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...Milic was drenched with rain last Wednesday as she sat with her two sleeping children at an abandoned gas station on the road between Banja Luka, the largest city in Serb-held Bosnia, and Belgrade. As an equally sodden string of refugees streamed past, the young Serb from the Croatian village of Obrovac explained how she had been tricked by a war profiteer into making the worst deal of her life. "All I had was 200 deutsche marks [$139]," she says in a voice devoid of emotional inflection. "He asked me for 500 deutsche marks to get me to Belgrade...
Nearly 150,000 Serbs like Milic spent most of last week fleeing before the army of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's soldiers needed just five days to conquer Krajina, the crescent-shaped region whose Croatian Serb majority seceded from Croatia in 1991 with the help and encouragement of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman's victory last week created the largest exodus of refugees since the Balkan wars began; at the same time, the offensive shook up the region's political and military balance of power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House...
Caught between the two sides in the battles last week were U.N. peacekeepers. On Friday a Danish soldier was killed and two Poles were wounded when Croatian units began shelling several U.N. observation posts. By the end of the week two more peacekeepers, both Czech, had been killed, and more than 90 U.N. soldiers had been detained by the Croats. Although there was no immediate Allied military response to the attacks, French General Bernard Janvier, head of U.N. troops in the former Yugoslavia, pledged air support to U.N. peacekeepers who were coming under fire. A pair of U.S. Navy...
...Croatian onslaught created a rift among NATO allies, who had only recently come together with a new, tougher policy toward the war in Bosnia. Earlier in the week the alliance had announced it would apply to all Bosnian "safe havens" the same rules it had already laid down for Gorazde--calling for pre-emptive air strikes if the areas are seriously threatened. By Thursday, the Serbs had apparently heeded the warning and pulled back...
Milosevic's silence up to now has fueled speculation that the two Presidents may have crafted a secret deal, allowing the Croatians to attack Krajina so long as they leave the Serbs in eastern Croatia alone. But Tudjman covets other regions in Croatia, and if he tries to seize those, he is sure to provoke Milosevic. All-out war would almost certainly follow, for example, if the offensive were to spill into the oil-rich and agriculturally prized region of Eastern Slavonia, which is now occupied by Croatian Serbs. Tudjman is tough and shrewd, but he has misjudged Milosevic before...