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Clinton administration officials say they have U.S. spy plane photo evidence of what could be a mass grave near Srebrenica. Some 10,000 Muslim men have been missing sinceSerbs swept through the region since last month. The photo may serve to confirm an earlier account by eyewitnesses from the eastern enclaves who claimed to have escaped from a warehouse where Serbs took refugees outside in large groups to be shot at the edge of mass graves. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck said today a fact-finding trip to central and northeastern Bosnia last week turned up numerous eyewitness accounts...
Call me selfish but I much prefer belated knowledge or wrongdoing. If I had seen the videotape of the Serbian capture of the "safe haven" of Srebrenica, I might have been compelled to fly over there and take up arms. But as it is, regret is the best I can muster from reading yesterday's news...
...ejected 5,000 women, children and old men because they were Muslim. The Serbs then looted and set fire to the town. The refugees reached Bosnian government lines exhausted and dazed, but apparently without suffering the sort of atrocities the Serbs had inflicted on the 42,000 residents of Srebrenica two weeks before. (A U.N. commission accused Mladic and Radovan Karadzic of genocide last week.) The New York Times reported Bosnian claims that the Serbs had used some sort of gas attack to rout the last of Zepa's defenders, but details of the assault could not be confirmed...
Barnes reports that no one yet knows the fate of the 10,000 Muslim men who have been missing since the fall of the safe areas of Srebrenica and Zepa: "Some of them certainly have been killed. But a lot are probably still hiding in the woods and are reluctant to come out." The reason? "Muslims have been killed by Serbs dressed as U.N. peacekeepers, so they are afraid to come out and are hiding even from legitimate U.N. and Red Cross agents...
...horror stories emerged about the rape, robbery and murder of refugees from the overrun "safe area" of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serbs surrounded the town of Zepa, another U.N. safe haven. Western allies met in London at week's end, threatening a substantial and decisive response -- including air strikes -- if the Serbs moved against Gorazde, the last Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia. But the allies also fretted about the serious risks involved in opposing the Serbs...