cdgr0820's video: James Bisset Ex--Canadian Ambassador on the Yugoslavia war

Click on CC for accurate English subtitles. James Bisset: Those who started the war should be held responsible, and in my view the people that started the war, the government that started the war, was the United States. There was a referendum in Bosnia about independence. and that was defeated, My neighbor who was the US ambassador in Belgrade lived across the street from me. When an agreement was signed by all three religious groups that there would peace in Bosnia and no declaration of independence without all three representatives being part of that, my neighbor, the US ambassador Warren Zimmerman, went to Sarajevo and convinced the Muslim leader Izetbegovic to declare unilateral independence, and that he did, of course, and that was what started the war because the Serbian 39 or 40% of the population there refused to accept the idea of living under Muslim law or Sharia law by the Muslim leadership. The story goes back in history, of course, because those Serbs had been subject of the Islamic Turkish Empire for many centuries and had fought to free themselves from that. They did not want, in the middle of the twentieth century, to once again have to live under Muslim rule, and that meant war. And everybody in the Balkans knew that meant war, if the Muslims' Declaration of Independence was declared. So who really started the war?