The Balkans

The French CCHR office also conducted extensive research into ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, because racial conflict is commonly caused by a third party not recognized by the warring opponents. CCHR reported its findings with complete evidence to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and the Council of Europe.

What it discovered was that the old psychiatric ideas of racial hygiene and eugenics still have the potential to wreak havoc: The 10- year conflict, which left tens of thousands dead and over a million homeless, had the same psychiatric theories at their roots. The instigators of the wars were known to the world as politicians. However, what was not generally known was that both Jovan Raskovic, the founder of the ultra-nationalist Social Democratic Party (SDP) party, and Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader, were also psychiatrists. Also unknown was that Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia�s strongman president during the wars, was a 25-year patient of Karadzic. After Raskovic died and Karadzic went underground (he is wanted by the U.N. to be tried for crimes against humanity), Milosevic kept the conflict against ethnic minorities going. He was finally arrested and put on trial by The Hague�s War Crimes Tribunal for his role in the genocidal wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

In September 1999, members of the Council of Europe signed a Resolution which recognized psychiatrists as the architects of the ethnic cleansing campaign. The Resolution encouraged and invited the Council members to �study the material that has been put together and researched by the French chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.�

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