Principle Eight overrules Principle Three of the Helsinki Accords.
Today, March 1994, a
situation prevails where US officials say that if Serbia ‘invades’ Kosovo then
the West must attack Yugoslavia using the full might of NATO. It seems that these [US]
officials do not realize that Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia. How can a country attack itself?"
"In effect, what they really mean is that self-determination
is paramount; Principle Eight overrules Principle Three of the Helsinki Accords. This is the direct opposite of the situation in the Krajina, where the
same [US] officials say Croatia’s Hitler/ Tito-generated borders are paramount;
Principle Three overrules Principle Eight. Is it any wonder that the Serbs feel aggrieved
and are bewildered by Western logic, or rather the lack of it?" "Just
like the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Albanian Muslims draw encouragement from
Western statements and threats against Yugoslavia over Kosovo."
Carr went on to say: "Trouble will only erupt [in Kosovo] as
a result of provocative action by the Muslim population within Kosovo, or from outside
interference. In such circumstances, Yugoslavia has a choice of action. It can withdraw
from its own territory, or it can take forceful action to suppress civil unrest,
knowing full well that the latter will result in heightened media attention on a massive
scale, followed by political demands for the UN Security Council to take military action
against Yugoslavia."
Significantly, in 1995, a year after this report by Bill Carr, US
officials, including US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, and retired senior
US military officers (acting in contravention to rules forbidding their work as
mercenaries for a foreign power), worked directly with the Croatian
Government to support the Croatian "ethnic cleansing" of the Krajina region
—which had been Serb occupied for some 500 years — forcing some 250,000 ethnic
Serbs from their homes and lands. The media was not present. The dead —and there were
many of them — were not counted. The quarter million plus
refugees were forgotten, and remain forgotten although they still have not been given
international support.
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