Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open letter released last week, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help...
...heights of Mount Igman and Mount Bjelasnica overlooking the city, Serb militiamen appeared to take heed. Making a show of fulfilling Karadzic's original promise to pull back, troops began to move off the mountainsides, accompanied by tanks, trucks and jeeps. As they left, they apparently set fire to several ski lodges. In the town of Trnovo, southeast of Sarajevo, hundreds of grimy soldiers lined up for tourist buses that would carry them away from the peaks they had captured after 10 days of heavy fighting. Some displayed the souvenirs of victory: a Bosnian flag, a helmet with an inscription...
Will the Serbian conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina end with a bang or a whimper -- the crash of bombs or the fade-out of NATO's threat to attack? The answer depends on a dozen conflicting motives, but most of all on the Serbs. Once again the confident Bosnian Serbs are playing the U.N. and NATO like stringed instruments. The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, last week eased the strangulation of Sarajevo a notch, calculating how much would be just enough to make the U.S. and its allies hold fire...
...they were actually giving it back was far from certain. These troops were from Banja Luka in the north, and as they moved out they were being replaced by fresh, local soldiers. Were they afraid of NATO air attacks if they did not withdraw? No, replied a self-confident Serb captain. "We know you can hurt us by air strikes, but you can only defeat us on the ground," he said. "You will not send your boys here to die on my soil...
After stern warnings from the U.S. and nato to end the "strangulation" of Sarajevo, Bosnian Serb leaders announced a pullback from two mountain peaks over-looking the city. By Saturday, the withdrawal was almost complete and peacekeepers were patrolling the area. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said he would rejoin negotiations in Geneva this week -- if the Serbs stick to their agreement...