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Milosevic has a dream of a Greater Serbia that will encompass large swatches of Bosnia, Croatia and the disputed province of Kosovo. The Serb leader has carved out a section of Croatia already, and now is on the verge of solidifying his control over much of Bosnia...
Despite a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, prospects for a peace settlement seemed as remote as ever. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, booed during a visit to Sarajevo, emerged empty-handed from talks ! with the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia. As thousands of Bosnian fighters massed on a mountain southwest of Sarajevo in apparent preparation for an offensive, Boutros-Ghali called for 10,000 U.N. troops to supplement the more than 7,000 who patrol Bosnia. An additional group of 33 U.N. military advisers headed for Macedonia...
...process would probably break down, for the suspects are not in the U.N.'s hands. Even if the panel of experts reports the crimes against humanity in all their enormity and the Security Council establishes a proper tribunal, the criminals could well remain unfettered in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. Short of a military invasion from the West, there is no obvious way to find and detain them...
However done, intervention would mark the most stunning shift yet from the old doctrine that anything happening within a nation's borders is no business of foreign powers. The fighting in Bosnia and Croatia could be regarded as international, since these areas had declared independence; in Somalia there was no government left to tell anyone to stay out. Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite...
...MASS MURDER OF civilians, have become as repetitious as they are ghastly, until U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger managed to strip away the familiarity and make the accusations arresting again. He named seven Serbs, two Croats and one Muslim allegedly responsible for such atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia; the accused ranged from the very obscure (concentration-camp commander Drago Prcac) to the globally notorious (Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic). All, said Eagleburger, should be hauled before an international court of justice -- a "second Nuremberg" -- and tried for war crimes...