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Former U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrook has once again denied he struck a deal with Hague fugitive Radovan Karadžić.
Holbrook, one of the authors of the Dayton peace accord that ended the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, told Sarajevo's Dnevni Avaz Saturday that recent claims about an immunity deal the U.S. granted the former Bosnian Serb political leader, Radovan Karadžić, were "disgusting lies."
Former Hague Tribunal prosecution spokeswoman, Florence Hartmann, said in a recently published book that Washington allowed Karadžić impunity in exchange for his withdrawal from the Bosnian political life.
"It is amazing that there are still people in this world who trust the word of a war criminal over that of the United States and the people who brought peace to the Balkans," Holbrook told the paper.
"I have been hearing these claims for the past ten years. I will no longer pay any attention to them and I will not react," the daily quoted the diplomat.
Meantime, Hartmann, the author of “Peace and Punishment: The Secret Hague Wars Between International Law and International Politics”, told a Slovenian daily that "the big powers sacrificed Srebrenica in a bid to bring former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević to the negotiating table."
Hartmann told Ljubljana's Delo that the world powers in 1995 "could have, but did not prevent the genocide that the Bosnian Serb Army committed over thousands of Bosniaks, in a zone formally protected by the UN, in Srebrenica."
"Srebrenica and other eastern-Bosnian enclaves were sacrificed so that the Bosnian Serbs gain a compact territory," RFE quoted the former spokeswoman for Carla Del Ponte.
Hartmann's book has already stirred controversy with its claim that the world powers went on to obstruct the arrest of the Hague war crimes indictees after the war in Bosnia. |
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