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Besieged by Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...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...
...version of Munich: essentially a division of Bosnia into three highly unequal parts. Bosnia's Serbs might not hold on to quite all of the territory they have conquered; their leader, Radovan Karadzic, asserts that they would settle for 64% of Bosnia rather than the 70% they now occupy. Croats would get most of the rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be 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...
...that he may well clear room for them by "ethnic cleansing" of the province's majority Albanians and then attempt a conquest of independent Macedonia in the guise of protecting a Serb minority there. Reports are filtering in to London of ethnic purges carried out by both Serbs and Croats in Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro: Croatia might also try to annex by force the Croat-populated northwestern corner. Any of these moves could touch off a general Balkan war drawing in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey -- making the parallels to Munich uncomfortably close to complete...
...Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs claim that an "Islamic Declaration" that Izetbegovic wrote in the 1970s is proof of his intention to establish a religious state. "There was nothing in it," says Ivo Banac, a Croat who is a professor of history at Yale University, "that alluded in any sense to Bosnia-Herzegovina...