of one allied nation: Great Britain,” wrote Hunt.
Hunt attested that Britain was the ally that did all it could to prevent NATO from taking any military action from July 1993 until after Army of Repulika Srpska massacred 8000 Bosnian Muslims “when, in face of horrendous killing, it finally stopped its obstruction.”
Moreover, Hunt asserted that France and Canada were also hesitant to consider any agreement on military action, but it was Britain that relentlessly resisted any effective military action by NATO.
He said that after isolating Britain, NATO used the “two-key” system to authorize air strikes. However, he acknowledged that it was just a response to the carnage which had already taken place.
“Britain thus has a huge burden of responsibility for what happened at Srebrenica; NATO's failure before Srebrenica to act militarily lay in London, not either in Washington, at NATO-Brussels, or with the Dutch soldiers with UNProfor at Srebrenica,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, in a letter to the Financial Times, Rose said that the US-led NATO forces systematically undermined peacekeeping operations by the UN in Bosnia by giving military equipment and training to Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
Rose told the Financial Times that NATO is as blameworthy as the UN is for the Srebrenica genocide. He claimed that if NATO had not based its forces in Bosnia in 1992, as demanded by then-president of Bosnia Alija Izetbegovic, neither the Bosnian War nor the Srebrenica massacre would have occurred.
He claimed that NATO and the US were not able to play a role in the events through air strikes after UN forces had become discredited among the parties involved in the conflict in Bosnia.
He acknowledged that UN mission failed in Bosnia in 1995 which encouraged Ratko Mladi? to launch the attack on Srebrenica.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192348.html