Karadzic trial: impartial tribunal found Bosnian Serbs were main villains

NOTING the inaccuracies in Steven King’s column on Radovan Karadzic and the Yugoslavian wars of the 1990s (October 28), I feel compelled to outline a few historical facts.

The Srebrenica massacre took place during a war that was orchestrated by the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic. He used the Bosnian Serb politicians, Bosnian Serb army, the Yugoslav army and the Serbian paramilitaries to achieve the aim of carving out an ethnically pure Serb state in Bosnia that could secede to Serbia.

In contrast to Steven King’s image of a country where “petty hatreds abounded” it took a lot of extreme nationalist propaganda to make Serbs believe they couldn’t live with Muslims or Croats throughout Yugoslavia.