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Reviewing this video, I have to ask what would have happened if the Serb forces decided to move against the Canadian peacekeepers stationed on the hill overlooking the battle? Or what would have happened if the Serb forces, in order to save the Serb village from being wiped out, took their own actions, while the Croats were using stalling tactics against Canadian peacekeepers after the third firefight? What would have happened if efforts to save the Serb village resulted in hostile contact with the Canadians? There probably would have been a much bigger and more public UN/NATO response against the Serb forces in Croatia if this did happen. In reality, the Serbs showed much restraint in this incident, probably because they were aware of this fact. In this incident, the real bad guys were the Croats, but it did not fit into the bigger political narrative of the "good guys" (which is not always true), so it was written in the pages of forgotten history.

This incident may give us a little insight on what could have happened if Dutch UN forces did make an effort to resist Bosnian Serb entry into Srebenica during the Bosnian war, though the composition of the Dutch peacekeeping forces was probably not robust enough to be have been able to do much. The best they could have done is perhaps provide an escape corridor for escaping residents and to hold off hostile Bosnian Serb forces as they applied pressure on the city.

Bosnia showed us they you cannot keep peace if you are not willing to make peace.


Brian Ghilliotti
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