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...threaten to lead to another round of bloody fighting in the region. "The West is now backed into a corner, and it has to act," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief James Graff. In another ominous sign, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry was forced to cancel plans to visit Sarajevo after the airport was closed because three planes were hit by bullets...
Elma Ahmic, 17, is haunted by memories of the brutal destruction of her village near Vitez, 37 miles north of Sarajevo, on April 16, 1993. A unit of the Bosnian Croat militia called the Jokers first shelled the mostly Muslim town, then moved in to finish off the men. Relations with local Croats had been good, she said, but after the arrival of the militiamen, "about 20 people surrounded our house, shouting, 'Get out of here! This is Croatia, not Turkey!' My father came out and asked them what they wanted. They took my father and killed him. They shot...
...that level will be the most difficult to prosecute even though they bear primary responsibility for crimes committed by underlings. "Dusan Tadic is only a small part in the machinery of evil," says Ragib Hadzic, director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina War Crimes Commission office in Zenica, near Sarajevo. "Who created Dule Tadic? Who created the framework in which Tadic could exist? It is the creators of the system who must be prosecuted." Unfortunately investigators do not have access to military logs or other material that might prove the chain of command...
...month-long cease-fire agreed to on June 15 by Bosnia's warring parties held. Among several flare-ups along the front: the area around Bihac, where Bosnian government forces fought a group of Muslim rebels who have declared an independent fiefdom. Meanwhile, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman visited Sarajevo to discuss a newly formed Bosnian federation of Muslims and Croats...
...April 20 press conference on Bosnia, he went into extraordinary detail about the different levels of U.N. authorization for the use of air power. There is "no-fly zone" authority. There is "close air support," which requires a U.N. request for every bombing run. And there is the Sarajevo model, open-ended authority to bomb a predefined exclusion zone...