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...produce half-measures," he said, referring to the Western allies. The ultimatum to the Serbs to keep their hands off Gorazde, he said, was a "green light" for them to attack elsewhere. He predicted the Serbs would take the pressure off the eastern enclave but keep squeezing the capital, Sarajevo, and possibly try to capture Bihac, the last government outpost in the northwest...
Without dissent, the London conference agreed to keep the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia as long as possible. The ministers also said they would use a new U.N. rapid-reaction force now taking shape to secure a land supply route into Sarajevo, where relief shipments have been cut off for weeks. But Rifkind warned that if the U.S. lifts the arms embargo against Bosnia, the situation would become too dangerous and "unprofor would have to withdraw...
Bosnian Serb troopstoday marched into Zepa, taking undisputed control of their second U.N. "safe area" in as many weeks. U.N. sources tell TIME's Massimo Calabresi, in Sarajevo, that the mountain enclave is now completely free of Muslim forces: "One witness saw (Serbian Gen.) Ratko Mladic walking around the town with impunity," he says. The fates of thousands of civilians remain uncertain: the Bosnian government, fearing a reprise of reported rapes and murder after the fall of nearby Srebrenica last week, are negotiating for the release of women, children and elderly people. (Some reports said hundreds of Zepa's residents...
Flushed with this success, the Security Council then went ahead in May 1993 to designate five other safe areas: Zepa and Gorazde in the east, Tuzla and Bihac in the north, and the capital, Sarajevo. The policy was a bluff. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council at the time he would need 34,000 soldiers to provide the enclaves with real security. The council balked and mandated only 7,600. In fact, not even that many were ever assigned to the safe areas. So the resolution approved a month later did not mention their "defense" but called...
...reaction force is just beginning to take shape, and Mladic may have concluded this was the time to clear out the eastern enclaves and create a purely Serb area from the border with Serbia proper all the way to Sarajevo. Others say the attack on Srebrenica and Zepa was just what Bosnians could have expected after the counteroffensive they undertook in June. The Serbs usually respond where the Muslims are most vulnerable...