L'odierna sceneggiata della chiusura di alcune
rappresentanze diplomatiche occidentali in
Bosnia-Erzegovina perde ogni senso se si volge un
attimo lo sguardo all'indietro. L'ambasciatore USA
in Bosnia dell'era-Clinton, Thomas Miller, e'
stato ad esempio ripetutamente denunciato da serbi
e croati per il suo sostegno al partito islamista
di Izetbegovic (SDA - Partito di Azione
Democratica), fino a tempi recentissimi, come
documentano gli articoli allegati. Inoltre, la
copertura e l'omerta' occidentale sulla presenza
in Bosnia di mujaheddin stranieri, in particolare
di quelli legati a Bin Laden, non sara' certo
compensata dagli attuali ipocriti "timori" per
possibili attentati.
*** BOSNIA, THE GLOBAL TAMMANY HALL
(S. Trifkovic, 24/08/01)
*** L'AMBASCIATORE AMERICANO E' PORTAVOCE DELL'SDA
(Srpsko Oslobodjenje, 05/07/00)
===================================================
Subject: Scandal re. US Ambassador in Bosnia?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:05:44 -0400
From: Serge Trifkovic
http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/News/Trifkovic/
NewsST082401.htm oppure News&Views.htm
Friday, August 24, 2001
BOSNIA, THE GLOBAL TAMMANY HALL
by Srdja Trifkovic
Bosnia is the Imperium's first major experiment in
nation-building. It is the harbinger of great and
glorious things to come in the new millennium, and
the experiences of this multiethnic,
multiconfessional, multicultural polity based on
democracy and human rights will be closely watched
by other aspiring clients of the international
community. It is therefore disheartening that in
Bosnia we encounter evidence that the officials of
the 'international community' are perhaps no more
virtuous or high-minded than the old rogues who
governed the nation-states of yore.
Take the case of Thomas Miller, the United States
ambassador in Sarajevo, who is rumored to have
conspired a year ago with Milorad Dodik, then
prime minister of the Bosnian-Serb Republic, to
divert $500,000 of an American aid package to the
Gore/Lieberman campaign. This claim, made
privately by a former minister in Dodik's
government, has been confirmed by another highly
placed source in Banja Luka, the capital of the
Republika Srpska (RS).
The alleged deal was simple: Last July, Ambassador
Miller is said to have arranged a
multimillion-dollar USAID grant for the RS budget.
Once the money arrived in Banja Luka, half a
million was allocated to the prime minister's
discretionary fund'-over which he had exclusive
control-and promptly sent back to the United
States as his contribution to the Gore/Lieberman
campaign. This was not the only payment to a
Western political figure from the fund (the
existence of which Dodik admitted in a television
interview last November), but it was the largest
single disbursement ever made from it.
Our source insists that Miller was behind the
scheme but does not know whether the
administration or 'Gore's people in Washington'
were aware of what was going on:
"It is possible that Ambassador Miller arranged it
all on his own initiative, because he is a
committed Democrat--just like all other key U.S.
officials in Bosnia: Jacques Klein, U.N. mission
chief in Sarajevo, Ralph Johnson, first deputy
high representative, and Robert Berry, OSCE
mission chief. They all rooted for Gore, and
Miller is known to have expressed his concern for
'the future of Bosnia' if Bush won. And he could
not conceal his fury at the outcome of the
election dispute in Florida."
When some revelations of Dodik's corrupt
practices--including the first partial disclosure
of the Gore deal--were published by the Banja Luka
magazine Extra last February, it looked like the
cat was out of the bag.
Interestingly, however, there has been no
follow-up. It was widely expected that the new
government of Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic,
publicly committed to fighting corruption, would
make public the results of an investigation into
his predecessor's practices. This has not happened
so far, and our sources indicate that Dr. Ivanic
is under heavy pressure from Ambassador Miller and
other American political heavyweights in Bosnia
not to rock the boat. He has agreed to comply,
thus betraying his own electoral promise to
eradicate corruption and hold former officials
responsible.
Their motives are easy to understand. Dodik was
persona gratissima in Bill Clinton's
Washington-Madeleine Albright once described him
as "a breath of fresh air"-and the proponents of
"continuity" of the U.S. policy in Bosnia want to
keep him in reserve as a tried and true quisling.
He could come in handy if they are allowed to play
the next act in their arcane Balkan game: the
scrapping of the Dayton Accord in favor of a
centralized Bosnian state.
Even after Dodik's crushing defeat at last fall's
RS general election, Ambassador Miller was
promoting him for a ministerial position at the
federal level in Sarajevo. Because Dodik's
reputation for greed and graft has made him odious
even to the Muslim politicians who had found him
useful in the past, he was unsuccessful in his
bid. In addition, Mr. Miller, a prot�g� of Richard
Holbrooke, may have strong personal reasons for
wanting the new RS government to keep quiet about
some of Dodik's shenanigans. If the allegations
are corroborated, it could mark not only the end
of his diplomatic career but the beginning of a
criminal investigation back in Washington. "I am
honored to appear before you today as President
Clinton's nominee to receive the rank of
ambassador. I am grateful to the President and to
Secretary Albright for the confidence they have
shown in appointing me to this position," Thomas
Miller declared at his Senate confirmation hearing
in October 1997. His gratitude to the Democratic
White House seems to have acquired a tangible form
three years later.
In the meantime Miller had stepped on many Bosnian
toes. During his tenure he has openly campaigned
for the "non-nationalist" parties in Bosnia's
elections and earned the lasting wrath of both
Serbs and Croats, who resented his support for the
Muslims' preferred model of a centralized
Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Serb member of the
tripartite Bosnian presidency, Zivko Radisic, last
fall even asked for Miller's recall because "his
activities in support of his preferred political
parties and personalities in Bosnia are
incompatible with the proper role of a diplomat."
The Croats' leader Ante Jelavic agreed. The Croats
were even more resentful of Miller's imperious
posture in the aftermath of the clampdown by the
"international community" on their stronghold in
Mostar, which included a raid on the vault of the
bank used by their main political party.
Even if the Bosnian Serb government is bullied
into silence, our source says that it should be
possible to learn the truth about any misuse of
USAID funds from Deloitte Touche Tohmantsu (DTT)
and KPMG, as those two companies manage the
consulting and lending program that makes USAID
the largest lender in the RS and Bosnia. Right
now, the source claims, DTT is covering up
malfeasance in its Bosnian projects:
"An effort is under way, sometimes desperate, by
DTT to prevent an independent investigation of
what is behind observed suspicious behavior in its
project. They probably know if the alleged
contribution to the Gore campaign has been made,
but there is reason to suspect a corrupt
connection between the DTT project and Dodik, and
to expect that Ambassador Miller will go out of
his way to thwart an independent investigation."
If there is a scandal involving foreign aid, it
won't be the first since the "international
community" started its involvement in post-Dayton
Bosnia. During 1996-99, the United States and its
allies committed more than $5 billion to finance
civil aspects of the Dayton Agreement; and as of
March 2000, U.S. military costs to support the
agreement totaled about $10 billion. In the summer
of 1999, the office of the high representative-the
U.N. Gauleiter in Sarajevo who wields the real
power in the hybrid "country"-confirmed that more
than one billion dollars had been lost in postwar
Bosnia through tax evasion, customs fraud, or
embezzlement of public funds. Much of that money
was simply stolen from international aid projects.
For instance, more than $20 million deposited by
ten foreign embassies and international aid
agencies in a Bosnian bank has disappeared. Over
$500 million was missing from the Muslim city of
Tuzla's budget alone. The town of Sanski Most used
municipal funds to build a horseracing track,
while its Mayor, Mehmed Alagic, is accused of
stealing $450,000 in aid from Saudi Arabia. In
July of last year the Clinton Administration was
forced to agree with the "basic thrust" of a
report from the General Accounting Office (GAO)
that crime and corruption are "endemic problems"
in Bosnia which "seriously inhibit" both economic
and political development and implementation of
the Dayton peace agreement.
But as Ambassador James Pardew tried to explain to
the House of Representatives Committee on
International Relations July 19 of last year,
there are "reform-minded Bosnians" who are willing
to work hard to change the situation, and the
"entire thrust" of U.S. assistance for Bosnia is
designed "to help these people establish a
peaceful, transparent and democratic society."
Dodik was an example of "reform-mindedness" to
Pardew and his bosses, and Miller is their man in
situ. Another form of institutionalized corruption
involves international bureaucrats who lobby local
politicians on behalf of companies from their
countries. According to our source in Banja Luka,
"The British dominate the so-called Independent
Commission for Media and they swiftly tailored the
privatization of the Bosnian television system so
that British companies appear as best qualified
potential buyers. The Bosnian tsar himself, High
Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, tirelessly
demands that Austria Telecom be granted the
license as the second mobile-phone provider for
Bosnia-Herzegovina. His deputy, Ralph Johnson of
the United States, is involved in setting up
consolidated public utilities for gas and
electricity so that they can be sold off more
easily to foreign investors who fit his bill."
Lower down the scale, foreign bureaucrats-
especially those from Eastern Europe and the Third
World-are involved in large-scale smuggling of
American cigarettes that arrive from Montenegro
and are then shipped via Bosnia to the European
Union.
Bosnia, of course, is no exception to the rule
that there is no correlation between foreign
assistance and economic growth, but the
"international community" is by now aiding and
abetting the open-ended burgeoning of the culture
of corruption. Foreigners have absolute power in
Bosnia. The results were to be expected. The
future will only bring more of the same,
corrupting not only Bosnia--the victim of
international largesse--but all those who enter
the dark villayet to distribute it.
Endemic and institutionalized corruption at all
levels and by all participants is an apt symbol of
"Bosnia" because it is an edifice is based on a
lie. The lie was supposed to replace the bonds of
loyalty, authority, and legitimacy that link
Bosnian Croats and Croatia and Bosnian Serbs and
Serbia. These bonds are rooted in centuries of
political, ethnic, and cultural identity and are
sure to prove stronger than bonds to a hastily
fabricated central government. The way the whole
Dayton package has been put together reflects the
short-termism of Western policy, and its ultimate
preference for form over substance. It will not
survive in the long term: the inherent dynamics of
Bosnia's disintegration are still there. Those
same centrifugal forces which had doomed
Yugoslavia as a whole are still present in Bosnia,
probably even more than before the U.S. got
involved.
As for Ambassador Miller, his apparently
well-deserved demise will have to wait: the Bush
administration, either oblivious of his alleged
transgressions or indifferent to them, has
rewarded him for his efforts with the
ambassadorial appointment to Greece.
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Da "Srpsko Oslobodjenje", quotidiano della
Repubblica Serba di Bosnia, 5 luglio 2000
L'AMBASCIATORE AMERICANO E' PORTAVOCE DELL'SDA
L'Ambasciata americana a Sarajevo ha manifestato
la piu' grande tracotanza ed il pi� grande cinismo
mai registrato finora nella diplomazia mondiale.
Invece di comportarsi in conformit� con le norme
internazionali stabilite e il codice diplomatico,
questa ambasciata si immischia nel modo pi�
brutale nelle relazioni interne e nelle situazioni
politiche dello Stato da cui ha ricevuto
ospitalit�. Per questo comportamento senza
precedenti nella diplomazia mondiale, il maggior
responsabile � l'ambasciatore Tony Miller, del
quale si pu� liberamente dire che sia il portavoce
del Partito di Azione Democratica. Che sia
veramente cosi, lo testimonia nel modo migliore la
vergognosa dichiarazione per il pubblico che �
stata inviata da quella ambasciata ai media della
Bosnia Erzegovina l'ultimo giorno di giugno. In
questa faziosa e unilaterale dichiarazione si
citano congetture false e meschine che hanno come
scopo di screditare nel modo pi� brutale tutto il
popolo serbo. Il testo dice:
"L'ambasciatore USA condanna assai duramente la
dichiarazione dell'Organizzazione dei combattenti
di Srebrenica. E' vergognoso che questa
organizzazione sostenga che "nessuno sia stato
ferito e tantomeno ucciso" a Potocari l?11.7.l995,
quando il mondo sa che li sono stati uccisi, in
quel giorno, migliaia di civili innocenti" - e
cosi via...
Voi mentite, signor Miller, lei e tutti quelli che
parlano per bocca dei fanatici musulmani, quando
dite che a Potocari sono stati uccisi dei civili.
Da dove vi viene il diritto di mentire e
pregiudicare ci� che ancora non � stato provato? A
Potocari c'era soltanto un campo di accoglienza,
da dove sono stati evacuati civili mandati a Tuzla
e in altre parti della Federazione di
Bosnia-Erzegovina.
Lei mente, signor Miller, quando sostiene che
"migliaia di civili innocenti sono stati uccisi -
12.000 (!?) musulmani"; questo numero poi � stato
diminuito a 7000, poi a 3000, il che esprime
chiaramente che con gli inganni politici e con le
invenzioni si vuole addossare la colpa ad un
popolo intero. E' sfacciato e maligno da parte di
un cittadino straniero, valutare e confrontare il
cosiddetto massacro di Srebrenica con l'olocausto
della II guerra mondiale. Meno di tutti lei ha il
diritto, dopo i crimini che avete commesso in
tutto il mondo, di parlare di un supposto massacro
a Srebrenica. Ricordiamo soltanto Hiroshima, i
crimini nel Vietnam, in Cambogia, lo scorso anno
in Jugoslavia, e dovunque nel mondo gli americani
causassero intenzionalmente le crisi e
provocassero uccisioni di massa dei civili. Lei
mente anche nella prima parte della frase, quando
dice: "tutto il mondo sa che migliaia di civili
innocenti sono stati uccisi". Queste sono soltanto
le sue congetture menzognere e i suoi inganni
pericolosi, perch� alle sue "constatazioni" la
maggioranza della popolazione mondiale non crede.
Lei ha la mania di servirsi di menzogne ed
inganni, come testimonia la vostra vergognosa
dichiarazione pubblica.
La "vera" verit� su Srebrenica bisogna dirla, ma
lei ha imparato a proiettare in avanti la
menzogna. Si � mai chiesto finora quanti civili
serbi siano stati ucccisi a Sarajevo? Li, signor
ambasciatore, sotto al governo musulmano sono
stati uccisi altre 6000 serbi. Questo � un
olocausto, e non Srebrenica, dove sono stati
uccisi soltanto militari musulmani armati, ai
quali gli appartenenti al battaglione olandese
nelle fila dell'UNPROFOR hanno reso possibile di
essere armati fino ai denti benche' fossero nella
cosiddetta "zona protetta".
Esistono dei comunicati, signor Miller, sui quali
lei tace perch� non corrispondono ai vostri scopi
disonesti...
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sulla disinformazione strategica relativa ai fatti
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rappresentanze diplomatiche occidentali in
Bosnia-Erzegovina perde ogni senso se si volge un
attimo lo sguardo all'indietro. L'ambasciatore USA
in Bosnia dell'era-Clinton, Thomas Miller, e'
stato ad esempio ripetutamente denunciato da serbi
e croati per il suo sostegno al partito islamista
di Izetbegovic (SDA - Partito di Azione
Democratica), fino a tempi recentissimi, come
documentano gli articoli allegati. Inoltre, la
copertura e l'omerta' occidentale sulla presenza
in Bosnia di mujaheddin stranieri, in particolare
di quelli legati a Bin Laden, non sara' certo
compensata dagli attuali ipocriti "timori" per
possibili attentati.
*** BOSNIA, THE GLOBAL TAMMANY HALL
(S. Trifkovic, 24/08/01)
*** L'AMBASCIATORE AMERICANO E' PORTAVOCE DELL'SDA
(Srpsko Oslobodjenje, 05/07/00)
===================================================
Subject: Scandal re. US Ambassador in Bosnia?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:05:44 -0400
From: Serge Trifkovic
http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/News/Trifkovic/
NewsST082401.htm oppure News&Views.htm
Friday, August 24, 2001
BOSNIA, THE GLOBAL TAMMANY HALL
by Srdja Trifkovic
Bosnia is the Imperium's first major experiment in
nation-building. It is the harbinger of great and
glorious things to come in the new millennium, and
the experiences of this multiethnic,
multiconfessional, multicultural polity based on
democracy and human rights will be closely watched
by other aspiring clients of the international
community. It is therefore disheartening that in
Bosnia we encounter evidence that the officials of
the 'international community' are perhaps no more
virtuous or high-minded than the old rogues who
governed the nation-states of yore.
Take the case of Thomas Miller, the United States
ambassador in Sarajevo, who is rumored to have
conspired a year ago with Milorad Dodik, then
prime minister of the Bosnian-Serb Republic, to
divert $500,000 of an American aid package to the
Gore/Lieberman campaign. This claim, made
privately by a former minister in Dodik's
government, has been confirmed by another highly
placed source in Banja Luka, the capital of the
Republika Srpska (RS).
The alleged deal was simple: Last July, Ambassador
Miller is said to have arranged a
multimillion-dollar USAID grant for the RS budget.
Once the money arrived in Banja Luka, half a
million was allocated to the prime minister's
discretionary fund'-over which he had exclusive
control-and promptly sent back to the United
States as his contribution to the Gore/Lieberman
campaign. This was not the only payment to a
Western political figure from the fund (the
existence of which Dodik admitted in a television
interview last November), but it was the largest
single disbursement ever made from it.
Our source insists that Miller was behind the
scheme but does not know whether the
administration or 'Gore's people in Washington'
were aware of what was going on:
"It is possible that Ambassador Miller arranged it
all on his own initiative, because he is a
committed Democrat--just like all other key U.S.
officials in Bosnia: Jacques Klein, U.N. mission
chief in Sarajevo, Ralph Johnson, first deputy
high representative, and Robert Berry, OSCE
mission chief. They all rooted for Gore, and
Miller is known to have expressed his concern for
'the future of Bosnia' if Bush won. And he could
not conceal his fury at the outcome of the
election dispute in Florida."
When some revelations of Dodik's corrupt
practices--including the first partial disclosure
of the Gore deal--were published by the Banja Luka
magazine Extra last February, it looked like the
cat was out of the bag.
Interestingly, however, there has been no
follow-up. It was widely expected that the new
government of Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic,
publicly committed to fighting corruption, would
make public the results of an investigation into
his predecessor's practices. This has not happened
so far, and our sources indicate that Dr. Ivanic
is under heavy pressure from Ambassador Miller and
other American political heavyweights in Bosnia
not to rock the boat. He has agreed to comply,
thus betraying his own electoral promise to
eradicate corruption and hold former officials
responsible.
Their motives are easy to understand. Dodik was
persona gratissima in Bill Clinton's
Washington-Madeleine Albright once described him
as "a breath of fresh air"-and the proponents of
"continuity" of the U.S. policy in Bosnia want to
keep him in reserve as a tried and true quisling.
He could come in handy if they are allowed to play
the next act in their arcane Balkan game: the
scrapping of the Dayton Accord in favor of a
centralized Bosnian state.
Even after Dodik's crushing defeat at last fall's
RS general election, Ambassador Miller was
promoting him for a ministerial position at the
federal level in Sarajevo. Because Dodik's
reputation for greed and graft has made him odious
even to the Muslim politicians who had found him
useful in the past, he was unsuccessful in his
bid. In addition, Mr. Miller, a prot�g� of Richard
Holbrooke, may have strong personal reasons for
wanting the new RS government to keep quiet about
some of Dodik's shenanigans. If the allegations
are corroborated, it could mark not only the end
of his diplomatic career but the beginning of a
criminal investigation back in Washington. "I am
honored to appear before you today as President
Clinton's nominee to receive the rank of
ambassador. I am grateful to the President and to
Secretary Albright for the confidence they have
shown in appointing me to this position," Thomas
Miller declared at his Senate confirmation hearing
in October 1997. His gratitude to the Democratic
White House seems to have acquired a tangible form
three years later.
In the meantime Miller had stepped on many Bosnian
toes. During his tenure he has openly campaigned
for the "non-nationalist" parties in Bosnia's
elections and earned the lasting wrath of both
Serbs and Croats, who resented his support for the
Muslims' preferred model of a centralized
Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Serb member of the
tripartite Bosnian presidency, Zivko Radisic, last
fall even asked for Miller's recall because "his
activities in support of his preferred political
parties and personalities in Bosnia are
incompatible with the proper role of a diplomat."
The Croats' leader Ante Jelavic agreed. The Croats
were even more resentful of Miller's imperious
posture in the aftermath of the clampdown by the
"international community" on their stronghold in
Mostar, which included a raid on the vault of the
bank used by their main political party.
Even if the Bosnian Serb government is bullied
into silence, our source says that it should be
possible to learn the truth about any misuse of
USAID funds from Deloitte Touche Tohmantsu (DTT)
and KPMG, as those two companies manage the
consulting and lending program that makes USAID
the largest lender in the RS and Bosnia. Right
now, the source claims, DTT is covering up
malfeasance in its Bosnian projects:
"An effort is under way, sometimes desperate, by
DTT to prevent an independent investigation of
what is behind observed suspicious behavior in its
project. They probably know if the alleged
contribution to the Gore campaign has been made,
but there is reason to suspect a corrupt
connection between the DTT project and Dodik, and
to expect that Ambassador Miller will go out of
his way to thwart an independent investigation."
If there is a scandal involving foreign aid, it
won't be the first since the "international
community" started its involvement in post-Dayton
Bosnia. During 1996-99, the United States and its
allies committed more than $5 billion to finance
civil aspects of the Dayton Agreement; and as of
March 2000, U.S. military costs to support the
agreement totaled about $10 billion. In the summer
of 1999, the office of the high representative-the
U.N. Gauleiter in Sarajevo who wields the real
power in the hybrid "country"-confirmed that more
than one billion dollars had been lost in postwar
Bosnia through tax evasion, customs fraud, or
embezzlement of public funds. Much of that money
was simply stolen from international aid projects.
For instance, more than $20 million deposited by
ten foreign embassies and international aid
agencies in a Bosnian bank has disappeared. Over
$500 million was missing from the Muslim city of
Tuzla's budget alone. The town of Sanski Most used
municipal funds to build a horseracing track,
while its Mayor, Mehmed Alagic, is accused of
stealing $450,000 in aid from Saudi Arabia. In
July of last year the Clinton Administration was
forced to agree with the "basic thrust" of a
report from the General Accounting Office (GAO)
that crime and corruption are "endemic problems"
in Bosnia which "seriously inhibit" both economic
and political development and implementation of
the Dayton peace agreement.
But as Ambassador James Pardew tried to explain to
the House of Representatives Committee on
International Relations July 19 of last year,
there are "reform-minded Bosnians" who are willing
to work hard to change the situation, and the
"entire thrust" of U.S. assistance for Bosnia is
designed "to help these people establish a
peaceful, transparent and democratic society."
Dodik was an example of "reform-mindedness" to
Pardew and his bosses, and Miller is their man in
situ. Another form of institutionalized corruption
involves international bureaucrats who lobby local
politicians on behalf of companies from their
countries. According to our source in Banja Luka,
"The British dominate the so-called Independent
Commission for Media and they swiftly tailored the
privatization of the Bosnian television system so
that British companies appear as best qualified
potential buyers. The Bosnian tsar himself, High
Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, tirelessly
demands that Austria Telecom be granted the
license as the second mobile-phone provider for
Bosnia-Herzegovina. His deputy, Ralph Johnson of
the United States, is involved in setting up
consolidated public utilities for gas and
electricity so that they can be sold off more
easily to foreign investors who fit his bill."
Lower down the scale, foreign bureaucrats-
especially those from Eastern Europe and the Third
World-are involved in large-scale smuggling of
American cigarettes that arrive from Montenegro
and are then shipped via Bosnia to the European
Union.
Bosnia, of course, is no exception to the rule
that there is no correlation between foreign
assistance and economic growth, but the
"international community" is by now aiding and
abetting the open-ended burgeoning of the culture
of corruption. Foreigners have absolute power in
Bosnia. The results were to be expected. The
future will only bring more of the same,
corrupting not only Bosnia--the victim of
international largesse--but all those who enter
the dark villayet to distribute it.
Endemic and institutionalized corruption at all
levels and by all participants is an apt symbol of
"Bosnia" because it is an edifice is based on a
lie. The lie was supposed to replace the bonds of
loyalty, authority, and legitimacy that link
Bosnian Croats and Croatia and Bosnian Serbs and
Serbia. These bonds are rooted in centuries of
political, ethnic, and cultural identity and are
sure to prove stronger than bonds to a hastily
fabricated central government. The way the whole
Dayton package has been put together reflects the
short-termism of Western policy, and its ultimate
preference for form over substance. It will not
survive in the long term: the inherent dynamics of
Bosnia's disintegration are still there. Those
same centrifugal forces which had doomed
Yugoslavia as a whole are still present in Bosnia,
probably even more than before the U.S. got
involved.
As for Ambassador Miller, his apparently
well-deserved demise will have to wait: the Bush
administration, either oblivious of his alleged
transgressions or indifferent to them, has
rewarded him for his efforts with the
ambassadorial appointment to Greece.
Copyright 2001, www.ChroniclesMagazine.org
928 N. Main St., Rockford, IL 61103
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Da "Srpsko Oslobodjenje", quotidiano della
Repubblica Serba di Bosnia, 5 luglio 2000
L'AMBASCIATORE AMERICANO E' PORTAVOCE DELL'SDA
L'Ambasciata americana a Sarajevo ha manifestato
la piu' grande tracotanza ed il pi� grande cinismo
mai registrato finora nella diplomazia mondiale.
Invece di comportarsi in conformit� con le norme
internazionali stabilite e il codice diplomatico,
questa ambasciata si immischia nel modo pi�
brutale nelle relazioni interne e nelle situazioni
politiche dello Stato da cui ha ricevuto
ospitalit�. Per questo comportamento senza
precedenti nella diplomazia mondiale, il maggior
responsabile � l'ambasciatore Tony Miller, del
quale si pu� liberamente dire che sia il portavoce
del Partito di Azione Democratica. Che sia
veramente cosi, lo testimonia nel modo migliore la
vergognosa dichiarazione per il pubblico che �
stata inviata da quella ambasciata ai media della
Bosnia Erzegovina l'ultimo giorno di giugno. In
questa faziosa e unilaterale dichiarazione si
citano congetture false e meschine che hanno come
scopo di screditare nel modo pi� brutale tutto il
popolo serbo. Il testo dice:
"L'ambasciatore USA condanna assai duramente la
dichiarazione dell'Organizzazione dei combattenti
di Srebrenica. E' vergognoso che questa
organizzazione sostenga che "nessuno sia stato
ferito e tantomeno ucciso" a Potocari l?11.7.l995,
quando il mondo sa che li sono stati uccisi, in
quel giorno, migliaia di civili innocenti" - e
cosi via...
Voi mentite, signor Miller, lei e tutti quelli che
parlano per bocca dei fanatici musulmani, quando
dite che a Potocari sono stati uccisi dei civili.
Da dove vi viene il diritto di mentire e
pregiudicare ci� che ancora non � stato provato? A
Potocari c'era soltanto un campo di accoglienza,
da dove sono stati evacuati civili mandati a Tuzla
e in altre parti della Federazione di
Bosnia-Erzegovina.
Lei mente, signor Miller, quando sostiene che
"migliaia di civili innocenti sono stati uccisi -
12.000 (!?) musulmani"; questo numero poi � stato
diminuito a 7000, poi a 3000, il che esprime
chiaramente che con gli inganni politici e con le
invenzioni si vuole addossare la colpa ad un
popolo intero. E' sfacciato e maligno da parte di
un cittadino straniero, valutare e confrontare il
cosiddetto massacro di Srebrenica con l'olocausto
della II guerra mondiale. Meno di tutti lei ha il
diritto, dopo i crimini che avete commesso in
tutto il mondo, di parlare di un supposto massacro
a Srebrenica. Ricordiamo soltanto Hiroshima, i
crimini nel Vietnam, in Cambogia, lo scorso anno
in Jugoslavia, e dovunque nel mondo gli americani
causassero intenzionalmente le crisi e
provocassero uccisioni di massa dei civili. Lei
mente anche nella prima parte della frase, quando
dice: "tutto il mondo sa che migliaia di civili
innocenti sono stati uccisi". Queste sono soltanto
le sue congetture menzognere e i suoi inganni
pericolosi, perch� alle sue "constatazioni" la
maggioranza della popolazione mondiale non crede.
Lei ha la mania di servirsi di menzogne ed
inganni, come testimonia la vostra vergognosa
dichiarazione pubblica.
La "vera" verit� su Srebrenica bisogna dirla, ma
lei ha imparato a proiettare in avanti la
menzogna. Si � mai chiesto finora quanti civili
serbi siano stati ucccisi a Sarajevo? Li, signor
ambasciatore, sotto al governo musulmano sono
stati uccisi altre 6000 serbi. Questo � un
olocausto, e non Srebrenica, dove sono stati
uccisi soltanto militari musulmani armati, ai
quali gli appartenenti al battaglione olandese
nelle fila dell'UNPROFOR hanno reso possibile di
essere armati fino ai denti benche' fossero nella
cosiddetta "zona protetta".
Esistono dei comunicati, signor Miller, sui quali
lei tace perch� non corrispondono ai vostri scopi
disonesti...
[trad. a cura del Coord. Romano per la Jugoslavia;
sulla disinformazione strategica relativa ai fatti
di Srebrenica abbiamo inviato ed invieremo presto
ulteriore documentazione]
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