Word: srebrenicas
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...reaction force is just beginning to take shape, and Mladic may have concluded this was the time to clear out the eastern enclaves and create a purely Serb area from the border with Serbia proper all the way to Sarajevo. Others say the attack on Srebrenica and Zepa was just what Bosnians could have expected after the counteroffensive they undertook in June. The Serbs usually respond where the Muslims are most vulnerable...
...split between Milosevic and Karadzic and Mladic or you don't. I don't." Some diplomats in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, thought they saw indications Milosevic was backing the offensive. They say the dozens of trucks and buses the Bosnian Serbs used to transport the Muslims out of Srebrenica were observed crossing the border from Serbia into Bosnia last Monday night. They also say the Drina Corps, the Serb unit that launched the attack, was newly resupplied with fuel and munitions that must have come from Serbia. At least two Western embassies in Belgrade sent representatives to Milosevic last week...
...Balkan peace broker, promising to bring the Bosnian Serbs closer to a deal, provided U.N.-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia are lifted. The proposal made no waves in Washington, since it recycled ideas that had been rejected by the U.S. Then hard on the heels of the capture of Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb army, Time has learned, Carl Bildt, the peace negotiator for the European Union, presented Milosevic with a number of ideas that might make a deal more palatable all around, including a way to finesse a potential Russian veto of enforcement measures. Milosevic was described as being "receptive...
...general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade. "Nothing will happen unless the U.S. and Serbia are involved-nothing. And if nothing happens, there will be a disaster." Against the backdrop of Srebrenica, of course, that is already true...
...page plan to pull 25,000 U.N. peacekeepers out of Bosnia is known as Op Plan 40-104. In the Pentagon's public-affairs suites, the plan is known as Operation Determined Effort. But some American troops deride it as Dunkirk 2. Last week's fall of Srebrenica increased the probability that the plan will become a reality...