The book “Slow Genocide in Bosnia”, authored by Diego Arria, which was presented on Monday in the Sarajevo City Hall, is an authentic testimony about the policy of the United Nations(UN), especially the Secretariat and the Security Council, UNPROFOR, UNHCR from 1992 to 1995.
The promoters of the book, professors Ejup Ganic, Smail Cekic,and Lada Sadikovic, said that in this book, Arria expressed his thoughts on the events in which he personally participated, the experiences he experienced, which encouraged him to raise his voice, take his stand, as well as the lessons he learned.
”This book has one value, and that is that it is independent, true, with a true account of what I participated in, what I was active in. I heard that there will be many books about the tragedy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), but none of them will have an insider, someone who was behind closed doors and who will witness what happened,” said Arria.
The outcome of what will happen in BiH, he added, “was determined in January 1992 when we imposed an arms embargo on BiH”.
The value of the book, Arria pointed out, is a personal testimony and it is not guided by any other interest “except to try to teach and animate the young people of this country to know their history, which they will need in the future”.
”I believe that the international community, generally speaking, is experimenting with BiH. They are doing here what they haven’t tried anywhere else. Here apartheid was imposed and institutionalized by the UN, with the blessing of all. There is not a single country in the world that today has a high representative who is above all state institutions. This means that this is not a free country,” pointed out Arria.
Diego Arria is the former ambassador of Venezuela to the UN, chairman, and member of the UN Security Council in the period from 1992 to 1993.
