You once asked me when Carrington said what he said...the answer is August 27th...here is the whole article
Bombing Serbia made things
much worse, says Carrington
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By Robert Shrimsley,
Chief Political Correspondent
Friday 27 August 1999
The Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
NATO'S strategy of bombing Serbia during the Kosovo conflict
prompted rather than prevented ethnic cleansing, Lord Carrington,
the former Foreign Secretary, said yesterday.
The bombing had "made things very much worse", he said, and the
European Union had made some "catastrophically stupid decisions"
in its diplomacy in the Balkans.
"I think what Nato did by bombing Serbia actually precipitated
the exodus of the Kosovo Albanians into [FYR] Macedonia and
Montenegro. I think the bombing did cause ethnic cleansing." Lord
Carrington, a former secretary general of Nato, said that the
circumstances had now been reversed because "the Serbs are being
cleared out [of Kosovo].... I think it is a great mistake to
intervene in a civil war."
He also denounced the way Slobodan Milosevic had been declared a
war criminal, saying that Britain was "a little bit selective
about condemnation of ethnic cleansing, in Africa as well as in
Europe. He said: "I do not think he is any more a war criminal
than President Tudjman of Croatia, who ethnically cleansed
200,000 Serbs out of Krajina. Nobody kicked up a fuss about
that."
Lord Carrington said that for most of this decade the "whole
business in the Balkans has been mismanaged". He added: "I am not
sticking up for the Serbs, because I think they behaved badly and
extremely stupidly by removing the autonomy of Kosovo, given them
by Tito in the first place. But I think that what we did made
things very much worse and that what we are now faced with is a
sort of ethnic cleansing in reverse."
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