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...especially daring considering that more than three years of war in the Balkans have barely managed to capture the attention, much less the conscience, of American voters. Last Friday, as news arrived that as many as 2,000 Muslims may have been massacred by Bosnian Serbs near Banja Luka, a TIME/CNN poll indicated that only one-third of Americans believe the U.S. has a moral obligation to stop the fighting in Bosnia. Despite public skittishness, however, last week's testimony made three things clear. When and if a peace agreement is reached, the President is determined to send troops...
...area around Banja Luka, the main city in Serb-held Bosnia, Serbs forced thousands of Muslims from their homes, separating men ages 16 to 60 from their families and sending them to their possible death. As in the past, Zeljko Raznatovic, a commander who is known as Arkan, undertook much of the brutality. According to Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Arkan and his men were brought to the region because they were not part of the communities. "The local Serbs often develop quite a friendly relationship with their neighbors," Janowski said. "Bringing in people...
...ethnic cleansing campaign in the northwest border areas that is shocking even by Balkan standards," reports Edward Barnes. "Those who survived the week said Serb police and army units systematically broke into virtually all the Croat and Muslim homes in a wide swath from Sanski Most to Banja Luka. Most people were given ten minutes to leave their homes in what soldiers told them was the final cleansing. Once the process began, there was utter chaos. Soldiers, they say, went on a looting spree, stealing everything they could carry, engaging in indiscriminate beatings, raping dozens of women, holding children...
...themselves and hampered by the temporary absence of their relentless military commander Ratko Mladic, who was in the hospital reportedly being treated for gallstones, it was not until late in the week that the Bosnian Serb forces finally appeared to stiffen their defenses along a wide arc surrounding Banja Luka. By that time, however, the Croat-Muslim attack had already touched off an exodus of more than 85,000 Bosnian Serb refugees. Many, like Branko Japundja, 50, a wounded Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort his family from their frontline...
...impact is yet to be assessed, but the targets were "severely reduced," in the U.S. Defense Department's curt reading after the bombing halt was extended indefinitely last week. Apparently crucial was a Sept. 10 strike on command-control and communications facilities around the Bosnian Serbs' stronghold of Banja Luka; several cruise missiles crippled the installations just as the Croatian-Bosnian offensive began in the northwest...