Editing Carl Bildt (section)

===Bosnian war mediator criticisms===

Though decorated for his services in the Bosnian conflict and its immediate aftermath by Great Britain, France, and Germany, his mediation of the conflict and aftermath was castigated as well as celebrated.

Bildt opposed any military intervention and criticized the former British prime minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1993 for calling [[NATO]] to intervene against the Bosnian Serb forces, which led to the ''[[Sunday Times]]'' describing Bildt and other EU leaders as "robotic political pygmies" and their acceptance of the ongoing genocide as "shameful".<ref name="AP">{{cite news|first=Per|last=Ahlmark|author-link=Per Ahlmark|url=https://www.dn.se/ledare/kolumner/du-vet-ju-hur-carl-ar/|title=Du vet ju hur Carl är|work=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|date=24 October 2006|language=sv|access-date=28 March 2009}}</ref>

Following Bildt's appointment as the EU special envoy to Yugoslavia, Tom Warrick from the [[Coalition for International Justice]] described Bildt as "dangerously misinformed about his own job description" and largely ignorant about the region.<ref name="D-SD">{{cite news|first=Dilsa|last=Demirbag-Sten|url=http://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=719362|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614215230/http://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=719362|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 June 2011|title=Oförebildtlig|newspaper=[[Expressen]]|date=16 October 2006|language=sv}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/bosnet/1996/96-01-07_1.bos.html|title=BosNet Digest V5 No. 11|date=7 January 1996|publisher=Hri.org|access-date=12 June 2012}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' criticized Bildt for a nonchalant attitude towards the [[Srebrenica genocide]] when over 8,000 [[Bosniak]]s were killed,<ref name="D-SD"/> and described him as being burdened with a reputation for accepting Bosnian Serb claims of good behavior at face value and overlooking evidence of atrocities against civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/17/opinion/mr-bildt-s-responsibility-in-bosnia.html?ref=carlbildt|title=Mr. Bildt's Responsibility in Bosnia|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 December 1995}}</ref>