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 **How did the world react to the Bosnian Genocide?** On February 6, 1994, the world's attention turned to Bosnia when a marketplace in Sarajevo was hit by a Serb mortar shell and killed 68 people and wounded around 200. Other countries' media caught whiff of the incident and the Sarajevo attack was broadcast all over the world. This broadcast resulted in calls for military intervention against Serbs. In his election campaign in 1992, US president Bill Clinton promised to stop the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. Now, in 1994, the United States demanded that Milosevic withdraw his forces from Sarajevo through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Serbs listened and a cease-fire in Sarajevo ordered by the NATO took place. America then attempted to unify the Bosnian Muslims and Croats against the Serbs, but the alliance between Muslims and Croats did not stop the Serbs from attacking UN declared Safe-Haven Muslim towns in Bosnia. The Serbs also attacked UN peacekeepers as well, and the NATO responded by launching air strikes against Serbs on the ground positions. The Serbs responded by taking hundreds of UN peacekeepers as hostages and killing them. On August 30, 1995, the US led a NATO bombing campaign targeting Serbian artillery positions all over Bosnia. Finally, on November 1, 1995, Milosevic traveled to the US for peace talks, and after 3 weeks, peace was declared.

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