Mass graves are now common in Bosnia. Imagine all the males out of the freshman class being murdered and thrown into mass graves outside Bellefonte. The numbers are comparable as more than 5,000 Muslims lay in the mass graves around Srebrenica. The ones lucky enough to make it out of the city were forced into a death march through hostile Serb lines.

As Muslim refugees tried to make it to safe areas, Serbs dressed as U.N. soldiers told the refugees to come out of the woods. Some did, and they were gunned down.

Those that made it out by bus were a little better off. One bus was stopped however, and two twin boys were pulled from their mother. Then their throats were cut by some Serb soldiers as she watched. She hung herself a short time later.

Fifty years ago, General Patton liberated Nazi concentration camps and shed light on the mass murder that was occurring in Nazi Germany.

Today, Bosnian Serbs backed by their neighbors in Serbia proper are committing the same crimes. It looks like we are ignoring a new, albeit smaller holocaust. Yet another mass killing that we should never forget.

The United Nations and our president have allowed these atrocities to occur without any worry on the part of the criminal Serb leadership of being punished. Time after time empty threats have been followed by weak action. Clinton must take the responsibility for allowing Serbs to attack hospitals, shelters, schools and mosques.

Clinton has kept in place an arms embargo which clearly violates the U.N. charter and keeps Bosnian government forces weak and unable to stop Serbian aggression.

In a remarkable flip flop, Clinton changed his earlier position against the embargo to one that was more in line with the weak European leadership for the embargo. In 1993, Clinton said, "I felt very strongly that the United Nations made a grave error by applying the embargo on Yugoslavia to Bosnia after they recognized Bosnia . . . I still think it is wrong." It is as wrong now as it was then. No peace has resulted by keeping arms away from the Bosnian government.

This is not a civil war, but a war of ethnic conquest fought against civilians by the fascist Serb leadership. They want a "Greater Serbia." The Serbian intelligentsia as well as the government have all harkened back to the backward thinking of the middle ages when Christianity and Islam fought wars against each other. The main battleground then, as now, is Bosnia.

Bosnia is a country that has been recognized by the United States and the United Nations, and it also has a democratically elected government. Some in the Muslim world already view the United States as an enemy. How much credibility will we give them by allowing a small-scale Muslim holocaust to happen in Bosnia?

Throughout this war we have watched as the United Nations has been used as a tool in the hands of criminals. The Yugoslavian government asked for the arms embargo after it became clear that Yugoslavia was going to break apart. The people doing the asking were Serbs connected with the Milosevic government who wanted Serbia to maintain its edge in the weapons of war. The United Nations and the United States accepted the arms embargo in a blind search for peace. Imagine if we had placed an embargo on Nazi Germany and Britain so that a halt to the fighting would occur in 1939. Thank God we had leaders then who knew how to handle evil.

The United States lost thousands of soldiers fighting to end fascism forever, how can we now turn our backs on what we stood for then?

If the recent bombing is not combined with lifting the arms embargo the fascist Serb leadership will once again lead U.S. negotiators to the same dead end that has plagued peace negotiators throughout history. Negotiation does not end war, only defeat or stalemate end war.

To believe that the criminal leaders Karadic and Milosavic will bargain in good faith is foolish. Only when they are pounded into the dirt, will they understand that their war against Islam is over.

The arms embargo has resulted in a destruction of a free, multi-ethnic Bosnia. Europe has appeased the forces of evil in the Balkans too many times in a vain search for peace. While we should never forget Hitler's war on the Jews , we must also never forget the appeasement which allowed the vicious force of the Nazi holocaust to rampage. It is time to let the Bosnians defend themselves, the United States must lift the arms embargo on Bosnia.