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...Cross and other welfare groups have long relied on their neutrality to protect them, but that is no longer enough. Aid workers have been pushed around in Somalia, terrorized in East Timor, taken hostage in Bosnia and murdered in Chechnya. CARE recently reported that armed attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan have increased during the past year from one a month to one every two days. James Ron, Canada research chair in conflict and human rights at McGill University, links the uptick to the growing number of people doing this work and their increased willingness to operate in hostile areas...
...DIED. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, 78, former Bosnian President who steered his country to independence?provoking a 43-month war, which left 250,000 people dead or missing?but couldn't stop the later fragmentation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; in Sarajevo. Izetbegovic was a devout Muslim who backed Bosnian statehood after Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. A spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes said an investigation into possible war crimes by Izetbegovic ended with his death...
Even when the U.N. does act, such as in Bosnia, it does so with weak resolve and with mandates so vague that terms like “safe area,” ostensibly implying the protection of said area by U.N. troops, become worthless, as happened in 1995’s terrifying massacre at Srebrenica. When shots are fired, U.N. blue helmets have a nasty habit of staying inside the barracks, a symptom of a fuzzy, multinational chain of command and bizarre diplomatic doublespeak...
Many in the State Department, including the U.S. special envoy to Bosnian peace talks and the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, were furious. The Washington Post reported on Sept. 1, 1994, “What State Department officials found especially disturbing was a photograph of Clark and Mladic wearing each other’s caps. The picture appeared in several European newspapers, U.S. officials said. Clark accepted as gifts Mladic’s hat, a bottle of brandy and a pistol inscribed in Cyrillic, U.S. officials said. ‘It’s like cavorting with Hermann Goering...
...April 1997, President Clinton nominated Clark to head U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, the editors of the New Republic wryly observed, “If the president was trying to remind the public about the lack of seriousness with which his administration has taken war crimes in Bosnia, this is a fine choice.” Clark’s “jolly time” with Mladic, they wrote, had revealed his “moral cluelessness...