Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998
Bosnia: Breaking the Machine
By Mark Danner
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both
Penguin, 204 pp., $11.95 (paper)
The Serbs: History, Myth & the Resurrection of Yugoslavia
by Tim Judah
Yale University Press, 350 pp., $30.00
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
by Chuck Sudetic
Norton
On May 22, 1995, fifteen months after Bosnian Serbs—bowing to an ultimatum from Western leaders infuriated by the televised carnage of sixty-eight dismembered bodies at Sarajevo's Markela marketplace—had withdrawn their tanks and cannons and mortars from the mountains and ridges above the city,[1] heavily armed Serb soldiers in camouflage uniforms forced their way into a United Nations 'weapons collection point' and, strolling like leisurely weekend shoppers among artillery pieces and armored vehicles, picked out from the tempting array two cannons. Laughing off the protests of humiliated French UN 'blue helmets' charged with 'monitoring' Serb weapons, they hitched them up to their trucks and drove out the gate.
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