the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization. July 4 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major is re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party. July 9 – Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are killed in Navaly as result of bombing by the Sri Lanka Air Force. July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest. July 11 Srebrenica massacre: Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, enter Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutch peacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniak men and boys and rape many women. President Clinton announces the restoration of United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the Vietnam War. A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people. July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. August August – The International Rugby Football Board declares that rugby union players may be professional. August 4 – Croatian forces, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, launch Operation Storm against rebel forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity. August 7 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake. August 14 - The Nepali Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives Helicopter crash. August 16 – Bermudans reject independence in a referendum. August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi. August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and Bosnian Krajina. September September – The European Parliament elects the first European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995. September 3– eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar. September 4–15 The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance. September 6 – NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.