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...peace pact is supposed to put a stop to ethnic cleansing, but the practice continued a week after the signing, when 93 ill and elderly Muslims in the Serb-held Banja Luka region were driven into Bosnian government--held territory. Last week they were joined by up to 250 more victims. These Muslims were expelled by Serbs who had earlier been ethnically cleansed from Muslim-held territory. The Serbs were resettled around Banja Luka and proceeded, as a U.N. official puts it, to "kick out their hosts." Right now Bosnian Croats are also getting in some last licks, despite...
...hatreds hindering reconciliation come sharply into focus in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, from which Serb forces shelled the Bosnian capital for almost four years. It is one of a handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...
Throughout the war, the Bosnian Muslims have suffered from a terrible deficiency in weaponry when compared with their Serb antagonists. In 1991 an arms embargo was imposed on all of the former Yugoslavia. That worked to the Muslims' disadvantage, since the Bosnian Serbs were equipped with the help of Belgrade. For years a debate raged over the question of lifting the embargo, arming the Muslims and letting them fight with the Serbs on a "level playing field...
...even after the Dayton agreement, the Administration believes that peace cannot be sustained unless the Muslim and Serb arsenals are balanced so that neither side is tempted to attack. "We're committed to achieve a stable military balance within Bosnia and among the states of the former Yugoslavia," U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Congress, "so that peace will endure." The question is, How do you achieve such a balance in the face of Bosnian Serb resistance...
...Bosnian Serbs have ignored a French-imposed Sunday deadline to release the two French pilots downed over Bosnian Serb territory in August. TIME'S Edward Barnes reports from Pale that Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic may be holding up the release of the pilots "to cut a deal to avoid a war crimes trial. No one thinks he'll pull it off." Barnes also reports that Bosnian Serbs are busy trying to move Serb industry out of the divided Muslim capital, Sarajevo, before ceding control of the city under the Dayton accord. There, about 3,000 Serbs and other residents...