Word: herzegovina
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...proof that the spectre of Vietnam still walks with the United States lies in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to Gulf War rhetoric, U.S. intervention in Iraq was supposed to have shown that the United States could and would fight for freedom and basic human rights. If this is true, how is it that a situation as blatantly unjust and horrifying as the massacre of more than 100,000 people in Bosnia has gone unanswered...
...peace map that mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen have drawn labels the northwest corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina "Province No. 1." The cold, hungry people who live there call it the Bihac Pocket. Surrounded by Serb- ( controlled territory, the 300,000 inhabitants -- mostly Muslims -- have survived seven months of isolation and almost nightly bombardment from Serb guns. Homes have no electricity, schools are closed, and jobless workers peddle smuggled cigarettes. Thousands in the region would have starved by now except for the sporadic arrival of humanitarian-aid shipments...
Even with the arms embargo, the Bosnian army's Fifth Corps in Bihac is holding its own against the Serbs. Its commanders loudly reject the Vance-Owen proposal. "If they try to impose that plan," says Captain Ramiz Drekovic, "we will continue our war until we liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. It could take a year, five years, 10 or a hundred...
...hear accounts from the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina without sensing that the conflict there has taken the matter of rape in war down into deeper, more sinister dimensions. It is not known how many rapes have been committed since the fighting began in the breakup of Yugoslavia. A European Community team of investigators calculates that 20,000 Muslim women and girls have been raped by Serbs. Other estimates run much higher. The Bosnian government claims that as many as 50,000 Muslim women have been raped. Serbs are undoubtedly committing most of the rapes at the moment; they have also...
Amnesty International's report Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape and Sexual Abuse by Armed Forces, states "The available evidence indicates that in some cases the rape of women has been carried out in an organized or systematic way, with the deliberate detention of women for the purpose of rape and sexual abuse." Rather than being the random indiscipline of soldiers, many of the rapes in Bosnia have almost certainly been committed as a matter of deliberate policy...