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To: Wraith
Wraith, the Bosnian government army was provoking Serbs, and the Bosnian Muslims had destroyed the roofs of Serb houses in Goradze before the seige:

ECONOMIST 09APR94 p52 (Goradze, before NATO air strikes)
"It hardly matters who started the fight. What does matter is that the Serbs won a swift military victory."

04Apr94 Mark Heinrich Reuter
"UN peacekepers have urged the Bosnian government army to avoid provocative attacks on rebel Serbs at a time when they feel cornered by a new U.S.- Russian peace process, senior U.N. sources say. They said a renewed onslaught on the Moslem pocket of Gorazde and random shelling of government centes along the fringes of the Croat-Moslem peace zone in central Bosnia may have been incited by government infantry probes against Serb positions in recent weeks."

Guardian Jan 28, 1995 "Sir Michael's view that Gorazde was, by the standards of a hard time not suffering exceptional damage looked nonsensical from the pictures of great numbers of roofs clean off the houses. It looked so until the general pointed out that taking a roof off is the sure sign of ethnic cleansing - here, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs by Muslims, something to have happened long before the siege."

67 posted on 02/14/2002 4:15:26 AM PST by joan
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To: joan
Joan, try to stay current ok?
69 posted on 02/14/2002 3:27:11 PM PST by Hoplite
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