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...rocket attack on Zagreb, the Croatian capital of 1 million people, was the last stage in a classic round of Balkan escalation. It began on April 28 when a Croat stabbed an ethnic Serb motorist to death at a gas station along the highway linking Zagreb to eastern Croatia and Serbia. That crucial route runs through two of the four "U.N.-protected areas" that roughly correspond to the self-proclaimed "Republic of Serb Krajina" in Croatia. The Serbs answered the killing by blocking off the highway and slaying three Croatian drivers...
YOUR STORY QUOTES THE CROAT OBJECTION that the presence of U.N. peacekeepers in Croatia "legitimizes a Serbian occupation of Krajina, stealing away 27% of Croatian soil." In fact, those Serbs live there and have done so for more years than "Croatia'' has existed. Indeed, they do "occupy'' that soil, just as you or I occupy our apartments or homes. These Serbs own the land where their homes and farms are located, so one cannot honestly speak of their "stealing'' it. Until the Croatian government unilaterally left Yugoslavia, the "soil'' in question was Yugoslav soil...
Reversing his decision to boot 12,000 U.N. troops from his country on March 31, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman agreed to allow a much smaller force of some 5,000 troops under a new mandate that will include patrolling Croatia's borders with Serbia and Bosnia...
...under the impression that he had a friend in the West, and that we would come in if things fell apart," says a State Department official. Holbrooke, the official says, "let him know that the West is not going to get involved if events lead to a Serbo-Croatian war. If it got really nasty, we would implement sanctions." But until a real settlement can be found, the abyss will always be there...
...just as the U.S. and its European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...