Quote by Jan Willem Honig

“UNPROFOR intelligence officers long estimated that the Serbs would need large infantry force to overcome 3000 or 4000 armed defenders of Srebrenica. What they…

— Jan Willem Honig

“While the US stumped for the Bosnians, Russians defended the interests of Milošević (as distinct from the Bosnian Serb leader) and Germans supported Croats.…

— Jan Willem Honig

After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as the president…

— Dragan Cavic

Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved…

— Vladimir Putin

“Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a…

— Seierstad Åsne

“Muslims in general were aware of the fate that awaited them. Their desparate attempt, en masse to break through Bosnian Serb lines from the…

— Jan Willem Honig

I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims of the…

— Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in…

— Michael Ignatieff

“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What came to me then was the voice of my paternal grandmother. She had told me once that every time Bego or Irfan returned…

— Ismet Prcic

War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as…

— Susan Sontag

“Having publicly made a clear distinction between aggressors - the Serbs and victims - the Bosnians - from the moment they took office, they…

— Jan Willem Honig