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To: MNI who wrote (12406)	6/18/1999 3:35:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Genscher may have been precipitous, but I doubt that he was totally out on a limb, since Kohl did not immediately sack him. It is likely that the Germans were taking the lead in arguing on behalf of the Slovenes and Croatians in NATO councils (remember, Austria is neutral), and that the Germans were therefore given a kind of grudging nod to recognize them when it became apparent that they were intent upon separation, with others gradually following suit. The main thing to recall is that the Slovenes and Croatians are historically more oriented towards Vienna, and the Serbs towards Moscow, and there was a sense of the futility of Yugoslavia, with Serbs making a bid to dominate the federation, and non- Serbs eager to leave...Yugoslavia was one of the unsatisfactory settlements left over from Versailles, so to speak...

To: MNI who wrote (12406)	6/18/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 17770

>>In view of this information, are there any comments from this international thread on the fact that it was actually the former German foreign minister H.D. Genscher who first officialised the break-up of Yugoslavia by starting diplomatic exchange with Slovenia and Croatia long time ago in his time. << I seem to remember Yaacov posting something to this effect. FWIW Andy

To: MNI who wrote (12406)	6/18/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 17770

MNI, Ya know, I have been telling people on this newsgroup for months that it was not Slobodon Milosevic who caused this civil war but rather, it was Western European nations like Germany and Italy that secretly encouraged Slovania and Croatia to try and break away. Milosevic tried to keep the nation unified. In fact, another "indicted war criminal" Karadic (sp?) was the speaker of the Bosnian Parlament. I have seen video of his speech before the Parlament when he said "You Muslims don't realize what you are doing...if you try to break away from Yugoslavia, you will drag Bosnia into Hell". Of course he was right. Strange that the Serbs get the blame for the breakup and subsequent civil war in Yugoslavia when they were the ones who wanted to remain a unified, multicultural nation. They say that the truth is the first victim in war and this Yugoslavian Civil War was no exception. -John