With a single phrase – "You are now under the protection of the UN forces" – spoken in besieged Srebrenica in 1993, French General Philippe Morillon embodied the ambiguities of a period when the ...

“I will never abandon you,” he told residents of Srebrenica amid sectarian armed conflict. The town later suffered the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. By Adam Nossiter Philippe Morillon, ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — As crowds of angr Bosnians demonstrated in the streets, leaders of the Muslim-led Bosnian government yesterday accused United Nations military commanders of failing to ...

Indeed, back in 1993, press reports quoted unnamed sources questioning whether the French general wasthe right man to head the UN’s protection force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia. “He struck observers as ...

Paris. — As the Franco-British-Dutch rapid reaction force is assembled in Croatia, the time nears when it will be revealed as real or sham. Sham has seemed the more likely case, as government ...