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Elma Ahmic, 17, is haunted by memories of the brutal destruction of her village near Vitez, 37 miles north of Sarajevo, on April 16, 1993. A unit of the Bosnian Croat militia called the Jokers first shelled the mostly Muslim town, then moved in to finish off the men. Relations with local Croats had been good, she said, but after the arrival of the militiamen, "about 20 people surrounded our house, shouting, 'Get out of here! This is Croatia, not Turkey!' My father came out and asked them what they wanted. They took my father and killed him. They shot...
...wide margin and follows a similar measure passed by the Senate. The measure has no legal force in itself, but poses political problems for the President. The present White House stance is to reluctantly support the European-backed embargo and to carve up Bosnia into Serb, Muslim and Croat domains. This position is a reversal of Clinton's longstanding wish to provide arms to the underdog Bosnians. Until recently, the Administration "had thrown its body in front of the European train to protect the Bosnians," explains TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. Congress is clearly upset that the White House...
...control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying the 16th century Stari Most bridge at Mostar...
...today" about the more muscular approach to Bosnia, defends his embattled boss. He points out that every bit of progress in that country has come from U.S. initiative: the NATO resolution last August against Sarajevo's strangulation, the no-fly zone, the air drops, the Sarajevo exclusion zone, the Croat-Muslim agreement and the new ultimatums. Says he: "It's unbelievable to me that we can make progress that no one would have predicted two months ago, through a lot of hard work by the President. Then you get Gorazde, which was a setback, and the critics start saying again...
...racial and economic supremacism must come to an end. The U.N. was not (openly) founded to protect the social and economic interests of the West. The plight of the Rwandans should have gravity equal to that of the splintered races in what was Yugoslavia. Who can say that a Croat is worth more than a Tutsi? Who can say that a U.N. "peacekeeper" from France is worth more than a Hutu? Plenty of French people certainly can, but that doesn't mean that they're right...