I just finished watching the BBC documentary "The Death of Yugoslavia," and while I found it fascinating, it left me with several questions that I'll have to look up later. However, one question struck me after the documentary explained the involvement of Western forces in mid-1995 that I think this sub might be able to answer.
Okay, so the documentary seems to imply that the key factors for Western involvement were the massacres at Tuzla, Srebenica, and Markale, at which point the decision was made to become actively involved against the Serbs via artillery and more air strikes. Regarding Srebenica in particular, when word got out that systematic genocide was being carried out against Muslim Bosniaks, was there any immediate comparisons to Rwanda the year before by Western officials? Was there a sense, particularly in the UN, that their failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda until it was too late prompted them to take action in Bosnia that they wouldn't have considered had the Rwandan genocide not taken place?
And if it is ok to piggyback onto your question, to what extent did the United State's failure in Somalia effect the scope of its involvement in the former Yugoslavia?