Writing in Endgame about the failure of the West to defend Srebrenica, David Rohde compared Western leaders and UN officials to “gardeners who never water a plant and declare dismay when it dies.... What they each, for their own reasons, did not do – not what they agreed to together in a secret backroom conspiracy – doomed Srebrenica and Zepa. There are no fingerprints – except for the 7,300 missing.”

 

 

David Rohde, Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe’s Worst Massacre Since World War II (Westview Press, 1998), 401 - 402. It is now assumed that over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed. Endgame is based on a series of articles in The Christian Science Monitor for which Rohde won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996.