CONFLICT IN THE BALKANS - THE OVERVIEW - NATO PRESSES BOSNIA BOMBING, VOWING TO MAKE SARAJEVO SAFE

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NATO PRESSES BOSNIA BOMBING, VOWING TO MAKE SARAJEVO SAFE</h1> <h6 class="byline"> <span itemprop="author creator" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name">By ROGER COHEN</span> </span> </h6> <h6 class="dateline">Published: August 31, 1995</h6> <div class="shareTools shareToolsThemeClassic articleShareToolsTop" data-shares="facebook,twitter,google,email,showall|Share,print,singlepage,reprints,ad" data-title="CONFLICT IN THE BALKANS: THE OVERVIEW; NATO PRESSES BOSNIA BOMBING, VOWING TO MAKE SARAJEVO SAFE" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20170624202131oe_/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/31/world/conflict-balkans-overview-nato-presses-bosnia-bombing-vowing-make-sarajevo-safe.html" data-description=" After 40 months of awkward hesitation, NATO today stepped squarely into the midst of the Bosnian war, pounding Bosnian Serb targets with air strikes across the country and declaring that the bombardment would not stop until Sarajevo was secure. The onslaught unfurled in at least five waves, beginning in the early-morning darkness and proceeding throughout the day. Large fires burned in Vogosca, a Serbian-held suburb northwest of Sarajevo, and Lukavica, the Serbs' main barracks southwest of the Bosnian capital, as NATO bombs struck ammunition and fuel dumps."></div> <meta name="emailThisHash" content="MQtFvZ2LB3wJU8VeiMlW/g"> <div class="articleBody"> <span itemprop="copyrightHolder provider sourceOrganization" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemid="http://www.nytimes.com"> <meta itemprop="name" content="The New York Times Company"/> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20170624202131/http://www.nytco.com/"/> <meta itemprop="tickerSymbol" content="NYSE NYT"/> </span> <p itemprop="articleBody"> <strong>ZAGREB, Croatia, Aug. 30— </strong> After 40 months of awkward hesitation, NATO today stepped squarely into the midst of the Bosnian war, pounding Bosnian Serb targets with air strikes across the country and declaring that the bombardment would not stop until Sarajevo was secure. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> The onslaught unfurled in at least five waves, beginning in the early-morning darkness and proceeding throughout the day. Large fires burned in Vogosca, a Serbian-held suburb northwest of Sarajevo, and Lukavica, the Serbs' main barracks southwest of the Bosnian capital, as NATO bombs struck ammunition and fuel dumps. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> The fires followed a night illuminated by flashes as NATO fighters hit Bosnian Serb positions all around Sarajevo. Residents of the city, who in three years under siege had grown deeply cynical about the intentions of the West, watched in stunned amazement. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> More than 200 sorties were flown by NATO planes, including at least 48 American aircraft, in the largest military action undertaken by the Western alliance since it was established in 1949, said Franco Veltri, a spokesman at NATO's southern command in Naples. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> A French Mirage jet flying close to the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale was shot down by the Serbs and the two pilots ejected. French Government officials said tonight that the pilots had been located and had not been captured so far. The French Defense Ministry refused to disclose details about whether a rescue mission had been dispatched. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Other warplanes returned safely to their bases after attacking Bosnian Serb air defense radar and communication sites, ammunition depots and command posts throughout Bosnia. Radovan Karadzic, the leader of the separatist Serbs, reacted to the onslaught with an initial show of defiance. "The people's will for a state will now harden," he said. "The West's calculations on the Serbs are wrong." </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Dr. Karadzic's statement was consistent with repeated warnings from the Serbs, who made up one-third of Bosnia's prewar population, that they are a stubborn, proud people who would resist any attack. History lent some credence to such notions. But the defiant talk would have carried much more weight before the abrupt fall in recent months of Western Slavonia and Krajina, regions of Croatia whose ethnic Serbian leaders had vowed to fight to the last man, only to flee in haste in their Mercedes-Benzes. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Although NATO said the bombing had inflicted considerable damage, it was too early to say whether the attacks had really crippled the Bosnian Serbs' ability to wage war or impose terror in and around Sarajevo. Some Serbian shelling of the Bosnian capital persisted through the day. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> It was also not clear how many casualties there were among the Serbs, but the European Union said three diplomats and two of their aides on a monitoring mission in Serb-held Bosnian territory had been killed either by the bombing or in a Serbian reprisal. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> British, French and Dutch artillery recently installed on Mount Igman near Sarajevo joined the assault, firing at least 600 rounds against Bosnian Serb gun emplacements. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Such a sweeping attack had often been threatened by NATO and the United Nations. But the political will to go through with it had never previously coalesced among the Western allies, who feared being sucked into a Balkan war. There had also been concern about the reaction of Russia, a traditional ally of the Serbs. Moscow condemned the bombing today, although in terms that were scarcely indignant or threatening. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Differences between the United Nations and NATO have often paralyzed the West's response to the war, but with almost all United Nations peacekeepers out of Bosnian Serb territory and so no longer vulnerable to hostage-taking, greater unity of purpose was achieved. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, said today that the NATO raids had his "full support." He added, however, that "the United Nations is not at war with the Serbs." </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> "The aim of today's action is to insure that what happened on Monday never occurs again," said Maj. Myriam Sochaki, a United Nations spokeswoman, referring to the Bosnian Serb shelling of the Sarajevo market area that killed 37 people and provided the final catalyst for a sweeping Western military reaction that the exhausted people of Sarajevo thought would never come. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> But the true objective of the ongoing NATO assault clearly went further than an attempt to silence the Serbian guns that have subjected Sarajevo to random terror for well over three years. It is a big stick wielded to press weakened Serbian leaders to accept a peace deal. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> The Administration's chief negotiator in the Balkans, Richard C. Holbrooke, was in Belgrade today, where he held talks on new American peace proposals with Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian President. Unconfirmed reports suggested Dr. Karadzic might also be in Belgrade. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> No details of the talks in Belgrade were revealed. But for the first time, Serbia and the Bosnian Serbs have indicated they want to negotiate as a team. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> President Clinton made it clear that he wanted peace talks to move ahead despite the NATO attack. </p> <p itemprop="articleBody"> Even Bob Dole, the Senate Majority Leader, a frequent critic of the Administration's Bosnia policy, applauded the NATO action, but asserted that Congress deserved a lot of the credit. </p> </div> </div>  <div class="columnGroup "> <div class="articleFooter"> <div id="pageLinks"> <ul id="pageNumbers"> <li>1</li> <li class="lastListItem"> <a onclick="s_code_linktrack('Article-MultiPagepageNum2');" title="Page 2" href="/web/20170624202131/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/31/world/conflict-balkans-overview-nato-presses-bosnia-bombing-vowing-make-sarajevo-safe.html?scp=1&amp;amp;sq=Nato bosnia&amp;st=nyt&pagewanted=2">2</a> </li> </ul> <a class="next" onclick="s_code_linktrack('Article-MultiPage-Next');" title="Next Page" href="/web/20170624202131/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/31/world/conflict-balkans-overview-nato-presses-bosnia-bombing-vowing-make-sarajevo-safe.html?scp=1&amp;amp;sq=Nato bosnia&amp;st=nyt&pagewanted=2">Next Page ></a> </div> <div class="articleCorrection"> </div> <img itemprop="newsUsageTag" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170624202131im_/http://analytics.apnewsregistry.com/analytics/v2/image.svc//RWS/nytimes.com/CAI/710095/E/prod/PC/Basic/AT/A" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="display:none;"/> </div> </div>  <div class="columnGroup "> <div class="shareTools shareToolsThemeClassic shareToolsThemeClassicHorizontal articleShareToolsBottom" data-shares="facebook,twitter,google,email,showall|Share" data-title="CONFLICT IN THE BALKANS: THE OVERVIEW; NATO PRESSES BOSNIA BOMBING, VOWING TO MAKE SARAJEVO SAFE" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20170624202131oe_/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/31/world/conflict-balkans-overview-nato-presses-bosnia-bombing-vowing-make-sarajevo-safe.html" data-description=" After 40 months of awkward hesitation, NATO today stepped squarely into the midst of the Bosnian war, pounding Bosnian Serb targets with air strikes across the country and declaring that the bombardment would not stop until Sarajevo was secure. 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