Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall that Serbian forces had formed around the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was pierced just enough to let in a ray of hope last week. More than 1,000 Canadian peacekeepers flying the United Nations flag rolled in through the mountains from Croatia to buttress a small U.N. force already in place. The ^ troops and armored vehicles quickly cleared and reopened the airport that had been closed for 87 days by Serbian shelling and sniper fire...
Relief shipments, welcome as they are, can be only a palliative. They do not end the siege of Sarajevo or the Serbian occupation of about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serbs make up less than a third of the population. A political settlement is still out of sight, but Britain's tireless Lord Carrington, the European Community's mediator, returned to Sarajevo last week in a futile attempt to restart the stalled peace talks...
...called nation together long after that had become impossible. Then they split over whether to recognize the independence of Slovenia and Croatia. The U.N. sent peacekeeping forces far too late and, by making clear that it would not allow its soldiers to become involved in any fighting, effectively signaled Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic that nobody would seriously try to stop his efforts to create a Greater Serbia...
WHAT WILL IT REQUIRE, SHORT OF SENDING IN THE U.S. Air Force, to halt Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Clearly it will take measures sterner than the U.N. economic sanctions imposed three weeks ago. Defiant Serb gunners last week turned the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into hell on earth, killing at least 30 people and injuring hundreds more. Thousands of shells blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the 300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted less than two weeks...
...appeal to President Bush from his bomb-battered office, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic called for U.S. air strikes on the Serbian gun emplacements. "Force can be countered only by force," Izetbegovic declared. "Let them bomb those who are bombing us." Washington backed a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing peacekeeping troops to reopen Sarajevo airport if a cease-fire is reached so that urgently needed food can be flown in. But the Bush Administration was reluctant to intervene directly, despite its concern that Serbian shelling might hit a major toxic-chemical plant north of Sarajevo and trigger an environmental disaster. Impatience...