Benjamin Gilman: “for most of this year we have witnessed a repeat of the carnage and havoc that the world experienced during the conflict…”

“for most of this year we have witnessed a repeat of the carnage and havoc that the world experienced during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia at the beginning of this decade. We took some pride when we believed that conflict to have been ended with the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement some three years ago. Now, once again, we are faced with the tragic spectacle of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians made homeless, towns and villages in ruins, unknown numbers of persons dead or missing in Kosovo. The architect of this misery is Slobodan Molosevic, the very same individual who produced the Bosnian tragedy, and who presided over the dissolution of what was one Yugoslavia; who brought poverty and misery to his own Serbian people, and who has sown the seeds of strident nationalism throughout the Balkans. The distinguished Chairman of our Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, the gentleman from New Jersey, Chris Smith has introduced a Resolution that puts the Congress on record that if anyone deserves to be indicted it is Slobodan Milosevic.”