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...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...
...about half of one, and they ordered men to fill the rest. There were some people who wanted to go; others were scared. But we had hope because they told us the buses were under the protection of the United Nations forces in Croatia and were heading for the Croatian border. As we were getting on, my sister-in-law pleaded that she and my 16-year-old nephew be let on too. One of my brothers stayed behind...
When we turned away from the Croatian border, we still thought the U.N. would meet us. Instead three dump trucks joined us. There was one van in front with Serbian military police, and on each bus was a soldier with an automatic weapon. At Skender Vakuf, they told us we were passing the front lines, so we should lie down and not look out the windows...
...purification" of Muslims from these towns and villages in northwestern Bosnia has proved a hollow victory for the Serbs, destroying prosperity as well as security. All supplies must be trucked in from Belgrade, along a corridor often under fire from Croatian artillery. Residents complain of food shortages. There is no gasoline; most travel by bicycle and horse- drawn cart. People do not know how they will heat their homes as winter approaches...
...left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold. The Serb, Croat and Muslim cantons might even theoretically join in a confederation that would be called Bosnia. But that would be a pious fiction; in reality Serbian, and to a lesser extent Croatian, aggressors would have extinguished any independent, multiethnic Bosnia...