In the early days of the war the Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniacs were allies against the Bosnian Serbs … They began fighting each other instead. ibid.
A secret weapons conduit was developed to try to bolster the Bosnian government. Donations from the Middle East were used to buy weapons from Hungary, Argentina, the former USSR and Pakistan … The investigation was a whitewash. ibid.
The people of Bosnia were the ones to suffer. The cost of that international indecisiveness was about to become horrifyingly clear. ibid.
Bosnian Serbs seized 400 UN troops and held them hostage as human shields. ibid.
Peace talks began and a ceasefire was declared. ibid.
The worms coming to life in the Balkans were particularly poisonous for they were driven both by long resentment and by ethnic hatred. Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e2: Bosnia: Our Soldiers Are Not Toy Soldiers
The Republics wanted their independence and began declaring it. ibid.
Some 1.3 Bosnians have been displaced. ibid. US document
Serb soldiers began rampaging through Bosnia. ibid.
‘And he [Colin Powell] got really mad at me and said, ‘Our soldiers are not toy soldiers.’’ ibid. Albright
The Serbs saw weakness. To Milosevic and his generals, the West’s so-called new world order looked like vacillation and incompetence, and they ruthlessly seized the moment. ibid.
Why didn’t we do more sooner about Bosnia? Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? Darfur: Carrots for a War Criminal, author