The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina has attracted continuous international attention and consternation between the spring of 1992 and November 1995, when the Dayton Agreement, which put a hopefully permanent end to the hostilities, was signed. The creation of Bosnia as an independent Balkan state followed those of Slovenia and Croatia and marked the breakup of what used to be Yugoslavia. The conflict within Bosnia has been seen mainly as an attack by a Serb nationalist minority against President Izetbegovic's attempt to maintain a working multicultural and multireligious community including Muslims, Catholic Croats and Christian Orthodox Serbs. Izetbegovic's efforts have been constistently aimed at maintaining the unity and the integrity of the Bosnian state and at avoiding the creation of two, or even three, separate entities. This paper will first discuss the moral and political roles of the United States as an international power in the Bosnian conflict. It will then examine the issue of war crimes as it applies to this conflict. One of the major reasons why the war in Bosnia increasingly became the focus of so much international attention was the phenomenon of "ethnic cleansing," which took place mostly in of 1993. This policy of mass killing and expulsions perpetrated mostly by Bosnian Serbs, and to a lesser degree by Bosnian Croatians, was seen as the first recurrence of genocide on the European continent since the end of World War II. The inability by the U.N. Protectio
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wait was a "criminal trespass" involving two countries, the Bosnian conflict was an an eminently internal one. In other words, Saddam Hussein was a villain much easier to demonize than Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Also, in many ways, a military intervention in Bosnia raised "the specter of open-ended commitments under circumstances in which every other party involved possesses the ability to extend the quarrel indefinitely while no one possesses the capacity to bring it to a conclusion" (Bacevich 61). In other words, Bosnia risked to transform itself in a "quagmire" too similar to Vietnam for comfort.
Finally, there were purely military considerations which made the sending of American troops to Bosnia at the outset of the conflict a difficult proposition. The mountainous terrain and the crowded cities offer a very different picture from the vast, empty expanses of Operation Desert Storm, where ultra-expensive, precision-guided munitions could be used. In Bosnia, like in Somalia, "the intermixing of combatants with non-combatants confronts U.S. regulars with the unwelcome prospect of once more fighting adversaries who are undistinguishable from their surroundings" (Bacevich 61). In a situation like this, the risk of bei
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