In the meantime , Albright had promoted the United Nations ' disastrous Safe Havens policy , which placed masses of unarmed Bosnian civilians under the protection of minuscule numbers of U.N. ( but no U.S. ) troops--that is , left them at the mercy of Serb paramilitaries , who systematically set about driving them from their homes and killing them .
The UN 's Safe Haven policy did little to help Bosnian civilians .