Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, written by Bosco, who is associate editorial chair of The Crimson, expresses concern over the U.N.'s role as an impartial observer of Serbian nationalist crimes against humanity...
...Serb aggression was killed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. "The Russians blocked everything," Mahir Hadziahmetovic, the Bosnian delegate, complained bitterly. "There will be nothing in the final document on the most burning crisis in Europe." Why did Yeltsin -- who till now stayed his hand despite repeated condemnation of his Serbian allies by the West -- take this stance? TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons says Yeltsin "may be playing to domestic pressures to show that Russia hasn't fallen from superpowership, that it can still tackle the U.S. and disagree with...
...lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
That did not stop the Serbs either. So U.N. military and civilian officials pleaded in rapid succession with Serb and Muslim leaders in Bosnia and with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. NATO officials in Brussels interrupted Thanksgiving Day to discuss a new U.S. proposal to defend Bihac, while U.N. officials claimed -- then unclaimed -- that they had mediated a cease-fire. When the Serbian artillery continued to pound Bihac on Friday in defiance of more U.N. warnings, NATO jets flew again, but darkness fell and the planes did not drop their bombs...
Some European officials believe the recurrent spasms of U.S. sympathy encourage the Bosnian Muslims to keep fighting in hopes America will come to the rescue. They point out that the Serbian drive on Bihac began as a counteroffensive against the Bosnian Fifth Corps, which had attacked the Serbs from Bihac in October and scored major gains. To some Europeans, the Bosnian Muslims are only getting what they deserve for upsetting the status quo. An Administration official in Washington snaps back at the Europeans, "The boat is sinking, but they don't want to rock...