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🧵 BREAKING: panic has erupted among the trapped population of the Goražde enclave, as Bosnian Serb forces enter the UN-declared safe area.

CONFLICT IN THE BALKANS: THE OVERVIEW; GORAZDE IN PANIC AS SERBIAN FORCES ENTER ‘SAFE’ AREA – The New York Times

Serb forces have entered with a tank. Artillery and snipers are taking aim at people unable to find shelter. The death toll from the last three weeks of the siege has reached more than 200.

A spokesman for the United Nations military force in Sarajevo said the town has been rendered defenceless. Major Rob Annink has added, “The Serbs can certainly march in now.”

Since the Serbian offensive began three weeks ago, more than 200 people have been killed, more than 1,000 wounded and 20,000 left homeless. The Serbs are seeking to choke off the Gorazde enclave and seize a road linking Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, with the Adriatic Sea.

The Bosnian Serbs have fought for more than two years for an “ethnic cleansing”, or removal, of the entire Muslim population of eastern Bosnia.

Besides the Gorazde enclave, only the United Nations-declared “safe areas” of Zepa and Srebrenica, to the north, have managed to hold out, although both have been surrounded by the Serbs.

🧵 Despite Serb forces violating the ceasefire agreement of 16 April, @unakashi has refused to take any action to protect the UN-declared “safe area” of Goražde.

Mr. Akashi had demanded on 16 April that the Serbs honour an i+G711+G707