Cleanser of Krajina buried

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Tue Dec 14 12:31:35 PST 1999


Franjo Tudjman was buried on Monday, first head of state of Croatia, at a funeral attended by only two other heads of state.

Despite receiving political encouragement from Germany and military encouragement from the US, during his battles with Serbian domination of Yugoslavia, he earned the cool disapproval of the west by openly cleansing Krajina 0f 150,000 Serbs in 1995, by his failure to cooperate with the Hague tribunal on war crimes, and by his authoritarian style.

Chris Burford

London



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