"I believed that an intervention was necessary, and I and other members of the Slovenian leadership sought channels towards the international community to tell them to intervene on time. We sensed that it would not end with snipers shooting but that it would have horrendous consequences. Unfortunately, Srebrenica is only a horrible culmination," Kucan was quoted by the Sarajevo-based "Dnevni Avaz" daily as saying on Friday.
In his interview on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Sarajevo siege by the Serb forces, Kucan said that during the disintegration of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia developments suggested what Bosnia would undergo because the international community was ignoring the situation.
"That was a war against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Later it assumed some characteristics of ethnic conflicts, but it was the war against Bosnia and Herzegovina with its roots in an unimplemented deal between Milosevic and Tudjman to carve up Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said.
"The international community regarded Milosevic as the master of the war and thought that concessions should be made to him so that he could later take over the responsibility for pacifying the region," Kucan said.