Madam, - I agree with most of the comments made (Letters, August 5th) in response to my article of July 28th, but want to make three quick points. My article sought to cover the span of the wars of Yugoslavia's disintegration from the Slovenian declaration of independence in June 1991 to the Nato intervention in Kosovo in March 1999. That period starts with international respect of the Yugoslavian nation state, and ends with international intervention within the frontiers of that state. That process, rather than the specific wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina, was what I was referring to.
The organised or sanctioned use of rape as a weapon is different in legal, moral and political terms from the occurrence of rape in the anarchy of war. Rape was sanctioned in Bosnia.
Srebrenica stands out because of our collective failure. There were other massacres and like many, if not most, wars, few participants emerge from the eight years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia with their reputations enhanced. - Yours, etc,
TONY KINSELLA,
Auriebat,
France.