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Switzerland? If Christopher expects the Dayton agreement to transform Bosnia into a placid land of bankers and cuckoo clocks, he should listen to the recollections of Smail Hodzic, a farmer from Srebrenica. When Bosnian Serbs overran the town last July, he was taken to a basketball gym a few miles away, where at least 2,000 men were being held. Eventually, he was blindfolded, given some water--which he said had something in it that affected his vocal cords so that he could only whisper--and taken away by van with 15 or so other prisoners...
...July, the Bosnian Serb Army overran the tiny hamlet of Srebrenica. The city's 3,000 defenders were no match for Serb tanks and artillery, and 300 Dutch peacekeepers were able to do little more than watch as the Serbs systematically rounded up the civilian population. Thousands of women, children and the elderly were bused to the boundary of Serb-controlled territory with only what they could carry in their hands--the latest victims of a war that has left more than a million homeless...
Ismeta Ogresevic, 47, was one of the few Muslims remaining in Prijedor, a town the Serbs overran in 1992. Her fate last week was like that of thousands of others. At 3 Monday morning, her door was kicked down: Arkan's men had arrived. "I thought they had come to beat us again," she recalled. "But this time they said we had to leave immediately. Instead we ran out the back to the cornfield behind the house and hid. We thought they were going to kill...
Sometimes the discussions on the putting green are not so quiet. One evening in mid-July, after Serb forces overran the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica and left the West's Bosnia policy a shambles, Clinton summoned several top aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify...
Disgusted with the international community's failure to stop atrocities in Bosnia, the United Nations' chief human rights investigator for the region abruptly quit today. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist prime minister and a former political prisoner, said Western inaction afterSerbs overran the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa was "unacceptable to me. One cannot speak about the protection of human rights with credibility when one is confronted with the lack of consistency and courage displayed by the international community and its leaders...