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Just before he died, Alija Izetbegovic confessed to Bernard Kouchner (former UN High Commissioner to Bosnia) and US diplomat Richard Holbrooke that there were no death camps in Bosnia. \u00a0Kouchner included details of this in his 2004 book “LeGuerriers de la Paix”, Grasset, Paris on pp 372 – 375.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an English translation:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Kouchner: “You remember President Mitterrand’s visit?”<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Izetbegovic:\u00a0 “<\/span>Let me thank you once again.”<\/p>\n

K:\u00a0“<\/span>In the course of that conversation you spoke of the existence of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

extermination camps in Bosnia.\u00a0 <\/span>You repeated that in front of the<\/p>\n

journalists. That provoked considerable emotion throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Francois sent me to Omarska and we opened other prisons. They were\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

horrible places, but people were not systematically exterminated.\u00a0 <\/span>Did\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you know that?”<\/p>\n

I:\u00a0 “<\/span>Yes.\u00a0 <\/span>I thought that my revelations could precipitate\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

bombings. I saw the reaction of the French and the others — I was\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

mistaken.”<\/p>\n

Holbrooke: “You understood at Helsinki that President Bush senior would not<\/p>\n

react?”.<\/p>\n

I:\u00a0 “<\/span>Yes, I tried, but the assertion was false. There were no<\/p>\n

extermination camps whatever the horror of those places.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Kouchner concludes: “The conversation was magnificent, that man\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

at death’s door hid nothing from us of his historic role. Richard and I\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

expressed our immense admiration.”<\/p>\n

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Just before he died, Alija Izetbegovic confessed to Bernard Kouchner (former UN High Commissioner to Bosnia) and US diplomat Richard Holbrooke that there were no death camps in Bosnia. \u00a0Kouchner included details of this in his 2004 book “LeGuerriers de la Paix”, Grasset, Paris on pp 372 – 375. This is an English translation: \u00a0Kouchner: … <\/p>\n

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