Issue 194 - June 20, 1995

Both in the trenches and behind the front line people are tired of war but are also convinced that they must carry on until the end. As one of the fighters said: "If nothing else, I am at least entitled to an area of Bosnia a yard by two in size"

The more we threaten with escalation and threaten the continuation of this low intensity war, which is favoured by the other side, the stronger becomes our negotiating position and the negotiating position of Serbia

The concentrated BiH army forces at Breza and Visoko led to speculation of an imminent break of the siege of Sarajevo. That is a high risk operation which is never undertaken without serious trouble, but Sarajevo is in serious trouble. Therefore the panic among the great powers and UN: they don't want the attack to start before they decide and regroup

For Karadzic's Serbs at least, political defeat is complete, and the military one can not be excluded. Political defeat has been agreed at the very start, in the hope that it will be minimized by a military victory. On the Bosnian side, the situation was exactly opposite. Izetbegovic spent the last three years spending his political capital and increasing his military might, while Karadzic spent his time wasting both

Throughout Serbia the police from all Serb lands are arresting men originally from outside the FRY, concentrating them in Volga street, the Bubanj Potok barracks and Sremska Mitrovica and sending them to the front in Rumatrans and RSK army busses. They grab them from apartments, refugee camps, jobs and the streets, regardless of whether they're refugees, illegal aliens or people who have been citizens of Serbia for years

Apart from the national minority status, which is necessarily a disadvantage in the Balkans, the condition of the Croats in Serbia is further aggravated by the fact that most of the majority nation see them as a party to the war

Slowly but surely, Slobodan Milosevic made it to the famous Uzicka Street. He is assigned the mansion across the street from Number 15, the mansion where Josip Broz Tito lived and worked for decades. Closer to that he could not possibly come

The best prospects for our financial support will come from your joint projects, an EU spokesman told a four day conference on the Economic Development of the Balkans and Eastern Europe in Paris last week

If I compare Slovenia with other former Yugoslav republics- then the problems we have with our right-wingers really look trivial; especially if I compare our right-wingers with the regime in Serbia, or problems faced by political parties in Croatia.

"I think this should have been theirs", one of the natives told us,"Why else would anyone normal pound it with over a million and a half shells. If they intended it to be Serbian they would have taken it in a different way."