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Another wave of NATO bombardment today failed to persuade Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army commander, to withdraw about 300 tanks, mortars and other heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. The general's defiance immediately generated international rumors that a rift had emerged between Mladic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral...
...President Clinton vacillated between bellicose threats of NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank under the pressure of the Serbian army. The Western world deplored the actions of the Serbian army as barbaric, but it could not formulate a coherent policy. As the despotic, maniacal Serbian General Ratko Mladic surrounds, strangles and slaughters one U.N. "safe area" after another, Western leaders quibbled...
Saddam Hussein committed many human rights violations and is undoubtably a hostile aggressor, but is what Saddam Hussein did to the people of Kuwait any more egregious than the slaughter that General Ratko Mladic is spreading across Bosnia? Simple analysis of the total number of civilians killed in each conflict allows almost anyone to conclude that the war in Bosnia has been more destructive than Saddam Hussein's conquest of Kuwait. Why, then, will America fight for Kuwait and not for Yugoslavia...
...immediately provoked suspicions that the Croatian Serbs may have been headed en masse for Bosnia with the intention of linking up with Radovan Karadzic, self-styled leader of the Bosnian Serbs. Barely 24 hours earlier, Karadzic had added to his portfolio by unexpectedly demoting his military commander, General Ratko Mladic, and appointing himself supreme head of the Bosnian Serb armed forces. If Krajina's 50,000 armed Serbs were to place themselves, even temporarily, under Karadzic's control, it could once again change the equation in Bosnia's ever mutating balance of power...
Seldom have I read such a collection of lies and hypocritical nonsense as your interview with Serbia's President Milosevic [THE BALKANS, July 17]. The international community has a short memory. Milosevic and his allies, like Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, are definitely war criminals, all right. But Milosevic gets the undivided attention of the world press and the willing ear of Western politicians. FREDDY SULS Vorselaar, Belgium...