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First, however, let's note that the military aspects of Dayton have been implemented almost completely with no loss of life to NATO forces from hostile action. The Bosnian Serbs pulled back on schedule. Sarajevo was united under Muslim control. No one--not even the negotiators at Dayton--would have dared predict this five months ago. Still, it is too early for self-congratulations. Other divided lands--Korea and Cyprus, for example--bear witness to temporary cease-fire lines that turn into permanent dividing lines...
...often enthusiastic ones, to be sure--in a deliberately orchestrated campaign of extermination devised by political leaders and executed by hired gangs and local authorities. Instead of soldiers killing soldiers, civilians murdering civilians was the main act of the war. Pero Skopljak was one of that sort too, a Bosnian Croat who apparently succumbed to authority--or peer pressure or the hysteria of the moment--to enforce Croatian dominance over his neighbors...
...Croats indicted for complicity in the vicious ethnic cleansing that took place in 1993 around Vitez in central Bosnia. The tribunal says that local civilians, including Skopljak, together with Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic, were in charge when Croats sacked the village of Ahmici, tossing grenades into cellars where villagers sought to hide. To dislodge holdouts in downtown Vitez, Croats filled a tanker truck with explosives, tied a Muslim to the steering wheel and propelled the vehicle into a block of houses, killing and maiming dozens...
...Interior Ministry, home of the Serb secret police and Milosevic's inner circle of advisers. These were men who actually drew the plans for ethnic cleansing and transmitted orders to carry it out. They were spotted now and then in the war zone, under assumed names, disguised, talking to Bosnian Serb political and military officials...
...Canon Photo Essayist award in its Pictures of the Year competition and the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for his gripping images of Grozny under assault by Russian troops. A second opc prize, the Olivier Rebbot Award, went to David Turnley for his photographs of Bosnian refugees. Capa, himself a great war photographer, once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." He would have appreciated not only Suau and Turnley's you-are-there photos but also the very up-close shots of Newt Gingrich that won Bentley a POY first...