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...zone over Bosnia. Coinciding almost precisely with the first NATO warplane patrols, the assault had been immediately preceded by a promise from Bosnia's top Serbian commander to stop shelling. The brazen breach of trust eventually moved President Clinton to declare "outrage." His words offered little solace to Srebrenica's defenders. By early Sunday Bosnian Muslim military leaders reached a cease- fire accord with Serbian forces that provided for the safe evacuation of civilians and amounted to a surrender of the city. Speaking of whichever Serbian commander ordered the attack, Larry Hollingworth of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said...
Bold tyrants take heart. Fearful minorities take heed. As NATO jet fighters assigned to Operation Deny Flight screamed impotently across the skies of Bosnia last week, what resounded around the world was the thunder of Serb artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. After the deadliest barrage last week, the shattered bodies of the dead, including 15 children, lay in mute testimony to the world's age-old ability to turn its face away from the suffering and subjugation of others...
Even as fighting eased in Srebrenica under a cease-fire agreement brokered in Sarajevo late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of starvation and deportation -- roughly the same number as those trapped in Srebrenica -- confronted Nazi troops in a final, hopeless battle. Back then the outside knew little and could do less about what was afoot. But the horror of the last days of Srebrenica could not be ignored by a world...
Fragmented accounts painted a picture of final hours fraught with confusion and bloodletting. "In the name of God, do something!" cried one of Srebrenica's ham radio operators on Friday. The next day began with an eerie silence that was shattered when Serb gunners opened fire again and the town took cover as best it could...
...Srebrenica succumbed, the Bosnian government in Sarajevo lambasted the U.N. for being "a passive witness and accomplice in tragedy" and urged the Security Council to authorize the deployment of NATO ground troops to stem the Serb tide. That was not to be. When the Council finally met in emergency sessions on Friday and Saturday, it stopped short of anything resembling Bosnia's request. What emerged was an agreement to declare Srebrenica a safe haven, a warning to Serbs to advance no farther, and a tightening of sanctions on Belgrade including the freezing of Serbian assets abroad...