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If you turn to page 324 of your copy of Burg and Shoup, 1999:
By March 1995 the Bosnian army had gone over to the offensive, conducting operations in Tuzla and Travnik in violation of the Carter ceasefire. It was also active in the exclusion around Gorazde, using the UN safe area as a base of operations in an apparent effort to draw Serb artillery fire into the safe area and thereby direct international attention away from their own violation of the cease-fire and, perhaps, to draw Serb troops away from Tuzla and Travnik. In mid-June the Bosnian Serb army launched an effort to break out of Sarajevo. The Bosnian Serb army then launched attacks against the eastern enclaves of Srebenica, Zepa, and Gorazde. They entered Srebrenica on July 8, overrunning UN positions. The West tried vainly to deter the Serbs from overrunning Srebrenica by carrying out an isolated air strike on July 11 - which was widely denounced in the West as a mere "pinprick." On July 12, the takeover of Srebrenica was complete. It was followed by the mass slaughter of thousands of Muslims who fell into the custody of Serb soldiers under the direct command of General Mladic. The precise number of victims is as yet unknown, but the killings at Srebrenica constitute the largest such incident in Europe since World War II and are central to the charges of genocide against the Serbs, and the personal cuplability of General Mladic.
B&S, for this account, cite the major press retrospectives between October and November of 1995 from the Boston Globe, the NYT, and the WaPo, as well as a 1997 book by Honig and Both.
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