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Subject: Izetbegovic's 12 Point Plan: "Pay Me For Peace"
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Subject: Izetbegovic's 12 Point Plan: "Pay Me For Peace"
Green Light Croatia; Red Light Croatia; Traffic Accident US
The road into Sarajevo was recently barely open and
reinforced with 'Rapid Reaction Forces" so three American
'peacekeepers' could run off it, after fooling the world for
years by secretly re-arming the Croats while meanwhile speaking
about "lifting" the embargo; after identifying militarily
strategic areas like Bihac, Sarajevo and Gorazde as 'safe' areas
although Bosniac artillery regularly and unreportedly fire from
inside them, after using UN 'Peacekeepers' to lengthen a runway
so C-130's can land with war materiel, after identifying as 'war
criminals' and failing to contact any Bosnian Serb
representatives so far during the 'peace' initiative during which
both the President and his Secretary of State are on vacation. .
* * *
Izetbegovic's 12 Point Plan: "Pay Me For Peace"
Mr. Izetbegovic issued a 12 point peace proposal(1) of 2
'affirmations', 2 'rejections', and 6 'insistances'.
Insistence #5 is for "guarantees of . . freedom for the
movement of people and goods," although Insistence #7 says
"borders between Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro must remain closed
'until the peace plan is realized.'
Before peace can be 'realized', the "international
community", which has been fronting him the money to fight this
war must forgive hem the debt for doing so and ante up more:
Insistances #8, and 9 require that "(outside) signatories to
the peace plan must establish a fund for the reconstruction of
Bosnia" and that they "provide political and financial
assistance." Insistence #11 is the world guarantee Bosnia's
future defense and "back its membership in the World Bank, [and]
International Monetary Fund" to which we lately learn the "multi-
ethnic" Islamic regime is $2 billion is debt, $500 million of it
in interest.
Nothing here yet about first stopping the fighting. More
important that government functionaries get paid first. Recently
Prime Minister Saladjic tendered his resignation, complaining
that funds intended for the government go directly into SDA party
coffers.
Inisistances #10 and 12 require Serbia's President Milosevic
to negotiate for the Bosnians Serbs and the Islamic Conference
must sign off on the plan.
It would be better that Croatia and Serbia agree not to
fight over Bosnia than that they and the Islamic conference
negotiate for them. Let these little powers expend their own
energies rather than that they suck bigger powers into fighting
each other.
There will be some friction between affirmation #2' that the
"'Contact Group' . .plan. . remain the basis for any settlement"
and 'Insistence' #5's "right of refugees to return to their homes
and the right to reclaim stolen or confiscated properties" in
that the 'Contact' plan gives the Serbs 48% of the territory
whereas they legally owned 64% of it before the conflict.
Does the 'Contact Group' plan codify the expropriation of
14% (64-48) of privately owned Serb land?
"The results of any referenda held on ethnically-cleansed
territory would be invalid. (#5)"
You mean any referenda like the one Izetbegovic pulled to
establish his 'state': Expedient and temporary allegiance with
Croats boycotted or voted against by the 31% Serbs?
"Ethnically-cleansed territory"? Sounds like a case of the
farmer Serb landlord evicting the City Muslim housedweller after
the political ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from representation.
Apart from my criticism is this report:
"The minister of Foreign Affairs of Srpska, Aleksa Buha,
stated in Pale today that at the beginning of the next round
of peace negotiations on the former B-H, all attributes of
sovereignty will be recognised the Republic of Srpska (RS), as
well as the right to confederate ties with Yugoslavia and the
right to self-determination. While commenting on the new US peace
initiative for the former B-H, minister Buha said that "it
represents a joint American-Russian and European Union
initiative", adding that according to what we have learned,
this time the warring sides will be treated equally. While
explaining the maps on the division of the former B-H, Buha
mentioned that "the maps are being modified for the sake of a
compact territories, with consideration of landownership and
the equal distribution of natural resources." (1.5)
* * *
"The UN, for its part, has said that only between 1,000 and
2,000 people remain unaccounted for from Srebrenica, claiming
that the Bosnian government had originally given a far too high
estimate of the total population. (2)
"Meanwhile the new Serbian "mayor" of Srebrenica has invited
anyone interested to visit. "The whole world can come and
investigate, film in Srebrenica," Miroslav Deronjic told AFP,
regretting that until now "nobody has made such a request." (3)
"The BBC on 21 August reported that representatives of a
Western human rights group charged the Croats with burning,
looting and systematic executions following the fall of
Krajina." (4)
"Western media are reporting in ever greater detail and with
ever greater objectivity on Croatian crimes committed in the RSK,
reports SRNA's correspondent from Hamburg, Svetislav Kostic. The
Suddeutche Zeitung cites the reports from the UNPROFOR command
in Zagreb and international human rights organisations on the
systematic burning and plundering of Serb houses and homesteads,
as well as on missing Serbs and mass graves. This paper published
the testimony of 'blue helmets' about the brutal acts of the
Croatian Army and police committed against the remaining Serb
residents of the Krajina. The Belgian TV network "RTFB"
broadcast the testimony of UN soldiers about mass graves into
which women and children were thrown. One of the eyewitnesses
spoke of whole families butchered in their apartments by the
Croatian Ustashe." (5)
"The BBC noted that EU Commissioner for Refugees Emma Bonino
claims that some 10,000 Krajina refugees remain unaccounted
for. ." (6)
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(1) B o s N e t - August 21, 1995:
"Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic issued a 12-point peace
proposal Friday.
This is the first official government response to a
U.S.-sponsored plan to end the war. His 12 proposals were:
1. An affirmation that peace must be based on Bosnia's
sovereignty and territorial integrity and that Serbia should
accept the mutual recognition of all former Yugoslav republics.
2. An affirmation that the 1994 ``Contact Group'' peace plan,
including its maps, should remain the basis for any settlement.
"We accepted from the beginning slight modifactions in the
plan and we still do, considering that the (Contact Group) map
of the internal borders couldn't be worse for us than it is
now."
3. A rejection of the notion that Sarajevo, the Bosnian
capital, should be a U.N.-administered city.
4. A rejection of any recognition of the current Bosnian
Serb regime, which Izetbegovic described as ``genocidal.''
5. An insistence that constitutional arrangements under any peace
plan must include guarantees of human rights and freedom for the
movement of people and goods, the right of refugees to return to
their homes and the right to reclaim stolen or
confiscated properties. The results of any referenda held on
ethnically-cleansed territory would be invalid.
6. An insistence on the active prosecution of war criminals.
7. An insistence that military forces from all five Contact
Group nations, including the United States, must be deployed to
enforce the plan. Serb forces must withdraw, under threat of
force, to their side of agreed new borders within seven days of
the signing of the deal and the borders between Bosnia, Serbia
and Montenegro must remain closed "until the peace plan is
realized."
8. An insistence that (outside) signatories to the peace
plan must establish a fund for the reconstruction of Bosnia.
9. An insistence that signatories provide political and
financial assistance to the Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia
and to the republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
10. An insistence that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
must negotiate for the Serbs in any peace talks and that the arms
embargo on Bosnia's government must be lifted and sanctions on
Serbia tightened if Serbs reject the plan.
11. An insistence that signatories must support
Bosnia-Herzegovina's defense in the future and back its
membership in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and
other such international and regional organizations.
12. An insistence that any peace agreement must be signed by
a representative appointed by the Organization of the Islamic
Conference."
(1.5) SRNA Review of Evening News, August 23, 1995
(2) OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 162, 21 August 1995
(3) OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 165, 24 August 1995
(4) OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 162, 21 August 1995
(5) SRNA Review of Evening News, August 23, 1995
(6) OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 164, Part II, 23 August 1995