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| Legitimizing Genocide When Milosevic launched his war against the newly independent Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina in April 1992, the task of his local proxies - the Serb Democratic Party, headed by Radovan Karadzic, and its armed forces, led by Ratko Mladic and financed from Belgrade - was to carve out the largest possible "Serb" state on Bosnian territory. Genocidal terror was systematically deployed in order to clear the majority non-Serb population from eastern Bosnia, from Posavina in the north, and from the area round Prijedor in the west, as the first stage in replacing an ancient multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Bosnian society by a racially pure Lebensraum for Bosnian Serbs alone. more > Clinton's Débàcle in Bosnia In December 1995 the Clinton Administration ended the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Proud of what was perceived as one of his few foreign policy successes, President Clinton announced that, under the US-brokered Dayton Peace Accords, "refugees will be allowed to return to their homes". He continued: "People will be able to move freely throughout Bosnia, and the human rights of every Bosnian citizen will be monitored by an independent commission and an internationally trained civilian police force. Those individuals charged with war crimes will be excluded from political life". None of these things have happened. As a result, Bosnia is being partitioned into three ethnically pure mini-states more > home | about us | publications | news | contact | bosnia | search | bosnia report
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