Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conqueror, General Ratko Mladic, swaggered among the defeated, issuing orders with broad gestures to show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. He patted a boy on the cheek and assured the crowd, "No one will do you any harm." That much the outside world was allowed to see last week after the Serbs stormed into the eastern Bosnian zone the U.N. had declared a ''safe area" in 1993. Then the cameras were turned...
While the Western leaders argued,TIME's Edward Barnesreports, Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic -- the field commander who some diplomats say now controls the Serb campaign -- scoffed at the threat of airstrikes. "As for NATO's war planes, we are already accustomed to being bombed by them," he told a local newspaper. "No bombardment by NATO planes can do us any harm. The West should realize certain things: It cannot bomb theSerbswith impunity. Serbs cannot be forced to live in pens. They won't have others draw their maps for them that will divide what for centuries has been Serb land...
Desperate Bosnian government soldiers in Zepa, the second Muslim "safe area" to come under Serb attack, commandeered 370 U.N. peacekeepers' weapons and threatened to take them hostage unless NATO staged airstrikes to protect the town.Rebel Serbs, who perfected the "human shield" tactic in previous standoffs with international troops, said they would respond to any NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today...
...meet the Bosnian demands with or without consent of the U.N., which has withheld approval of NATO airstrikes precisely because the Serbs have retaliated by taking U.N. hostages. At an Oval Office meeting today, White House advisers said they would ask a crucial, six-nation meeting Friday in London for unilateral permission tostep up NATO attackson the Serb positions and a new command structure that bypasses the U.N. The White House is also considering a European request to broaden the U.S. military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister...
...Washington, Bosnia's foreign minister declared the U.N. peacekeeping mission "at an end" and said the Muslim government would demand the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers unless contributing nations agreed to confront Serb rebels in combat. That's roughly what France has proposed to do, to the chagrin of Britain and other partners who fear the plan is brash and unrealistic. Even so, one European Union official told TIME's Jay Branegan at a meeting of European foreign ministers today that French and British positions "are becoming closer." And yet: "The British want to see a very detailed plan...