What has the First UN Force Commander and Head of Mission in Yugoslavia said?
“The West appears to have learnt all the wrong lessons from the previous wars and applied it to Kosovo. Portraying the Serbs as evil and everybody else as good was not only counterproductive but also dishonest. ……With 28, 000 forces under me and with constant contacts with UNHCR and the International Red Cross officials, we did not witness any genocide beyond killings and massacres on all sides that are typical of such conflict conditions. I believe none of my successors and their forces saw anything on the scale claimed by the media….. I recall State Department official George Kenny turning up like all other American officials, spewing condemnations of the Serbs for aggression and genocide. I offered to give him an escort and to go see for himself that none of what he proclaimed was true. He accepted my offer and thereafter he made a radical turnaround.. Other Americans continued to see and hear what they wanted to see and hear from one side, while ignoring the other side. Such
