Sentence examples for the safe area from inspiring English sources

The UN troops supposedly guarding the "safe" area were Dutch.

The protection of the safe area was, the government argued, the duty of the international community.

They overran the safe area of Srebrenica with ease, and then proceeded to depopulate the territory within forty-eight hours.

"There was not very much time to get into the safe area," said UN spokesman Ben Parker, who warned there may be news of more casualties.

The inquest into the deaths of those who died in the eruption found that "the failure of the authorities both local and British to provide alternative lands in the safe area for farmers displaced" was a contributory factor.

However, the UN failed to protect the safe area of Srebrenica in July 1995, when Bosnian Serb forces perpetrated the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosniak men (see Srebrenica massacre).

The law is a shield for pimps and traffickers, who flock to the safe areas with penniless girls from eastern Europe.

But Miloševic complained to the Contact Group's negotiator, an American, Robert Frasure, that the safe areas constituted "a monstrous excrescence" within Serbian territory.

Frasure reported to the national security council in Washington that Miloševic would not agree to peace unless he had a "modified" map that ceded the safe areas.

He said UN troops were too vulnerable in the safe areas, and should either be reinforced, or withdrawn to make way for air strikes.

The "safe areas," however, weren't established to provide international witnesses to slaughter, much less to encourage anyone to fight back.