suppression of Kosovo by the I feel compelled to write Serbians in the early 1980s. to you because of the Greater Serbian nationalism became a dominant current new tragedies currently within the Serbian leaderunfolding in Bosnia. You ship's polities by 1985 at the will have followed the latest. news the same as I have. The Serbian nationalists, Genocide is again happen- headed by Milosevic, set out ing in the middle of Europe. to destroy Tito's multi-ethnic Srebrenica has been overrun Yugoslavia years before the and ethnically cleansed. unification of Germany, let Zepa and Gorazde are next. alone German recogaition of From ethnic cleansing we Croatia. have ethnic mass killing and The reaction of Serbs in the retur of mass rape as a the Krajina and other areas of Croats and Bosnia 1o to 105I am writing to the Social- •ognition of Croatia was not Ist Campaign Group MPs be- the spontaneous outburst precause l am scandalised by sented, but a prepared camthe attitude of most of the left paign of Serbian propaganda in Britain today to these utilised as a part of the with honour- greater Serbian project. able exceptions, the MPs in Serblan forces not only the Socialist Campaign Group. ethnically cleansed the occuSurely it is possible to dis- pied lands in a way which tinguish between the Serbian would haive made Nazi Gerproject of an ethnically pure many proud. Greater Serbia and the vic- Ail this shows clearly tims of that project? It must be possible to see where the left should stand 'on this war. Even the empirithe real role of the UN and cal facts of what is happening the injustice of denying the day by day should show why right of the Bosnians to self we should defend Bosnia and defence. Surely if these is- reject "neutrality". sues have not been clear in Such neutrality is not neuthe past they are clear now! tral - it is a refusal to aid the Last year l attended a oppressed against the oppres meeting of Socialist Cam- sor. Rather than stand for inpaign Group MPs with Mick ternationalism, "neutrality"
stands for Serblan victory just back from driving an Interna- as it stood for Franco's victional Workers Aid convoy tory in Spain. through to Tuzia. Why was Spain so differWe arqued that the basis ent? How come the left could of the war was Serbian expan- get it right on the Gulf war but cannot support Bosnia in this greater, i.e. bigger, Serbia) and that it was the duty of so- I am writing to urge you to cialists to support the Bos- think again on this issue, reject a stance of neutrality. principal victims of the con- and help Bosnia survive. The tlict, and the multi-ethnic Bosnian government is now state which they defend. calling for the lifting of the Most of the Socialist Campaign Group MPs who spoke re- nian trade unions. jected that view arguing that They are entitled to the both sides were responsible for support of the left in Britain in a war which had been pro- this objective. I urge you to voled by thie decision of Ger- joip the campaign to support mary to recognise Croatia.
We argued that the con- In solidarity flict, and the Serblan project, Alan Thornett started much earlier than this July 19, 1995