Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold. The Serb, Croat and Muslim cantons might even theoretically join in a confederation that would be called Bosnia. But that would be a pious fiction; in reality Serbian, and to a lesser extent Croatian, aggressors would have extinguished any independent, multiethnic Bosnia...
...ground; reversing that victory would require military intervention far beyond anything any Western power will even consider. For all the relief efforts, Hogg warned Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic two weeks ago that he could not hope for military help to save the remaining Muslim areas from Serbian conquest. In the British view, the formation of cantons would avoid a total Serbian victory and avert another looming nightmare: mass deaths -- perhaps 200,000 to 300,000 -- among refugees inside the former Yugoslavia who might not survive the rough Balkan winter. An end to the fighting would enable international relief organizations...
...same dirty water and use the same three toilets. One inmate, Hajudin Zubovic, a 28-year-old miner, told how a dozen or more prisoners at a ceramics factory in the area had been forced to stand in the sun all afternoon on July 24 and Serbian guards beat 10 of them to death, then fired rifles into a room filled with more than 150 men. Says Zubovic: "Thirteen hundred of us heard their screams...
Bosnian officials had lobbied for a resolution that would spell out tougher action and lift the arms embargo on their country. By focusing solely on the delivery of humanitarian aid and making no reference to Serbian aggression, said Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, the measure will only "fatten up Bosnians before the slaughter...
...Iraq remains high on the August agenda, Yugoslavia, with its millions of innocent victims displayed daily in the media, has become Issue No. 1. Rarely is a nation presented with a clear, unequivocal moral issue to decide. Washington faces one now: to act or not to act to end Serbian aggression and the human agony it is inflicting. This question is uncluttered by direct American national interests, because the U.S. has none in Yugoslavia. If Bush decides to risk American lives in any form of military action there, it will be only because the U.S. accepts a moral obligation...