Sir: In case any of your readers have not had
what Sir Alfred Sherman (Letters, 31 August) would describe as the 'intellectual curiosity' to find out about the point of view of the Serbian Chetniks he apparently admires, here are some utterances from their leader, Vojslav Seselj, taken from an interview published in Der Spiegel (32/1991) last month.
Seselj's Serbia would include 'Bosnia- Herzegovina, Macedonia, Monte-negro (. . . ) and the Serbian-settled areas of Croatia with the border Karlobag- Karlovac-Virovitica'. Thus Croatia would be reduced to 'as much as you can see from the tower of Zagreb Cathedral. If that's not enough for the Croats, we'll just take the lot'. (NB. Seselj has declared elsewhere his intention to 'give' Istria to Italy.)
If the Serbo-Croat speaking Bosnian Muslims resist Seselj's planned Entnational- isierung — i.e. the abolition of their status as a national group — he will 'drive them out of Bosnia (. . . ) to Anatolia'.
In his opinion 'the Croats are not an his- toric people'. 'Take the Germans and Czechs. Czech is a synonym for coward, the Germans are a martial people. It is the same with the Serbs and Croats. The Croats are a decadent (verdorbenes) people. I have never met a decent Croat'.
Tweeddale
House of Lords, London SW1
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