Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is a former BBC foreign correspondent and the author of several books on organised crime, including McMafia and DarkMarket.

Letter

Winners and Losers

4 January 1996

Misha Glenny writes: When I said that the Croats win and the Serbs lose, I was using the Dayton Agreement rather loosely to refer to the overall settlement of the wars in both Bosnia and Croatia – which I assumed, clearly erroneously, was obvious from the context.Tudjman had three war aims: to secure international recognition of Croatia (tick); to end the Serbian question in Croatia (tick); and to...

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