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None of those frenzied maneuvers did anything to stop the war. The Serbs hardly broke stride on their march to Bihac, and the battle went very much according to their plan. They hit Sarajevo with artillery and sniper fire and confined more than 275 blue helmets to their barracks around Sarajevo, turning them into virtual hostages. Determined to crush the Fifth Corps of the Muslim- led Bosnian army based at Bihac, the Serbs bombarded the town for days, driving most of its army defenders and 70,000 civilians into basements and shelters. Ground troops then pressed into the zone...
...Bosnian Muslim victims. Each time the Serbs advance, some in Congress clamor for an aggressive U.S. response. However, to the British and French governments providing the bulk of the U.N. forces, all factions in the country are responsible for the vicious civil war. A senior U.N. observer in Sarajevo says Rose is not exactly pro-Serb but may be anti-Bosnian. "Rose's interest is in keeping everything quiet, in preserving the status quo," he says...
When the world didn't seem to care about what was happening to them the Bostonians always held out hope that the Americans would come to their aid. "We are waiting for Clinton!" shouted a Sarajevo hospital worker several months ago as she tended to one of the thousands of sniper victims. Now that hope has been firmly dashed. The U.S., which had been hedging for months, has decided to turn a cold shoulder on Bosnia...
...internationally recognized states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their tactics have included massive ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and the use of concentration camps. Serb snipers have especially targeted non-combatants in their attempt to terrorize Muslim populations. The recent picture of a seven-year-old gunned down in a Sarajevo Street was only a small reflection of the Serb campaign that has lasted for almost two years. The United Nations Commission sent to document war crimes has laid the blame squarely at the doorstep of the Serbs and concluded that they may have committed genocide. The conflict has spawned more...
Mediators negotiated furiouslywith the Bosnian government in Sarajevo today, struggling to patch together a peaceful resolution while the brutal war seemed to be ending as a resounding Serb victory. Diplomats pushed the existing peace plan, which would force the victors into retreat, although U.N. officials acknowledged that they had no leverage to make the Serbs comply. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary William Perry today suggested for the first time that one way out of the morass would be the formation of a "Greater Serbia" with ties between the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia -- a reversal of past initiatives that insisted on retaining Bosnia...