Ahtisaari: Serb nation must bear consequences

Former UN special envoy for the resolution of the Kosovo issue Martti Ahtisaari accused Serbs on Wednesday of having failed to sincerely examine the history of the Kosovo conflict, which was why they had to bear the consequences

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, October 16, 2008

In an interview for the German daily Der Tagesspiegel, Ahtisaari said that it was wrong to mark Slobodan Milosevic and Ratko Mladic as the only guilty ones for the events in the region of former Yugoslavia.

"It is completely wrong to say that Milosevic and Mladic are the only ones to be blamed", Ahtisaari said. 

"If one society behaves in the way the Serbian did, it has to bear the consequences", said Ahtisaari.