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Perhaps the most ominous development was the decision by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to send troops and heavy artillery to the U.N. buffer zone in eastern Slavonia, a strip of Croatia that was seized by local Serbs in 1991. An armed conflict there could bring in the powerful army of Serbia, yet Tudjman has vowed to take the territory back by force before the end of the month, when the U.N. mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid...
With the Balkan peace talks at a critical stage, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman took on the international war crimes tribunal by promoting a man that the U.N. court had just indicted. Tihomir Blaskic, a commander of Bosnian Croat troops, was charged with "crimes against humanity," according to Tuesday's indictment, for taking part in an ethnic cleansing operation that "effectively destroyed or removed almost the entire Muslim civilian population in the Lasva Valley" in 1993. Tudjman's promotion of Blaskic complicates the peace process because the Clinton Administration has indicated its desire to ensure that war criminals are not given...
Tudjman: "His major objective is to recover the last sliver of his land not under his control, eastern Slavonia. He probably wants to cleanse his land of non-Croats as well. He wants to control, at a distance, the Croatian parts of Bosnia...
American officials were more worried that Tudjman might torpedo the proximity conference. The Croatian President made it clear to President Clinton in a meeting last Tuesday that he would attend for only a few days and then leave the negotiating to his Foreign Minister, Mate Granic. Worse, he was muttering about taking eastern Slavonia by force if it is not returned to Croatia peacefully in a month or so. The oil-rich territory was seized by rebel Serbs in 1991; negotiations for its return are under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally...
...Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake it by force...