{"id":1379,"date":"2020-04-09T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/?page_id=1379"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T14:22:59","slug":"stacy-sullivan-on-milosevic-and-genocide-edward-s-herman-28-may-2004","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.balkan-conflicts-research.com\/archive\/stacy-sullivan-on-milosevic-and-genocide-edward-s-herman-28-may-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide &#8211; Edward S Herman 28 May 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>By Edward S. Herman | May 28, 2004<\/p>\n<p>Liberals and much of the left have been badly\u00a0bamboozled on recent<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Yugoslav history and the role of the International\u00a0Criminal Tribunal<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the Former Yugoslavia, with former Serbian\u00a0President Slobodan<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Milosevic having been hyper-demonized and the\u00a0history of the Balkans<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>rewritten to fit what Leonard Cohen calls the\u00a0&#8220;paradise lost\/loathsome<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>leaders&#8221; paradigm. But numerous serious scholars\u00a0\u00a0have rejected this<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>history and regard the U.S. and other NATO powers as\u00a0heavily<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>responsible for the disasters since 1990. Lord David\u00a0Owen&#8217;s Balkan<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Odyssey, and his testimony before the Tribunal, makeit very clear that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Milosevic was eager for a settlement of the Bosnian\u00a0wars well before<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the Dayton agreement in 1995, and that he regularly\u00a0had major conflicts<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of interest with the Bosnian Serbs. It is clear from\u00a0Owen, as well as<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>from other experts that the U.S. government played a\u00a0key role in the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>failure of the 1991 Vance plan, the 1992 Cutileiro\u00a0plan, and the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>1993-94 Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg plans, as\u00a0the Clinton<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>administration armed the Bosnian Muslims, and later\u00a0the KLA in Kosovo,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>while encouraging them both to hope (and work) for\u00a0U.S.-NATO military<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 i<\/span>ntervention on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Milosevic was not indicted along with Mladic and\u00a0Karadzic in 1995 for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia in prior years, so\u00a0the belated attempt<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in The Hague in 2002 to make him responsible for\u00a0those killings<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>suggests that UN war crimes tribunal chief\u00a0prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>did this because she saw that the killings in Kosovo\u00a0fell far short of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>anything she could pass off as &#8220;genocide.&#8221; Even\u00a0establishment<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>spokespersons like retired U.S. Air Force General\u00a0Charles Boyd and UN official Cedric Thornberry have stressed that the\u00a0Bosnian killings in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the years 1991-1995 were by no means confined to\u00a0those by Bosnian<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Serbs: the Croatians and Bosnian Muslims, the latter\u00a0supplemented by<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>thousands of imported mujahideen, slaughtered many\u00a0thousands of their<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>ethnic enemies in the area. But the Tribunal,\u00a0organized, funded, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>essentially controlled by the U.S. and Britain, was\u00a0only interested in pursuing NATO targets, and these were almost\u00a0exclusively Serbs.<\/p>\n<p>There is now substantial literature that makes a\u00a0strong case that the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Tribunal is not only a crudely political arm of\u00a0NATO, but that it is a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;rogue court.&#8221; As a political arm, it regularly\u00a0cleared the ground for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>NATO military actions and since that victory the\u00a0Tribunal has worked<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>hard to prove that the NATO war was just.<\/p>\n<p>The Milosevic trial is the main vehicle for proving\u00a0NATO&#8217;s virtue,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>though it has been a major flop in proving its case\u00a0and maintaining an image of fairness and justice. The latter problem\u00a0was nicely illustrated in the Tribunal&#8217;s recent privileged\u00a0treatment of the U.S. government and Wesley Clark. Thus, the U.S.\u00a0government was given the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0right to demand a closed session of the court and to\u00a0redact testimony;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Clark was allowed to communicate with outsiders and\u00a0obtain and insert \u00a0into the record a truth testimonial from Bill\u00a0Clinton, in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>straightforward violation of Judge May&#8217;s trial\u00a0rules. Readers of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>New York Times (or In These Times and The Nation)\u00a0will also never know<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that with William Walker on the stand, Judge May&#8217;s\u00a0deference to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Ambassador&#8221; was laughable: during direct\u00a0examination by the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>prosecutors there was not one interruption, while\u00a0during Milosevic&#8217;s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>cross-examination he interrupted 70 times, and\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t allow him to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>ask Walker, the man who grieved so over deaths at\u00a0Racak, about his<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>earlier crude apologetics for the killing of the sixJesuit leaders and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>others in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>A recent example of the kind of analysis that\u00a0repeats the canards common to the liberal &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; is\u00a0FPIF&#8217;s commentary by<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Stacy Sullivan, of the Institute for War and Peace\u00a0Reporting (IWPR), on<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Milosevic and Genocide: Has the Prosecution Made\u00a0Its Case?&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>( http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/commentary\/2004\/0402milosevic.html ).<\/p>\n<p>IWPR is funded by the State Department, USAID, the National\u00a0Endowment for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Democracy, the Open Society Institute, and half a\u00a0dozen other Western<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>governments, and it has long served as a de facto\u00a0propaganda arm of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>NATO. Sullivan is most noted for her New Republic\u00a0classic of hardline<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>pro-war and vengeance propaganda, &#8220;Milosevic&#8217;s\u00a0Willing Executioners&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>(May 9, 1999). Sullivan&#8217;s FPIF article is in the\u00a0same mode, taking it<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as a given that the Tribunal is an apolitical\u00a0instrument of justice and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that we have an honest and not a show trial.<\/p>\n<p>An Annotated Response to Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Her first sentence says that the prosecutors\u00a0announced right off that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>they would &#8220;prove&#8221; Milosevic guilty of genocide. She\u00a0fails to mention<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that the Bosnia charges were added belatedly, that\u00a0Milosevic had not<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>been charged with them at the time of the actual\u00a0killings, and that while Del Ponte said she would &#8220;prove&#8221; this guilt\u00a0\u00a0she admittedly didn&#8217;t<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>yet have the evidence. Indict, publicly and\u00a0flamboyantly charge, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>then look for the evidence, has long been the\u00a0Tribunal&#8217;s modus operandi.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan&#8217;s second sentence mentions that there were\u00a0&#8220;300 witnesses,&#8221; &#8220;some high level insiders who have turned on their\u00a0former master,&#8221; &#8220;thousands of pages of documents,&#8221; etc. We are\u00a0supposed to be impressed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>with this sheer volume of smoke that must show a\u00a0\u00a0genocidal fire. She<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>doesn&#8217;t mention that Canadian law professor Michael\u00a0Mandel gave Del Ponte &#8220;thousands of pages&#8221; of documents in April\u00a01999 showing NATO war<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>crimes, which of course Del Ponte ignored, and that\u00a0thousands of pages<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>have been published and innumerable witnesses could\u00a0have been supplied as witnesses for the many thousands of Serb victims\u00a0in Bosnia. It is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>extremely easy to find victimized people in civil\u00a0wars who will testify<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to maltreatment if given the opportunity and even\u00a0paid for their<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>trouble, and some and perhaps most will even be\u00a0telling the painful<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>truth. But only a propagandist will mention the 300\u00a0witnesses as if<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>this alone is a serious consideration in proving\u00a0&#8220;genocide.&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As regards the &#8220;high level insiders,&#8221; in fact the\u00a0prosecution came up<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>with few that were high level and fewer still who\u00a0were cooperative. One<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of their prime witnesses, Ratomir Tanic, appears to\u00a0have been a conman,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>who was so &#8220;inside&#8221; that he couldn&#8217;t even describe\u00a0the location of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>president&#8217;s office. Genuine insiders like former\u00a0Yugoslav president<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Zoran Lilic and member of the Yugoslav presidency\u00a0Borislav Jovic<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>confirmed Milosevic on almost all key points. Rade\u00a0Markovic, the former<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>head of Yugoslav security, who had everything to\u00a0gain from denouncing<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>his old boss, also defended Milosevic on all key\u00a0points while<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>renouncing a statement he claimed had been extracted\u00a0from him by<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>threats and torture during a 17 month stint in\u00a0prison. Sullivan<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>predictably doesn&#8217;t mention that many &#8220;insiders&#8221; and\u00a0others were bribed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and threatened with heavy sentences unless they\u00a0acquiesced to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>plea-bargains.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan claims that many legal experts are doubtful\u00a0about a successful<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>genocide charge because the Tribunal &#8220;has set the\u00a0bar for doing so<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>extremely high.&#8221; They might have to prove that\u00a0Milosevic &#8220;orchestrated<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>the breakup of Yugoslavia with the specific intent\u00a0to destroy Bosnian<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Muslims as a people&#8230;[with] unequivocal evidence of\u00a0genocidal<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>intent&#8230;calling for the liquidation of all of the\u00a0Bosnian Muslims&#8230;&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The idea that Milosevic wanted the breakup of\u00a0Yugoslavia is ideology run wild and contradicts the usual formula that he\u00a0attacked Slovenia<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and Croatia in an attempt to prevent their exit from\u00a0Yugoslavia (for a summary of an alternative view of the Balkan wars,\u00a0see Edward S.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Herman, &#8220;Diana Johnstone on the Balkan Wars,&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(http:\/\/www.monthlyreview.org\/0203herman.htm) , as wellas a recent<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0piece by George Szamuely for FPIF, &#8220;The YugoslavianFairytale,&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0(http:\/\/www.fpif.org\/commentary\/2004\/0405fairytale.html ).<\/p>\n<p>As there was a lot of back-and-forth ethnic\u00a0cleansing and killing in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Bosnia, and the celebrated Srebrenica killings were\u00a0comprised entirely<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of military-aged men, many killed in fighting, and\u00a0after the Bosnian<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Serbs had admittedly separated out the women and\u00a0children and moved<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>them to safe refuge, intent and plan (as well as the\u00a0still elusive<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Milosevic control of the Bosnian Serb forces) would\u00a0seem rather essential to proving that Milosevic was guilty of\u00a0genocide in any<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sense. Besides, Del Ponte said she was definitely\u00a0going to &#8220;prove&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>genocide. What concept did she have in mind?<\/p>\n<p>What constitutes genocide?<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan doesn&#8217;t have a clue on the level of\u00a0Tribunal &#8220;bars&#8221; for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>charges of genocide. These have proved to be\u00a0wonderfully flexible, and her claim of a too-high bar has no basis in any\u00a0Tribunal actions but is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>rather a form of pressure to get the bar low enough\u00a0to assure the show<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>trial&#8217;s proper result. In Bosnian Serb General\u00a0Krstic&#8217;s case, the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Tribunal found Krstic guilty of genocide by making\u00a0it virtually the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0same thing as ethnic cleansing, and extending the\u00a0concept to killing<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>only armed men in a single small town!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Assuming that this was a valid case of genocide,\u00a0Sullivan alleges that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0an &#8220;acquittal would have serious consequences for\u00a0attempts to prosecute<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>genocide in the future.&#8221; If it isn&#8217;t a valid case of\u00a0genocide it wouldn&#8217;t interfere with future efforts at all.\u00a0However, if it is a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0corrupt case brought by an alliance that actually\u00a0carried out the &#8220;supreme crime&#8221; of aggression in violation of the UN\u00a0Charter in attacking Yugoslavia, using the Tribunal first as a\u00a0war-facilitating<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>instrument and then as a means of justifying the\u00a0aggression, losing the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0case would be a plus for the international rule of\u00a0law. This is not likely to happen, given the fact that the Tribunal\u00a0is an arm of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>NATO powers, although the case made by the\u00a0prosecution has been so weak<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that it is not inconceivable that Milosevic might\u00a0only be found guilty<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of &#8220;crimes against humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great Powers and Genocide<\/p>\n<p>What might really interfere with efforts to pursue\u00a0genocide would be if<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the United States or another major power engaged in\u00a0genocide or gave it<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>support, as there are no mechanisms to prevent or\u00a0punish acts such as these in the New World Order, and major powers are\u00a0essentially exempt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Thus, the &#8220;sanctions of mass destruction&#8221; imposed by\u00a0the U.S. and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Britain on Iraq from 1991-2002 killed four or five\u00a0times as many civilians as died from all causes in the Balkans\u00a0wars of the 1990s, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as Thomas Nagy and Joy Gordon have shown, these\u00a0deaths were brought<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>about deliberately; and Suharto&#8217;s and his\u00a0successors&#8217; operations in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Indonesia and East Timor were big-time genocidal,\u00a0but under Western,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0and notably U.S. and British, protection. The\u00a0problem of this exemption<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>does not occur to Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan argues that &#8220;by far the most serious\u00a0consequences of an<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>acquittal on genocide charges&#8230;would be for\u00a0Bosnia&#8217;s victims,&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>ignoring the Croat and Serbian victims, of which\u00a0there were many<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>thousands. (The largest single ethnic cleansing\u00a0during the Balkan wars<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>was of Serbs driven out of the Krajina in August\u00a01995, by the Croats, with U.S. assistance; the largest proportionate\u00a0ethnic cleansing in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>those wars was of Serbs and other minorities,\u00a0including Roma, driven<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>out of Kosovo by the KLA under NATO auspices after\u00a0June 1999.) But even in her own narrow terms of reference, how concernedare Bosnian victims<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>over this issue? How does Sullivan know about thevictims&#8217; feelings? A poll taken in Bosnia several years ago indicated\u00a0that no more than six<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>percent of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, or Croats\u00a0considered the bringing of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>war criminals to justice as important (Charles Boyd,\u00a0&#8220;Making Bosnia<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Work,&#8221; Foreign Affairs, January 1998). \u00a0Furthermore, why would Bosnian victims need a\u00a0successful &#8220;genocide&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>charge and not be satisfied with guilt for &#8220;crimes\u00a0against humanity?&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, if the function of the trial is to prove\u00a0the NATO war just, we<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>must have &#8220;genocide.&#8221; Best, however, to pretend that\u00a0it is concern over<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the victims rather than NATO-establishment\u00a0priorities that make the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>charge of genocide so important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Editor: John Gershman, Interhemispheric Resource\u00a0Center (IRC)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Ed Herman is an economist and media analyst. He has\u00a0a regular &#8220;Fog<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Watch&#8221; column in Z magazine. With Philip Hammond, he\u00a0co-edited Degraded<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Capability: the Media and the Kosovo Crisis (Pluto:\u00a02000).)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy Sullivan on Milosevic and Genocide \u00a0By Edward S. 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