Word: srebrenicas
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...Clark and Mladic smiling jovially in their swapped hats, was severe. (It’s been rumored that Clark’s gaffe delayed his promotion to four-star general.) In retrospect, the picture appears even more shocking given what transpired nine months later in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. Over the course of a week, Mladic directed a systematic roundup of the city’s Muslims and organized their transportation to execution sites. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that 7,079 Bosnian Muslims were killed in Srebrenica between July 12 and July 16, 1995. Shortly...
...where a humanitarian effort turned into a doomed attempt at nation building; to Rwanda, where U.N. forces failed to prevent a genocide, despite ample warnings that it was coming; to Bosnia, where the Dutch component of a peacekeeping contingent stood by while thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered in Srebrenica, the record of multilateral forces has hardly been distinguished...
...arbitrary rules and confounded goals. In its 1993 intervention in Somalia, for instance, the U.N. dedicated itself to feeding a nation under the grasp of warlords and then refused to engage those same warlords militarily when the food shipments were violently seized. In 1995, when Serb militants attacked Srebrenica, a safe zone for refugees, U.N. blue helmets did not engage militarily to protect the refugees. Instead, the U.N. mission’s lack of communications and an unclear mandate allowed the Serbs to carry out the largest civilian massacre in Europe since World War II. For the U.N., the general...
...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
...mountainous region of eastern Bosnia. Acting on intelligence that Karadzic was hiding in Celebici, hundreds of troops sealed off the area, cut phone lines and forcibly entered homes, schools and churches. Karadzic is wanted by U.N. war-crimes prosecutors in the Hague on charges of genocide, including the Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims...