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Atrocities

(Greek) Orthodox Observer, 01OCT92 p.4, NY (RNS) "Atrocities against Serbs

in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have gone largely unreported.. documented..

last May.. concentration camps created for Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia..

thrown into pits in events reminiscent of Nazi.. supported by a statement

issued on Aug. 14 by Emilio Castro, general secretary of the World Council of

Churches.. 40,000 Serbs were being held in detention camps." "There have been

instances where atrocities against Serbs have been reported as atrocities by

Serbs... fresh in the minds of the Serbs is the memory of the genocide

carried out against them in Croatia and Bosnia only a generation ago. Over

750,000 Serbs were murdered outright.." Serb Orthodox Bp Mitrophan,

Edgeworth, PA., August 13, 1992. p18 11JAN93 TIME, photo of Sarajevo funeral,

grave markers are Serbian (Cyrillic). (Russian OCA) Orthodox World 9/92 p23

mentions July 1 letter of Zagreb-Ljubljana Metropolitan Jovan indicating

"Roman Catholic personnel forcibly catechize Orthodox children and prepare

them for First Communion and Confirmation" ((but smoke hid this news item))

(Don Oberdorfer WASH POST 08/ 05/92) "Bush administration backtracked

yesterday on the authenticity of its information that minority groups are

being tortured and killed in Serb detention camps in the former Yugoslav

republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina". UN Gen Phil. Morillon said "no signs of

Serbian atrocities" after visiting Cherska (CNN, Mar 6, 1993)

Foreign Policy #93 wtr93-4 Peter Brock p152+ "scenes of ravaged

Vukovar in 1991 were later depicted as combat footage from minimally damaged

Dubrovnik.. August 17, 1992, Time cover.. skeletal.. "Muslim prisoners in a

Serbian detention camp".. was a Serb - Slobodan Konjevic.. confined on

charges of looting.. tuberculosis for 10 years.. CNN aired reports in March

and May 1993 from the scenes of massacres of 14 Muslims.. turned out to be

Serbs.. August 1993, a photo caption in the New York Times described a Croat

woman from Posusje grieving for a son killed in recent Serb attacks. In

fact.. fighting between Muslims and Croats.. Reporters tended to foxhole in

Sarajevo, Zagreb, or Belgrade and depend on their networks of "stringers" and

outlying contacts. Most arriving correspondents spoke no Serbo-Croatian..

Zagreb as the communication and media hub during late 1992 and 1993 was all

the more astonishing in light of Croatia"s own repression.. Hill & Knowlton..

Ruder Finn, having simultaneously represented the governments of Croatia and

Bosnia.. with its liberal donations from Islamic countries.. helping its

Bosnian Muslim clients dominate the June 1993 conference on human rights in

Vienna.. demanding that the arms embargo on Bosnia be lifted.. Carleton..

professor C.G. Jacobsen.. wrote.. leading newspapers have published pictures

of paramilitary troops and forces with captions describing them as Serb,

though their insignia clearly identify them as (Croat) Ustasha.. infamous

"bread line massacre".. year after some U.N. official acknowledged that

Muslims, not Bosnian Serbs, had set off explosive that killed 22 civilians

outside a Sarajevo bakery" 07JUN93 O"Dwyer"s Washington Report "Sanctions

slapped on Serbia prevent it from hiring a PR firm to help it put its two

cents in"

Washington Times 21Feb95. Andrew Borowiec GENEVA.. "Maj. Franchet,"

said to have served on the general staff of the U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia.

His book, "Useless Blue Helmets - What I Saw in Bosnia,".. states that the

infamous May 27, 1992, mortar attack on a crowd outside a Sarajevo bakery

that killed 17 civilians and wounded 150 others was carefully staged by the

Bosnian Muslim government.. streets around the scene had been roped off

before the incident.. unpublished U.N. report rejected the Bosnian

government's contention that the Feb. 4, 1994, Markale market explosion in

Sarajevo was caused by a Serbian artillery round and speculated about a

remote-controlled bomb detonated from the Muslim area.. book alleges that

four days later, after a NATO ultimatum to the Serbs, U.N. observers reported

seeing Muslim snipers firing on other Muslims in the vicinity of the local

headquarters of the U.N. force. Senior French intelligence officers have been

quoted in French newspapers as saying that what "Maj. Franchet" asserts in

his book has been known to them for some time..

FRANCE2 & DAVAR 17FEB94 Pazith Rabinah.. shell which fell Saturday on

the Sarajevo market.. Dr. Sevekt Karduman.. New York a surgeon, specializing

in traumas, declared yesterday to DAVAR that 80% of the wounds among the dead

and injured were found only in the hip area and below.. "where foreign

particles and slivers penetrated the body was scarcely noticeable. The

greatest number of injuries were internal.".. very important Israeli

specialist in sabotage and explosives.. "No shell could provoke wounds of

such magnitude".. hollow object filled with blasting exposive and a

phosphorous bomb, coupled perhaps with three or four shells or grenades..

remote control.. conceal among the vegetable crates.. resembles those use buy

the Hezbollah in Lebanon currently, and those which were let by the Afghan..

House Terrorism Task Force GOP Research 04MAY94 "what is less known

is the role played by the Bosnian government and military in instigating the

conflict and in efforts to draw the West, particularly the United States,

into the war generally" 01SEP92 "center of the Iranian system in Europe is

Bosnia-Herzegovina"s President, Alia Izetbegovic, "a fundamentalist Muslim

and a member of the Fida"iyan-e Islam organization.. recognized the

leadership of Ayatollah Khomeni and maintained close cooperation.. UN

investigation concluded that.. strikes against civilians, that had galvanized

public opinion.. were in fact "staged" for the Western media by the Muslims

in order to dramatize.. all these cases, Serbian forces were out of range"

((Opponents of this report have shown their true antiSemitic nature by their

attacks on its author Yossef Bodansky)) SF Chronicle 05APR94 (Eric Geiger)

"hundreds of Austrian and German neo-Nazi mercenaries.. Croatian

extreme-rightist irregular.. neo-Nazi skinhead who until late last year

fought as a volunteer with irregular fascist Croatian forces in Bosnia" WDC

Times 02JUN94 (Bill Gertz) "Up to 400 Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been

sent to Bosnia to organize terrorist groups" FORWARD 12JUL94 "While

Palestinians serve as volunteers fighting Serbs in the Bosnian Army, they

are being educated how to commit terror acts in Israel.. testimony was given

by Palestinian taken prisoner near the city of Tuzla in Bosnia." 13May94

WASHINGTON (Reuter) An Iranian air force transport plane carrying at least

60 tons of explosives landed in Zagreb last week as part of a deal between

Croatia and Bosnia to renew military cooperation against the Serbs, the

Washington Post reported.. conspicuous violation of the arms embargo.. also

carrying other raw materials for weapons productions..

ECONOMIST-19FEB94-p56:"Bosnian Serbs" vice-president..NATO

ultimatum.. "Very civilised and balanced..It is not an ultimatum to the

Serbs, it is an ultimatum to the state of war"" US SEEKS PERSUADE SERBS

NATO/UN ARE NEUTRAL NYT-04-14-9 2024EDT DOUGLAS JEHL "I think the Serbs would

be making a mistake to start treating the United Nations and NATO forces as

adverse combatants," Clinton said.. administration concern that the new

strategy could lead to a dangerous stalemate in which the United States might

be unable to influence events. ECONOMIST 09APR94 p52 (Goradze, before NATO

air strikes) "It hardly matters who started the fight. What does matter is

that the Serbs won a swift military victory." 04Apr94 Mark Heinrich Reuter

"UN peacekeepers have urged the Bosnian government army to avoid provocative

attacks on rebel Serbs at a time when they feel cornered by a new U.S.-

Russian peace process, senior U.N. sources say. They said a renewed onslaught

on the Moslem pocket of Gorazde and random shelling of government centers

along the fringes of the Croat-Moslem peace zone in central Bosnia may have

been incited by government infantry probes against Serb positions in recent

weeks." 10May94 Giles Elgood SARAJEVO (Reuter) Moslem-led Bosnian government

forces have deployed about 1,000 troops and artillery in a demilitarised part

of Mount Igman south of Sarajevo, U.N. peacekeepers said on Tuesday. The

Bosnian Serb Army (BSA) complained to the United Nations Protection Force

(UNPROFOR) last week that it feared attack from the strategic Moslem hill

positions. Major Guy Vinet, an UNPROFOR spokesman in Sarajevo, said the U.N.

estimated there now were about 1,000 Bosnian troops grouped on Mount Igman as

a result of reinforcements. Much of Igman, one of a ring of mountains around

the Bosnian capital, was demilitarised by agreement with the wrring sides

last year.

IN FIRST WARNING TO BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT, U.N. THREATENS AIR STRIKES

NYT-08-10-94 1917ED CHUCK SUDETIC N.Y. Times News Service SARAJEVO The

United Nations military commander in Bosnia has warned the Bosnian government

that its forces face possible NATO air strikes in response to flagrant

violations of a weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo.. U.N. officials have

complained since last week that the Bosnian army was using the

weapons-exclusion zone to its tactical advantage around Visoko and Breza in

their offensive from Vares.. SARAJEVO (25AUG94/UPI/LEJLA PASIC) -- A

spokesman for the U.N. Protection Force in arajevo said Thursday police of

the the Muslim-led Bosnian government did not fully cooperate in UNPROFOR"s

investigation of at least three violations of an anti-sniping agreement. The

Bosnian government police were requested by French U.N. troops to conduct an

investigation into a shooting aimed at Bosnian Serb positions from the

government building near the Holiday Inn Hotel in downtown Sarajevo. SARAJEVO

(25AUG94/Reuter/Sabina Cosic) U.N. peacekeepers ringed the destroyed Bosnian

parliament building in central Sarajevo on Thursday after shots were fired

from it at Bosnian Serb forces in defiance of a ban on sniping in the city.

U.N. spokesman Eric Chapern said six soldiers of the Bosnian government army

were seen leaving the building and some were carrying sniper rifles. French TV

TF-1 April 12, Gen. Rose: Muslims "shoot on the Serbs to step up the pressure

and to obtain a fresh intervention from NATO" 2-166825 - Wayne Corey - Vienna

13-Oct-94 2:26 PM EDT Voice of America A new flareup of fighting around

Sarajevo could occur if the Serbs carry out a threat to use force to get

Muslim troops to withdraw from a demilitarized zone outside the city. The

Serbs have told UN officials all Muslim soldiers must be out of the zone

within a week. Muslim troops attacked a Serb position on Wednesday after,

apparently moving through the restricted area.

Motivations

Bosnian Pres. Ali Izetbegovic in London Daily Telegraph May 11, 1992 & Toronto

Globe & Mail Oct 17,1992 from his book Muslim Declaration: "There can be no

peace or coexistence between Islamic faith and non-Islamic faith and

non-Islamic social and political institutions." ((Izet is said to have

agreed with Iraninan vice-premier visiting Sarajevo that Salman Rushdie

deserves death sentence.)) Croatian Pres Franz Tudjman (G&M,loc cit)

"Genocide is a natural phenomenon.. commanded by the word of the Almighty..

spreading of its one and ONLY correct faith." Wastelands of Historical Reality.

Tudjman also cited calling Israel "Judeo-Nazi" state and denying Holocaust,

by Robert S Wistrich in Aug 1992 & Jan 1993 issues of Commentary. Jean

Kirkpatrick admits "The Arab world is the only part of the world where I"ve

been shaken in my conviction that if you let the people decide, they will

make fundamentally rational decisions." (p37) cited by Martin Kramer who also

writes that Islamicists "most convincingly countered by the fundamentalists

themselves, with their uncanny knack for refuting every Western argument made

on their behalf." (p39) "demise of present-day Islamic fudamentalists is no

more inevitable that its triumph. But this movement too could well be spent

by the end of this century, especially if it is not abetted by a misguided

reprise of the Carter administration"s policy toward Iran - a policy which,

in the name of human rights, first inaugurated the era of the ayatollahs."

(p43) Jan 1993, Commentary. UN in London INDEPENDENT Aug 22, 1992 confirmed

infamous Breadline massacre and orphan funeral attack staged by Muslims as

PR. Kurt Schork SARAJEVO, May 5, 1993 Reuter "The Bosnian army smells

intervention and is engaged in a massive disinformation campaign because they

see intervention slipping away if the Serbs sign the peace plan today," said

Belgian Captain Patrick Vanhoorebeke

Robert B Reilly 1/94 p4 Commentary "After the recognition of Slovenia

and Croatia, Izetbegovic told Lord Carrington:"I must demand the independence

of Bosnia. If I do not, I will have my throat cut. But I must tell you that

such a declaration will end in civil war""

May 8, 1992 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- "Security forces battling Muslim

rebels in the northern state of Jammu-Kashmir are committing "rape with

impunity".. raped Kashmiri women during search operations as a form of

collective punishment against the civilian population, the New York-based

Asia Watch and the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights said in a report

released Saturday.." ((If rape has long been a weapon of war, so have

accusations of rape. Every USA high school student has read "To Kill a

Mockingbird" and Arthur Miller"s "Crucible". Many innocent black men were

lynched on the basis of fraudulent accusations of rape. The girls of the

Salem Witch Hunt suffered the hystrionic multiple personality dementia. Given

how muslim women are in many cases even circumcised as teenagers, and that

this Hystrionic MPD is common where women have been abused as children and

were sexual repression is the norm, it would be likelier than Hindus and

Serbs being part of some global conspiracy to rape muslim women. Anyway, why

would someone try to impregnate those he is supposedly trying to cleanse?))

Le Point March 13, 1993 (no.1069) RAPES: NUMBERS IN QUESTION by Jacques

Marlino (France 2).. Anne Warburton.. commission is comprised of six women,

among them Simone Veil. They go to Zagreb and stay there only for four

days.. Simone Veil stresses the weaknesses of the inquiry, advises caution

and is astonished by the virulence of the German representative.. report

remarks first that the mandate of the mission is limited to Muslim victims..

There are no direct witnesses" accounts by the victims themselves: the

commission collects rumors.. United Nations and headed by Tadeusz Mazowicki..

E/CN4/1993/50. This reports mentions thirty direct witnesses" accounts of

raped women, specifying that the women in question are Croat, Muslim and

Serb. It evaluates to 19 the number of pregnancies after rape and,

estimating that there would be one pregnancy for 100 rapes (on what criteria

are these estimates based?), it gives the number, a total of 12,000.. special

envoy, Jerome Bony was send to inquire in the field traveling to Tuzla, a

town mentioned in all the reports. He tells about his astonishment in a

France 2 program on February 4th: "When I was at 50 kilometers from Tuzla, I

was told: "Go to the gymnasium of Tuzla, there are 4,000 raped women." At 20

kilometers, the number diminished to 400. At 10 kilometers, it was only 40.

And in Tuzla, I met only 4 women who wanted to witness."

(AP 31JAN94) U.S. Marines in a convoy carrying American diplomats

opened fire.. U.S. spokesman said the Marines shot after the convoy was fired

on by at least two Somali gunmen. Somali witnesses said no one shot at the

Americans and speculated the Marines fired because they believed several

hundred Somalis in the street outside the food center were trying to block

the convoy. ((Islamic culture makes it unlikely that they would ever

correctly perceive events in contexts that do not satisfy their clannish

schizoparanoid calculus.))

Jasmina Wellinghoff 1/94 p5 Commentary "UN has documented the

existence of detention camps in all three sectors. Simon Wiesenthal

devastatingly described the situation as a "three-way civil war with

beastiality" As to unarmed Muslims, I would just state the obvious: the war

would have stopped a long time ago if the combatants were not about equally

armed."

WEST WEARIES OF THE BALKAN, DEF & FOR AFF STRTG PLCY 10/93 TWCarr

..Germany used that power to further what appeared to be its historical

strategic objective to control.., access to the Adriatic.. despite EC

negotiator Lord Carrington"s advice that such a step would result in a civil

war.. picture projected by most of the international media (which is

inevitably distorted by the immediate and graphic images of conflict,

captured from basically one perspective).. Germany looks eastwards to Russia

for gas, and to the Middle East for its oil.. secret commercial deals which

allegedly included supplying Libya, Syria, Iran and Iraq with technology.. UN

on November 11, 1993, Germany"s strategic interests took precedence and

Germany did not support the US request for oil-export sanctions to be imposed

on Libya.. Eurocorps will undermine NATO and increase Germany"s ability to

influence world events at the expense of the United States and Great

Britain.. Most Western observers prefer to believe Mr Izetbegovic wrote his

Islamic Declaration when he was a young hot-head more than 20 years ago.

Even when told that he restated the same points in 1990, and that more

recently he received an award from Iran for services to Tehran"s brand of

Islam.. militant Islam is not going to compromise in Bosnia, nor in Kosovo..

together with Albania and the Muslim-majority areas in the Former Yugoslav

Republic of Macedonia, form militant Islam"s bridgehead into Europe.. Muslim

High Command in Sarajevo is convinced that several moderate Muslim states,

led by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have persuaded President Clinton to "turn a

blind eye" to the massive arming of the Muslim Forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina

from the arsenals of Muslim states.. In June, Saudi Arabia donated US$

1-million to build a refugee camp for Bosnian Muslims in Albania. In July, a

Bosnian commander let slip to BBC correspondent Misha Glenny in Sarajevo that

the refugee camp was really a guerilla training base.. In September just

south of Gospic, the Croatian armed forces demolished 11 Serbian villages,

killing hundreds of people. By the time the UNPROFOR Commander got there,

nothing was left.. Tudjman claimed that these administrative boundaries

constituted the national borders of Croatia, and, backed by Germany and

Austria, was successful in securing international recognition of a claim

which had no historical precedence except during World War II when Hitler

established Croatia as an Axis power.. Lausanne police officials reported

recently that ethnic Albanians from Kosovo are judged to control 70 percent

of the Swiss drug market; of those arrested many admitted they were using

drug money to purchase arms for a future war in Kosovo..

Stands

Croat Cardinal Kuharic and Serb Patriarch Pavle, in Geneva, Sept. 23,

1992, dissasociated themselves from criminals, no matter "which people, which

army, which church, which religion they claim to be a member of."

Tikkun v7n6p53 Princeton"s Prof Michael Walzer "The German decision to

recognize the Croatians without insisting that they first guarantee the

rights of their own minorities was a terrible mistake". New Yorker (Aug

24,1992, p64) US amb Zimmerman "discovered later that Genscher had been in

daily contact with the Croatian Foreign Min..encouraging the Croats to leave

the federation and declare independence, while we and our allies, including

the Germans were trying to fashion a joint approach." GERMAN FINGER IN THE

YUGOSLAV CRISIS, Ernestina Hernandez Solano, "Uno Mas Uno", Mexico City,

November 1993, "Germany also got access to the port of Kopar in Slovenia.

thus, German ships no longer have to pass through Gibraltar.. relations with

Hungary is aimed at gaining control over the Danube.. article by Alfred

Sherman.. Margaret Thatcher"s adviser.. disintegration of Czechoslovakia..

Slovak government has disputes with Hungary about the Danube.. Sherman goes

on to say: "Germany"s territorial ambitions have not subsided..".. evident

that Bonn used inter-ethnic hatred to avenge its humiliation by Serbs in

World War Two." 23MAY93 ALBANY TIMES UNION, pE1 Paul Reid, also MIAMI HERALD

"after Croatia declared its independence in June 1991.. squares in Zagreb

were renamed for members of the Ustasha.. during 1992 Germany sold MiG

aircraft, SAM missiles and 60 battle tanks to Croatia. Croatia, in turn, sold

120mm and 76mm light artillery to Bosnia, along with SAM.. listed in the

Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy report of December 1992" Germans

arms to pre-independent Croatia: Der Spiegel, April 17, 1992 "German

address.. No problem.. After the collapse of East Germany, a search..

preliminary proceedings stated, "that an authorized export into East Germany

is out of question".. appeared in Yugoslavia at about the same time (1990):

the "Armbrust" anti-tank weapon manufactured by Messerschmidt - Bolkow -

Blohm (MBB). The Armbrust, accurate to 300 meters, was also delivered by

roundabout methods.."

"World Catholic Youth Congress was held in Moscow"s Cosmos Hotel.. 75th

anniversary of the miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fatima,

proclaiming to the world that if her prayers were held in Russia the era of

world peace would set in.. Even Moscow Catholics had no idea about it.

Everything connected with holding the congress remains a mystery. It was

impossible to find out who was its organizer. Thousands of pilgrims from 80

countries.." MOSCOW NEWS ENGLISH WEEKLY n43, 1992 ((Certain BrazItalian

former Nazis believe Fatima-Metsoyoryo directs them to force all Orthodox to

become Vaticanists or else the world will end in 1997)) p1069 Columbia

History of the World "The ironic truth was that authentic Communist

sentiments were much stronger in France and Italy than in eastern Europe"

"Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from its

extraordinary session in Cetinje and the Monastery Ostrog (Montenegro, FR

Yugoslavia October 31 - November 3, 1993), directs an appeal to the Security

Council.. Humanitarian aid for civilians whose lives are at risk is formally

exempted from the embargo, but in practice, unfortunately, the aid (primarily

food and medicine) often spoils en route or never gets to the intended needy,

either because of delays in granting premission for the importing of

humanitarian aid by the Sanctions Committee at the United Nations, or, even

more frequently, because the sanctions are applied by particular countries

more rigoroulsy than required by the Security Council resolution, and

particularly because of the unwillingness or even malice of number of the

various border agents where the aid carriers cross."

History and Options

Alex Draganich,Serbs&Croats (1992,Vanderblt U & US Nav Wr Clg & Heritage

Policy Expert, pp 102-103) "Toward the Serbs, Pavelic"s regime used the

formula "One-third we will kill, one third will be driven out of Croatia, and

one-third we will convert to Catholicism".. Serbs killed vary from 300,000 to

more than a million. A generally accepted figure is 500,000 to 700,000. The

number of Jews killed was about 50,000, and number of Gypsies was around

20,000. As can be seen most of the victims were Serbs. They were carted away

to death camps, shot on the spot or thrown wounded but alive into ravines."

Edmond Paris GENOCIDE_IN_SATELLITE_CROATIA " greatest genocide in World War

II in proportion to a nation"s population took place, not in Nazi Germany,

but in the Nazi-created independant state of Croatia." Prof Lea Brilmayer has

even argued that current UN norms would mandate Turk gastarbeiteren secede

(p191 YaleJIL v16w91) and former Intl Ct jurist Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice has

said "juridically, the notion of a legal "right" of self-determination is

nonesence" (p233 IDI Centeniary 1973)

Columbia History Of The World, Harper & Row, 1972, p.979. "..Austrians

continued their harassment of the Serbs. Not content with their Bosnian coup

of 1908, in 1913, they conjured up an independent Albania to block Serbia"s

outlet to the Adriatic. The pretext they wanted for still further action

arose on June 28, 1914, when the Archduke.. assassinated at Sarajevo.."

Collier"s Encyclopedia v19, 1956 p661"Croatia and Slovenia are

predominantly Roman Catholic, while the republics of Serbia, Montenegro,

Macedonia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina are predominanty Orthodox"

On Macmillain red role as Brit Medit Min, cf Tolstoy Addington trial in

London, ca 1988. Also Count Nikolai Tolstoy: 1983 article in Encounter, 1986,

Minister and Massacres, 1981 Stalin Secret War, 1988 Hillsdale Imprimis

article, Apr 1989 article about him in Chronicles of Culture, pp. 53-56.

VALLETTA, MALTA (SEPT. 30 IPS).. "Dr. Michel Foucher, director of France"s

L"Observatoire Europeen de Geopolitique in Lyons, noted that suggestions of

the redrawing of borders in the Balkans has commonly been accompanied by

"ethnic cleansing." To avoid this, what is needed is not the unilateral

expulsion of communities, but a mechanism for "orderly population transfers

under international control.".. modelled on.. exchanges put into effect at

the end of the Greece-Turkey war of 1921-1922, should not only affect Muslim

or Croat.. but also "Serbia.. to show Serbia it is not Serbia that has won"..

"The Helsinki principles.. absolutely contradictory..".. approval by former

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the transfer of ethnic Germans

from Silesia on the occasion of the territory"s handover to Poland "helped

Germany to become reconciled to the Oder-Neisse line"."

ECONOMIST 1st Aug 1992 p11: "..old patterns of territorial division in

ex-Yugosalvia are plainly incompatible with lasting peace. Even had the

Yugoslavs tried to settle their differences by negotiation rather than

fighting, some redrawing of boundaries and movements of population would have

been sensible.. hard to see them being made to hand it all back.."

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