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Bold tyrants take heart. Fearful minorities take heed. As NATO jet fighters assigned to Operation Deny Flight screamed impotently across the skies of Bosnia last week, what resounded around the world was the thunder of Serb artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. After the deadliest barrage last week, the shattered bodies of the dead, including 15 children, lay in mute testimony to the world's age-old ability to turn its face away from the suffering and subjugation of others...
Fragmented accounts painted a picture of final hours fraught with confusion and bloodletting. "In the name of God, do something!" cried one of Srebrenica's ham radio operators on Friday. The next day began with an eerie silence that was shattered when Serb gunners opened fire again and the town took cover as best it could...
...flaw in the argument is that it makes ethnic hatreds a cause rather than a symptom. In reality, the war in Bosnia, just like the war in Croatia, is a calculated effort by the Serb government to capture as much land as possible as a means of creating a Greater Serbia. The overwhelmingly Serbian Yugoslav Federal Army has lent soldiers, weapons, training and support to the so-called Bosnian Serbs...
Ethnic rivalries, which certainly do exist, have been manipulated and fanned by Serb leaders for several reasons: first, to consolidate domestic support in Serbia for the war, and second, to keep the West from intervening by making the conflict look insoluble. The ploy has worked admirably...
Before the Yugoslav federal army (now in reality the Serb army) moved into Croatia or Bosnia, it attempted an attack on Slovenia. They were met with determined and organized opposition and quickly pulled out. This action indicates that once the costs become too high, the Serbs will cease offensive action. It's just that the West has allowed the cost of aggression in Bosnia and Croatia to be pitifully...