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...July, the Bosnian Serb Army overran the tiny hamlet of Srebrenica. The city's 3,000 defenders were no match for Serb tanks and artillery, and 300 Dutch peacekeepers were able to do little more than watch as the Serbs systematically rounded up the civilian population. Thousands of women, children and the elderly were bused to the boundary of Serb-controlled territory with only what they could carry in their hands--the latest victims of a war that has left more than a million homeless...
...depend on how satisfied the parties are with the details and whether or not they felt pushed into this," reports TIME's James Graff. Under the terms of the peace, Bosnia will remain a single state divided into two parts, a Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation. The Bosnian state encompassing these two parts will have a central government, a presidency and a parliament. The government will be elected by voters throughout the bifurcated state, under international election supervision. No indicted war criminals may hold office. The city of Sarajevo, the besieged Bosnian capitol that became a symbol...
...passage through what will now be Muslim-Croat territory. "It looks as if the crucial event was President Clinton's call to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday," says Graff. "That might have convinced the Croats to switch sides on the Posavina corridor issue. That will not make the Bosnian Muslims and Croats happy, since the Posavina corridor divides two parts of Bosnian territory which they would rather see united, but they got a major concession in a unified Sarajevo." Graff says that what happens on Capitol Hill over the next two weeks will be crucial. "I wouldn't be surprised...
...implementation of the agreement. And one thing everyone agrees on is that very few of the more than one million refugees will be able to return to their homes. You're not going to see Muslims returning to areas held by the Serbs or Serbs going back to Bosnian areas. It's simply too dangerous. And there aren't enough troops to police such an effort. Too much blood has been shed in the last three and a half years to forgive and forget." When one bottle of champagne was opened in the Bosna hotel in downtown Sarajevo Tuesday evening...
Such a strategy does not just satisfy American national interests. It is simple logic. If the parties to the Bosnian conflict are ready to live with one another, they will enforce their own peace. If they are not, not even our troops will suffice...