From the TIME Europe archives ...

April 5, 1993
Greater Serbia Marches On
It is hardly El Alamein or Stalingrad, two decisive battles of World War II, but the siege of Srebrenica, the Muslim enclave under attack by Bosnian Serbs for the past 11 months, is taking on similar symbolic significance. More >>

April 26, 1993
Srebrenica Succumbs
As NATO jet fighters assigned to Operation Deny Flight screamed impotently across the skies of Bosnia last week, what resounded around the world was the thunderous crash of Serbian artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim
town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. More >>

March 29, 1993
Hell in a Small Place
Rarely has a truth si brutally demonstrated been so assiduously avoided. International sanctions, threats, peace negotiations — none are having the slightest effect on the horror being played out in eastern Bosnia.. More >>

March 29, 1993
A Convert Among the Dying
In his six months as commander of the U.N. peace force in Bosnia, French General Philippe
Morillon earned a maverick reputation. More >>

April 5, 1993
A Soldier's Conversion
Until he surprised his critics, his superiors and perhaps himself, General Philippe Morillon seemed
too much the canny soldier-diplomat to be caught up emotionally in the tragedy of civil war. More >>

June 14, 1993
Under The Guns
Vedad Hamzic had a fever and it wouldn't go away. The 10 — month — old infant could not be helped at home in the devastated outlying Sarajevo suburb of Sokolovic Kolonija. So his father, Zijo, a policeman, begged the local authorities to lodge a desperate plea with the United Nations protection force (UNPROFOR): Could the soldiers take the baby through the Serb noose around Sarajevo to Kosevo Hospital in the city itself? They could not.. More >>

July 24, 1995
Tears and Terror
The conqueror, General Ratko Mladic, swaggered among the defeated, issuing orders with broad gestures to show who was in charge. Beaming, he watched as his Bosnian Serb soldiers offered candy and other treats to the terrified and bedraggled throngs of Muslim refugees in the Srebrenica enclave. More >>

January 29, 1996
Unearthing Evil
Telling evidence of mass graves around Brcko, and near the infamously conquered city of Srebrenica to the southeast, came to light last week as TIME correspondents explored parts of Bosnia under Serb control.. More >>

May 13, 1996
Face to Face With Evil
Even war has its rules. Slobodan Miljkovic, called "Lugar" — the Gamekeeper — would not have been thinking about that when, as eyewitnesses allege, he had 50 Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. More >>

June 24, 1996
Politics and Massacres
Did thousands of Bosnian Muslims die last year because of a "gentlemen's agreement" between the French government and the Bosnian Serbs? That allegation is the centerpiece of a new TV documentary shown in various versions recently in Europe and the U.S. . More >>