Philippe Morillon, General Who Made Fateful Protection Promise, Dies at 90

Philippe Morillon, General Who Made Fateful Protection Promise, Dies at 90

Philippe Morillon, a French Army general whose vow in 1993 to protect a Bosnian town during that country’s civil war made him a hero, until nearly 8,000 of its Muslim men and boys were killed two years later — long after he had left — in Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, died on Jan. 29 in Saumur, a town in western France. He was 90. His death was announced by President Emmanuel Macron of France, who said General Morillon had “represen…