President Clinton and the War in Bosnia
| President Clinton said that the conflict in
Bosnia was ultimately for the warring parties
to resolve and that "bad things"
will continue to happen there "until these folks get
tired of killing each other." The war in Bosnia dragged
on. The Serbs were engaged in ethnic cleansing,
and in 1995 the Srebrenica massacre occurred. A
Serb force shelled Sarajevo with mortars, killing
38 civilians and President Clinton changed his
mind. He supported a NATO air campaign against the
forces around Sarajevo.
The goal of the bombing matched circumstances, and
the bombing between August 30 and September 14, 1995,
induced the Serbs to negotiate an end to the war
in Bosnia. In December 1995 a settlement was signed
at Dayton Ohio. | |
Burying victims of the Srebrenica massacre |
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