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...mayors--a Bosnian, a Croat and a Serb--all of whom will exchange positions every year. Other major territorial obstacles have also been overcome. Milosevic has agreed to give up the safe haven of Gorazde, connected by a corridor to Sarajevo. In return, Bosnia will give up Srebrenica and Zepa, and permit a widening of the Posavina corridor, which links Serb-controlled Bosnian territories in the northwest and northeast with each other and with Serbia. These concessions have caused strong protests by Croats and Bosnians in Dayton and at home...
...groundwork for last week's raids had been laid two months earlier, when the U.N. "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Zepa were overrun by the Bosnian Serbs. The inability of nato and the U.N. to prevent the fall of either town, despite their pledges to protect it, galvanized the allies' resolve to ensure that nothing like that would happen again. "The fall of Srebrenica was a blow to the credibility of the West, and we are the leader of the West," said a senior State Department official. "If we didn't respond with U.S. leadership, the situation was going...
That new interest in exercising American leadership abroad dovetailed with an upcoming international conference in London. Called in response to the Srebrenica and Zepa debacles, the conference seemed likely to be yet another windy session in which the U.S. and European diplomats would issue meaningless threats. The chairman of this conference, however, was to be Britain's newly appointed Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind, who had arrived in Washington on a regularly scheduled visit just as Srebrenica was falling...
...much by fear of the political consequences awaiting Clinton if he didn't change his policy as it was by a shift in his view of America's role in leading the post-cold war world. After the fall of the U.N.'s ''safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa to the Serbs in July, Clinton faced a choice: either take military and diplomatic control away from the U.N. and the Europeans, or be forced to send thousands of American soldiers into harm's way to help withdraw U.N. troops. Clinton's priority in Bosnia has always been to avoid sending...
...atrocities committed in the area against defenseless civilians." The photos showed large patches of freshly dug earth near Srebrenica--believed to be mass graves--that had not been there earlier. Six thousand men and boys are still missing after the Serb capture of the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa in Bosnia...