Letter: Bosnia - British stance; reactions to the camps; methods of military intervention; 'ethnic cleansing'
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: As teachers of Balkan history at British universities, we feel that we must protest at the feeble and short-sighted stance taken by the British government towards Bosnia.
It is obvious to us that Bosnian integrity must be defended and respected, and that if it is not, fighting will spread to other parts of the Balkans, with dire consequences for the region and for European security as a whole. Conflict in Kosovo and Macedonia could easily draw in Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey and would represent a colossal failure by the European powers to tackle the new security problems facing the continent now that the Cold War has ended. British national interests as well as humanitarian considerations demand that steps be taken now to defend Bosnian integrity.
Yours faithfully,
MARK MAZOWER
University of Sussex
JOHN ALLCOCK
University of Bradford
JOHN CAMPBELL
RICHARD CLOGG
St Antony's College
University of Oxford
RICHARD CRAMPTON
St Edmund Hall
University of Oxford
DENNIS DELETANT
MARK WHEELER
School of Slavonic and
East European Studies
University of London
University of Sussex
Brighton
7 August
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