Academy of Humanism, 55
ACSB. See American Committee to Save Bosnia
Adžić, General Blagoje, 44, 121 n.
Africa, 287
and postmodernism, 11. See also Western intellectuals
American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, 25
American Civil War, 168
American Committee to Save Bosnia (ACSB), 35nn., 41, 314, 325, 335, 339–40, 343. See also SAGE (Students Against Genocide)
American Philosophical Association, 55
Amnesty International, 37
reports of Croatian atrocities against Serbs, 16, 315
reports of Yugoslavian war killings, 59–60, 93
Anti-Genocide Campaign: campus grassroots activism, 22
Anti-Islam, 26
Arkan. See Ražnatović, Željko
Arms: Israeli-made, Serb use of, 115–16
Israeli sale of to Serbia, 112, 114, 117. See also Arms embargo
Arms embargo, 4
Dole-Lieberman bill to end, 318
policy makers against lifting of, 23
U.S., against Bosnia-Herzegovina, 20, 23, 30–31, 44, 118, 289–90, 325, 341
Atrocities: committed by former Yugoslavia; 23
Croat and Bosnia Muslim acts against Serbs, 122n.
in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 47
proof of Serbian atrocities, 96
Serbian acts against Bosnia, 1, 5–6, 10, 15, 45, 93, 120n.
Serbian and Bosnian Serbian acts against Bosnian Muslims, 122 n. See also Belgrade
Auty, Phyllis, 123 n.
Bacon, Francis: quoted, 65
Baker, James, 183–84
Balkan War: root cause of, 17, 25, 29
Baram, Haim, 106
Barbarism. See New Barbarism
Barnett, Michael N., 23
Bassiouni, Cherif, 15, 286, 297 n.
Baudrillard, Jean, 10, 11, 29–30, 79–89
as postmodernist, 12
Belgrade, 4, 12, 14–17, 23–24, 29, 31, 42–43, 51–54, 76, 97–98, 109, 113–14, 117, 167, 184, 193, 195, 254–55, 258, 289, 292, 296–98nn., 301 n., 336
condemnation of Belgrade-sponsored aggression, 22
emigration psychosis alive in, 56
newspaper reports of Serbian atrocities in Croatia and Bosnia 16
political establishment, 55
propaganda against Croats, 18
sanctions against, 20
supplier of fuel and money to Bosnian Serbs, 36n.
war raged by proxies of Belgrade regime, 3, 4, 6, 287
Belgrade regime, 4, 6, 15–16, 29, 42, 52, 54, 56, 63 n., 114
responsible for Serb guerrilla attacks against Croatia, 55. See also Belgrade
Bentley, Congresswoman Helen Delich: support of Serbia, 197–203
Binder, David, 13
Blitz, Brad K, 18, 25, 277 n., 327, 341
Block, Robert, 13
Bosnia, 3, 4, 6, 24, 26–27, 29–31, 53–54, 68–70, 73–74, 76, 87, 89
comparison to Vietnam, 68
right to self-defense, 187–88
West abdicates responsibility for, 75
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 50–54, 61–62 n., 94, 103, 188–90, 313–14, 344n.
depicted as civil war; 26, 44–5, 47
Serbian concentration camps in, 45
Serbian war plan, 39
weapons embargo, 20
Bosnian Muslims, 5, 14, 16, 20, 27–30, 46, 52, 85, 92, 98–99, 103–5, 108, 123n.
atrocities of, 122n.
ethnic cleansing of, 2, 98, 294
European sites of genocide, 8
formation of Muslim-Croat federation, 3
mass rape of women and young girls, 99. See also Islam between the East and West (Izetbegović)
Bosnian Serbs, 10, 23, 27, 79, 96, 191–92, 195
attacks of, on UN-declared safe areas Srebrenica and Žepa, 1
portrayal as victims of Croat-Muslim aggression, 25
reactivate concentration camps, execute civilians and arouse mass terror, 2
right of to self defense, 4, 10–11
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 1, 143–14, 151–52, 154, 159n.
quoted, 286, 291, 297 n., 301 n.
Britain, 48, 75–76, 119 n., 243–71, 284, 288–89, 294
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 8, 22, 35 nn.
Bulgaria, 3
Cancar, Petar, 99
Carrington, Lord Peter, 190, 269
blaming of violations on Muslim Slavs, Serbs and Croats, 20
Carter, Jimmy, President, 24, 223
peace mission to Herzegovina, 36 n.
Chetnik movement, 70, 253–54, 255
militia campaigns of massacre, 54
Serbian irregulars, 54
slaughtering of Muslims, 103. See also Mihailović, Draža; Partisans
China, 288
Christopher, Warren, Secretary of State, 77, 155, 300 n.
Churches and houses of worship: destruction of. See Genocide
CIA, 97–98
report on atrocities of Belgrade regime, 15, 46, 97, 286
report on genocide, 15
Cigar, Norman, 17, 34 n., 64 n., 120–21nn., 160 n., 230 n.
as former Pentagon analyst, 93–94, 96, 98
Civic Nationalism. See Nationalism
Civilized federalism, 22
Clinton administration, 33 n., 98, 142, 220, 333, 348
Clinton, Bill, President, 153, 155–56, 161 n., 290, 323, 332, 345
inaction on Bosnia, 68. See also Dole-Lieberman bill
Cohen, Philip J., 14, 18, 123 n.
Cold War, 106, 117, 118, 134–51, 254, 283, 287, 292, 293, 343
Collective guilt: as pretext for mobilizing against a population, 18
Collective security, 75
Communist Party, Yugoslav, 40, 49, 285. See also Tito, Marshal Josip Broz
Concentration camps, 52, 190, 192
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 112
Nazi camps, 53
Western responses to Auschwitz and Dachau, 6. See also Auschwitz; Dachau; Omarska (Serbian concentration camp)
Conversi, Daniele, 18–19, 244–81
Croatia, 5, 13, 23–27, 29, 31, 36–37 n., 41, 50, 53–54, 76, 92, 96, 122 n., 177–83, 248, 255, 258–59, 262, 302 n., 316, 323, 325, 334, 337–38
Croatian offenses against Bosnian Muslims in Mostar, 16
Croat-Muslim drive to re capture territory, 2
declaration of independence, 43–44
fascist Ustasha regime in World War II, 25
formation of Muslim-Croat federation, 3, 4, 6
free election held in, 41
invasion of, 43
police and local militia, 42
recapturing of Krajina, 16
Serbian plan for war in, 39
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), 18
Croats, 35 n., 39, 40, 46, 49–52, 54, 72, 74, 92, 98
role of in Partisan resistance, 49
“Expulsion of the Albanians” memorandum, 40
Cultural determinism, 247–48
Cultural monuments, destruction of. See Genocide
Cultural relativism, 246
Cushman, Thomas, 1–38
Dachau, 6
Dawidowicz, Lucy, 6
Dayton Accord, 2, 24, 117–18, 314, 322
and genocide, 319–21
partition plan, 332
right to self-defense, 319
Diaspora groups, 187–243
Diaspora Jews, 110
Dindić, Zoran, 55
Diždarević, Zlatko, 10
Djilas, Milovan, 104
Dole, Senator Robert, 22, 183–84. See also Dole-Lieberman bill
Dole-Lieberman bill: Clinton veto of, 332–33, 345n.
to end arms embargo against Bosnia, 318, 342, 345 n., 346 n.
Drašković, Vuk, 166
Dubrovnik, 14
shelling of, 166
Eagleburger, Lawrence, 119 n. 166, 183–84
names suspected war criminals, 298–99 nn.
ambassador to Belgrade, 91
East Timor, 10
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 97
Emigration psychosis, 40
Enlightenment project, 8–9, 11, 22, 29
enlightened civility, 11
Equivocation: role in Western non-response to Bosnia, 19, 27
inflammatory report to UN commission, 48
Ethnic cleansing, 2, 4, 6, 14–15, 25, 29–30, 36 n., 45–46, 52, 82, 88, 94, 108, 117, 149–50, 256, 291
campaigns of, 53
misuse of term, 14–16. See also Rape
Ethnic conflict, 14
between Croats and Muslims, 18
Ethnic nationalism. See Nationalism
Ethnic partition, 24. See also Dayton Accord
Europe, 16, 26–27, 29, 66, 71–72, 82–83, 88, 122 n., 150
genocide and atrocities in, 20–21
the new Europe, 79
“real” Europe as a white Europe, 82
U.S. withdrawal from, 69
European Commission on Human Rights: reports of Croatian atrocities against Serbs in Krajina, 16
European Community, 2–3, 44, 48, 75, 244–45, 265
imposes arms embargo, 44
Falk, Richard, 295
Fascism, 5
Federal Defense Ministry: Serbian controlled, 43
Federation of Yugoslav Immigants; opposing lift of arms embargo, 341–2, 349 n.
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz: assassination of, 40
Finci, Predrag: quoted, 56
Foca, 99
Former Yugoslavia, 2–3, 5, 8, 14, 16, 23, 37 n., 52, 72–73, 92, 96, 101, 110–13, 149, 176, 282–303, 316, 343
dissolution of Yugoslavia, 14
war crimes in, 8
war in, 90
Frames of reference: as rationalizations, 28
importance of, 28
rationalization for nonintervention in Bosnia, 20, 24
sociological study of, 26
sociological term for rationalization, 20, 25–26, 30
tolerance by Western nations of genocide in Bosnia, 27
France, 38 n., 75, 117, 119 n., 244, 248, 265, 271, 288–89, 294
Frankfurt School, 16
Gajić-Glišić, Dobrila, 113
Galvin, General John, 289
Genocide, 1, 3–6, 8–15, 17–19, 22, 25–27, 29–30, 46–47, 56, 79, 102, 108, 119, 123 n., 297 n., 301n.
adequacy of UN definition of, 19–20, 230n.
complicity of Serbian intellectuals in, 14–15
deliberate instrument of Serb policy, 52–54
European state policy in World War n, 4, 6
in Bosnia, 7–11, 13, 19–20, 24, 27–28, 60 n., 79, 120 n., 149
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 16
involvement of Serbian leaders and intellectuals, 36n.
vs. other war crimes and atrocities, 18
Western elite ignorance of, 20. See also Media (electric); Media (print)
Genocide Convention of 1948 (1949), 43, 286, 348 n., 360
Gentile, Louis, 8
Germany, 6, 13, 24, 27, 29, 72, 101, 106, 121 n., 123 n., 248, 256, 262, 264, 271, 284, 289, 294
recognition of Slovenia and Croatia, 13
Gligorov, Kiro, 166
Greater Serbia, 72, 76, 189, 195
propaganda of, 180–81
Greek-Turkish model for Bosnia, 69
Greenfeld, Liah, 22
Gutman, Roy, 57 n., 60 n., 77 n., 93–94, 99, 119–22nn., 256, 320
Hamilton, Congressman Lee: recipient of Balkan lobbying efforts, 214–21
Helsinki Commission, 48
Helsinki Declaration: denying right to secede, 285, 297 n.
Helsinki Watch, 15, 48, 60 n., 120n.
reports of, 95, 98, 112, 121n.
reports of Croatian atrocities against Serbs in Krajina, 16
Herzfeld, Michael 131–34, 147, 158 n.
Historical determinism, 19, 247–49
Historical parallels: to Bosnian war, 65–68
Hitler, Adolf, 24, 29, 48, 51 68 72, 76
expulsion of Jews, 39–40
Holocaust Jewish, 6–9, 29–30, 40, 45, 56, 68, 72, 111, 119 n., 122–23nn., 149, 315–16, 320–21, 323
as instance of genocide, 7, 19
difference from genocide in Bosnia, 7–8
memorial in Washington, DC, 68
Steven Spielberg and Schindler’s List, 8
the “we did not know” rationalization, 6. See also Western intellectuals
Hungary, 285
Hungarians in Croatia, 45
Hussein, Saddam, 85–86
Hyperreality: concept of portrayal of death, 10, 79
world of the simulacrum, 10
Indonesian government, 10
Instrumental rationality, 9
International Court of Justice, 48
demands Serbia and Montenegro prevent genocide in Bosnia, 20
International Humanist and Ethical Union, 55
International Law of Human Rights, The (Sieghart), 283, 295
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Responsible Persons for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committee in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (UN commission), 48
International War Crimes Tribunal, 15, 17, 320
charges Serbs with genocide and crimes against humanity, 20
indicts Bosnian war criminals, 2, 20, 363
indicts Bosnian Croats, 16
Iran, 29
Islam between East and West (Izetbegović), 28
Islamic fundamentalism, 26–29, 108
Islamic terrorism, 28
Israeli Communist Party, 102
Ivanko, Alexander, 21
Izetbegović, Alija, 28, 103, 109, 166, 285
Islam Between East and West, 28
Jews, 10, 25, 40, 45, 92, 104, 107, 114, 124
Zionist federation, 68. See also Diaspora Jews
Judas, Miloš, 58 n.
Karadžić, Radovan, 2, 5, 24, 27, 35 n. 49, 51, 73, 76, 93, 98–99, 105, 108, 166, 169, 191–96, 221, 259
International War Crimes Tribunal indictments against, 363–401
Kaufman, Michael T., 3
Kenney, George, 28
Kollek, Teddy (former mayor of Jerusalem), 92, 107, 117
Serbian attacks, 59n.
Serbian defeat by Turks, 41
Serbs terminate autonomy of, 41
Kostović, Ivan, 58 n.
blockade of roads, 41–42
Croat recapture of, 16
Kuristan, 10
Covenant, 284
Letica, Slaven, 14, 31 n., 35 n.
Lewis, Anthony, 8
MacKenzie, General Lewis, 63 n., 91, 96, 119 n.
Major, John, Prime Minister, 96, 119 n., 260
Maksimović, Vojislav, 99
Marković, Ante, 166–67, 169–70
Marković, Mihailo, 55, 64 n., 253–54
denounces U.S. role in Persian Gulf War, 55
Masaryk, Thomas, 22
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 45, 60 nn.
Media (electronic), 79
bias in reporting Croat and Muslim acts against Serbs, 17
bias in Israeli reporting, 105
Bosnia as media spotlight, 9–10
globalization of information, 6
“second media age of postwar era”, 7
American, 106
bias in reporting Croat and Muslim acts against Serbs, 17
coverage in Bosnia, 9
on genocide in Bosnia, 10
Mesić, Stipe, 43
Mihailović, Draža, 48–49, 51, 55 n., 76, 108, 113, 116
Military forces: International Rapid Reaction forces, 85, 88
Slovenian Territorial Defense Forces, 43–45
Yugoslav Federation Army, 53–54
Yugoslav Federation Army defeated by Slovenian defense forces, 44, 48
Yugoslav National Army capture of Croatian territory, 4
Milošević, Misha, 191–94
Milošević, Slobodan, 5, 16, 40–43, 51, 55–56, 64 n., 68, 72, 76, 91, 93, 108, 114, 116, 121 n., 125 n., 166, 170–71, 175–76, 193, 255, 258, 285, 290, 342
Mladić, General Ratko, 35 n., 38 n., 223, 259
indicted war criminal, 2
list of indictments against, 13, 363–401
Moljević, Stevan, 59
Serbian ally, 41
UN imposed sanctions against, 193
Moore, Patrick, 17
equivalency of Serbs, Bosnian Muslims, Croats as perpetrators of war crimes, 53
Moral relativism, 11–13, 18–19, 22–23, 231 n., 244–46, 256, 258–59, 266–67, 270–71
definition of, and role in postmodernism, 111
Moral universalism, 246
Mostar, 16
Moynihan, Senator Daniel, 31
Multiculturalism: 11–12
and treatment of Serbia, 11–12
Muslims, 25, 27, 35 n., 50, 53, 68, 72, 74, 92, 96, 98, 103, 105
fate of, compared to Armenians, 68
Nagel, Thomas: quoted, 294
National Council of the Republic of Serbia: declaration of Krajina as Serbian, 43. See also Yugoslav Federation, constitution of 1974 and violations of
civic and ethnic, differentiation between, 22–23
ethnic, 302–12
federalist (unitarism), 169
pro-Serbian, 106
separatist, 169. See also Tudjman, Franjo
NATO, 28, 118, 153–55, 166, 177, 255, 286–87, 291, 325, 346
air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, 1–2, 10, 131, 154, 291
Nazis, 4, 6, 9, 24–28. 45, 48–49, 53, 56, 72, 76, 92, 94–95, 108–9, 122
Nedić, General Milan (Nazi puppet ruler), 26
New Barbarism, 2, 8, 148, 302n.
Orwellian approach to, 292–93
New European Order. See New World Order
New Intellectual Order, 82
New York Review of Books, 13, 121 n.
New York Times, 8, 13, 20, 25, 32nn., 36–37nn., 48, 55 n., 58–59, 96, 119 n., 159–61nn., 191, 296–97nn., 300 n., 302 n., 347–48 nn.
New York Times Magazine, 19, 28
Nuremberg: contrast with Bosnia in principles, 282–83, 295n.
Western ignorance of principles of, 20
Nuremberg era: post-World War II trials, 8, 46, 284, 286–87, 292, 295 n., 298 n.
Omarska (Serbian concentration camp), 32, 45, 94–95
Opačić, Jovan, 50
Open Media Research Institute, 17
“Orientalism,” 26
contempt for fascism, 5
critic of evil, 11
Ostojić, Veelivor, 99
Owen, David, 286
Pale, 97
Partisans, 103, 253–54. See also Tito, Marshal Josip Broz
Pavelić, Ante, 18. See also Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Peace talks: Dayton Accord, 2
negotiated settlement, 24. See also Dayton Accord
Peres, Shimon, Foreign Minister, 102, 114
Perry, William, Secretary of Defense, 155
Petovar, Tanja, 52
Poland, 291
Popović, Pero, 63 n.
Porat, Yehoshua, 105
Poster, Mark, 7
Postmodernism: as intellectual movement, 12
culture of, 302n.
definition and characteristics of, 11–12
media and postmodernism, 11–12, 302n.
as rebellion against the Enlightenment project, 11
voyeuristic tendencies of, 79. See also Moral relativism
Powell, General Colin (chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff), 288, 299 n.
Public information: information “super highway,” 9
relationship to moral intervention, 7
Rabin, Prime Minister, 111, 116, 124n.
assassination of, 115
Radic, Stjepan, 174
Rape, 5–6, 15, 44, 52–53, 93, 106, 108
as Serbian method of terror, 46–47, 61 n., 99
gang, of pregnant women by Serbian soldiers, 47
as part of ethnic cleansing, 47
of young girls, 106
camps, for forcibly impregnating non-Serbian women, 47
systematic, of Muslims, 20
Rašković, Jovan, 4, 14, 42, 49–50, 55
Luda zemlja, 50. See also Serbian Democratic Party
Rationalization. See Frames of reference; Typifications
Rav-Ner, Tsvi, 97
Red Cross: reports of Croatian atrocities in Krajina, 16
Relativism. See Moral relativism
Republic of Serbia, 41
Revisionism, 232 n.
Rieff, David, 4, 95, 98–99, 120 n., 160 n., 296 n.
Rifkind, Malcolm, 71–73, 75, 91, 96
Root causes of Bosnian war, 67
Rorty, Richard, ll,32n.
Russia. See Soviet Union, 247–48
Rwanda, 10, 24, 128–62, 287, 322
Sadkovich, James J., 20, 282–303
SAGE (Students Against Genocide), 256, 314–15, 329, 334–35, 339–40, 343, 348 n.
SANA (Serbian Academy of Science and Art), 76
1986 memorandum, 39–41, 55, 56–57 nn.
Sarajevo, 1–2, 10, 21, 29, 37, 47, 49, 56, 79–84, 88, 100–2, 105, 109, 151, 155, 190–91, 256, 289, 316, 336
shelling of marketplace and bombing of schools, 27
SCIC. See Serbian Council Information Center
Secular theodicy, concept of, 133
Self-determination, principle of, 285, 290, 298 n. See also Tudjman, Franjo
Serbia, 3, 39–41, 53, 83, 91–92, 100, 177
leadership named as suspected war criminals, 45
sanctions against, 68
war effort of, targeting civilian Croats, 54
military juggernaut of, 4, 8, 14, 20, 23, 25, 29, 41, 43
supports Yugoslavian weapons embargo, 44
Serbian Academy of Science and Art. See SANA
Serbian aggression, 26–27, 29, 47, 56, 75, 84–86, 91, 119 n., 124 n., 126n.
blitzkrieg of rape, looting, mutilation and civilian murder, 44
genocide in Balkan War, 17
pan-Serbian, 173
use of Western troops to check aggression, 67
military inability of the West to react to, 87
Serbian Council Information Center (SCIC), 194
Serbian Democratic Party, 42, 50–51, 55, 193
Serbian expansionism: threat to European security, 76
Serbian Information Initiative, 236 n.
Baudrillard’s definition of, 11, 84–86
Serbian labor camps. See Concentration camps
Serbian nationalism, revival of, 40
Serbian Orthodox Church, 188
issues “Proposed Serbian Church National Program,” 41–42
Serbian program of genocide. See Atrocities; Genocide
Serbian propaganda, 25, 41, 44
nature of, 91
Serbian Radical Party, 6, 16, 5–52. See also Seselj, Vojislav
Serbian Socialist Party, 55
Serbian Unity Congress (SUC), 52, 194, 200–14, 217, 221–29, 238nn., 241 n.
SerbNet: Serbian American lobby group, 91, 119 n., 200–203
Serbophilia, 245, 250, 252, 256
after collapse of Titoism, 255–62
British Serbophilism and toleration of war crimes, 19. See also West, Rebecca
Serbs, 5, 11–20, 23–26 28–29, 40, 43, 46, 52, 67, 70, 74–75, 82, 84–86, 88, 91, 98, 101, 105
and killing of Bosnian Muslims, 10
of Croatia seek autonomy, 41
propaganda of, created by Serbian intellectuals, 18
exodus of, from Bosnian control, 14
superiority of, 50
Sieghart, Paul, 295n.
The International Law of Human Rights, 283, 295
Silajdžić, Harris (prime minister of Bosnia), 73
Simulacrum: concept of, 10, 79
Slovenia, 13, 27, 52, 54, 106, 258, 263
declaration of independence, 43
Socialist Party, 16. See also Milošević, Slobodan
Soviet Union, 48, 109, 151, 284, 294
Spanish Civil War, 5, 73, 289, 290
Srebrenica, 1, 17, 106, 125 n.
Stalin, 72
expulsion of Jews, 40
Stefanović, Mirko (charge d’ affaires for Embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), 97
Stojanović, Svetozar, 55
Strasbourg, 80
Students Against Genocide. See SAGE
SUC. See Serbian Unity Congress
Teitelbaum, Raoul, 105
Thatcher, Margaret Prime Minister, 71, 75
accuses Britain of complicity in genocide, 72
practices of, 68
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, 27, 40, 123 n., 175, 198, 253–55, 258, 285, 300 n.
Toholsi, Mieoslav, 28
Trevelyvan, G.M.: quoted, 66, 76–77
Tudjman, Franjo, 16, 18, 109, 114, 117, 122 n., 165–66, 170–85, 255–56
participation in antifascist Partisan movement, 173
principle of self-determination, 16, 18, 285
Twain, Mark, 19
Typifications, 20
United Kingdom. See Britain
United Nations, 20, 48, 52, 73, 75, 88, 95, 102, 114, 117, 128–31, 261, 264–65, 267, 285–86, 288–89, 294, 298 n., 330
accused of corruption in Bosnia and Croatia, 21, 23–24
definition of genocide, adequacy of, 19–20
Charter of, 15, 30–31, 35 n., 134–38, 289, 322
Charter, Article 51 of, 15, 30–31, 322
Commission of Human Rights and Misha Milošević, 45, 60 n., 192
commission investigating war crimes, 48
documentation of Serbian war crimes, 15, 46
and genocide, 15, 129–31, 134, 141, 145–6, 147
in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 8
resolutions of, 23
sanctions, 113
United Nations Commission of Experts, 48, 51–53, 55 n.
United Nations Convention on Genocide, 60n.
Article 2, definition of genocide, 46
United Nations General Assembly: adoption of Article 2, 46
United Nations Protection Force. See UNPROFOR
United Nations Security Council, 60 n., 101, 128–30, 138–55, 159 n., 245, 286
adopts resolution banning weapons sales to Yugoslavia, 44
United States, 11, 44, 48, 93, 117, 118, 129–30, 134, 145–47, 150, 294, 302nn., 348n.
imposes arms embargo, 44
United States Congress: attributes war crimes to Serbs, 15
Commission of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 33 n. See also Dole-Lieberman bill
United States Department of State, 45, 97, 121–22n.
attributes war crimes to Serbs, 15
reports atrocities and war crimes in Former Yugoslavia to the UN, 46
UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force), 63 n., 88, 149–57, 160 n., 162 n., 291
Ustasha, 13, 18, 26, 36 n., 255
crimes of regime, 104–5
Vance-Owen plan, 261
Veil, Simone: quoted, 10
Verstehen: definition of, 15, 33 n.
Vojvodina, 76
Serbian province of, 100
Serbs terminate autonomy, 40–41
von Ranke, Leopold (German historian): quoted, 2
Vukovar, 14
crimes committed by Nazis, 6
Serbian, 4, 15–16, 18–19, 53. See also CIA; Helsinki Watch; United States Congress; United States Department of State
Western negotiations with indicted criminals, 23. See also Karadžić, Radovan; and MLADIĆ, General Ratko
Washington Post, 48, 58–59, 161 n., 345 n.
Western elites, 118
definition of, 3
agreement with Serbian views, 5
ambivalence of, toward Bosnian genocide, 5, 11
Western intellectuals, 4–5, 11, 15, 21, 79
change in the habits of, 5
Eurocentric response to Bosnian genocide, 10, 18, 19
failure to respond to genocide and rape, 19
guided by ambivalence, 22
response to European genocide, 8, 23, 26, 29–30
silence on genocide, 22
Western policy: rationalizations for lack of, in Balkans, 21
Western role in Balkan War: analysis of, 3
ambivalence of Western intellectuals, 4
comparison of Western intellectual response to the Holocaust and Bosnia, 8
silent witness, 3
view of war as Civil War, 67
ineffective response before air strikes, 1, 13
Wiesel, Elie, 9, 22, 68, 95–96, 323
World War II, 2–4, 6–7, 16, 18–19, 24–30, 36 n., 40, 49–50, 56, 67, 72, 91–92, 96–97, 104, 109, 114, 116–17, 122–23 n., 283, 290, 294
lesson of, 68
post-World War II era, 18
Yugoslav Communist Party See Communist Party, Yugoslav
Yugoslav Federation, 26
constitution of 1974 and violations of, 41–43
Yugoslav Federation Army. See Military Forces
Yugoslavhood, 174–76
Yugoslav National Army. See Military Forces
cluster bomb shelling, 14
Zametica, Jovan, 104, 123 n., 259, 278 nn.
Zelenbaba, Suzana, 50
Zimmerman, Warren (U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia), 22, 35 n., 165–72, 177–78