Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam is particularly interested in exploiting Arab perceptions that the West applies an anti-Muslim double standard. He massages Arab resentment that the same allied forces that retaliate so quickly against Iraq remain indifferent to the Serbian slaughter of Bosnia's Muslims and turn a blind eye to Israel's expulsion of more than 400 Palestinians. Said the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet: "How could the U.S. start this operation against the background of public opinion horrified by events in Bosnia? With 10,000 women raped and people jammed into internment camps in Bosnia, this bombing is inexplicable...
...these victories are not the end of the Balkan horror story--just the close of another bloody chapter, with the worst still to come. If settlements are soft on Serbia, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic could cause a European crisis that will dwarf the current one, and put millions more lives at risk...
...what a peace it is. Attacks by the Bosnian Serbs, funded and supplied by Serbia, will be rewarded--Serbian aggressors will win exclusively Serb provinces within Bosnia, which will soon become formal or informal extensions of the Serb state. Worse than the settlement itself though, is the message it will send to Milosevic...
...Yugoslav crisis, and there are some grisly parallels. The human suffering Milosevic has furthered is apparent enough. His orchestrated policy of "ethnic cleansing" has produced over a million refugees, hundreds of thousands dead, and more than 20,000 women brutally raped in a warped plan to produce more Serbian children...
...their passion for negotiated settlements, Vance and Owen have forgotten that leaders like Milosevic view negotiations as solely a means of continuing their conquest. The peace talks are convenient for the Serbian leader now because his forces have already captured two-thirds of Bosnia. Now, he is looking for a way to secure those gains while defusing the pressure for military action...