Ratko Mladic : Tragic Heroby Milo YelesiyevichRatko Mladic: Tragic Hero is the first book-length study to appear in English about the controversial Serbian general, translated, edited and supplemented by Milo Yelesiyevich. It departs radically from mainstream news coverage of General Mladic because it presumes him to be innocent of charges of war crimes and genocide until he has been proven guilty. Furthermore, Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero presumes that the West has been acting against its own best interests by supporting Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the former Yugoslavia, while at the same time attempting to prosecute General Mladic for alleged crimes for which there is still no proof, even after the passage of more than a decade. Genegal Ratko Mladic was the first General to fight Islamic fundamentalism in Europe. Why has he been demonized while others, who have done little or nothing-or who have even aided and abetted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism-have been praised? Ratko Mladic, Tragic Hero consists of an abridgment of Mr. Stojadinovic's book, Ratko Mladic, Hero or War Criminal? (Evro, Belgrade: 2001) which discusses Mladic's biography, his successes and failures as a general, the dilemmas he faced as a soldier, and tries to answer the question: how good a general was he? and is he a war criminal? It is followed by Bringing Democracy to Bosnia, by Gregory Elich, a respected journalist whose work has appeared on counterpunch.org and Covert Action, which examines the results of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, and demonstrates that the West has imposed a dictatorship in Bosnia under the covert of democraty. Background chapters provide a context for the Bosnian War that the mainstream media has systematically ignored. Bosniacs, Nazi Muslims, Mujahideen, and Bin Laden traces the rise of Bosnian Muslim fascism and its connection to Islamic fundamentalism as exemplified by the Nazi SS Handzar Division during WWII, which was organized by Himmler and Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Alija Izetbegovic, former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina, began his career as recruiter for the Handzar Division and acted as a historical link, connecting resurgent Muslim fascism and fundamentalism in Yugoslavia in the 1990s to that of WWII. Ustashi, Murderer Monks, and the Modern Croatian State examines the Ustashi Nazi Puppet state created by Hitler in Croatia during WWII, and the involvement of the Roman Catholic clergy in the administration of the Jasenovac death camp, etc. The most controversial chapter is Srebrenica, the Phantom Massacre, which analyzes the alleged "Srebrenica Massacre" and challenges the groundless accusation that "7,000 Muslim men and boys" were killed there. This analysis relies on mainstream news coverage of The Hague Tribunal and the work of independent analysts. UN High Representative Paddy Ashdown dismissed this 2002 Report without ever having read it. The analysis argues persuasively that at most about 1,800 armed Bosnian Muslim soldiers died in combat, and that about 100 were killed in summary executions. In other words, there was no massacre-only combat fatalities. Seventy pages of interviews with General Mladic appear in English for the first time, along with appendices that reprint key articles by David Binder, A.M. Rosenthal, Chris Hedges, Kosta Cavoski, and T.W. Carr. The Hague indictment is also reprinted Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero will contribute to a greater understanding of General Mladic's role in the Bosnian war that will benefit scholars, historians, journalists and students, as well as Americans who want to take a more critical look at U.S. military adventures overseas. The lesson we in the United States must learn is that we cannot fight Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the U.S. and in Europe by harboring and supporting Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in Bosnia, in Croatia, in Kosovo, in Macedonia and in Chechnya. No serious discussion of evil can take place unless we acknowledge our own participation in it. And General Mladic is at the heart of the matter. |
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