Meanwhile, NATO extends its threat of anti-Serb air strikes to protect U.N. safe areas beyond Gorazde. They cut Serbian supply lines and overtake the towns of Glamoc and Grahavo in southwestern Bosnia. The days to come will bring more Croatian gains. The U.S. Senate votes to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia. Imposed on all of former Yugoslavia in September 1991, the embargo weighs heaviest on Bosnian government forces because Serbs inherited weapons from the Serb-led Yugoslav army.
Many Muslim refugees seek cover in the hills surrounding the town.
Others are packed onto evacuation buses by Bosnian Serbs. After executing the Muslim commander of the government forces, the Serbs burn the town. Rapid Reaction Forces deployed U.N. commanders deployed in Bosnia order the Rapid Reaction Force to send artillery units to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Part of a 12,000-member contingent of mostly French and British soldiers, the special combat group settles in at Mount Igman overlooking the city. Zepa Bosnian government troops threaten to take U.N. peacekeepers hostage unless the U.N. orders air strikes to prevent the fall of Zepa.