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...Serbs have shown exquisite calibration in cranking up the carnage to just below the point where the West will react. The war is about religious differences as well as territory and politics; it involves Serbian Orthodox, Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics. Serb militias now occupy 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...
Just hours after the first three U.S. C-130s dumped their cargo from 10,000 ft., Serb guns went into action. Artillery and mortars pounded dozens of small villages in the area, then followed up with tanks that blasted and set fire to the ruined houses and mosques. Thousands of civilians fled into the frozen countryside...
...High Commissioner for Refugees informed the Security Council that Serb forces were attacking the settlements around Cerska and Srebrenica and driving out the villagers. "Civilians, women, children and old people are being killed, usually by having their throats cut," reported the High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata. In fact Ogata, like other U.N. officials and foreign journalists, had no firsthand knowledge of what was happening. The world was relying on what ham-radio operators in the Muslim towns were broadcasting. But, she said, "if only 10% of the information is true, we are witnessing a massacre...
...negotiating table. Washington has, in effect, told Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic that if the U.S. is willing to risk its aircrews and planes, he can show up at the peace talks scheduled to begin this week in New York City, which he has refused to attend as long as Serb forces are shelling Bosnian cities. "The airdrops were taken in response to our view that there are Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia where you have very serious humanitarian problems," said a U.S. official. "This should be encouragement for the Bosnians to return to the talks." And by demonstrating that Washington...
Croatia has achieved a shaky independence since then, albeit one marred by episodes of urban shelling by Serb guerrillas. The Croats could conceivably have been motivated to carry out the attack hoping the Serbs would be blamed. But the Serbs have their own reason for staging the bombing -- or for doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists...