LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE - HOW THE WEST WAS LYING GENERAL MLADIC AND STEALING FROM THE SERBS

MIROSLAV LAZANSKI: How the West deceived General Mladic

By Miroslav Lazanski Source

“For the post-modern state there is, therefore, a difficulty. We need to get used to the idea of double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But when dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of state, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era – force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary for those who still live in the nineteenth century world of every state for itself. Advice for post-modern states: those who have friendly, law-abiding neighbours should not forget that in other parts of the world the law of the jungle reigns. Among ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in the jungle, we also must use the laws of the jungle. In the coming period of peace in Europe, there will be a temptation to neglect our differences, both physical and psychological. This represents one of the great dangers for the post-modern state.” [from the book "The post-modern state and the World order", by Sir Robert Cooper, published in 2000.] The West has followed the above stated to the letter in case of Serbia and Russia.

Our people would say, the West has deceived General Mladic, let alone deceived the Russians, more precisely, Mikhail Gorbachev, and later Boris Yeltsin.

President of Republic of Srpska, Radovan Karadzic (left), former US president Jimmy Carter (center), and Republic of Srpska Army commander Ratko Mladic sign, in Pale, a declaration proposing a four-month cease-fire in the Bosnian Civil War.

Gorbachev swallowed the lie that NATO would not spread to the post-Soviet space, that NATO would not receive in its membership the states of the former Warsaw Treaty, and especially not to receive new states, the former Soviet republics. Gorbachev believed in all of that, and the events afterwards showed that the West had fooled him.

A similar naive man was Boris Yeltsin, who believed in the West's promise to accept Russia as an equal partner and that the West would not use its victory in the Cold War for geostrategic interests. Two Russian Naivans in just 15 years of their rule, and the damage appeared to be catastrophic.

Unlike them, General Ratko Mladic trusted the West twice. Firstly, the former US President Jimmy Carter came to Pale sometime in late 1994, early 1995 to negotiate lobbying for the benefit of Serbia. The Serbian side paid a million dollars for that, plus a yellow sweater, personally knitted and bestowed to Karter by Radovan Karadžić's wife, Ljiljana Karadžić,. This lobbying was about the agreement that the Serbs were to empty the areas in the west of the Republika Srpska, primarily the Ključ and Jajce municipalities and some other, and that in turnTuzla, Srebrenica, Gorazde, Zepa would be given to Serbs ...

Serbs, both politicians and generals believed it, because Carter claimed it was an agreement with Washington. When the operation of the Croat-Muslim forces began in summer 1995, the political structures of the SDS (Serb's Demmocratic Party) were first to escape, from the municipalities in the west of the Republika Srpska, because they knew about the agreement, then the military units retreated, and finally the people started to flee.

When the leadership of Pala asked Carter what happened with Tuzla, Gorazde and other places that Serbs should receive as a compensation for abandoned municipalities in the west, the response of the former US President was: "You Serbs have already screwed us several times, so we are screwing you, too". Both Karadzic and Mladic have been deceived. Million dollars, went down the drain, plus a yellow sweater ...

General Ratko Mladic (left) releases two French pilots, Captain Chiffot and Lieutenant Souvignet, in the presence of French General Francois Drouin, on December 12, 1995, at 2 pm at the border of Serbia and Republika Srpska. These two pilots were shot down by a rocket "Needle", above Pale, in the NATO airplane "Mirage 2000 K2".

The second time when the West had been deceiving General Mladic was the release of two dowened and captured French pilots in the autumn of 1995. Ratification of Dayton was questioned, since Paris was conditioned the ratification by the release of two pilots from the "Mirage 2000".

General Drouin, the chief of the French Armed Forces General Staff, arrived to the Republika Srpska to Zvornik, to which General Mladic handed over the pilots.

I was there that morning and when I asked General Mladic's associates what kind of gesture the Republika Srpska was receiving, and what the general, they told me that the Republika Srpska was receiving French humanitarian assistance, and that Mladic was given a solid French and American guarantees that he would never be tried before any international court. General Ratko Mladic naively trusted them. Or history at work confirms how Serbs and Russians really are brothers. In the trusting the West ...