History lesson: Stones at Albright

 

 

(21 Mar 1996) 


An angry and embittered group of Croatian Serb refugees shouted abuse and stoned the motorcade of Madeleine Albright, US Ambassador to the UN, during her tour of the war-shattered town of Vukovar in Eastern Slavonia on Thursday afternoon (21/March).

The US envoy flew in on Thursday morning into Erdut, accompanied by the US Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, and the UNTAES administrator Jacques Paul Klein. 

But as Ambassador Albright visited the local marketplace in Vukovar, she was forced to cut short her round as she was mobbed by a crowd of Croatian Serb refugees shouting "bitch" and "fascist".

Her motorcade was stoned as it zoomed away.

Note in the early part of the video during news conference Albright saying, "The US wants...".

It never mattered what the people in the broken apart Communist Yugoslavia wanted, it was always about what Washington wanted. 

That is the definition of an empire - and in this case a collapsing one. 

Bruce