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...details of the policy will have to be spelled out soon. As the ministers sat down in London, one safe area -- Srebrenica -- had already fallen and another -- Zepa -- was about to fall. Gorazde was surrounded, under artillery fire. If the Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, presses ahead with his assault, the U.N. and NATO will then be pledged to strike...
...catalyst for the Lancaster House conference was the brutal Serb assault on the eastern enclave of Srebrenica two weeks ago. The Serbs made captives of men and boys of military age and, in a new wave of "ethnic cleansing," sent the rest of the town's 42,000 Muslims fleeing to government lines. U.N. officials collecting the testimony of refugees are convinced that the Serbs committed appalling acts of rape and murder. The Serbs then moved on Zepa, and Mladic staged a surrender ceremony with some Bosnian civilians at an abandoned U.N. observation post outside town. But the government troops...
...life of a peacekeeper is pretty dangerous in any case. More than 300 Dutch troops captured by the Serbs in Srebrenica were released through Belgrade only last Friday. In besieged Zepa, the 79 Ukrainians on peacekeeping duty were first disarmed by Bosnian government soldiers, then driven into their shelters. Bosnian troops in Zepa threatened to kill the Ukrainian peacekeepers if the U.N. did not send a high-ranking negotiator. The Serbs made that impossible by closing the approach road and next day opened up with mortar and artillery fire. The Bosnian government forces responded, and some of their shells...
Disgusted with the international community's failure to stop atrocities in Bosnia, the United Nations' chief human rights investigator for the region abruptly quit today. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist prime minister and a former political prisoner, said Western inaction afterSerbs overran the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa was "unacceptable to me. One cannot speak about the protection of human rights with credibility when one is confronted with the lack of consistency and courage displayed by the international community and its leaders...
...mountain enclave is now completely free of Muslim forces: "One witness saw (Serbian Gen.) Ratko Mladic walking around the town with impunity," he says. The fates of thousands of civilians remain uncertain: the Bosnian government, fearing a reprise of reported rapes and murder after the fall of nearby Srebrenica last week, are negotiating for the release of women, children and elderly people. (Some reports said hundreds of Zepa's residents had fled to caves in the woods around the town.) Calabresi says the victorious Serbs, in an uncharacteristic show of good faith, have pledged to send 40 wounded Muslim soldiers...