Posted on 08/03/2008 9:23:28 PM PDT by Celebratelife008
Belgrade, 1 August (AKI) – Bosnia's wartime president Radovan Karadzic may testify "embarrassing" secrets to the UN's Hague war crimes tribunal, a former senior international representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, said on Friday .
"I believe Karadzic knows certain things which in any case aren’t pleasant for the international community,” Christian Schwarz-Schilling (photo) told German radio on Friday.
“I suppose that he, having been involved in the events, will have to say some new things which were unknown until now,” Schwartz-Schilling said.
Schwarz-Schilling, a German diplomat, was appointed High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the European Union's special representative in Bosnia in January 2006.
He was replaced a year ago by the current High Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak.
“There are very strange things linked to Srebrenica, but also to other events,” Schwarz-Schilling said.
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That’s the great thing about corruption; it involves a lot of other important people, so nobody ends up getting what they deserve.
Who’s stupid enough to believe a sociopathic liar like Holbrooke?
Oh, I totally agree with that statement. Historians can lay those unpleasantries at doorsteps of the United Nations, at Clinton's feet, Iran, the Bosnian muslims, and the Croats.
I'm not giving a pass to the Serbs in that, but the Bosnian muslims and Croats were doing their fair share of cleansing.
That whole situation was one big mess.
I love how when one of these guys faces the gallows you always hear this whole “hey, this guy can take down a bunch of other dudes” line of b.s.
But if you ask people what was going on there, if they know anything about it at all, they'll only know about Serbs killing Bosnians. I think under that pretense is where the unpleasantries are located. An all out cluster-f**k would be a good way to describe all of that. Again, I want to stress that I have absolutely no love for Tito, Milosevic, Mladic, or Karadzic.
I wish The Onion was allowed on here, because they had a great piece on the UN creating a new country called Ethniklashistan in the West Bank. It's quite amusing.
Richard Holbrooke had at least one negotiating session with him (by Holbrookes admission) or meeting with him.
RICHARD HOLBROOKE: In the 13 hours I spent with him, on September 13, 1995, he and Mladic appeared at one of Tito’s old hunting villas outside Belgrade. We knew it was coming. We anticipated it. My negotiating team and I debated how to handle it.
General Clark, Wes Clark, my military adviser, Chris Hill, now our North Korean negotiator, then my political deputy, and I, we debated it. We agreed that we would not ask for a meeting. We had tried to marginalize Karadzic and Mladic, but we would agree to one meeting under strict conditions in which Milosevic was responsible.
When they came in across a field in the fading light, the unmistakable silhouettes of these two terrible men, I felt a jolt in my body, Margaret. This was just extraordinary. These were the men we were trying to marginalize.
I hated them. They were indirectly responsible for the deaths of three of our colleagues, Joe Kruzel, Bob Frasure, Nelson Drew. But we did negotiate with them for 13 hours on a specific issue: lifting the siege of Sarajevo.
Early on in the session, Karadzic just exploded, started talking about the humiliation of the Serb nation and how unfair life was to Serbs, the kind of classic self-victimization of the Serbs with which Laura is so familiar. I said to Milosevic, if this continued, we were leaving and the bombing would intensify.
Milosevic talked to him in Serbian. He calmed down. And we proceeded with the negotiation.
That was the only time I talked directly to Karadzic during the session. I did not shake hands with him.
Mladic was by far the more ugly of the two men that day. He started staring contests with the Americans. He glowered; he stormed.
It was a dramatic session, but we had a pretty good advantage here. We were bombing the Bosnian Serbs, and they knew that if they didn’t agree to our terms, the bombing would intensify.
Yes, the Muslims and the Croats were doing their fair share of genocide, before they got the works. One French soldier from the French Foreign Legion did tell me that he along with other French soldiers did clear out whole villages of Muslims and buried them in ditches. I think that the USA got involved in a war that was not their concern. I do think that Clinton and his Monica troubles were the reason to try to start a war in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Who’s stupid enough to believe a sociopathic liar like Holbrooke?
I know a few.
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