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- Apr. 26, 1993: No Target Too Young
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 10
- WORLD
- No Target Too Young
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- <body>
- <p>A savage Serbian bombardment presages Srebrenica's fall
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- <p> It has been said that the choice Muslims face in eastern
- Bosnia is between being transported like cattle and being
- slaughtered like sheep. Last week they got both. Shattering a
- two-week cease-fire, Serbian forces unleashed artillery attacks
- on refugees packed into the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.
- </p>
- <p> Serbian officials dared to excuse the attack as a response
- to Bosnian provocation. A more likely explanation was Serbian
- displeasure with enforcement of the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone
- over Bosnia. Coinciding almost precisely with the first NATO
- warplane patrols, the assault had been immediately preceded by
- a promise from Bosnia's top Serbian commander to stop shelling.
- The brazen breach of trust eventually moved President Clinton
- to declare "outrage." His words offered little solace to
- Srebrenica's defenders. By early Sunday Bosnian Muslim military
- leaders reached a cease-fire accord with Serbian forces that
- provided for the safe evacuation of civilians and amounted to
- a surrender of the city. Speaking of whichever Serbian commander
- ordered the attack, Larry Hollingworth of the U.N. High
- Commissioner for Refugees said, "I hope his sleep is punctuated
- by the screams of the children and the cries of their mothers."
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- </body>
- </article>
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