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  • If the Serbs overrun Zepa, Gorazde becomes the sole eastern enclave in Muslim hands.

    So Much For The Vaunted 'Safe' Areas 2008

  • As a result, one safe area after another -- Srebrenica, Zepa, Gorazde -- has been reduced to a refugee camp dependent on international aid for years to come.

    A Fight Among Friends 2008

  • The recent assault by Bosnian Serbs on the Muslim enclaves in Srebrenica and Zepa, and the brutality and atrocities that have accompanied it, are intolerable.

    The Risk Of 'Americanizing' The War 2008

  • By then, the “CNN effect” had kicked in: public opinion was outraged by broadcasts showing the carnage that the Serbs were inflicting on Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Tuzla, Zepa, Goražde, and Bihać.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • U.N. Protection Forces would continue to impose an imperfect peace on designated safe areas; those were recently expanded by the Security Council to include the Muslim-held pockets of Tuzla, Bihac, Gorazde and Sarajevo, as well as Zepa and Srebrenica.

    What If We Do Nothing? 2008

  • In fact, despite the recent loss of Srebrenica and Zepa, government forces have made incremental gains around Sarajevo-territory that could help them strengthen a postwar state.

    For Shame 2008

  • After they "cleansed" Srebrenica of Muslims, Serb forces moved artillery and tanks south to attack Zepa, ordering its U.N. and Muslim defenders to surrender.

    So Much For The Vaunted 'Safe' Areas 2008

  • He is proud to take responsibility for the near destruction of Srebrenica and Zepa, largely Muslim towns.

    Mladic: The Serb Who Calls The Shots 2008

  • IT was now, in spring 1993, as Clinton floundered for a Bosnia policy that both sounded courageous and was yet free of risk, that the names Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde began to flash across the consciousness and, to some extent, the conscience of the international community.

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

  • Smith was in a quandary over whether or not to withdraw UNPROFOR from Zepa altogether.

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

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