Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Brendan O'Shea is an officer in the Irish Defence Forces, Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict: Myth, Falsehood and Deceit (Contemporary Security Studies) - Kindle edition.
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In doing so, he highlights the duplicitous behaviour of all parties to the conflict; the double standards employed throughout by the United States in its foreign policy; the lengths to which the Sarajevo government manipulated the international media to promote a 'victim' status; the contempt in which UN peace-keepers were ultimately held by all sides; and the manner in which Radovan Karadzic was sacrificed at the altar of political expediency, when the real culprits were Slobodan Milosevic and his acolyte, General Ratko Mladic.
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Brendan O'Shea's title is apt. Throughout he s the world was fed massive doses of disinformation The designated bad guys were the Serbs. If there was ever a CNN war, this was it. I can add my own direct observations.
I was a Fulbright lecturer in Ljubljana Slovenia from February to July and followed developments before the press declared war in But the war had really already begun in and the propaganda mills were then revving up in Yugoslavia. I went on my own nickel to Sarajevo. Things were still calm there. I took a room in a Muslim house in the old Turkish center, Bas Carsija. In Herzegovina I visited Mostar, where the beautiful old Turkish bridge stood, before Croatian artillery pulverized it. My hosts were Muslim. There were 30 Serbs living in Mostar then, but not now.
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They were expelled or fled for their lives--"ethnic cleansing"--in O'Shea has a good chapter on Dubrovnik. What I personally know is that in summer Dubrovnik was empty of tourists, but was swarming with Croatian irregular soldiers. They were setting up road blocks south to Montenegro.
Business people whose documents reflected serb ethnicity found their road blocked, and in Croatian neighborhoods they heard the old World War II anti-Serb and anti-Jew Nazi songs. Serbs who were once the biggest contingent of vacationers on the Adriatic coast, were fleeing for their lives. The Yugoslav press was regularly reporting on arson and demolition of non-Croatian houses on the Adriatic coast, not only Serbian, but those belonging to Croatian communists and even to Slovenes.
Back in Chicago a Croatian student of mine told me in summer that her parents warned her that war was coming and to stay in Chicago. Unreported in "the West" was that Croatian chauvinists were attacking cars with Serbian license numbers, sometimes pushing them into the sea. In one such car, as he himself told me, sat the Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia, James Bissett. Yet another Croatian student told me her family came to safe haven in Chicago: O'Shea's chapter on Dubrovnik mentions my walk-about there.
In September Croatian papers, in unison with the world press, were beating the war drums. German and Austrian papers were the worst, claiming that the "Pearl of the Adriatic"--Dubrovnik--was being reduced to rubble by the "Serb-dominated" Yugoslav navy.
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The commander was Admiral Stane Brovet, a Slovene. If the "port of Dubrovnik" was being shelled. Only one way to find out.
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