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Serbs with a de facto division of Bosnia along ethnic lines. 305 According
to a report of Cherif Bassiouni’s War Crimes Commission, Bosnian
Serbs were responsible for nearly 90 percent of the crimes
committed in Bosnia— approximately 120,000 victims (the final
number is not known, though estimates made during the war were
as high as 200,000). The dream of a Greater Serbia was shattered in
mere four years, and Republika Srpska survived thanks solely to
protection by the international community. Milošević, however,
regarded the Dayton Accords as a victory because he got the best deal
(half of Bosnia) in the given circumstances. (President Bill Clinton
also looked upon Dayton as a victory because he was just about
to start a new election campaign and was happy to have Bosnia and
the Balkans forgotten by American voters.) Moreover, Milošević
was treated by members of the international community as a peacemaker.
Had he not undertaken the Kosovo campaign, he might have
avoided being indicted by the icty. The agreement reached at Dayton,
Ohio, in November 1995 marked the end of the three-and-a-half
year war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It stated that the country would
remain a single state within its existing borders but would comprise
a Muslim-Croat federation (which received 51 percent) and a Serbian
Republic (49 percent of territory). Its constitutional arrangement
based exclusively on an ethnic principle prevents Bosnia from
becoming a truly functional state.
THE LAST GASP OF GREATER SERBIA
The last act in the Yugoslav Army push to carve a Greater Serbia
out of the territory of the former sfry was played out in Kosovo. The
1998–99 Kosovo war was to have been the last phase in the rounding
off and consolidation of Serbia’s post-Yugoslav frontiers. The
Army of Yugoslavia was given a key role to play in the Kosovo war,
305 Milošević threatened the West that Serbs from Bosnia, in case
Republika Srpska were to fall, would be sent to Kosovo .
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