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Since April of 1992, the Serbs have been waging a war to create a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia--at the expense of the internationally recognized states of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Their tactics have included massive ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and the use of concentration camps. Serb snipers have especially targeted non-combatants in their attempt to terrorize Muslim populations. The recent picture of a seven-year-old gunned down in a Sarajevo Street was only a small reflection of the Serb campaign that has lasted for almost two years. The United Nations Commission sent to document...
...justification for U.S. intervention lies in Serbia's military and economic support for the Bosnian Serb army, the Bosnian Serbs' blatant disregard for U.N. mediation and the genocidal warfare that the conquering Serbs have waged...
...existing peace plan, which would force the victors into retreat, although U.N. officials acknowledged that they had no leverage to make the Serbs comply. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary William Perry today suggested for the first time that one way out of the morass would be the formation of a "Greater Serbia" with ties between the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia -- a reversal of past initiatives that insisted on retaining Bosnia's sovereignty. There's no word yet on how that proposal played with the adversaries. Even as negotiations intensified, however, snipers continued to fire at Sarajevo and heavy shelling continued...
...complaining to the United Nations, which has always wanted to minimize the use of force to protect its own troops," says Branegan.The successful attack prompted praise from President Clinton -- who called it "a good step in the right direction" -- and from U.S. allies like the United Kingdom. In Serbia, where the government since August has kept its distance from Bosnian Serbs, a top level minister reportedly slammed the U.N. calling the raid "a brutal reprisal." On the battlefield, U.N. forces went on alert for reprisals from Serbs and started resupplying troops in Bihac -- who had enough rations for just five...
...duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs in Bosnia...