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Bosnia Rejects Safe Havens, Wary of Muslim Ghettos

Pacific Stars and Striples 48th Year. No 144. pages front and 4. 25 May 1993. Compiled from wire reports SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s president slammed Washington’s peace formula Sunday, calling it “absolutely unacceptable” and predicting it would leave Bosniaks segregated … Continue reading

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Galbraith: Srebrenica was Prelude to Operation Storm

Peter Galbraith, first US ambassador to Croatia (1993-96) Interviewed by BH Dani (Sarajevo), 3 August 2001. Translated by The Bosnian Institute, UK.  In a letter sent by Peter Galbraith to the State Department on 25 July 1995, two weeks after the fall … Continue reading

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US Pilots Ready to Bomb Serbs to Help Bosniak Allies

By Richard Sisk Daily News Washington Bureau 29 July 1995. WASHINGTON Defense Secretary William Perry yesterday outlined a last-ditch plan for an escalated air campaign by U.S. pilots in Bosnia to stop the ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs. Unless the … Continue reading

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Inaction to Stop the Bosnian Genocide in Sickening

“Fathers are forced to watch their wives and children as young as 9 being raped by Serbs over a period of days, then finally murdered by having their throats cut. Rape camps are set up for tens of thousands of … Continue reading

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West Will Continue Watching While Massacres Seize Bosnia

By Carl Rowan The News, p.11A 17 April 1993. You have seen on TV the starving old women, the grotesque amputations in Sarajevo, the once-beautiful city of the former Yugoslavia. You now watch horrifying pictures from Srebrenica, where Serbian forces … Continue reading

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Dole to Delay Action on Bosnia’s Arms Embargo

By David Briscoe The Sunday Courier, p.5A 31 January 1995. WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole assured Bosnia’s prime minister of solid congressional support for a lifting of the arms embargo against his country, but Dole said congressional … Continue reading

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Western Leaders are Showing a Failure of Will on Bosnia

By Jeane Kirkpatrick The Post and Courier, p.11A 12 April 1993. “We were abandoned by the international community,” Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic observed in a televised address on the one-year anniversary of the Bosnian war. Few observers of the Balkan … Continue reading

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Clinton Tells Serbs Ultimatum Stands

Beaver County Times, p.3 20 February 1994. WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to extend the initial success of threatened air strikes, the Clinton administration is warning Bosnian Serbs that any move to resume their shelling of Sarajevo could still provoke NATO … Continue reading

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Former U.S. Presidents Urge Action to Stop Bosnian Genocide

Three former presidents, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan, joined with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Secretaries of State Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig Jr., and other notables in a full-page advertisement in … Continue reading

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United States Admits Failure to Stop Genocide in Bosnia

The Spokesman-Review, p.A8 The Baltimore Sun 21 September 1993. WASHINGTON — In a blunt acknowledgement of a foreign policy failure, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Monday that the United States had been unable to halt Bosnian genocide because … Continue reading

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Clinton Following ‘Doctrine Of Timidity’ In Bosnia

The Serbian aggressors have become increasingly cynical in their cruelty, increasingly contemptuous of all those trying to stop the fighting. This week Serbian military leaders gave their solemn assurance that they would maintain a cease-fire to let United Nations helicopters … Continue reading

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UN: Serbs Massacred 500 Bosniaks in Muslim Villages Around Srebrenica

St. Petersburg Times, p.16A 6 March 1993. Editorial According to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, the horror of Bosnian genocide has escalated another notch in eastern Bosnia. “Lots of civilians, women, children and old people are being killed, … Continue reading

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UN Fails to Stop Serb Strangulation of Bosniak Enclave of Bihac

Time to go: UN fails Bosnia Wednesday, December 7, 1994 Green Left Weekly, issue 170 By Frank Enright The emperor has no clothes. The sham of the West’s so-called peacekeeping operation in Bosnia has been finally stripped bare with the … Continue reading

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In Clinton’s Mind, Aggressor & Victim are Equivalent

On Foreign Policy, Clinton Lacks a Voice of Authority By Anthony Lewis Eugene Reister-Guard, p.11A 10 May 1994. BOSTON — President Clinton is under heavy attack these days for his handling of foreign policy. The reason why was perfectly demonstrated … Continue reading

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U.S. Has a Do-Nothing Bosnian Policy

By Ann McFeatters The Telegraph 5 April 1993. President Clinton and former President Bush have been right in sending Americans to fight in the former Yugoslavia — but the United States and Europe will have unclean hands when history judges … Continue reading

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U.S. masked reality of Bosnian Genocide

U.S. masked reality of Bosnian Genocide The Bulletin, p.A9 4 February 1994. WASHINGTON — State Department policy-makers kept from Americans the full truth of Serbian genocide in Bosnia for fear of increasing pressure for U.S. military intervention, according to the … Continue reading

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The United States Must Stop the Bosnian Genocide

The Michigan Daily, p.4 Editorial 5 May 1993. While Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic signed yet another peace plan, threatening to resign if it is rejected today by the Bosnian Serb parliament, President Clinton apparently decided that enough is enough. … Continue reading

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Peace Plan for Bosnia Would Reward “Ethnic Cleansing”

By Jeane Kirkpatrick The Post and Courier, p.9A 8 February 1993. (Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan administration) Even before he met with new U.S. Secretary … Continue reading

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Warren Zimmermann Urges NATO Air Strikes Against Serbs

* Warren Zimmermann was a diplomat, humanitarian and the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia before its disintegration into war. Only U.S. Can Save Sarajevo from Serbs It will take NATO air strikes against Serb artillery positions to end the siege … Continue reading

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CIA Report: Serbs Responsible for At Least 90 Percent of All War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosniak civilians in Serb-run Trnopolje concentration camp, Aug. 1992. Photographer: RON HAVIV, Blood & Honey To those who think the parties are equally guilty, this report is pretty devastating. Serbs carried out at least 90 percent of the ethnic cleansings in … Continue reading

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Double Standard: Why Help Somalia, but Not Bosnia?

  The Bulletin, p.A4 26 July 1993. By Anna Husarska For The Bulletin / Washington Post Imagine how people in Sarajevo — people who had been desperately hoping for intervention by the United States and United Nations to save the integrity … Continue reading

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US President Promises Protection for Bosniaks and NATO-led Air Strikes Against the Serbs

Clinton to ‘Move Aggressively’ in Bosnia; Air Strikes Likely Ludington Daily News, front page 27 July 1995. WASHINGTON (AP) — With U.N. political bosses standing aside, the way now appears open for allies to make good on the threat to … Continue reading

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Critique of Clinton’s Policies During the Bosnian Genocide

Giving Ground on Bosnia By Jeane Kirkpatrick The Post and Courier, p.15A 23 May 1993. The author served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan administration. It was painful to watch Secretary of State Warren Christopher … Continue reading

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Sarajevo Must Not Fall Under Serb Control

The West Cannot Afford to Let Sarajevo Fall By Jonathan Schell Star-News, p.6A 29 July 1993. In May, the Clinton administration arrived, after long and tortuous internal debate, at its moment of decision concerning American policy toward the dismemberment by … Continue reading

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Bosnian Muslims and Jews Protest Arms Embargo on Bosnia

“We don’t ask that foreigners get involved. We just want the right to self-defense.” The Daily Gazette, section D. 24 May 1993. By Verena Dobnik NEW YORK (AP) — Muslims marked the first anniversary of Bosnia’s membership in the United … Continue reading

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