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Trained as a maritime lawyer, Harris served as a diplomat in England, Bulgaria and Macedonia. He liked Bill Clinton's campaign promises to do more for Bosnia, and thought something would come of Christopher's maiden speech decrying the dangers of Serb aggression. But he and other working-level officers who had to write the daily press guidance reconciling Bosnia's brutal carnage with a stand-back American policy grew increasingly dismayed as Clinton backed away from using force...
...hardest fact, the one that matters most, is that the outnumbered, outgunned, predominantly Muslim Bosnian government has lost the war. Rebel Serbs and Croats, with overwhelming support from their kinsmen in the former republics of Yugoslavia, have together swallowed 90% of Bosnia's territory. The Serb militia is pounding on the gates of Sarajevo, and they are about to fly open. If nothing is done to police the Serb triumph and Muslim defeat, a final, horrifying bloodbath could sweep over the Bosnian capital and other Muslim enclaves. That fear spurred negotiators in Geneva and the Clinton Administration in Washington last...
...Serb and Croat leaders could hardly stop smiling at the confirmation of their triumph. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a man the U.S. holds responsible for war crimes, emerged from the Geneva talks to declare portentously, "We should all be satisfied. No one else need die in Bosnia and Herzegovina." In fact, that kind of talk is premature, since most of the important details have yet to be settled. And as Lord Owen, the European Community's negotiator, noted, "There are all sorts of people out there who want to continue the war, on all three sides...
...maps, even though Bosnia's Muslim, Croat and Serb leaders are set to talk once again this week of drawing up separate zones. The main question, and one that will torment the West for years to come, is the question of people, perhaps even the question of genocide. Milosevic's "final solution" is a wrenching dismemberment of Bosnia conceded to him by inept Western policy that will involve the largest dislocation of Europeans since World War II. Two million Serbs, Croats and Muslims are to be shoved around as the multiethnic country is rearranged along ethnic lines. More than...
Dulic Muhamed is commander of one of the Bosnian army's diversion units: his 100 or so men make feints at Serb positions, giving other troops the chance to surprise the enemy. He says he continues to fight "because there is nothing else left...