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The forced deportations of Bosniaks from Serb-held territories and the resulting refugee crisis continued to escalate. Thousands of people were being bused out of Bosnia each month, threatened on religious grounds. As a result, Croatia was strained by 500,000 refugees, and in mid-1994 the Croatian authorities forbade entry to a group of 462 refugees fleeing northern Bosnia, forcing UNPROFOR to improvise shelter for them.<ref>{{cite news|url=httphttps://articleswww.baltimoresun.com/1994-/06-/21/news/1994172015_1_croatiacroatia-bosnianslams-serbsthe-door-on-brutalized-refugees/|title=Croatia slams the door on brutalized refugees|date=21 June 1994|first=Samantha|last=Power|author-link=Samantha Power|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|access-date=31 December 2014|archive-date=7 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107031722/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-06-21/news/1994172015_1_croatia-bosnian-serbs-refugees|url-status=live}}</ref> Between 30 March and 23 April 1994, the Serbs launched another major offensive against the town with the primary objective of overrunning Goražde. On 9 April 1994, the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|Secretary General of the UN]], citing [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 836|Security Resolution 836]], threatened airstrikes on the Serbian forces which were attacking the Goražde enclave. For the next two days, [[NATO]] planes carried out air strikes against Serb tanks and outposts.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=Serbian Gorazde Offensive (1994) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDcNTanFTc |access-date=2022-09-25 |archive-date=25 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925212608/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDcNTanFTc&gl=US&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> However, these attacks did little to stop the overwhelming Bosnian Serb Army.<ref name=":0" /> The Bosnian Serb Army surrounded 150 UNPROFOR soldiers taking them hostage in Goražde.<ref name=":0" /> Knowing Goražde would fall unless there was foreign intervention, NATO issued the Serbs an ultimatum, which they were forced to comply with. Under the conditions of the ultimatum, the Serbs had to withdraw all militias to 3&nbsp;km from the town by 23 April 1994, and all of their artillery and armored vehicles {{convert|20|km|0|abbr=on}} from the town by 26 April 1994. The VRS complied.<ref name="J.Regan1996">{{cite book |author=Richard J. Regan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rHL_Zse8Y7EC&pg=PA203 |title=Just War: Principles and Cases |publisher=CUA Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8132-0856-5 |page=203 |access-date=25 September 2022 |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123234223/https://books.google.com/books?id=rHL_Zse8Y7EC&pg=PA203 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Markale massacre ====