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...that none of this would be necessary. At Sarajevo airport, the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army signed a cease-fire agreement aimed at "a cessation of armed attacks" throughout the country on Sunday. They also agreed to demilitarize the encircled Muslim towns of Srebrenica and Zepa...
...from clear that the truce would hold. Many such accords have broken down over the past year, and the Serbs have not honored their April 18 agreement to halt the siege of Srebrenica. The Bosnian government is also mixing its signals. It formally asked the 9,000 U.N. troops in the country to leave because their governments are using their presence as an excuse for not lifting the arms embargo...
Meanwhile, the situation on the ground in Bosnia is growing increasingly worse. After a year of aggression, Serbs now control roughly 70 percent of Bosnia. They are ruthlessly shelling the capital of Sarejevo and the besieged towns of Zepa and Srebrenica, intentionally directing artillery at hospitals, churches and schools. The forces surrounding these Muslim holdouts only sporadically allow access to humanitarian aid convoys...
...main theater, quiet, of a sort, came to the Serb-besieged town of Srebrenica under a United Nations-arranged truce. Still, pressure mounted in the U.S. for intervention: a dozen Balkan desk officers in the State Department urged air strikes, unilateral if necessary, to protect besieged cities. President Clinton at his news conference ruled nothing out but again disavowed any unilateral action. The most the Administration is likely to do soon is to press for a lifting of the embargo against arms shipments to Bosnia. Supplying Bosnia with heavy weapons -- or letting others do it -- is the step least likely...
BOSNIA: The Fall of Srebrenica...