Witness to War Crimes

Witness to War Crimes

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Witness to War Crimes

The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia




Author:Colm Doyle
Language:English
Format:Hardcover
Dimensions:6" x 9"
Pages:296
Photos:16 pages of b&w plates
Publisher:Pen and Sword Military
ISBN:9781526736116
Item No. 9781526736116



The early 1990s saw Europe’s first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. After six months he was appointed Personal Representative to Lord Carrington, Chairman of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia.In this overdue memoir, he describes his role mediating, negotiating and persuading political and military leaders of all sides to halt the seemingly inexorable path to all-out war. He arranged ceasefires, visited prisoner-of-war camps, extricated election monitors and organised hostage releases. His experiences made him a key witness at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague at the trials of Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic.With his unprecedented access, Doyle’s personal account can claim to be one of the most significant works on the brutal Bosnian War.