Ditto the Tamils in Sri Lanka, where 43,000 people have died over the past twenty years. We could also mention the Palestinians. Or the people of East Timor, where perhaps a quarter of a million people have been killed by the US-supplied Indonesian army. Each of these conflicts has been a larger humanitarian disaster than the Kosovo situation, yet the US has remained silent. Clearly, more is at stake than simple intervention for humanitarian reasons.
Questions still remain about the full extent of United States involvement.
In the course of the three-year investigation into the assault, the United States has failed to provide critical evidence requested by the tribunal, according to tribunal documents and officials, adding to suspicion among some there that Washington is uneasy about the investigation. The Croatian Army drove more than 100,000 Serbs from their ancestral homelands, forcing them to flee on carts and in small cars jammed with their possessions. In a widespread and systematic manner, Croatian troops committed murder and other inhumane acts upon and against Croatian Serbs,' the investigators say at another point in the report. Yet Clint Williamson, the US representative at the tribunal, successfully removed the shelling of Knin as a proper subject for the tribunal's investigation. Then the review panel broke for lunch.