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Letter to the Editor: History in the Balkans

Fri, Apr 17 2009 10:00 CET byKevin Beck 1012 Views
As tensions rise in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the possibility of another terrible war in the Balkan nation that has seen billions of dollars of American reconstruction monies poured into its infrastructure, the United States now has another possible foreign policy challenge to deal with.

A renewed war in Bosnia-Herzegovina will put enormous pressure on American foreign policy concerns that include wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the terrible financial crises currently affecting the US and the world. The Serbian leader of Bosnia’s multi-ethnic nation has stormed out of national level meetings involving the fragmented nations three major groups.

This behaviour by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is exactly like the action that prompted the 1992-1995 genocide in the former Yugoslavia, mainly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, when former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic stormed out of the Bosnian Congress and made public statements that he intended to commit genocide against non-Serbs in Bosnia.

Could the world be on the brink of another terrible genocide in Bosnia which will complicate US foreign policy moves and desires or will the "nasty" elements of the Bosnian Serbs be replaced by more democratic and less obstructive politicians?


Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
 

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