TEARS AND TERROR

MERCILESSLY, THE WAR TRAMPLES SAFE ARAS, REVEALING THE HOLLOW PROMISE OF WESTERN AND U.N. PROTECTION

The conqueror, General Ratko Mladic, swaggered among the defeated, issuing orders with broad gestures to show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. He patted a boy on the cheek and assured the crowd, "No one will do you any harm." That much the outside world was allowed to see last week after the Serbs stormed into the eastern Bosnian zone the U.N. had declared a ''safe area" in 1993. Then the cameras were turned off and the...

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