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...deportations are in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of occupied territories and their populations. The laws of the Convention forbid the expulsion of citizens of occupied lands. If Israel wishes to present even the semblance of abiding by international law, it ought to allow the deportees to return immediately and prosecute them fairly. In addition, all of the deportees and their families should receive compensation and an official apology. Only those found guilty of crimes should be punished...
Unfortunately, however, in Israel, international law does not carry much weight. Israel's practices during its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip violate several Geneva Convention articles and United Nations resolutions. For example, U.N. Resolution 194 calls for the return of any Palestinians made refugees in 1948 and for the compensation of those who do not wish to return. But Palestinians driven from their land in the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel are forbidden from returning by the Israeli authorities. Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights is another glaring violation of U.N. resolutions...
Turajlic's cold-blooded murder outraged fellow Muslims and seemed to scuttle a new Bosnian peace initiative, which opened earlier in the week in Geneva. Meeting under U.N. auspices, the republic's factional leaders listened to a plan presented by negotiators Cyrus Vance of the U.S. and Lord Owen of Britain that would divide the multiethnic state into 10 largely autonomous provinces. Of these, Serbs would clearly predominate in one and Muslims in three, with power-sharing agreements between Muslims and either Serbs or Croats required in five others. The last province would be long-besieged Sarajevo, slated to become...
...plight of noncombatants as the discovery by U.N. refugee workers of the bodies of 12 residents of an unheated nursing home for the elderly in Sarajevo, all of whom had succumbed to the cold within two days. U.N. refugee official Jose-Maria Mendeluce warned that barring "drastic" progress in Geneva, "many people here will not survive this winter...
...crimes: four Serbs, two Croats and a Muslim. He also named three political leaders, including Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, as bearing special responsibility. Yet there are no signs that any of this is more than the rhetoric of outrage. Two of the men Eagleburger fingered are to fly to Geneva this month at U.N. expense to talk peace with Bosnian leaders...