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...Katz's argument rings hollow. Who is to say that a more organized, better funded and technologically more advanced Serb army wouldn't systematically destroy the Muslim population of Bosnia? Recently discovered documents have shown the evil intent of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as he ordered the vicious murder of peaceful Bosnian Muslims. Are the Serbs just Nazis whose military teeth are not quite has sharp...
...just released report from the CIA concludes that 90% of Bosnian war atrocities were committed by the Serbs, with at least the tacit approval of their leaders. The report, based on aerial photographs and firsthand accounts, comes just as the U.S. and its European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...
...Congress the CIA found that while Muslims and Croatians also are guilty of such crimes, "the burden of responsibility and guilt lies clearly with the Serbs." The New York Times reported that the U.S. was keeping the report secret because it could undermine the western support of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as a potential peacemaker. Holbrooke denied that.TIME central Europe bureau chief James Graffsays the CIA findings confirm previous reports by human rights groups...
...sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were to visit Belgrade this week to consult on the initiative with Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's nationalistic President...
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...