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...documentary assumes a mostly chronological account of the devastation which Serbian aggression has wrought upon the Bosnian nation. It is a piece of unabashed propaganda for the Bosnian side, leaving out entirely the Croats and neglecting to examine the motivations of individual Serbs, beyond the infamous leaders like Serbian President Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Serb militia in Bosnia...
...defend their cities, compellingly convey the war's harsh and premature aging of Bosnia's youngest and strongest. One woman, an intellectual, steadfastly applies her make-up as a way of denying control to the war. "I will not be a victim," she says in a private moment. A Serbian soldier calmly describes murdering and raping civilians. His voice never falters and his eyes stare dully while a cigarette burns carelessly in his hand...
...part of "Queen Margot," also function as an illustration of film's subtext about ethnic cleansing. The situation in Bosnia is clearly on the film makers' minds, and Chereau re-enforces this connection through his choice of the film's composer, Goran Bregovic. Bregovic, born in Sarajevo to a Serbian mother and a Croatian father, fills "Queen Margot" with medieval Balkan melodies and the voice of Ofra Haza, which at first seem incongruous in a film so French but which later make perfect sense...
...game of "high-stakes poker," Croatian President Franjo Tudjman decided not to extend the United Nations peacekeeping mandate in Croatia, which expires March 31. Diplomats fear that removing the buffer of 15,000 Blue Helmets could allow animosities between Croats and the Croatian Serbs or between Croatia and Serbian-ruled Yugoslavia to flare into renewed fighting...
...biggest fear is that the retreating forces will have to fight their way out. Commanders from both Bosnian and Serbian camps crave the U.N.'s light tanks and armored vehicles, which the peacekeepers have vowed to take with them. The Serbs could fire down on the departing columns as they move along the mountain roads. Snipers and artillery could harass convoys ambushed at roadblocks. There are dozens of bridges and tunnels along the way from Sarajevo to the coast, all vulnerable to sabotage. NATO would fight back with armed helicopters, asserting control over localized chunks of the heights while...