Word: yugoslavia
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...story in the former Yugoslavia is also one of appeasement. The CIA warned Bush in 1990 that the nation would split apart. Yet Bush adhered to the status quo, never altering policy to fit the reality of the impending breakup--the same policy Bush pursued in the former Soviet Union until the failed coup forced a change. The U.S. was dangerously silent on Yugoslavia, allowing the Serbs and the communist government to go ahead with plans to keep the country together--even if it meant bloodshed...
...While peace-conference moderators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen searched for ways to stop such a partition, the U.N. Security Council voted to create a war-crimes commission that will gather evidence of atrocities in former Yugoslavia. The U.N. also voted to impose a ban on military flights over Bosnia to stop Serb air strikes, but it did not authorize enforcement of the ban. President Bush had offered to enforce the no-fly zone with U.S. planes, but France and Britain feared that if a Serb plane were shot down, their ground troops in Bosnia would be vulnerable to revenge...
GREECE IS REMINDING THE WORLD THAT IT TOO IS A Balkan country, the inhabitant of a region where history often induces hysteria. In his policy toward the disaster zone that used to be Yugoslavia, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is well on his way to deepening and widening the war there...
...some 3,000 Muslims in the city of Brcko last spring. The approaching winter could exact a far worse toll. U.N. relief officials warned that as many as 400,000 people in Bosnia could die of exposure and starvation. Said Cedric Thornberry, civilian commissioner of U.N. forces in former Yugoslavia: "The world is not yet fully aware of the dimensions of what is staring it in the face...
ONLY TWO REPUBLICS -- SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO -- remain in what Belgrade continues to call Yugoslavia, and the U.N. General Assembly is having none of it. The Assembly voted 127 to 6 to oust the truncated federation. In order to reclaim U.N. membership, it will have to reapply as a new nation and gain approval from the Security Council. And to do that, so-called Yugoslavia will have to prove it has stopped supporting Serbian militias in Bosnia and is working to restore peace...