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...kind of prelude, Bush spelled out for the first time where and when the U.S. might finally intervene in the blood-soaked Balkans. Diplomats disclosed a letter to Serbian officials in which Bush warned them not to try anything in Kosovo, a mostly Albanian province that the Serbs may subject to Bosnia-style "ethnic cleansing." If Serbia does cause a conflict there, said Bush, the U.S. is "prepared to employ military force ((presumably bombing)) against the Serbs in Kosovo and in Serbia proper." In all, it was a flurry of foreign policy activity that might be expected from a President...
...deplored "grave breaches of international humanitarian law" in Bosnia and Herzegovina time and again. Eagleburger took it a step further, warning the criminals of "a second Nuremberg" and linking specific men to the crimes: four Serbs, two Croats and a Muslim. He also named three political leaders, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, as bearing special responsibility. Yet there are no signs that any of this is more than the rhetoric of outrage. Two of the men Eagleburger fingered are to fly to Geneva this month at U.N. expense to talk peace with Bosnian leaders...
...true even though Washington is sitting on intelligence estimates that indicate 70,000 people -- five times the number mentioned in public -- are being held under intolerable conditions in concentration camps in Bosnia and Serbia. Those camps' lines of command, according to intelligence reports, lead straight to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But the West seems so embarrassed at what it has recently discovered in the former Yugoslavia that it does nothing about...
More important, and more problematic, Bush issued the first explicit threat to use military power in the Balkans. In a letter to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that was purposely leaked, Bush bluntly stated that "in the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian action, the United States will be prepared to employ military force" -- and not just "against the Serbians in Kosovo" but also "in Serbia proper." Kosovo is a province where, it is widely feared, Milosevic might start Bosnia-style "cleansing" of the ethnic Albanians, who constitute 90% of the population, an action that could well ignite...
With nationalist sentiment the ruling emotion, the war-crimes charges may have added cachet to some candidates. Washington had linked ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj and Serb militia chief Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznjatovic to Bosnian atrocities. Both were elected to the Serbian parliament. Though British Prime Minister John Major joined George Bush in pushing for enforcement of the U.N.-ordered no-fly zone over Bosnia, the Serbs showed no sign of backing off. The elections only emphasized their continuing defiance and kept Milosevic firmly in control...