Word: nato
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MORE ARMS AND TRAINING FOR THE Bosnian Muslims [WORLD, Jan. 15] increase the likelihood that war will resume once NATO troops depart. The nominally federated Muslims and Croats of Bosnia may be tempted to resolve their seemingly irreconcilable differences at the expense of the Bosnian Serbs. The spoils from a joint military campaign to expel the Bosnian Serb nation would be allocated mainly to a Muslim entity, which would then accept its lot as a satellite of Greater Croatia. There is a precedent for what amounts to "benign ethnic cleansing." Croatia, with Washington's blessing, invaded the U.N.-protected Krajina...
...million, according to estimates, some mines powerful enough to blow the tracks off a battle tank. When that figure is combined with the number of fractured bridges, collapsed buildings, unexploded ordnance and edgy snipers, it is amazing that there have not been more casualties. Since December, eight NATO soldiers have been killed and more than 40 wounded. The human cost, however, bears measuring against what the peacekeepers have so far achieved. By last Saturday all three rival ethnic factions had vacated virtually every piece of land they had pledged to relinquish. By the Balkans' bloody standards, that is extraordinary...
SARAJEVO: Chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke headed back to the Balkans as Bosnia slid closer to war, the furious Bosnian Serb Army cutting contact with NATO forces and forbidding civilians to move about freely. These actions frustrate the most important achievements of the peace processes: open lines of communication with NATO and free travel. The Bosnian Serbs are protesting the arrest of two Serb soldiers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, who are now being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan...
SARAJEVO: Holbrooke has his hands full, with tensions between Serbs and Muslims escalating rapidly. The Serb army refuses to conduct high level talks with NATO officers while Bosnian Muslims detain Serb officers. "We will not tolerate the kind of threats coming out of the Bosnian Serbs," Holbrooke told reporters at a stop in Budapest, Hungary. Violence is growing in Sarajevo with both Serbs and Muslims reporting attacks. Four Muslim truck drivers were allegedly beaten by armed Serbs, according to hospital officials. SRNA, the Bosnian Serb news agency, claimed a Serb had been beaten by Muslims in the Bosnian Muslim section...
SARAJEVO: Chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke headed back to the Balkans as Bosnia slid closer to war, the furious Bosnian Serb Army cutting contact with NATO forces and forbidding civilians to move about freely. These actions frustrate the most important achievements of the peace processes: open lines of communication with NATO and free travel. The Bosnian Serbs are protesting the arrest of two Serb soldiers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, who are now being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan...