Issue 200 - July 31, 1995

Negotiations about the recognition of Bosnia are "heading in a promising direction", that is- nowhere.

Karadzic and Mladic could defend themselves on the grounds that they were not aware of the crimes committed by their subordinates. Martic made the prosecutor's job easier by admitting that he personally ordered the shelling of Zagreb.

Mladic gets guests, aircraft over Pale, guns on Igman, attacks on Bihac, Croats at Grahovo, Zepa abandoned, the US Senate votes to lift the arms embargo, Russians in Belgrade while the UN and great powers argue. Increased anxiety on all sides isn't helping anyone nor are big words

The rumor in Zagreb is that the close military cooperation with the Bosnians does not mean Tudjman has given up on carving up Bosnia

"The violence by the young men is done under the direct orders of ranking civilian and military officials," Pajo Simic Cunjar, a councilor in the Lika Senj district, said

Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic have stated their views about women and race. With the light irony of a howitzer Karadzic would adopt 60,000 Serb infants born after rape in Bosnia.

On the other hand, Rugova and other Albanian leaders in Kosovo today assess much more realistically the framework defined by the international community for the solution of the Kosovo question and the inevitability and necessity of a dialogue with Milosevic