{"id":358009,"date":"2018-04-23T06:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-week-in-history-april-23-29\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:46:58","slug":"this-week-in-history-april-23-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-week-in-history-april-23-29\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in history: April 23-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>This week in history: April 23-29<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    23 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<h4>25 years ago: \u201cHuman rights\u201d crusade for bombing of Serbs<\/h4>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/18aae369-1f80-4634-8772-078d45902feJ\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\"  width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Map showing ethnic composition of Bosnia. Blue are areas that are predominantly Serb, yellow Croatian, and green Muslim.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>On April 26, 1993, President Bill Clinton issued an order aligning the US with United Nations sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia. The sanctions aimed at a total embargo, not just on Yugoslav exports and imports, which had been in effect since 1992, but even on the transshipment of goods through Yugoslavia. The extreme sanctions, passed by a UN Security Council vote that saw Russia and China abstain, came amidst a growing crescendo of hysterical calls for military intervention in the Bosnian civil war in the name of \u201chuman rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was said to be preparing a plan by which the US would launch missile strikes on Bosnian Serb positions, while simultaneously lifting an arms embargo so that military equipment could be delivered to Bosnia\u2019s Muslim army. Britain and France were also readying their air forces for strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The Bosnian civil war, pitting the nationalist ex-Stalinist cliques among Serbian, Croatian, and Muslim Bosnians, was precipitated by the imperialist-backed breakup of Yugoslavia. There were warnings that any escalation of Western involvement would also lead to a civil war in Kosovo as well, pitting its Albanian majority against the ruling Serb minority. This was of no interest to the war crusaders, who, spearheaded by the <em>New York Times<\/em>, suddenly discovered in Bosnia not just \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d\u2014a recently-deployed neologism\u2014but now also a \u201cHolocaust\u201d and \u201cgenocide\u201d for which \u201cthe Serbs\u201d alone must be blamed. The answer, according to the liberal warmongers, was to bomb them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes the World Still Recognize&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/23\/twih-a23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This week in history: April 23-29 23 April 2018 25 years ago: \u201cHuman rights\u201d crusade for bombing of Serbs Map showing ethnic composition of Bosnia. Blue are areas that are predominantly Serb, yellow Croatian, and green Muslim. On April 26, 1993, President Bill Clinton issued an order aligning the US with United Nations sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}