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Switzerland? If Christopher expects the Dayton agreement to transform Bosnia into a placid land of bankers and cuckoo clocks, he should listen to the recollections of Smail Hodzic, a farmer from Srebrenica. When Bosnian Serbs overran the town last July, he was taken to a basketball gym a few miles away, where at least 2,000 men were being held. Eventually, he was blindfolded, given some water--which he said had something in it that affected his vocal cords so that he could only whisper--and taken away by van with 15 or so other prisoners...
...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...
...hatreds hindering reconciliation come sharply into focus in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, from which Serb forces shelled the Bosnian capital for almost four years. It is one of a handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...
...Croats as well. They and the Muslims cooperated against the Serbs at the very beginning of the war and at the end. In the interval, they conducted horrific battles among themselves. Jasna Hadzimehmedovic recalls how she heard that her soldier fiance had been killed by Croats in the Bosnian town of Vitez. "It was on Christmas Eve" in 1993, she says. "My mother and I were cooking when the phone rang. When they told me, I felt I had aged 50 years." She was then 22. The Hague tribunal charges that Croat militia forces stormed the village of Ahmici, near...
THERE ARE COUNTLESS REASONS WHY America has to get involved in the Bosnian conflict, and one that stands out is the magnitude of the problem America will have to deal with next year if it does not get involved now. CELIK PARKAN Hong Kong...