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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbs have shown exquisite calibration in cranking up the carnage to just below the point where the West will react. The war is about religious differences as well as territory and politics; it involves Serbian Orthodox, Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics. Serb militias now occupy 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: More Harm than Good | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...Serbs to cut back their territorial holdings from 70% to 42% and leave almost a third of all Bosnian Serbs in provinces controlled by Muslims or Croats. Karadzic vows not to surrender a single Serb village, and his militias have shown their ability to turn other villages into Serbian strongholds almost at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: More Harm than Good | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...depends on the determination of the residents alone, Gorazde might never fall to the Serbian guns that have surrounded the 232-sq.-mi. pocket for 10 months. For 70,000 people, a murderous route over the mountains is their only lifeline. Night after night, they come to an isolated valley in eastern Bosnia, where authorities stockpile 110-lb. flour sacks and sometimes canisters of cooking oil. One evening last week, 400 people loaded all they could into rucksacks and onto the backs of 60 ponies, and trudged off on the dangerous trek back across the snowy mountains -- the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Road of White Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...darkness fell, the silent, shuffling black forms snaked up the mountainside for 10 numbing hours, then staggered down the icy and perilous descent. An uncupped cigarette was enough to draw fire from Serbian positions ( along the route. Alija Slivo, 60, who spent five months in Serbian captivity in the town of Foca, was ready for an ambush. "I'll blow myself up before I get caught by the Serbs again," he said, pulling a hand grenade from the pocket of his tattered gray jacket. Sometimes the trek is called off altogether when Bosnian security forces find pressure mines or booby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Road of White Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...West fails to bring peace to Bosnia, Serbian power will roll over the Muslims, parts of Croatia and the last hope of Albanian freedom in Kosovo. That's just the moral side of the problem.. The practical side is even scarier. If Bosnian turmoil continues, angry Muslim countries might send arms and probably soldiers to their fellow Muslims, where-upon resentful Russians will doubtless do the same for their fellow Slavs, the Serbs...

Author: By Ozan Tarman, | Title: Fatal Inaction | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

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