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...NATO has ducked the most horrific ethnic fight on the Continent -- the one going on in the former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them...
Bosnia's Deadly "Truce...
During the 12-day holiday "truce" across Bosnia, 106 people were killed and 407 wounded, according to Bosnian radio reports. Since peace talks were broken off in Brussels on Dec. 23, the Serbs have intensified their artillery attacks on Sarajevo; in a single day last week, they fired 1,353 shells on the besieged capital, the heaviest bombardment in months. Peace talks are scheduled to resume next week in Geneva...
...much with too little." In 1988, when U.N. peacekeepers won the Nobel Peace Prize, their numbers totaled just over 10,000. This year almost 80,000 blue helmets are deployed around a post-cold war world in which peace has only been achieved piecemeal. Troops still patrol truce lines, but now they also monitor elections, protect human rights, train local police, guard humanitarian relief deliveries and take up arms against those who get in their...
...over a rogue warlord whose control of Angola's diamond deposits could enable him to finance his operations indefinitely. Backed by oil revenues of $3 billion a year, the government too has looked determined to fight to the finish. Thus, unless this week's developments lead to a lasting truce, the worst is perhaps still to come. In the countryside, the fighting has disrupted the planting season, and without a harvest in early 1994, says World Food Program spokeswoman Mercedes Sayagues, deprivation could envelop all of Angola. Even Luanda, the capital, has not gone untouched. On its northern outskirts...