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...independent nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina is about to disappear. Her ravenous Serb and Croat neighbors are closing in for the kill. The future of Bosnia's mainly Muslim population--if it has any--remains to be seen...
...Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosnian leaders agreed to a cease-fire, despite the failures of the three that have preceded it during the past 15 months. At peace talks in Geneva, the Presidents of adjoining Serbia and Croatia suggested splitting Bosnia into three regions, each ethnically homogeneous. The idea was rejected by Bosnian President and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic. Lord Owen, the British mediator and co-author of an earlier, much more complicated gerrymandering peace plan, said the new idea might not be the fairest or the best but that "the Muslim government would be well advised to look very...
...around six Muslim towns under Serbian siege. But that plan was flawed from the outset: many fear the safe areas will turn into permanent refugee camps guarded indefinitely by U.N. soldiers. And it is proving nearly impossible to implement. U.N. troops are routinely refused access to Muslim areas by Serb commanders, cannot shoot unless fired upon or intervene even when they witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most of the manpower, have resisted serious military steps against the Serbs for fear of reprisals against their soldiers, making the blue helmets more like hostages than enforcers of international law. Western...
Irregular Serb forces captured and "ethnically cleansed" the center of Brcko of its mainly Muslim population last year. Now they are trying to push south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
...whole village turns out. Even so, Muslim soldiers do not call for military intervention from abroad. Just lift the international embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia, they say, and they will handle this war. Meanwhile they have dug themselves deep into their native soil and are beating back Serb attacks with little more than the firepower of rifles and grenades...