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...stories have been trickling out of Mostar and its surrounding region. International aid officials reported that 1,500 Muslims were being detained under what one U.N. official called "atrocious" conditions in a former military base outside the city. Many were wearing the nightgowns and pajamas they had on when Croat troops ordered them out of their homes into the night; some reported receiving only four biscuits and a glass of water as their daily ration. An infamous Balkan strategy is being utilized once again -- with a new practitioner. "The Bosnian Croats don't want Muslims in their areas -- they want...
...West, the Croat-Muslim escalation makes a paralyzing dilemma even worse. Having rejected the notion of military intervention when there was perceived to be only one guilty party in Bosnia -- the Serbs -- the divided allies now may be even less likely...
...morning he awakened his wife and daughters and told them they were taking a trip. They took no clothes, no toys, no mementos, nothing that would make the Muslims suspect they were fleeing. They walked for several days through the woods until they reached a Croat area, where they were given food, water and directions to avoid Muslim soldiers. "It took 21 days to reach Doboj," he says, a distance of just over 50 miles...
...Colonel Lika -- a nom de guerre -- who commands one end of the Serb salient, is absolutely convinced that the Germans are really behind the war. "We are completing a war against German expansion and the creation of a new world order," he says. "The Croats and the Muslims are the tools of a new German expansion and they can be sacrificed." He is not alone in this conviction. "This is a war against Germany and the Pope," insists another fighter. "Germany wants a warmwater Adriatic port." Never mind that this makes no logical sense. Though many who express this view...
...only be called "Serbian reality," the world as defined by the propaganda, lies, myth and aggrieved sense of history that have been swallowed whole by the population. They are certain that the fascists and the Islamic fundamentalists are at their throats. They are sure that the Muslims and Croats who once lived next door are nothing short of monsters. An army medical officer explained that Croat children are taught that Serbs' most popular sport is killing children. A major insists all the pictures of atrocity victims are really of Serbs, but the world press lies and calls them Muslims...