The American journalist Emily Tamkin in her book “How Powerful is Soros” mentioned the great help of the American billionaire George Soros to the besieged Sarajevo.
It is about an act of Soros that is not so well known and is considered an exception in Soros’ activities.
That is why one of the editions of the feuilleton of the Croatian newspaper “Nacional” is dedicated to the mentioned book called “Unknown Soros: 50 million dollars for besieged Sarajevo”.
As the author writes, Soros, who is also the founder of the global Open Society Foundation, considered humanitarian aid, or rather the need for it, a failure.
“He believed that a society that needed humanitarian aid was actually a society that had broken down, because people weren’t doing what they were supposed to be doing, or because another stream of activity wasn’t working. This meant that Soros and Open Society, generally speaking, were out of business securing water or electricity, but securing scholarships and establishing cultural foundations and civil society organizations,” he adds.
The idea, writes Tamkin, was to support those societies that would ensure access to water, food and shelter. He wanted, she noted, to stop the bleeding before it started, rather than trying to put expensive and often ineffective band-aids on it. But in the 90s, he made an exception, and that exception was Sarajevo.
“That exception was Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war in and against Bosnia. In the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in which conflicts, which history tried to push aside and politically manipulated ethno-nationalism threatened to overwhelm multiculturalism, Soros made an exception in the form of $50 million in humanitarian aid,” Tamkin stressed.
Speaking about the reasons for his involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he stated that Bosnia and Herzegovina was, as he said, the first case in which he personally got involved, because he could not stand by and watch the Serbian army carry out ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian population.
We remind you that shortly after the start of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Soros said that the aggression reminded him of the siege of Sarajevo in 1993. It was in 1993 that he visited the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through his foundation, he secured a great deal of aid for the post-war development of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Recently, he left the management of the business empire to his 37-year-old son Alexander, Klix.ba reports.
