Re: Mob almost killed 18 troops in Bosnia, Dec. 29.
This article by David Pugliese will serve to upset the
politically correct stereotype of the civil war in Bosnia as one in
which only Serbians are indicted as ethnic cleansers.
In fact the Serbians have always been reasonably tolerant, and it
was Slovenes, Croats and Kosovo Muslims who indicated a desire for
separate identities and removal of Serbian minorities.
Croats often spoke of their desire for a nice, clean country
presumably devoid of Serbs, Hungarians, Vlachs and Albanians.
A recent disclosure of the minutes of a Croatian cabinet meeting
recorded president Franjo Tudjman confessing that he was not aware
that the villages in the Medac pocket (where they had clashed with
Canadian peacekeepers) were mainly Serbian and agreeing that
Croatian forces had acted wrongly, while agreeing with one of his
ministers that the final solution was the expulsion of all Serbians
from Croatia.
Perhaps we will now get some definitive account of the Croatian
slaughter of Muslims at Mostar. Perhaps the public will learn that
when Bosnians Serbians were accused of destroying mosques, the real
culprits were Muslim mujahideen from Saudi Arabia (financed by Osama
bin Laden), who were horrified at the decorations used by the
heretic Muslim Bosnians.
There are nearly 900,000 Serbian refugees from Croatia, Bosnia
and Kosovo in Serbia, under the care of the United Nations'
commission on refu-gees, and they are a matter of great concern.
There are no Serbians in Slovenia, about 50,000 are left in
Croatia and a smaller number in Kosovo, where they are protected by
peacekeepers. Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova has indicated no desire
for the return of Serbians.
Geoffrey Wasteneys,
Ottawa
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