John W. Olver: “People see it on television all over the world in that technicolor, in all those newspapers that have seen this awful…”

“People see it on television all over the world in that technicolor, in all those newspapers that have seen this awful, dismal disaster of policy over the years. The tragedy is that the Presidents' words issued by both President Bush and then by President Clinton, repeated by President Clinton, to warn Serbia that they would not be allowed to extend their genocidal policy to Kosovo are proven silly if this is allowed to hold in Bosnia. Serbia has already reduced the 90 percent Albanian population to servitude essentially, to involuntary servitude. They are second class citizens. They cannot hold jobs. They do not have their schools. Their language has been proscribed. Their colleges and schools have been closed. The shame is that the United Nations, the U.N. power enforced in Haiti, Burma, and 100 other places we can mention--the tragedy is that the Serbs, never greater than one-third of the Bosnian population, can exterminate, or remove, eliminate, two-thirds of the population with impunity with the United States, and United Nations, and the European Community wringing their hands in shame and embarrassment. Any nation looking to scapegoat a minority could look at these results, and I say to my colleagues: Choose your location, whether it's in Asia, or the Middle East, or Eastern Europe or Africa. You can choose your place, and we could name 50 other places where this could happen, and no one would have the moral authority to do anything about it.”