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This is not a conflict in which civilian casualties are a secondary consequence of regular warfare: civilians are prime targets, and every method to terrorize, displace or, if need be, kill them is part of the arsenals on all sides. The fundamental objective of the war is Serbian "ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share...
...Afghan mujahedin. Colonel William Taylor, senior military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, thinks an air attack on power plants, fuel tanks and military posts in Belgrade could take the heart out of the Serbs' fight. Others advocate an allied threat to destroy any Serbian plane, tank or piece of artillery that moves...
...communist dominoes are at stake. Human-rights violations are gruesome but are not something for which any country wants to sacrifice its own soldiers. It is true that Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics are now independent countries, but Europe and the U.S. tend to regard Serbian aggression against them as internal ethnic strife, not the kind of cross- border invasion that breaches international...
...world have to this point shown in immoral degree of patience with the Serbian invasion and the "ethnic cleansing" effort. As reports of atrocities have seeped out of Bosnia. The U.N. and individual nations have reacted with frustrating sluggishness...
...Yugoslav planes buzzed two American warships in the Adriatic. Though no shots were fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing may be left for intervention to save anyway. Mladen Klemencic, a military analyst...