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...SHELLING OF THE 7TH CENTURY CITY OF DUBROVNIK BY the Serbian navy during Yugoslavia's fighting last year has given rise to an unusual resolution to be voted upon at the global environmental conference in Rio next month. UNESCO has a list of 358 cultural and historical structures, ranging from the Acropolis, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China to Vatican City, the Statue of Liberty and the Taj Mahal. UNESCO seeks to make war activities "which are intended, or may be expected, to cause long-term or severe damage to the properties" a war crime under the Geneva...
REPLAYING THE BLOODY LAND GRAB THEY INFLICTED on Croatia last year, Serbian irregular forces backed by the Serb-led Yugoslav army have carved out a slice of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Last week the Serbs redoubled their efforts, capturing several towns and trying to seize part of the capital city, Sarajevo. Now that the 12-nation European Community and the U.S. have recognized the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serbs are no longer simply aggressors but international aggressors...
...Serbia to halt the fighting. If it did not, it would face "the greatest possible international pressure," a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Bonn. "We are leaving open a whole range of options in the political, diplomatic and economic fields." In Washington the State Department denounced the Serbian attacks and also condemned counterattacks by Croatian and Slavic Muslim militias as obstacles to a peaceful solution. "We're calling on everyone to please do whatever they can" to end the shooting, said State's spokeswoman, Margaret Tutwiler...
...small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will from Serbia and annex border towns. Sniper bullets and artillery shells whistle through the streets, catching innocent bystanders in the crossfire...
...Serb-dominated federal army, believed to have about 150,000 soldiers stationed in Bosnia, is generally viewed as the decisive factor in the Bosnian equation. Ethnic Serb leaders have called on it to support a separate Serbian state...