Issue 204 - August 28, 1995

Though the reasons may sound a bit morbid, Washington will now increase the pressure on Richard Halbrook's colocutors in Zagreb and Belgrade. Frasure did not die in vain: that would be contrary to the American spirit and the American understanding of their role in the world

Sad stories, sad policies and the shady deals of the Serbian authorities

A reporter who was in the chairman of the Trebinje cabinet last week showed us a picture of the Serb leader Jovan Raskovic and the empty spot next to it. He whispered that a photo of Radovan Karadzic once hung there

The Bosnian Serb Army has sufficient amounts of weapons and ammunition (some say too much) but the problem is food and clothes and other small things. There's also the donor system: well-off soldiers pay several hundred DEM and get seven to 10 days leave (the price varies from unit to unit). The money collected that way is used for food, clothes, fuel

Before the war, Serbs constituted 11% of Croatia's population (of which only 15.6% lived in Krajina) while now their number has been brought down to a mere 4 or 5 percent. In 1992, Tudjman himself expected that between 6 and 8% of the Serbian population will remain in Croatia.

Only 2% of the overall Yugoslav money supply (more than 2.5 billion Dinars) is currently deposited in legal bank accounts, while around 1.5 billion Dinars are in circulation outside legal monetary flows

Economic trends and living standards are increasingly drifting away from what the economic authorities promised early this year. Are the refugees going to be part of the explanation why economic policies failed

Extracts from the essay, "Serbian Orthodox Church in Pre-War and War Years (1980-1995)", by Radmila Radic of the Institute for Contemporary History appeared in this week's issue of "Vreme". Longer extracts from Dr. Radic's work can be ordered from the NDA as a separate dossier

Since the beginning of the war, 25 thousand people from Yugoslavia emigrated to Canada