"In this book the author bridges the gap between the common perception of the modern Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as a European Monitor on the ground. Drawing on original source material from both the United Nations (UN) and the European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM), he critically re-examines the programme of violence which erupted in 1991 and
eventually culminated in 1995 in the vicious dismemberment of a sovereign federal republic with a seat at the United Nations General Assembly.In doing so, he highlights the duplicitous behaviour of all parties to the conflict; the double standards employed throughout by the United States in its foreign policy; the lengths to which the Sarajevo government manipulated the international media to promote a 'victim' status; the contempt in which UN peacekeepers were ultimately held by all sides; and the manner in which Radovan Karadzic was sacrificed at the altar of political expediency when the real culprits were Slobodan Milosevic and his acolyte, General Ratko Mladic.
This book, the first comprehensive evaluation of the conflict by an EU Monitor, tells the story of the modern Yugoslav conflict, 1991-1995, from the unique perspective of one who was there, drawing on all of the authors' published work to data."--Jacket.
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