Serbs ‘love Britain’, diplomat said months after Bosnian genocide

Serbs ‘love Britain’, diplomat said months after Bosnian genocide

A senior British diplomat said “Bosnian Serbs love us to an embarrassing degree” after their rebel army massacred thousands of Muslim civilians in a war where John Major’s government was often seen as pro-Serb. Charles Crawford, Britain’s ambassador to Bosnia who made the remark, added “we need to continue to exploit this” sentiment “to try to win an undue British role in lucrative reconstruction contracts in RS [Republika Srpska]”, a Serb-run r…