[DEBATE] : US Ambassador Supports Perpetrators of Genocide in Bosnia

[Riaz K Tayob]

National Congress of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina - USA

ONLINE NEWSLETTER - International issue

No. 396 International  http://republic-bosnia-herzegovina.com/

April 25, 2006

1. US Ambassador Supports Perpetrators of Genocide in Bosnia

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1. US Ambassador Supports Perpetrators of Genocide in Bosnia

The US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Douglas L McElhany, has 
been using strong arm tactics on Bosnian representatives for months 
trying to steer constitutional negotiations away from the stated goal of 
unification of Bosnia and Herzegovina with his agenda to cement the 
"ethnically clean" enclave Republika Srpska, which had been created by 
genocide and aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
and its people.

Mr. McElhany is threatening the political parties of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina to accept the so-called "political reality" and accept 
constitutional amendments that are created to reward the aggressors of 
the genocidal war with their own territory, Republic Srpska.  The 
constitutional amendment debate started in the parliament on April 25, 
2006 where members of the parliament have protested in the session of 
the parliament that extreme pressure has been applied on them to accept 
the amendments against their better judgment.  Luckily, enough 
representatives in parliament (greater than 1/3) have rejected these 
amendments to defeat them, stating that they do not wish to cement the 
results of genocide and aggression as proposed in the constitutional 
amendments.

The battle is not over, though, as Mr. McElhaney has gone even further 
calling the key representatives who reject the amendments into “private 
meetings” where he is continuing his policy of blackmail and 
intimidation into coercing them to accept his unjust, immoral, and 
unlawful initiative.  Aside from the fact that in any constitutional 
reform process, which is by definition an internal matter of a state, it 
is unethical for a foreign observer to pick a side and apply this type 
of pressure on the representatives of sovereign state.  His conduct is 
all the more egregious because the proposal he is backing is designed to 
reward those who committed genocide and aggression, and furthermore is 
pressuring the victim to formally legalize the results of genocide and 
aggression.

As an official and representative of the United States government, in 
the eyes of Bosnians and the world he is aligning his country on the 
side of genocide and aggression.

We appeal to all consciences people of the United States to stop Mr. 
McElhaney in his quest to reward the perpetrators of genocide and 
aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  We are asking that Mr. McElhaney 
allows people of Bosnia and Herzegovina to draft their own constitution 
without interference from outside.

NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA