Word: croatians
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...most hopeful sign of progress so far, says Graff, is an agreement between Milosevic and Croatian president Franjo Tudjman to resolve their territorial differences in Eastern Slavonia, and to return refugees. "It's certainly good that they addressed that, since only a few days ago Tudjman said he would take the city of Vukovar, in the disputed area, by force." Despite such progress, however, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that "vast differences [remain] to be bridged." Christopher has insisted on dealing with human rights questions, including the massacres of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. He has also made...
...mediator Richard Holbrooke received assurance from the Croatian army that it would not seek to recapture the territory in eastern Croatia seized by Serbs, preserving the fragile accord between Bosnia's warring parties. By last Saturday, the fighting had ceased throughout the country, at least for the moment. In Sarajevo streetcar service resumed, and lights blazed in shop windows. But news arrived at week's end that the Serbs may have waged a new campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Bosnia during the past month, raising fears that 2,000 Muslim men have been massacred...
...that Milosevic asked for this vote, so he could go to the negotiating session and say his hands are tied. Look for a lot of similar grandstanding in the next few days leading up to this meeting." Expect a number of cease-fire violations, Van Voorst says, and, from Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, threats to retake the Serb-held Eastern Slavonia region of Croatia...
...severely reduced," in the U.S. Defense Department's curt reading after the bombing halt was extended indefinitely last week. Apparently crucial was a Sept. 10 strike on command-control and communications facilities around the Bosnian Serbs' stronghold of Banja Luka; several cruise missiles crippled the installations just as the Croatian-Bosnian offensive began in the northwest...
That attack further smudged the Serb superman image. The main punch in the offensive was provided by units of the Croatian army, a highly motivated and well-equipped force that, as Michael Williams of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies describes it, "is as underrated now as the Bosnian Serb army was overrated then." Warning that the Croats will soon dominate the Muslims, a source close to Milosevic calls the Zagreb-Sarajevo coalition "a marriage made in hell." That's the kind of language that could get a new myth started...