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...continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready to seize Bihac. Meanwhile, four U.S. Navy ships, with some 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, began heading...
Serb forces lined up their heavy guns last week and blasted their way toward Bihac, the last of the lands in the northwest held by the Bosnian government. Then Yugoslav-made jets from a Serb airbase in Croatia joined in the attack. NATO fighter-bombers roared across the Adriatic from Italy to bomb the base, punching a few craters into the concrete runways, but carefully avoiding Serbian planes or soldiers. Two days later, when the Serbs failed to get the message, NATO planes hit two of their antiaircraft installations in Bosnia with missiles...
Along the way, their pusillanimous policies have discredited all the institutions that touched the conflict. The UN, in the midst of a post-Cold Wal renaissance when the Yugoslav conflict began, now stands guilty of abetting Serb aggression. NATO, fresh from victory against the Warsaw pact has shown itself impotent in its own backyard...
...first international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo indicted a Bosnian Serb camp commander on charges connected with ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, formed by the U.N. a year ago, issued a warrant today against Dragan Nikolic, who is accused of killing eight Muslim prisoners. He is also charged with torture, plunder and the illegal imprisonment of 500 Bosnian Muslims after Serbs overran the Bosnian city of Vlasenica in April1992. The trial isn't imminent -- Nikolic's precise whereabouts aren't known.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...evil unacceptable, and it is not through more outraged statements. It was done before at a place called Nuremberg. There, the International Military Tribunal assigned guilt for the war and the genocide the Nazis launched. The tribunal system has recently been revived to address the crimes committed in the Yugoslav war, and the United Nations Security Council is considering expanding its jurisdiction to cover Rwanda. It must be done. Through its agony, Rwanda has presented the international community with an unmistakable chance to begin the enforcement of international law and humanity...