On September 20, U.S. president, Bill Clinton went to Potocari,Bosnia to attend a
memorial to the massacred men and boys of Srebrenica. Clinton's crocodile tears cannot wash away
his guilt for appeasing the genocide that befell Bosnia while he was in the White House. The sight of the
former president breaking ground for a monument honoring innocents who could have been saved is quite ironic.
The UN forces in charge of the "safe haven" of Srebrenica knew that the area was about to fall to the Serbs.
They pleaded for NATO protection which was tragically denied.
The continuing ethnic divisions in Bosnia are the result of the American and Western imprimatur on the Serbian
land grab, which took place when the Clinton administration forced the Dayton Accords on the suffering Bosnian people.
According to the New York Times article by Lizette Alvarez,the Srebrenica massacre "prompted Mr. Clinton to push for
aggressive intervention." However, it was not until August 30, 1995 that NATO intervened, a good six
weeks after the atrocities of Srebrenica. Bosnians have noted that the West failed to stop the slaughter
of over 200,000 people there, and withheld its military might, until the Bosnian forces began reversing
the gains of ethnic cleansing.
At Dayton, members of the Clinton administration, including General Wesley Clark awarded the Serbs half of Bosnia,
territory which is still virtually devoid of non-Serbs. After a few drinks with Serbian dictator,
Slobodan Milosevic, Clark even hugged the indicted war criminal.
