Word: drina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbia's capital, Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from Serbia. At least two Western embassies in Belgrade sent representatives to Milosevic last week asking him to prove his bona fides by ending the offensive in eastern Bosnia. Could he deliver...
...each day passed, the designation of Gorazde as a U.N.-sanctioned "safe area" seemed increasingly like a cruel joke. Two rounds of NATO air strikes early in the week had done little to ease the Serbs' tightening vise around the besieged Muslim enclave on the Drina River. By Friday, Serb forces had moved artillery and armored vehicles into the surrounding hills and pounded away at the city of 65,000 civilians with howitzers, mortars and tank cannons. On Saturday afternoon, as Bosnian radio reported fretfully that tanks were rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes...
...certainly faces serious obstacles. Izetbegovic wants a federation of Muslims and Croats encompassing at least half of Bosnia, which means the Serbs would have to relinquish a fair share of their holdings. Several areas Izetbegovic most insistently wants back lie along the Drina River near the border with Serbia, a region the Serbs have swept with ruthless "ethnic cleansing" and are determined to keep...
...Clinton, history offers little guidance because there is no direct parallel for the action he is considering. If he uses military force in Bosnia, he cannot know whether he will succeed. If he bombs the Bosnian Serbs, their brethren across the Drina River in Serbia proper might heed the call of blood and join them for a war of annihilation against the Muslims. Or the Serbian militiamen who now bestride 70% of Bosnia may simply dig in and refuse either to negotiate or pull back...