Issue 87 - May 24, 1993

There is no proof that Serbia and Croatia are ready to found a "Friends of Bosnia Club", but it is very possible that both sides are complaining about their extremists, about Chetniks and the Ustashi who have turned renegade and do not wish to stop fighting. After pushing them into war, Belgrade and Zagreb are now wondering why the Bosnians have become so militant

Since last year the Montenegrin police have been repeating that the "investigation is underway", but they still haven't managed to arrest a single terrorist

Struggle for control of the Yugoslav Army enters yet another finale

Last week Supreme Commander of all the armed Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladic, threatened to "bombard London" in case there is a military intervention in Bosnia

Those who question General Mladic's military competency compare him to a chess player who starts the game with the advantage of two rooks and the queen (something Mladic persistently denies). The other side has long since viewed him as a war criminal, to which Mladic reacts by saying confidently: "I didn't go to Vietnam to fight, nor to Okinawa, but am defending my people"

With the approaching of June 14th - the deadline set by the IMF's board of executive directors for taking a decision on the status of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in this world monetary club - the rhetorics of top Yugoslav economic officials has suddenly changed

Recently asked about the goals of the 1991 war, general Veljko Kadijevic, former Defence Minister, said that the "prevention of ethnic clashes" - in fact - meant the seizure of Serbian regions in Croatia and the withdrawal of Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) units to "the borders of a future Yugoslavia"