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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Serbs, Croats and Muslims have all accepted the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its present borders, they have also approved dividing it in some undefined way into "two entities," one a Bosnian Serb republic and the other the Muslim-Croat federation. According to the statement of principles, the split will be based on the long-standing proposal put forward by the team of international negotiators called the Contact Group: 49% of Bosnia to go to the Serbs and 51% to the existing federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORE TALKING, MORE BOMBING | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...artillery pieces and tanks ringing Sarajevo--the weapons Mladic has been told to pull back from the 12.5-mile-wide U.N. exclusion zone around the city--have not been targeted. For now, that would be too blatant an intervention and, at the same time, might dangerously encourage the Muslim forces to take the offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MORE TALKING, MORE BOMBING | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke will meet with Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in Zagreb on Tuesday. He is expected to discuss reining in the combined Muslim-Croat forces, which have made significant territorial gains in northwest and central Bosnia during the past week. U.N. officials now say Muslims and Croats control more than half of the country and are still pressing forward. Although Holbrooke's peace plan calls for a cease-fire agreement by September 25, Stiglmayer reports that Bosnia's Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters today that the fighting would continue, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLD ON, THERE | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...territory the Muslim-Croats seized in the past three days brought the division of land the two sides now control even closer to the 51-49 split agreed to in the negotiations," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. Before the NATO offensive, Waller notes, Serbs held approximately 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Pentagon officials tell Waller that Croat-Muslim forces now hold a significantly greater chunk of Bosnia. "Thursday, the CIA and Pentagon had revised their percentages for what the sides held to 55 percent for the Bosnian Serbs and 45 percent for the Muslim-Croats. Today, Pentagon officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOCKEYING FOR LAND | 9/15/1995 | See Source »

...give him fresh fruits to eat. This has been no life for him, and I feel guilty for it." His wife Snezana is a Serb from Belgrade, and she was offered the chance to escape several times, but she did not want to abandon her husband, a Bos nian Muslim, who had to fight in the army. They decided to leave together or not at all. "I have spent the happiest years of my life with Cazim," Snezana said, "and I was afraid of losing our love if I left." After the air raids, she actually let herself imagine what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAJEVO: SCARRED BY SIEGE, A CITY ALLOWS ITSELF SOME HOPE | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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