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...effectively rejected the Vance-Owen plan. No matter that the bosses from Belgrade coaxed, wheedled, pleaded and finally threatened; the deputies rudely turned their backs on compromise. Their bellicose stance was a rebuke not only to the meddling international community but also to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who dared urge them to accept the plan...
Like the fighters in the field, the self-styled parliamentarians saw acceptance of the U.N.-mediated accord as an act of capitulation to a worldwide coalition set on annihilating the Serbian nation. "If we accept," said Radoslav Brdjanin, an ultra-nationalist leader of Banja Luka, "it means ) we fought for nothing and sacrificed the lives of our young needlessly. It is better to have an occupation by the Americans than be forced to live in a Muslim state...
There was little doubt that the Serbian leadership badly misjudged the forces they had armed and set loose more than a year ago, and dangerously underestimated the will of the fighters to press on. The faint of heart, even those in political power, will now be ruthlessly cut out of the loop. Ever more convinced that they are the victims of history, the fighters and their political allies are unable to acknowledge that in any weighing of atrocities, the Serbs bear the heaviest load of guilt. On the bicycle path as in the so- called parliament, only the suffering...
Zelikow instead advocates lifting the U.N. arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslims and providing them with the military capacity to defeat their Serbian neighbors...
...Europeans. Britain and France, with 6,500 lightly armed troops employed in humanitarian assistance in Bosnia, are reluctant to take any steps that might invite Serbian retaliation or close down their relief effort. They believe that sending more arms to the Muslims will only fuel a deadlier and possibly wider war. Lifting the embargo, said Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "would salve consciences without saving lives." France is highly skeptical about the ability of air strikes to force the Serbs into concessions, Britain only slightly less so. While both want to stay in step with Washington, they remain adamantly...