{"id":8537,"date":"2019-12-31T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2020-01-01T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:51:13","slug":"papers-reveal-anglo-french-distrust-before-srebrenica-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8537","title":{"rendered":"Papers reveal Anglo-French distrust before Srebrenica massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/31\/papers-reveal-anglo-french-distrust-before-srebrenica-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Days before the\u00a0Srebrenica massacre\u00a0in July 1995, John Major was warned France had possibly brokered a secret deal with the Bosnian Serbs to halt airstrikes in return for the release of western military hostages.<\/p>\n<p>This claim, detailed in a secret Foreign Office note to the prime minister, is among documents available to read at the National Archives in Kew from Tuesday that expose the depth of Anglo-French distrust during the Balkans conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The note added: \u201cWe are unlikely to ever know the full truth about all of this \u2026 it is plausible that Chirac told Milosevic that airstrikes in the immediate aftermath of hostage releases were unlikely but stopped short of any formal undertaking \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A covering note by Roderic Lyne, Major\u2019s principal private secretary, informed the prime minister: \u201cWhat this tells us speculatively is that the French may have done some sort of a deal but we don\u2019t know for sure and they are denying it.\u201d In turn, Major added a handwritten comment: \u201cpossible \u2026 but I doubt it was as firm as a deal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, on 9 July, Alija Izetbegovi\u0107, the Bosnian president, sent Major an urgent letter warning that \u201cthe Serb aggressor\u201d has launched \u201ca massive mechanized-infantry attack\u201d on Srebrenica. UN peacekeeping troops, he warned, \u201care not willing nor capable of protecting the city under attack\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Days before the\u00a0Srebrenica massacre\u00a0in July 1995, John Major was warned France had possibly brokered a secret deal with the Bosnian Serbs to halt airstrikes in return for the release of western military hostages. This claim, detailed in a secret &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8537\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}