Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no obvious solution, no clear precedent for stopping genocide within a country's borders. However, the years of waiting in Bosnia and Rwanda provide a strong precedent of what doesn't work--and it's time to try something else. NATO must take care to avoid unnecessarily alienating other nations or splitting the alliance, and it must keep in mind that all wars are only methods of achieving peace...
...strong voice in favor of military action, and she came out in support of the air strikes right away. In a speech in Phoenix, Ariz., on Friday, she was able to remind her audience that as a former Red Cross chief, she has been to Rwanda, been to Bosnia, knows what ethnic cleansing is all about. "I would not back down, and I would take no options off the table," she told TIME on Friday. "We should continue the air campaign and expand the list of targets to include the Serbian government's infrastructure...
Some planners talked instead of dispatching a much smaller force of, say, 30,000 or so to carve out "safe havens." But the idea carries such a negative image after enclaves set up in Bosnia--like Srebrenica--failed so tragically to protect civilians. Others suggested turning the war over to a proxy army of K.L.A. fighters outfitted by the West with effective Stinger missiles and antitank rockets. But U.S. and NATO officials feared that arming one side would only widen the war and destabilize the entire region. By now it may simply be too late: on Friday Serb officials were...
...crimes Arkan and his men are believed to have committed in Croatia and Bosnia are chilling. In August 1991 his troops cut their teeth by driving civilian Croats from the city of Vukovar, looting and burning along the way. Arkan and his men stand accused of having tortured, mutilated and killed Muslims in the northeast Bosnian town of Bijeljina in April 1992. And in Zvornik that same month, his troops cleared the town of Muslims, extorting money from civilians for safe passage out of the hell they had created...
...years Milosevic and his myrmidons insisted that Arkan acted alone. But Arkan has begun to hint that such may not be the case, that Milosevic did know about his activities. "When I was in Croatia, I was under the command of the Yugoslav army," Arkan says. "In Bosnia I was under the command of the MUP [Interior Ministry]." The implication: he was acting under Milosevic's orders...