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THE WEEK, Page 20WORLDBlasting a Corridor
Serbs take a key town in Bosnia as the U.N. talks a little
tougher
The conquest came with surprising ease. For months Serb
forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern
Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia
itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops
were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was
a stone in their path.
No more. Faced with blistering air and artillery attacks
Tuesday, the defenders retreated over the last remaining Sava
River bridge in Bosnia. Wednesday morning the bridge was blown
up, leaving only a handful of towns in northern Bosnia still
under the control of the Bosnian government.
The Serb victory left some routed defenders and Western
diplomats wondering aloud whether the Croats had yielded
Bosanski Brod by prior agreement. Bosnia's Croats want western
Herzegovina to the south just as badly as Bosnia's Serbs need
the corridor.
While peace-conference moderators Cyrus Vance and Lord
Owen searched for ways to stop such a partition, the U.N.
Security Council voted to create a war-crimes commission that
will gather evidence of atrocities in former Yugoslavia. The
U.N. also voted to impose a ban on military flights over Bosnia
to stop Serb air strikes, but it did not authorize enforcement
of the ban. President Bush had offered to enforce the no-fly
zone with U.S. planes, but France and Britain feared that if a
Serb plane were shot down, their ground troops in Bosnia would
be vulnerable to revenge attacks. There has, after all, been no
shortage of those.