Issue 153 - August 29, 1994

The initial shock of the Belgrade-Pale clash over, the Bosnian Serb Republic (RS) leaders have managed better than anyone expected

Last week FR Yugoslavia's President Zoran Lilic accused Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of the kind of crimes that would lead to at least four hangings. After that punch below the belt the Bosnian Serb Parliament sent a request for a union to the Parliaments of Serbia and Montenegro on August 18. Official Serbia interpreted that initiative as maneuvering to avoid signing the peace proposal

Many political observers are in a dilemma if Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has really clashed seriously with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and at what point Milosevic passed the point of no return in their relationship.

Is the Serbian leadership guilty of keeping silent and covering up crime

If Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic considers the peace plan a good alibi for breaking off with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, if power is the most important thing to him, then this time, this motive is leading him in the right direction. I believe that he is no longer far from the idea of allowing international observers on the Drina River, as soon as he gets a good price and after all that nuisance in the Assembly is over

The fate of Serbs in Sarajevo started with the lawlessness of armed gangs and guerilla fighters in 1992 and ended in a relative settling down and security this year. Sarajevo is like a pressure cooker in which all are being cooked together on a fire set by Pale (Bosnian Serb political center); but when the temperature and the pressure go up, its the Serbs who have the harder time

The Bosnian Moslem Army scored its first victory in 28 months of war when its 5th Corps captured the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (APZB), the stronghold of rebel Moslem leader Fikret Abdic. He seems to have become political ballast which no one needs

Conflicts, the roots of the clashes, and their connection to movements in the center of the Serbian authorities, hard and soft wings in the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the President's favorites and the favorites of his wife Mirjana Markovic. The story of powerful people in Serbia which started in the last issue of VREME continued itself