Word: srebrenicas
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...policy toward Bosnia became inextricably linked with the name of Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton Administration seemed to be basing its actions on Bismarck's famous comment that the Balkans are not "worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." In July 1995, however, the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and set about massacring several thousand of its men and boys. This atrocity, only the latest of many, stirred Bill Clinton into belated action. The President recognized that dithering and long-distance hand wringing over Bosnia didn't work (especially with an election coming...
Switzerland? If Christopher expects the Dayton agreement to transform Bosnia into a placid land of bankers and cuckoo clocks, he should listen to the recollections of Smail Hodzic, a farmer from Srebrenica. When Bosnian Serbs overran the town last July, he was taken to a basketball gym a few miles away, where at least 2,000 men were being held. Eventually, he was blindfolded, given some water--which he said had something in it that affected his vocal cords so that he could only whisper--and taken away by van with 15 or so other prisoners...
...three deputy mayors--a Bosnian, a Croat and a Serb--all of whom will exchange positions every year. Other major territorial obstacles have also been overcome. Milosevic has agreed to give up the safe haven of Gorazde, connected by a corridor to Sarajevo. In return, Bosnia will give up Srebrenica and Zepa, and permit a widening of the Posavina corridor, which links Serb-controlled Bosnian territories in the northwest and northeast with each other and with Serbia. These concessions have caused strong protests by Croats and Bosnians in Dayton and at home...
...will be barred from participating in the Bosnian Serb government. Milosevic is still balking at Muslim demands that Karadzic and Mladic be extradited for trial in the Hague, despite a new round of genocide charges against the two last week for the alleged involvement in the July slaughter at Srebrenica. Nevertheless, the Serbian President has pledged to cooperate with the Tribunal...
...each day for water and prayed that the Serbs' artillery barrage would not fall on them--would be captured. The dream of "Greater Serbia" might be realized. Our anguish mingled with the faint hope that the international community's latest humiliation might be its last, that the fall of Srebrenica would prompt the Western powers to respond...