Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minimize any chance of being hit by ground fire. And they were to be preceded by planes dropping leaflets telling ground forces what was about to be parachuted into their areas and when. Further, Clinton announced that the supplies would be dropped not just to Muslims cut off by Serbian siege and blockades from relief supplies but to everybody, "without regard to ethnic or religious affiliation." By week's end, with the drops set to begin, the operation had support from U.S. congressional leaders, allied officials such as Britain's John Major, and the U.N. Security Council. Even General Ratko...
...conducting the operation alone. When Secretary of State Warren Christopher encouraged European members of NATO to join in, they said no, thanks. But when NATO ally Turkey offered planes or aid for the mission, the U.S. said no. Washington fears that the involvement of fellow Muslims would only exacerbate Serbian suspicions...
...that the U.S. would become entangled in the demonic conflicts tearing at the former Yugoslavia, saying that Washington was embarked only on a short-term emergency mission. Not everyone was reassured by an Administration facing its first major diplomatic dilemma: how to square campaign talk of tougher action against Serbian aggression with the European and Russian reluctance to interfere militarily in what they see as a civil...
...High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. "That, plus a cold winter, means that people are dying." Only two convoys reached the town of Zepa; Srebrenica received its last delivery on Dec. 10. On Thursday, trucks carrying 65 metric tons of aid finally reached Gorazde after being held up at Serbian checkpoints for two days. The region of Cerska, isolated in the mountains northeast of Sarajevo, hasn't received anything...
...same time, Washington hopes that its offer to deliver supplies to Serbian and Croat enclaves as well will convince those factions that the U.S. will be an honest broker in the negotiations. At a minimum, the Serbs might be persuaded that the holdup of truck convoys to starve out the Muslims is now futile. But the airlift might just as easily give the Serbs an additional excuse to halt ground deliveries...