Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready...
...Serb forces lined up their heavy guns last week and blasted their way toward Bihac, the last of the lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
Along the way, their pusillanimous policies have discredited all the institutions that touched the conflict. The UN, in the midst of a post-Cold Wal renaissance when the Yugoslav conflict began, now stands guilty of abetting Serb aggression. NATO, fresh from victory against the Warsaw pact has shown itself impotent in its own backyard...
...lifting of the arms embargo. If such an effort failed, the U.S. would be morally justified in skirting the embargo and supplying the Bosnians unilaterally. The embargo is, after all, a violation of Bosnia's right to self-defense, a right guaranteed in the U.N. Charter. Air strikes against Serb supply lines and heavy weapons would further increase pressure for a more just settlement. And all else failing, ground troops should be a possibility--the stakes are that high...
...justification for U.S. intervention lies in Serbia's military and economic support for the Bosnian Serb army, the Bosnian Serbs' blatant disregard for U.N. mediation and the genocidal warfare that the conquering Serbs have waged...