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...ethnic cleansing" of the province's majority Albanians and then attempt a conquest of independent Macedonia in the guise of protecting a Serb minority there. Reports are filtering in to London of ethnic purges carried out by both Serbs and Croats in Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro: Croatia might also try to annex by force the Croat-populated northwestern corner. Any of these moves could touch off a general Balkan war drawing in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey -- making the parallels to Munich uncomfortably close to complete...
...safe in Croatia, Marijana, 17, stuttered out the terrible events of last April. After raping her and her mother, Serb irregulars carried Marijana off to a camp in the forest, where she and a group of other women were raped repeatedly over several weeks. They finally freed her when she became pregnant; she vows, "I will not give birth." But her doctor says she is in her 20th week and an abortion is out of the question. No one at the hospital has been brave enough to tell her that...
...last week for humanitarian reasons, for public relations advantage, though relief officials believe their motive was really to depopulate the city. In northern Bosnia, Serbs announced a plan to push 28,000 Muslims from towns in the region, after the U.N. aided the expulsion of 7,000 Muslims into Croatia a week before. This time the U.N. has decided to ward off a mass exodus by sending in food and medicine. Said U.N.H.C.R. operations director Tony Land in Zagreb: "We can't allow ourselves to be drawn into this kind of unwitting collaboration...
...realpolitik calculus of international affairs, Bosnia does not fit into any of the categories that demand intervention. No communist dominoes are at stake. Human-rights violations are gruesome but are not something for which any country wants to sacrifice its own soldiers. It is true that Bosnia- Herzegovina, Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics are now independent countries, but Europe and the U.S. tend to regard Serbian aggression against them as internal ethnic strife, not the kind of cross- border invasion that breaches international...
...chaos in the Balkans carries threats to European security. The tidal wave of refugees driven from Croatia and Bosnia is choking the absorptive capacity of neighboring nations. Since those who have driven away the exiles have no intention of letting them return, a more or less permanent and costly place must be found for several million embittered, possibly disruptive people -- the Palestinians of the 1990s...