Karadžić blames west for Yugoslav breakup

Radovan Karadžić told the Financial Times in a written interview that he will seek to put western powers on trial for their role in the breakup of Yugoslavia.

Izvor: FoNet

Friday, 21.08.2009.

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Radovan Karadzic told the Financial Times in a written interview that he will seek to put western powers on trial for their role in the breakup of Yugoslavia. The former political leader of the Bosnian Serbs is currently detained at the Hague Tribunal, awaiting the start of his trial. Karadzic blames west for Yugoslav breakup He has been indicted for war crimes in genocide committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia Herzegovina. Karadzic said had already begun requesting information from countries such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States that he claimed would show they had put their strategic self-interest ahead of peace in the Balkans. "I hope that through my trial, the people of Bosnia will see what was done to us by members of the international community, and how we were manipulated," said he. He has also pressed Italy and Malta for records of arms shipments to the Bosnian army, says the daily. FoNet news agency reports that the Financial Times writes that Karadzic declined to say how he would characterize the July 1995 massacre of several thousand Muslims in Srebrenica committed by the Republic of Srpska (RS) forces, or the three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo. According to him, the breakup of Yugoslavia was not in the interest of the people of Yugoslavia, "but it was in the interest of certain western powers after the death of Tito," Karadzic said, referring to the long-time communist ruler who died in 1981. Karadzic expressed regret about the Bosnian war, but did not acknowledge personal culpability. Instead he said that Bosnian Muslim leaders "should have respected the deal hammered out by EU officials just before fighting broke out, dividing the country internally into three separate 'national' units". The war in Bosnia was a useless exercise. After rejecting the Lisbon agreement in 1992, the Muslims ended up with the same territory in 1995," he stated. Karadzic also said that high representatives in Bosnia "have managed to alter the letter and spirit of the Dayton agreement by decree", but also expressed optimism "that positive changes can be made once democracy, rather than dictatorship, is allowed to return to Bosnia". Yesterday, a Hague Tribunal judge said that the trial against Karadzic was ready to proceed.

Karadžić blames west for Yugoslav breakup

He has been indicted for war crimes in genocide committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Karadžić said had already begun requesting information from countries such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States that he claimed would show they had put their strategic self-interest ahead of peace in the Balkans.

"I hope that through my trial, the people of Bosnia will see what was done to us by members of the international community, and how we were manipulated," said he.

He has also pressed Italy and Malta for records of arms shipments to the Bosnian army, says the daily.

FoNet news agency reports that the Financial Times writes that Karadžić declined to say how he would characterize the July 1995 massacre of several thousand Muslims in Srebrenica committed by the Republic of Srpska (RS) forces, or the three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo.

According to him, the breakup of Yugoslavia was not in the interest of the people of Yugoslavia, "but it was in the interest of certain western powers after the death of Tito," Karadžić said, referring to the long-time communist ruler who died in 1981.

Karadžić expressed regret about the Bosnian war, but did not acknowledge personal culpability. Instead he said that Bosnian Muslim leaders "should have respected the deal hammered out by EU officials just before fighting broke out, dividing the country internally into three separate 'national' units".

The war in Bosnia was a useless exercise. After rejecting the Lisbon agreement in 1992, the Muslims ended up with the same territory in 1995," he stated.

Karadžić also said that high representatives in Bosnia "have managed to alter the letter and spirit of the Dayton agreement by decree", but also expressed optimism "that positive changes can be made once democracy, rather than dictatorship, is allowed to return to Bosnia".

Yesterday, a Hague Tribunal judge said that the trial against Karadžić was ready to proceed.

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